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Belle Grove Plantation, White Castle, Iberville Parish, La., after the fire on March 15, 1952 – Vintage Print

Belle Grove Plantation, White Castle, Iberville Parish, La., after the fire on March 15, 1952, 1952 — historic photograph
Belle Grove Plantation, White Castle, Iberville Parish, La., after the fire on March 15, 1952, 1952. Historic photograph from the Historic Print Archive 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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A window into the past: Belle Grove Plantation, White Castle, Iberville Parish, La., after the fire on March 15, 1952, preserved in this historic photograph. An authentic image from the Library of Congress, it carries the weight of the real historical record.

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Belle Grove Plantation, White Castle, Iberville Parish, La., after the fire on March 15, 1952

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Belle Grove, the plantation house in White Castle, Iberville Parish, Louisiana, is the subject here, shown as it appeared in 1952 after a fire on March 15 of that year. The photograph documents the damage in the immediate aftermath, when the house's survival was in question. It belongs to the Laughlin Collection of architectural records, which preserved images of Southern buildings at a time when many historic houses were being lost to neglect and fire. The caption details are unverified, but the view still shows how a major antebellum residence on the Mississippi sugar lands looked after it was badly damaged.

Created / published1952
Medium1 photographic print.
NotesNo. 363. Neg. No. 7199. DO NOT REPRODUCE WITHOUT PERMISSION. Laughlin Collection - Architectural Collections. This record contains unverified, old data from caption card.
SourceLibrary of Congress, Prints and Photographs Division
Original scan1,536 × 1,251 px · prints to 5 × 4 in at 300 dpi
ReferenceAMZ-SOTP-HPA-147860

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