Something beautiful: a lake before levees

South Shore, Lake Ponchartrain, Marshall J Smith, circa 1880

Whenever I'm at NOMA, I love studying this charming window into the past. I have stood on these same shores hundreds of times, and I like trying to guess whether this painting shows the same places. I wonder what the people who built this modest cabin would think about what these shores look like now.

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