New Orleans" [caption title], an engraved view, 5 x 7 3/4 inches, of the city along the bend in the Mississippi River, with steamboats and clipper ships on the river and lined up along the docks, one in the foreground being loaded

New Orleans, LA: Louis Schwarz, 1850. Illustrated letter sheet. 4to. Below the view is an autograph letter, signed by S. Samson, from New Orleans, Novr. 23rd 1854, to "Dear Father" (G.W. Samson) filling him in on his travels and discussing family news and misfortune, closing, in part: "I returned here the forepart of this Month and find Business rather dull owing to the low stage of water. The Boats are unable to bring down Freights." The engraved view is printed in an oval, enclosed within a decorated rule. Old tideline in lower corner and around the lower margin of the blank verso. Folded for mailing (a little wear at the folds). (#5626).