New Orleans

 

Post Card Collection

 

NEW ORLEANS, LOUISIANA, POSTCARDS

Pix # Date of Pix Size of Pix No. of Pix Kind of Image Negative

1 circa 3½ x 5½ 1 Color Postcard none

2 circa 3½ x 5½ 1 Color Postcard none

Jackson Square, the Place d'Armes of "Old Orleans."

3 circa 3½ x 5½ 1 Color Postcard none

4 circa 3½ x 5½ 1 Color Postcard none

The Cabildo, erected in 1795 as the seat of the Spanish Government for the Province of Louisiana.

5 circa 3½ x 5½ 1 Color Postcard none

Interior of St. Louis Cathedral. It was built on 1794. Situated opposite historic Jackson Square.

6 circa 3½ x 5½ 1 Color Postcard none

Pirate's Alley separating the Cabildo from old St. Louis Cathedral. It extends for one block from Royal Street to Chartres Street. Through this alleyway the pirates were taken to the Cabildo Jail.

7 circa 3½ x 5½ 1 Color Postcard none

The new buildings housing the French Market were completed in January 1938 on the same ground where stood the old French Market originally built in 1791.

8 circa 3½ x 5½ 1 Color Postcard none

Lacework Iron Balcony corner of Royal and St. Peter. The design is of oak leaves and acorns. This building was built by Jean Labranche in the early 1800s.

9 circa 3½ x 5½ 1 Color Postcard none

Old stairway, Spanish Cabildo.

10 circa 3½ x 5½ 1 Color Postcard (2) none

The driveway and ancient stairway in the home of Paul Morphy. He was formerly the International Chess Champion. It is now known as the Patio Royal and is a fashionable French Quarter tea room and restaurant.

11 circa 3½ x 5½ 1 Color Postcard none

The Court Yard and Prison Rooms in the Cabildo at Chartres and St. Peter's Streets.

12 circa 3½ x 5½ 1 Color Postcard none

Brulatour Courtyard, showing the old stairway and arch, 520 Royal Street. It has been painted and photographed more than any other place in New Orleans.

13 circa 3½ x 5½ 1 Color Postcard none

Brulatour Courtyard, 520 Royal Street. It has been painted and photographed more then any other place in New Orleans.

 

NEW ORLEANS, LOUISIANA, POSTCARDS

Pix # Date of Pix Size of Pix No. of Pix Kind of Image Negative

14 circa 3½ x 5½ 1 Color Postcard none

15 circa 3½ x 5½ 1 Color Postcard none

One of the most attractive courtyards, in the romantic Vieux Carre located at 520 Royal Street. It was formerly the town home of the Brulatour family. Many artists have sketched this famous courtyard.

16 circa 3½ x 5½ 1 Color Postcard none

Spanish Arms Patio, 616 Royal Street. Handsome wrought iron gates, known as the "Wishing Gates" form the entrance to the patio.

17 circa 3½ x 5½ 1 Color Postcard none

Court Yard, Adelina Patti House, 631 Royal Street. This is one of the oldest houses in the French Quarter dating back to early 1700s. Here lived the famous Italian Opera singer Adelina Patti when at age 17 made her American debut with the French Opera Troupe.

18 circa 3½ x 5½ 1 Color Postcard none

Little Theater Courtyard, 619 St. Peter Street.

19 circa 3½ x 5½ 1 Color Postcard none

20 circa 3½ x 5½ 1 Color Postcard none

Little Theater Courtyard. Le Petit Theatre du Vieux Carre is one of the most successful and best known (Little Theatres) in the country. It is located at 619 St. Peter Street.

 

NEW ORLEANS, LOUISIANA POSTCARDS- 2 x 2 COLOR SLIDES:

Marilyn Vessier copied postcards, circa 1930s, in the possession of Sidney Romero, September 1982.

Slide 1

-Aerial view of N. O. The Crescent City. This aerial view shows how the Mississippi River winds around the city giving it its celebrated name. Almost the entire 41 miles of harbor frontage of America’s Second Port may be seen. In the lower left hand corner is Audubon Park.

Slide 2

-Skyscraper district of N. O., La. A bird’s-eye view of the business section of modern N. O. gives an excellent idea of the metropolitan aspects of this ancient city of the South. Carondelet Street is the Wall Street of the South, its banks, occupying most of the skyscrapers shown.

Slide 3

-Canal Street at night. Canal Street, so named because in olden days a big drainage canal ran down its center, recently rebuilt at a cost of $3,500,000 is 170 feet wide, one of the widest central business thoroughfares in the world, has sidewalks of terrazzo marble and neutral grounds. It marks the upper limits of the old city.

Slide 4

-Canal Street, N. O. New Canal Street and the ever-growing skyline of the South’s Greatest City. This 171 foot wide thoroughfare has been termed America’s most beautiful business street. It has terrazzo paving lined with pink border.

Slide 5

-Canal Street, N. O. The Great White Way of the South. As many as fifty thousand people gather here within a distance of five blocks during any festivity such as Mardi Gras and New Year’s Eve. The main retail district of New Orleans.

Slide 6

-Canal Street, Looking West.

Slide 7

-St. Charles Avenue showing gigantic live oaks. Because of the abundance, variety, and sizes of its trees, is described by tourists as one of the most charming residential avenues in the country. It is 5 miles long and along both sides are the beautiful home of the city’s well-to-do.

Slide 8

-Palms, St. Charles Avenue, N. O., La.

Slide 9

-Bridge across Lake Pontchartrain entering N. O. on the Old Spanish Trail from the East. World’s longest continuous concrete highway bridge. It is 5 miles long and costs $5,500,000.

Slide 10

-French Market built on the same site the Indians used for trading purposes before the coming of the white men to this state. (2 copies)

Slide 11

-Famous Old French Market. It has been used as a food trading place ever since the founding of New Orleans over two centuries ago. To visitors its cosmopolitan groups of people from almost every nation and its picturesque surroundings offer great attraction. It is one of New Orleans’s most famous spots. (2 copies)

Slide 12

-Old Court Yard, French Quarter. It abounds in hidden beauties like that in the picture-one of the enclosed courts, flower-filled and secluded, and breathing the atmosphere of ancient romance for which New Orleans is so noted. (3 copies)

Slide 13

-A Dragon Float, Mardi Gras. (2 copies)

Slide 14

-Float in Mardi Gras Parade. Papier mache floats depicting mythical, historic or phantastic themes, frolicking, masquerading, festive feelings freely expressed without restraint, an out-breaking of the love of pleasure that exists in every normal human being. (2 copies)

Slide 15

-Mardi Gras crowds on Canal Street. Papier mache floats depicting mythical, historic or phantastic themes, frolicking, masquerading, festive feelings freely expressed without restraint, an out-breaking of the love of pleasure that exists in every normal human being. (2 copies)

Slide 16

-Lafayette Square showing post office.

Slide 17

-Palm Garden, showing Margaret Statue. (2 copies)

Slide 18

-Post Office facing Lafayette Square occupying the entire square of ground, the United States District Court, U. S. Circuit Court, on appeals, Weather Bureau, Secret Service, District Attorney and the other department of Government Service. (2 copies)

NEW ORLEANS, LOUISIANA POSTCARDS- 2 x 2 COLOR SLIDES-Continued

Slide 19

-Lee Circle, Bienville Hotel and Public Library.

Slide 20

-New Hotel Monteleone contains 600 rooms; is located in the center of the city’s activities; convenient to all railway terminals, theatres, and Vieux Carre, fate moderate. (2 copies)

Slide 21

-American Sugar Refinery.

Slide 22

-Delgado Museum of Art, City Park.

Slide 23

-Gateway, Metairie Cemetery. (2 copies)

Slide 24

-The Old Archbishopric and Church of St. Mary dates from 1846. The Archbishopric on the right is the oldest building in the Mississippi Valley and survives in an almost perfect state of preservation. Building commenced in 1727, finished in 1734. The benches on which the slaves sat morning and evening for instruction and a clock made by Dey of Parish in 1638 may be seen. (2 copies)

Slide 25

-St. Roch’s Chapel. Few who visit New Orleans, fail to visit St. Roch’s with its unusual above-ground burial niches, like pigeon holes in the wall that surrounds the ancient cemetery, and its romantic Shrine in the center, with storied charm for bringing love to girls who pray therein after visiting nine churches. (2 copies)

Slide 26

-The "Mastodon" crossing Mississippi River above New Orleans: Living up to its mighty name, this train ferry conveys complete trains with their passenger personnel from one side of this half-mile wide "Father of Waters" to the other. The cross-river trip is especially interesting at night. (2 copies)

Slide 27

-Locks, Industrial Canal. The ship "Commercial Pathfinder, Wilmington, Del." is in the picture. (2 copies)

Slide 28

-Harbor View, America’s second largest seaport.

Slide 29

-Swimming Pool, Audubon Park. Lovers of aquatic sports have been provided with proper facilities for indulgence in them through the means of the handsome new $250,000 public natatorium. This pool, measuring 150 feet by 225 feet, is one of the finest in the South and is equipped with all modern innovations, both as to dressing rooms, maintenance of the purity of the water and general plans. It has a capacity of 2,000 bathers at one time and is divided so that it may be cut into two sections if necessary. (2 copies)

Slide 30

-Sea Lion Pool, Audubon Park.

Slide 31

-Drive in City Park. City Park is one of the largest and the most beautiful in the United States because of its tropical foliage and the fact that it covers over 1,400 acres. It was formerly Allard Plantation. (2 copies)

Slide 32

-City Park Scene.

Slide 33

-Loyola University. The Tudor Gothic architecture of this group of educational buildings, facing beautiful Audubon Park and adjoining Tulane University, is a cause of constant admiration. Loyola is devoted to higher education for the Catholic youth by the Jesuits. (2 copies)

Slide 34

-Newcomb College for girls.

Slide 35

-Tulane University.

Slide 36

-Louisiana’s two greatest monuments, conceived and built by the late United States Senator Huey P. Long. New Huey P. Long Bridge, New Orleans, State Capitol, Baton Rouge. The new State Capitol is the tallest building in the South, 34 floors, height to top of beacon light is 450 feet. The Bridge is 4.4 miles long including approaches, the finest span across the Mississippi; central pier 409 feet high, equal to a 36-story office building; 135 feet vertical clearance for steamers: 790 feet horizontal clearance: Cost $13,000.000. (2 copies)