PHOTO DESCRIPTION: A wharf scene with cargo on the dock, and a row of sidewheel packets along the dock in New Orleans, Louisiana in the late 19th or early 20th century. The sidewheel packets from right to left: Sidewheel Col. T.H. Hudson; Sidewheel Lecompte, an unknown, Sidewheel Doctor Buffington, Sidewheel Starlight, Sidewheel Messinger