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Description: Sanitary Map of the City of New Orleans

TitleSanitary Map of the City of New Orleans

Creator nameBarton, Edward

Creator nationality/cultureAmerican

Creator roleMapmaker

Creation date1857

Object typeMap/Plan/Diagram

MaterialsUnknown

LocationTulane University Library, Louisiana Collection

Accession numberUnknown

SubjectsNew Orleans Metropolitan Area (La.)--MapsUrban sanitation

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Chapter 3. The Smell of Danger

Dell Upton

Another City: Urban Life and Urban Spaces in the New American Republic

~One day during New Orleans’s devastating 1853 yellow fever epidemic, the Reverend Theodore Clapp returned to the city. Although he had lived there for three decades, Clapp was overpowered by the “offensive effluvium which filled the atmosphere for miles around, resembling that...

Author

Dell Upton

PublisherYale University Press

Related print edition pages: pp.54-63

https://doi.org/10.37862/aaeportal.00271.003

Stable URL: https://aaeportal.com/?id=-21807&redirecttoanchor=70482

Chapter subject tags:EthicsUrban sanitationEpidemicsSenses and sensationCities and towns--United States--History--19th century

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