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[Balcony with laundry, Galley House, New Orleans, Louisiana] / Alvyk Boyd Cruise. – Antique Wall Art

[Balcony with laundry, Galley House, New Orleans, Louisiana] / Alvyk Boyd Cruise., [between 1935 and 1939] — historic drawing
[Balcony with laundry, Galley House, New Orleans, Louisiana] / Alvyk Boyd Cruise., [between 1935 and 1939]. Historic drawing from the Home & Household 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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Step back in time with [Balcony with laundry, Galley House, New Orleans, Louisiana] / Alvyk Boyd Cruise., a historic drawing rich in period detail. An authentic image from the Library of Congress, it carries the weight of the real historical record.

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[Balcony with laundry, Galley House, New Orleans, Louisiana] / Alvyk Boyd Cruise.

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Laundry strung across the railing of the Galley House balcony gives this watercolor its domestic character, a detail that architectural records seldom show. Alvyk Boyd Cruise painted it for the Historic American Buildings Survey, a New Deal program begun in 1933 to document significant American buildings through drawings and photographs. Survey artists and draftsmen recorded the ironwork, galleries and courtyards that define older New Orleans neighborhoods, and their sheets remain a valuable record of how those houses were built and used.

Created / published[between 1935 and 1939]
Medium1 drawing : watercolor.
GenreWatercolors 1930-1940.Drawings Color 1930-1940.
NotesHistoric American Buildings Survey, LA 36 - Newor 14. No. 98. Forms part of the Historic American Buildings Survey collection.
SubjectsBalconies--Louisiana--New Orleans--1930-1940.
SourceLibrary of Congress, Prints and Photographs Division
Original scan1,140 × 1,422 px · prints to 4 × 5 in at 300 dpi
ReferenceAMZ-SOTP-HPA-218809

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