An undated manuscript written by Annie C. Courtenay, describing life at Oxmoor plantation. Courtenay describes how Mildred Ann Bullitt, Louisiana Taylor, and Lucinda would sew and knit all the clothes worn by the people enslaved by the Bullitt family. Louisiana Taylor and Lucinda were two women enslaved by Mildred Ann Bullitt. Courtenay also describes the living conditions of the enslaved people at Oxmoor, William Christian Bullitt, and the cholera epidemic.
A Currier & Ives lithograph of a steamboat moving through the bayou with torchlight, undated. Printmakers Nathaniel Currier and James Merritt Ives produced some of the most popular American art of the 19th century. The company specialized in publishing inexpensive hand-colored lithographic prints for the growing American middle class.
Fontaine Fox, his wife Edith, and his daughters Edith "Elizabeth" and Mary. Fox denied that either of his daughters provided the inspiration for his Tomboy Taylor character.
In 1955, Fox retired to Vero Beach, Florida, where he played golf and watched baseball's spring training camps. He died in 1964. His epitaph reads, "I had a hunch something like this would happen."
Interior cabin of the Robert E. Lee. The Robert E. Lee, nicknamed the "Monarch of the Mississippi," was built in New Albany, Indiana, in 1866. The hull was designed by DeWitt Hill, and the boat cost more than $200,000 to build.
U. S. steamer Lexington, labeled "United States Steamer Lexington" at the base of the drawing, which is signed "F. Muller," image from the Herald-Post.
