Papers first presented at the 1987 meeting of the North American Print Conference.
Includes bibliographical references and index.
Publicizing a vast new land : visual propaganda for attracting colonists to eighteenth-century Louisiana / Gay M. Gomez -- Walking the streets of New Orleans : printed maps and street scenes / John A. Mahé II -- "The art preservative of all arts" : early printing in New Orleans / Florence M. Jumonville -- A pelican's-eye-view : the urban growth of New Orleans through bird's-eye views / John Magill -- A new plane : pre-Civil War lithography in New Orleans / Priscilla Lawrence -- Playing New Orleans : the city's neighborhoods and sheet music / Alfred E. Lemmon -- A Louisiana architect's prints and drawings : the works of Marie Adrien Persac, 1832-1873 / Barbara SoRelle Bacot -- Jules Lion, F.M.C. : lithographer extraordinaire / Patricia Brady -- Local color : chromolithography in New Orleans / Kellye M. Rosenheim -- Illustrated periodicals in post-Civil War New Orleans / Judith H. Bonner -- Morris Henry Hobbs : in old New Orleans / Claudia Kheel -- Purist aesthetic and tradition in Clarence John Laughlin's photographs : solid foundations for the third world of photography / John H. Lawrence -- Twentieth-century artists/printmakers in New Orleans / Earl Retif -- Caroline Durieux : Louisiana's master printmaker of the twentieth century / H. Parrott Bacot