Yellow jack
Portrait painters
Yellow fever
Apprentices
Runaway children
New orleans (la.), fiction
Runaways
Racially mixed people
Photographers
Photography
Fiction, historical
Historical fiction
Fiction, historical, general
New York Times reviewed
Fiction, general
History
Fiction
"Yellow Jack is a ribald, picaresque trip through an 1840s New Orleans saturated with sex, drugs, death, and corruption. It is the story of Claude Marchand, an apprentice to Louis Daguerre, who discovers the magic art of photography when he hides a broken thermometer in a cabinet and finds that the …
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