The New Orleans of Lafcadio Hearn: Illustrated Sketches from the Daily City Item

Editorial Note

THE NEW ORLEANS OF LAFCADIO HEARN EDITORIAL NOTE The reproductions herein of Lafcadio Hearn’s woodcuts are generally approximately 75% of their original size. The works for which additional information is provided in the Notes on Columns are indicated with a plus sign (+ ) after the title. Dates placed above the title in brackets are unascertainable and therefore estimated. Sometimes two of Hearn’s woodcuts appeared in the same issue, the second one on an inside page and often a re-run of a woodcut previously published; therefore, the same date occasionally appears above two sequential columns. Columns that originally appeared beneath a republished woodcut have been pulled out of chronological sequence and paired with the earlier one. Approximately twenty- five illustrations and accompanying texts are missing from archival and microfilm records. ...