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Floating Bath Houses: Public Health and Recreation for the Working Class in Nineteenth-century New Orleans

Offutt, Christina

… Orleanians served as the customer base for “floating pools” moored along the Mississippi riverfront. Beginning in 1836, these pools represented a transitional phase between the long extant tradition of bathing and swimming for free in the river and the development of commercialized, …

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