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New Orleans, La.: The St. Louis Cathedral from Chartres Street – Vintage Photo Print

New Orleans, La.: The St. Louis Cathedral from Chartres Street, [no date recorded on caption card] — historic photograph
New Orleans, La.: The St. Louis Cathedral from Chartres Street, [no date recorded on caption card]. Historic photograph from the St. Louis collection.

(Originally scanned by the Library of Congress. Each image is professionally and digitally cleaned of artifacts such as color bars and extra borders prior to printing.)

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This historic photograph of New Orleans, La.: The St. Louis Cathedral from Chartres Street brings a moment of history to your wall. The original is held by the Library of Congress, so what you hang is a true record of its time.

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New Orleans, La.: The St. Louis Cathedral from Chartres Street

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The view runs down Chartres Street toward St. Louis Cathedral, the church that anchors Jackson Square in New Orleans's French Quarter. The building was erected after a fire in 1788 and became one of the city's most recognizable landmarks. Arnold Genthe, a German-born photographer known for his street scenes in San Francisco and elsewhere, turned his camera to New Orleans, and the caption's note about wagons suggests horse-drawn traffic still shared the street. The record gives no date, so the period is best read from the scene itself.

Created / published[no date recorded on caption card]
Medium1 photographic print.
NotesPhotoprint by Arnold Genthe. No. 1187. This record contains unverified data from caption card. Caption card tracings: Geogr.; Churches; Wagons.
SourceLibrary of Congress, Prints and Photographs Division
Original scan1,190 × 1,536 px · prints to 4 × 5 in at 300 dpi
ReferenceAMZ-SOTP-HPA-150052

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