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[Buildings with wrought iron railings, New Orleans, La.: Street and corner of building] – Vintage Wall Art

[Buildings with wrought iron railings, New Orleans, La.: Street and corner of building] — historic photograph
[Buildings with wrought iron railings, New Orleans, La.: Street and corner of building]. Historic photograph from the New Orleans 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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New Orleans is famous for its ironwork, and this picture puts the city's cast and wrought iron balconies front and center, with the corner of a building and the street running past it. Ironwork of this kind became a signature of the French Quarter and Faubourg Marigny, where galleries and railings were built during the late eighteenth and nineteenth centuries under Spanish and later American rule. Photographs like this one, made around 1925, document how these decorative elements stood as the city's architecture was being recorded and promoted to visitors. The railings' curling scrollwork is still one of the first things people notice about the neighborhood today.

Medium1 photographic print.
Notes[ca. 1925]
SourceLibrary of Congress, Prints and Photographs Division
Original scan1,964 × 1,500 px · prints to 7 × 5 in at 300 dpi
ReferenceAMZ-SOTP-HPA-139562

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