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Poitevent Family Photo Album. [NEW ORLEANS HISTORY] [SOUTHERN LITERATURE] [ELIZA JANE POITEVENT, "PEARL RIVERS": FIRST PROFESSIONAL WOMAN JOURNALIST IN THE SOUTH; FIRST WOMAN NEWSPAPER PUBLISHER]Antique velvet photograph album, upper cover decorated with floral design, original metal clasp; silk moire endpapers; contemporary label affixed to upper pastedown: LOUIS SCHWARZ, Bookseller, NEW-ORLEANS; ownership inscriptions to both sides of front endpaper. 17 leaves [34 pages], a.e.g.; cabinet cards, carte de visites, tin types, and one postcard, c1860-1885, of prominent New Orleans/Southern families. Lacking one cabinet card, else complete. All images [51] are identified in penciled script, and most are identifed with additional inked notations on versos [many by the daughter {Mary Orme Markle (1894-1973)}of the original owner]. Many notable personalities associated with Southern History to varying degrees. Includes the Poitevent [Pearlington, Hancock County, Mississippi], Toomer [South Carolina], Orme [Georgia], Favre, and a couple associated families. Compiled in 1884 by Mary Geneva "Mamie" Poitevent Orme [Mrs. Gordon Smets Orme], of Pearlington, Mississippi. Mary (1865-1947) was the daughter of Emily Isabel Toomer Poitevent (1843-1874)and Capt. John Poitevent (1840-1899) [at the outbreak of the Civil War he was in the steamboat business, navigating the Pearl River and other tributaries of the Mississippi, and also on Lake Pontchartrain; volunteered for Confederate Naval service, and served as acting master, Jackson station, 1862; commanded the gunboat CARONDELET on Lake Pontchartrain, aslo at the naval action in defense of Forts Jackson and St. Phillip, April, 1862; after the fall of New Orleans he was assigned to shore duty in the artillery service; participated in the battle of Mansfield, Louisiana, and other engagements in the region; after the war he resumed steamboat service; became president of the firm Poitevent and Favre, known as the "lumber king of the South"; his company supplied the lumber for the structures of the World's Fair and Cotton Exposition in New Orleans, 1884]; and Eliza Jane Poitevent Nicholson (1849-1896) was her aunt. This album contains a rare CDV of Pearl Rivers (Pen name of poet Eliza Jane Poitevent Holbrook Nicholson: First Woman Publisher and Editor of a Major Daily Newspaper in the United States, the Picayune), a cabinet card of her son York, and numerous images of her immediate and extended family. In 1876 she became the first woman to own and operate a daily metropolitan newspaper. She revolutionized the New Orleans Picayune, creating a lively, dynamic paper with feature stories, book reviews, a women's page, an expanded Sunday edition, columns devoted to special topics (health, household hints, society), special Carnival editions with lithographs of parade floats, cartoons, and generous photographic illustrations. She wrote editorials, essays, dramatic monologues, and poetry under the pseudonym "Pearl Rivers." Eliza became the first president of the National Woman's Press Association in 1884, and became the first honorary member of the New York Women's Press Club. She employed and promoted the careers of several women journalists, including Elizabeth Meriwether Gilmer, who went on to national fame as women's advice columnist Dorothy Dix, a precursor to "Dear Abby". Elizabeth Lyle Saxon, active in woman suffrage, wrote columns on that and other issues during Eliza's tenure.Pearl Rivers, Elsie S. Farr, 1951; Women & New Orleans, Mary Gehman, Nancy Ries, 1985; "A Woman for Women: Eliza Nicholson, Publisher of the New Orleans Daily Picayune", B. H. Gilley, Summer 1989.
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