Cohen's New Orleans directory : including Jefferson City, Carrollton, Gretna, Algiers and McDonogh, for 1853 : containing thirty-eight thousand names : also a street and levee guide, and other useful information, which will be seen by the table of contents : and commencing a new series of portraits of the citizens of New Orleans, with their biographies.

Format:

• Book

Contributor:

• A. and A. Cohen, copyright holder.
• Office of the Daily delta, printer.
• Arnold and Deanne Kaplan Collection of Early American Judaica (University of Pennsylvania)

Language:

English

Subjects (All):

• New Orleans (La.)--Directories.
• New Orleans (La.)--Biography.
• New Orleans (La.)--Commerce.
• Commerce.
• Louisiana.
• Louisiana--New Orleans.

Genre:

• Biographies.
• Directories.
• Advertisements.

Penn Provenance:

• Kaplan, Arnold Harvey, 1939- (donor) (Kaplan Collection copy)
• Kaplan, Deanne (donor) (Kaplan Collection copy)
• St. Mary's Dominican College (bookplate) (Kaplan Collection copy)
• Burns, Francis P. (Francis Patrick), 1886-1967 (former owner) (Kaplan Collection copy)
• Law, George (autograph) (Kaplan Collection copy)

Physical Description:

6 unnumbered pages, XLVIII pages, 4 unnumbered pages, 321 pages, 1 unnumbered page, 48 unnumbered leaves of plates : illustrations ; 23 cm

Place of Publication:

New Orleans : Printed at the office of the "Daily delta," 112 Poydras Street, 1852.

Notes:

• "Entered according to Act of Congress, in the year of 1852, by A. and A. Cohen, in Clerk's Office of the District Court in the Eastern District of Louisiana."--Verso of title leaf.
• Plates: 14 portraits with tissue guards; 34 advertisement leaves.
• "Price five dollars."--Title leaf.

Local Notes:

• Kaplan Collection copy: Collectify accession no. 2021.03.03.00001.
• Kaplan Collection copy purchased for the Penn Libraries in 2021 by Arnold and Deanne Kaplan (30 March 2021).
• Kaplan Collection copy has presentation bookplate ("Ex Libris Gift of Francis P. Burns to the John XXIII Library St. Mary's Dominican College New Orleans") on front pastedown; autograph ("George Law") at head of title leaf.
• Kaplan Collection copy bound in quarter leather over boards printed with contemporary advertisements; title stamped in gold on spine; advertisements on pastedowns.

OCLC:

1319692955