Description

This book is a collection of original newspaper articles and essays from Hearn dating from the late 19th and early 20th centuries. The articles collected chronicle urban and rural life in New Orleans. In Chapter 2, "Saint Malo: A Lacustrine Village in Louisiana, " originally published in Harper's Weekly in 1883, Hearn documents his explorations and understanding of a Filipino fishing village just outside of New Orleans- the first Filipino settlement in the United States. Link to "Saint Malo"

Citation

"Saint Malo: A Lacustrine Village in Louisiana." In Lafcadio Hearn's America: Ethnographic Sketches and Editorials, edited by Bronner Simon J., 54-62. Lexington, Kentucky: University Press of Kentucky, 2002. Accessed March 5, 2020. doi:10.2307/j.ctt130j5fq.6.

Description

These 1883 illustrations from Harper's Weekly, by De Thulstrup, Graham, and Davidson show portraits of Charles E. Whitney and Lafcadio Hearn; a wood oven; a vegetable garden on the porch of a house on stilts in the water; and men playing a gambling game in the remote Filipino fishing village on Lake Borgne. Accompanying Hearn's article, "Saint Malo: A Lacustrine Village in Louisiana," the illustrations document the diverse folk life in and around New Orleans.

Citation
Thulstrup, Thure De, Artist, C Graham, and Julian Oliver Davidson. The Lacustrine Village of Saint Malo, Louisiana Bits of Saint Malo scenery / / Drawn by Charles Graham from sketches by J.O. Davidson. Gambling at Saint Malo / Drawn by T. De Thulstrup from a sketch by J.O. Davidson. Louisiana, 1883. [New York: Harper & Brothers] Photograph. https://www.loc.gov/item/2004668280/.

Description

These 1883 illustrations from Harper's Weekly, by De Thulstrup, Graham, and Davidson show portraits of Charles E. Whitney and Lafcadio Hearn; a wood oven; a vegetable garden on the porch of a house on stilts in the water; and men playing a gambling game in the remote Filipino fishing village on Lake Borgne. Accompanying Hearn's article, "Saint Malo: A Lacustrine Village in Louisiana," the illustrations document the diverse folk life in and around New Orleans.

Citation

The Lacustrine Village of Saint Malo, Louisiana. , 1883. Photograph. https://www.loc.gov/item/2004668279/.