James Carl Hancock Old New Orleans Booklet Complete with Map of New Orleans Fold Out

James Carl Hancock Old New Orleans Booklet Complete with Map of New Orleans Fold Out

James Carl Hancock was a twentieth-century American etcher, designer, painter, and commercial artist active in Arkansas and Louisiana. His art depicted many landscapes and historic buildings in and around Little Rock (Pulaski County). The Smithsonian American Art Museum in Washington DC holds Hancock’s engraving St. Andrew’s Cathedral, Little Rock, Arkansas, a mezzotint on paper produced around 1935. Hancock identified and hand-signed his works and sold them as prints, postcards, matchbook covers, bridge tallies, note cards, and souvenir booklets. In 1938, Hancock published the booklet New Orleans Etchings, Drypoints and Sketches, which became popular in the city. Hancock also produced keepsake booklets for Natchez, Mississippi; Memphis, Tennessee; and Little Rock.