New Orleans
Photo Collection
NEW ORLEANS, LOUISIANA COLLECTION
Pix # Date of Pix Size of Pix No. of Pix Kind of Image Negative
1 1934 5x7 1 B&W Postcard none
Newsstand in lobby of a hotel, Charles L. Franck, 1877-1965, photographer.
2 1875 3½ x 5 1 B&W Postcard none
French Quarter, original car tracks of Orleans Railroad Company corner Dauphine and St. Peter Streets. Printed for the New Orleans Railway Museum, Inc. Adams Reproductions.
3 1875 3½ x 5 1 B&W Postcard none
Orleans Railroad Co., Mule-car leaving "Cream-Cheese" Barn--Laharpe & Gentilly St. Established 1868, this barn housed French Market, Broad, French Market-City Park, and Bayou Road cars. Closed January 2, 1922. Printed for the New Orleans Railway Museum, Inc. Adams Reproductions.
4 1875 3½ x 5 1 B&W Postcard none
French Quarter, original car tracks, Orleans Railroad Company corner Ursulines and Dauphine Streets on French Market Line. Printed for the New Orleans Railway Museum, Inc. Adams Reproductions.
5 1880 3½ x 5 1 B&W Postcard none
Orleans Railroad Company-Track Construction-new tracks along Burgundy near St. Louis in French Quarter. Printed for the New Orleans Railway Museum. Adams Reproductions.
6 circa 1895 3½ x 5 1 B&W Postcard none
Canal and St. Charles Streets, Orleans Railroad Co. original tracks. Mule car #11 at end of Bayou St. John Line. Printed for the New Orleans Railway Museum, Inc. Adams Reproductions.
7 circa 1880 3½ x 5 1 B&W Postcard none
Orleans Railroad Mule Car #1-At Fair Grounds’ original entrance. Printed for the New Orleans Railway Museum, Inc. Adams Reproductions.
8 circa 1868 3½ x 5 1 B&W Postcard none
Orleans Railroad Co.-Organized in 1867-68 this 5’ 2½" gauge mule car system opened the Bayou St. John line July 4, 1868 after trail-runs July 2 & 3. Original tracks, bayou St. John St. and Sauvage. Printed for the New Orleans Railway Museum, Inc. Adams Reproductions.
9 circa 1897 3½ x 5 1 B&W Postcard none
Canal Street, Orleans city Railroad #123 (1894 Brill) on Canal St. near Royal. Foreground is Henry Clay Statue; background is old light tower at Canal and Bourbon Streets. Printed for the New Orleans Railway Museum, Inc. Adams Reproductions.
10 circa 1895 9 x 9 1 color print none
Drawing of Jackson Square which is on an invitation Dr. Joy Jackson received from the National Trust for Historic Preservation in 1973.
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11 circa 1917 5 x 7 1 B&W print 35mm B&W
Hazel Dawn who was the leading lady in The Lone Wolf perched on a roof in New Orleans with her leading man at left, while Director Herbert Brenon and his camera man shoot a scene of their escape from the "villains."
12 circa 1917 5 x 7 3 B&W print 35mm B&W
The Irish-born director of silent films, Herbert Brenon, as he appeared to a Times-Picayune cartoonist while he was directing The Lone Wolf in New Orleans in the spring of 1917.
13 circa 1940s 4 x 5 1 B&W print none
Possibly the outskirts of New Orleans. Found in Archives and transferred to photographs. Picture taken to feature campaign signs against venereal disease.
14 circa 1940s 4 x 5 1 B&W print none
New Orleans looking up St. Charles Street from Lee Circle. Found in Archives and transferred to photographs. Picture taken to feature campaign signs against venereal disease.
15 circa 1940s 4 x 5 1 B&W print none
16 circa 1940s 4 x 5 1 B&W print none
17 circa 1940s 4 x 5 1 B&W print none
18 circa 1940s 4 x 5 1 B&W print none
19 circa 1940s 4 x 5 1 B&W print
Canal Street. Found in Archives and transferred to photographs. Picture taken to feature campaign signs against venereal disease.
20 circa 1940s 4 x 5 1 B&W print
Inside of a restaurant. Found in Archives and transferred to photographs. Picture taken to feature campaign signs against venereal disease.
21 circa 1940s 4 x 5 1 B&W print
Inside of a cafe with four soldiers sitting in a booth. Found in Archives and transferred to photographs. Picture taken to feature campaign signs against venereal disease.
22 circa 1940s 4 x 5 1 B&W print
Inside a cafe. Found in Archives and transferred to photographs. Picture taken to feature campaign signs against venereal disease.
23 circa 1940s 4 x 5 1 B&W print
Inside of a rest room. Found in Archives and transferred to photographs. Picture taken to feature campaign signs against venereal disease.
24 circa 1940s 4 x 5 1 B&W print
Inside of a rest room. Found in Archives and transferred to photographs. Picture taken to feature campaign signs against venereal disease.
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25 circa 1984 1 fold out card none
Jackson Brewery and Jackson Square. This was an invitation from the Louisiana Heritage Foundation for Friday, October 26, 1984 to attend a $50 per person dinner to celebrate the opening of the Jackson Brewery.
26 circa 1985 5 x 7 1 B&W print none
A silver cup from the Mistick Krewe of Comus. This picture was on an invitation from The Historic New Orleans Collection to an exhibition of artifacts celebrating the history and pageantry of New Orleans’s oldest Carnival organization December 11, 1985-March 21, 1986.
27 1925 5 x 7 1 B&W print none
Chartres Street, Formerly the Main Shopping Thoroughfare, from Impressions of Old New Orleans, 1926. LSM 1979.27, Gift of Mrs. Leo Haspel. This picture was on the front of an invitation from The Friends of the Cabildo and the Louisiana State Museum to a preview of Arnold Genthe photographs on November 17, 1984.
28 1947 3 x 3¾ 1 B&W print none
Enchanted Tree (Madewood Plantation). This picture was on an invitation from The Historic New Orleans Collection for a reception of the exhibition called Other Ghosts Along the Mississippi, Thursday, May 9, 1985.
29 1948 5 x 7 1 B&W print none
Grandeur and Decay, Number 6 (Belle Grove Plantation). This picture was on an invitation from The Historic New Orleans Collection for an exhibition of photographs by Clarence John Laughlin called Other Ghosts Along the Mississippi, May 1, 1985-December 6, 1985.
Pix #’s 30-53 from Picture Postcards of Old New Orleans, Edited by Mary W. Davis
30 1915 3¾ x 5½ 1 B&W postcard
St. Charles Avenue, showing the old Orpheum Theatre, built in 1902 on the site of the first English-speaking theater in French New Orleans. The old Orpheum Theatre stood on the site of an earlier theater where many luminaries of the stage, such as Edwin Booth, Jenny Lind and Fanny Elssler had performed. Later the Orpheum Company moved to Canal St., and this building was eventually demolished. Across the street is the Charles Schuten Saloon.
31 1910 3¾ x 5½ 1 B&W postcard
Canal Street and the second Maison Blanche Department Store. The second Maison Blanche replaced the earlier store in 1922. As can be seen, the streetcar was an important means of transportation; by 1885 there were 20 different lines in operation.
32 1898 3¾ x 5½ 1 B&W postcard
A view of Canal and Dauphine Streets, shows the original Maison Blanche Department Store and the first electric street cars. Canal St., built over a shallow canal that divided the old French Quarter from the American sector, became the main shopping street of New Orleans. The electric streetcars started operation in 1892, replacing mule-drawn cars.
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33 1900 3¾ x 5½ 1 B&W postcard none
Decorating graves in St. Louis Cemetery on All Saint’s Day, November 1. A Creole custom, still practiced today, is to whitewash and decorate the family tomb with chrysanthemums, say a prayer and have a picnic. Formerly, interment was in tombs above the ground as the water table was too high to permit underground burial.
34 1918 3¾ x 5½ 1 B&W postcard none
Fate Marable and his band play on the steamer S.S. Sidney on the Mississippi. Fate Marable had one of the many jazz bands that played aboard the steamers plying the Mississippi River from New Orleans to St. Louis. The members of the band are, left to right: Warren "Baby" Dodds, drums; Bill Ridgely, trombone; Joe Howard, cornet; Louis Armstrong, cornet; Fate Marable, piano; Dave Jones, mellophone; Johnny Dodds (brother of "Baby"), clarinet; Johnny St. Cyr, banjo; "Pops" Foster, bass. Armstrong, born in New Orleans in 1900, was raised at "The Colored Waifs’ Home," where he was given his first trumpet and played in the band. After graduating to the saloons of Basin Street, he went on to world fame.
35 1910 3¾ x 5½ 1 B&W postcard none
The third St. Charles Hotel and Fabacher’s German Restaurant seen from Canal Street. The third St. Charles Hotel was built in 1896 on the site of two earlier hotels, both destroyed by fire. The magnificent establishment ran in competition with the St. Louis Hotel in the French Quarter. Also seen is one of the several German restaurants in the city. The Fabachers were noted restaurateurs and caterers.
36 circa 1915 3¾ x 5½ 1 B&W postcard 35mm B&W
Unloading bales of cotton from a steamboat. Arriving from the plantations, bales of cotton were inspected and weighed on open wooden docks and then shipped to mills in the East and Europe. Each bale had the planter’s initials marked on it. Large crews were skilled in unloading huge amounts of cotton quickly.
37 circa 1900 3¾ x 5½ 1 B&W postcard none
Delivering milk. A two-wheel cart with a canopy top came quipped with large milk cans. A bell summoned buyers, who came out with pitchers which were filled with milk from two spigots in the cans. Deliveries were citywide.
38 circa 1895 3¾ x 5½ 1 B&W postcard none
Jackson Square with Mill’s statue of Andrew Jackson, and the St. Louis cathedral. In 1856 the Place d’Armes was transformed into a park and renamed after Andrew Jackson, the hero of the Battle of New Orleans and seventh President. The statue by Clark Mills was unveiled in the same year. The equilibrium allowing the horse to rear unsupported on his hind legs only is a feat of virtuosity. Both Washington, D. C. and Nashville have casts of the work. Facing Jackson Square is the St. Louis Cathedral. The first church, built by Bienville, founder of the city, was destroyed by a hurricane. The second, built in 1727, was destroyed in the fire of 1788. The present structure was completed in 1794 and remodeled in 1851.
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39 circa 1895 3¾ x 5½ 1 B&W postcard none
The haunted House in the French quarter. Legend has it that on dark, moonless nights it still echoes with the cries of tortured slaves. The imposing French Empire house at 1140 Royal St. was built in 1832 by Dr. Louis LaLaurie and was visited by the Marquis de Lafayette. In 1834 the house caught fire. When rescuers arrived, they were horrified to find the abused slaves of society leader Madame LaLaurie starving in chains. Mobs stormed the house and rescued the slaves. In the commotion, the LaLauries secretly fled and returned to Paris.
40 circa 1935 3¾ x 5½ 1 B&W postcard none
A view of the Rear of St. Louis Cathedral and St. Anthony’s Garden, with a monument to 30 French Marines who died in New Orleans during the yellow-fever epidemic of 1857. Taken from the shuttered window of a typical residence in the French Quarter.
41 circa 1900 3¾ x 5½ 1 B&W postcard none
Work on the Custom House was begun in 1848 on the site of an old Spanish Custom House, demolished in 1807. The cornerstone was laid by Henry Clay in 1849. Additions were made gradually. Work ceased during the Civil War and the building was finally completed in 1871. The building has served as a Union prison and a main Federal post office. The Marble Hall takes its name from the stone that has been used for its walls, ceiling and floor. 128 feet long, 58 feet high and lined with 14 columns, it is an imposing space.
42 1890 3¾ x 5½ 1 B&W postcard
St. Charles and Canal Streets which shows the St. Charles Hotel in the background and the Pickwick Club in the foreground. The original St. Charles Hotel opened in 1837, underwent several reconstructions, but remained the center of elegant social life in the American sector of New Orleans-the favorite place of cotton planters, Civil War General Butler and Teddy Roosevelt. It also functioned as a business center. The Pickwick Club housed the exclusive men’s club that founded Comus, the oldest existing Carnival organization. The view shows the club building designed by the famous architect Stanford White, in the foreground.
43 1895 3¾ x 5½ 4 B&W postcard 35mm B&W
Luggers carrying food land at Picayune Pier. Luggers came from the bayous into the city carrying oysters, fish and vegetables. The men lived on the boats and sold their produce for a picayune-a coin (worth less than a nickel) minted in New Orleans.
44 1895 3¾ x 5½ 4 B&W postcard none
Royal Street, one of the principal thoroughfares of the French Quarter. Formerly the main street of the Creole section of New Orleans, it is lined with old French and Spanish buildings distinguished by their patios and graceful iron balconies. Today the street is a delightful mixture of shops, homes, restaurants and hotels.
NEW ORLEANS, LOUISIANA COLLECTION-Continued
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45 c. 1895 3¾ x 5½ 1 B&W postcard 35mm B&W
La Halle des Boucheries was one of the many stalls in the French Market where the Creoles met to market and socialize. The French Market, established in 1791 by the Spanish, was rebuilt by Jacques Tennessee, City Surveyor, in 1813. It was divided into stalls where fruits, vegetables, meat and fish were sold. French was the main language spoken, although all groups-Black, White, Choctaw, German, and Spanish-met here to market, visit and drink coffee. Today only the vegetable stalls remain. George Mugnier (1855-1938), photographer, a noted local photographer.
46 1895 3¾ x 5½ 1 B&W postcard none
A buggy ride in Audubon Park under an alley of live oaks covered with Spanish moss. Called New City Park when it was purchased by the municipal government in 1871 and later renamed, Audubon Park incorporates 247 acres of land that originally belonged to the Foucher Plantation and De Boré was the first sugar planter to develop a method of granulating sugar.) In 1884-85 the park was the site of the World’s Industrial and Cotton Exposition.
47 1889 3¾ x 5½ 1 B&W postcard 35mm B&W
The New Basin Canal in West End, long popular as a resort. The Southern Yacht Club, built in 1878 and considered to be the second-oldest yacht club in the United States, is on the right; restaurants and casinos line the left. For many years West End has been a pleasure spot for the people of New Orleans and was, at the turn of the century, an escape from the humid heat of the city. This view shows the New Basin Canal before it was filled in. It ran from Lake Pontchartrain to the center of town and was one of the arteries that permitted essential goods easy access through the swamps.
48 1900 3¾ x 5½ 1 B&W postcard none
The Cotton Exchange corner of Carondelet and Gravier Streets. Founded in 1871, it’s purpose to regulate the buying and selling of cotton. By 1881 this imposing building was the center of feverish excitement dealing with cotton futures. It was demolished in 1920.
49 1890 3¾ x 5½ 1 B&W postcard none
The LeCarpentier-Beauregard House, 1113 Chartres Street. Erected in 1826 by Joseph LeCarpentier on the site he purchased from the Ursuline Nuns, the fame of the LeCarpentier-Beauregard House rests on three of its occupants: Paul Morphy, born there in 1837, master chess player before 20 and World Champion at 21; Pierre Gustave Toutant Beauregard, a great Creole Civil War general under whose command the first shot was fired at Fort Sumter; and Frances Parkinson Keyes, author of many New Orleans stories, including Dinner at Antoine’s.
50 1895 3¾ x 5½ 1 B&W postcard none
Madame John’s Legacy, 623 Dumain Street. Considered the oldest house in the Mississippi Valley, it was built by a French sea captain on a land grant from La Compagnie des Indes in 1722. Occupied by or owned by one of Lafitte’s pirates in the 1770s, it was rebuilt by a Spanish officer after the fire that swept New Orleans in 1788. Its name is based on a character from one of George Cable’s Creole stories about the beautiful quadroon Zalli, who inherited the romantic house. Now owned by the Louisiana State Museum, it is open to the public.
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51 1900 3¾ x 5½ 1 B&W postcard 35mm B&W
Sandbags piled high on the Mississippi levee. Bounded on one side by the Mississippi River and by Lake Pontchartrain on the other, New Orleans sits below the water level of both. As early as 1718 levees were built as a protective barrier against flooding. Even today, despite a vigilant flood-control program, disastrous floods still occur.
52 ca. 1903 3¾ x 5½ 1 B&W postcard 35mm B&W
Some of the "girls" dance to the jazz beat in the Mirror Ballroom of Hilma Burt’s "house" in Storyville. In 1897 a legalized and controlled red-light district was established in New Orleans. The plan had been developed by alderman Sidney Story and, to his embarrassment, the district was quickly named Storyville. One of its most flamboyant establishments was Hilma Burt’s, at 209 N. Basin St., where "Jelly Roll" Morton began his career as a "professor." Storyville was closed down in 1917.
53 1900 3¾ x 5½ 1 B&W postcard 35mm B&W
Crowds on Canal Street watch the Rex parade on Carnival Day. Carnival has been celebrated in New Orleans since the eighteenth century, marking the six-week period before the beginning of Lent. It climaxes on Mardi Gras Day, Shrove Tuesday, when parades and maskers make their way through the streets. The parades date back to 1827 and floats had been introduced by 1857. One of the highlights is the lavish parade of Rex.
Pix #’s 54-66 are from A Walk through Time, the 1984 Tulane Calendar
54 1920 8 x 10 1 B&W postcard
Endowment Drive, 1920 (on cover).
55 1960 8 x 10 1 B&W print
Tulane Stadium, home of the Sugar Bowl. (January)
56 1905 8 x 10 1 B&W print
Alcée Fortier teaches a class in French. (February)
57 ca. 1905 8 x 10 1 B&W print
Josephine Hutchinson Memorial, home of the School of Medicine, Canal Street. (March)
58 ca. 1914 8 x 10 5 B&W print 1½ x 2¼ B&W
Professor Ellsworth Woodward conducts an art class at Newcomb College. (April)
59 1944 8 x 10 1 B&W print 1½ x 4¼ B&W
Richardson Memorial Hall as it appeared in 1944. Formerly the School of Medicine building, now the School of Architecture. (May)
60 1920 8 x 10 1 B&W print
Tulane endowment Fund Drive. (June)
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61 1958 8 x 10 1 B&W print
Tulane campus adorned by Spanish Moss. (July)
62 1957 8 x 10 1 B&W print
Newcomb Hall through the Gate. (August)
63 Nov. 23, 1931 8 x 10 1 B&W print
Tulane 34--LSU 7. Football game. Halfback "Wop" Glover carries the ball. (September)
64 1944 8 x 10 1 B&W print
Social Sciences Building, now the School of Social Work. (October)
65 8 x 10 1 B&W print
Tilton Memorial Hall: former name of the Law School, now housing academic offices and the Business Library. (November)
66 1900 8 x 10 1 B&W print
The Jambalaya yearbook staff of 1900 holds an informal session. (December)
Pix #’s 67-75 are from In Old New Orleans, A Personal Collection of Rare Vintage Photographs, A Calendar for 1984
67 1907 8 x 10 2 B&W print 35mm B&W (2)
Rex, Robert Henry Downman, has just arrived by boat at the Canal Street Ferry landing and taken his place in the Royal Chariot. The Monday before Mardi Gras. (February)
68 1912 8 x 10 1 B&W print 35mm B&W
Strawberry seller. Many of the strawberries in those days came into the city aboard schooners that crossed Lake Pontchartrain, bringing the succulent fruit from the then "Strawberry Capital of the World"-Ponchatoula. (April)
69 1884 8 x 10 1 B&W print none
The Horticultural Hall at the World’s Industrial and Cotton Centennial Exposition at Audubon Park. A dapper young gentleman in a bowler hat and handle-bar moustache is sitting on a bench. George Mugnier, photographer. (May)
70 1895 8 x 10 1 B&W print 35mm B&W
Steamboat Natchez VIII just docked at a plantation wharf a few miles upstream from New Orleans. In a few minutes the bales of cotton shown in the foreground will be loaded aboard and the steamboat will continue on down the Mississippi to New Orleans where the bales will be inspected and weighed on the open, wooden docks, and then shipped to mills up east and in Europe. The Natchez VIII ranin the New Orleans-Vicksburg cotton trade. Her end came when she sank in 1918. (June)
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71 1917 8 x 10 1 B&W print 35mm B&W
On a steamy summer afternoon, intrepid New Orleans firemen rush to the rescue. With smoke rising from the boiler behind them, a trio of pure white stallions, in a three-horse hitch, draws a steam pumper, the main basic unit of the New Orleans Fire Department’s firefighting apparatus in those days. A second unit, drawn by a single white steed, brings up the rear. The photograph shows the downtown side of Canal Street a few blocks from the Mississippi River. (August)
72 1927 8 x 10 1 B&W print 35mm B&W
Uptown side of Canal Street, between Camp and St. Charles Streets. Young and lovely Greta Garbo was starring in "Wild Orchids," one of the big hits of the decade. Next door, at Saenger’s Tudor, matinee idol Richard Dix was breaking flapper hearts. To the extreme right, Child’s Cafeteria, with entrances on both Canal and St. Charles, was offering coffee, gumbo, and a slice of apple pie for 25 cents. And those wonderful old automobiles just waiting quietly for their proud owners to return. (September)
73 1924 8 x 10 1 B&W print 35mm B&W
Dressed in their Sunday best, young Robert Celestin Smith and his little sister, Frances, smile proudly as they have their picture taken by a roving photographer. Brother Bob has a firm grip on the reins, the little goat looks as if he might take off down the street at any second. Notice the handsome gate and fence post. The address is 630 Flood Street, a few blocks from the Mississippi River in St. Maurice Parish in downtown New Orleans. (October)
74 Mar. 25, 1925 8 x 10 1 B&W print 35mm B&W
Streetcar #208 has just reached the corner of Race and Tchoupitoulas Streets in the Irish Channel section of uptown New Orleans. This car and the streetcars still in use today was built in 1924 by the Perley Thomas Car Company of High Point, NC. Charles L. Franck, Photographer. (November)
75 1906 8 x 10 1 B&W print 35mm B&W (2)
With her basket on her arm, a New Orleans woman crosses cobble-stoned North Peters Street in the French Quarter to shop in the French Market. The time is early morning. "Making market," as the colloquial expression went, was part of the daily routine in those good old pre-refrigerator days. Although the tall buildings along Decatur Street in the background are still standing, the cobble stones and streetcar tracks have long since disappeared into history, and the French Market itself, which dates to 1791, has undergone extensive remodeling over the years.
76 unknown 8 x 10 1 B&W print
Aerial view of New Orleans. Air Photos & Advertising, Inc., New Orleans, Photographer.
77 unknown 8 x 10 1 B&W print
Aerial view of New Orleans. Industrial Aerial Photos, New Orleans, Photographer
78 5½ x 8½ 1 drawing none
House on front of invitation from the Preservation Resource Center invitation to an illustrated lecture on New Orleans Architecture: Identifying Hidden Jewels in Today’s Market, November 5, 1987.
