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"The first Casket Girls--In midwinter of 1719, when the colonial capital had just been moved from Mobile to New Biloxi west of the Bay, the first Casket Girls to come to America arrived in Biloxi. These French girls who became the wives of Mississippi's French Canadian settlers preceded by nearly a decade a similar romantic cargo that enriched the picturesque history of New Orleans." Illustrated postcard. Side 1.
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"The first Casket Girls--In midwinter of 1719, when the colonial capital had just been moved from Mobile to New Biloxi west of the Bay, the first Casket Girls to come to America arrived in Biloxi. These French girls who became the wives of Mississippi's French Canadian settlers preceded by nearly a decade a similar romantic cargo that enriched the picturesque history of New Orleans." Illustrated postcard. Side 1.
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- Series: 2
- Item: 1361
- Creator(s): Dixie Press
- Description: "The first Casket Girls--In midwinter of 1719, when the colonial capital had just been moved from Mobile to New Biloxi west of the Bay, the first Casket Girls to come to America arrived in Biloxi. These French girls who became the wives of Mississippi's French Canadian settlers preceded by nearly a decade a similar romantic cargo that enriched the picturesque history of New Orleans." Illustrated postcard. Side 1.
- Date: 19--
- Call Number: PI/2015.0023/Series II
- Filename: 133364-1-postcard.tif