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Canal and oaks, Audubon Park, New Orleans, La. – Antique Print

Canal and oaks, Audubon Park, New Orleans, La., c[1910?] — historic photograph
Canal and oaks, Audubon Park, New Orleans, La., c[1910?]. 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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Step back in time with Canal and oaks, Audubon Park, New Orleans, La., a historic photograph 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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Few of the Detroit Publishing Company's views of New Orleans are as quiet as this one, which turns its attention from the city's streets to a still waterway lined with live oaks in Audubon Park. The park, laid out on the former Tulane plantation grounds along the Mississippi and opened for the 1884 World's Industrial and Cotton Centennial Exposition, was a favorite place for residents and visitors to stroll and take in the Southern landscape. Spanish moss hangs from the heavy branches, a feature of Louisiana oaks that photographers of the period often sought out as a symbol of the South. The glass negative, made around 1910, comes from a company that produced large numbers of views for travel markets.

Created / publishedc[1910?]
Medium1 negative : glass ; 8 x 10 in.
GenreDry plate negatives.
NotesG 6849" on negative. Detroit Publishing Co. no. 071834. Gift; State Historical Society of Colorado; 1949."
SubjectsParks. Canals. Spanish moss. Oaks.United States--Louisiana--New Orleans.
SourceLibrary of Congress, Detroit Publishing Company Collection
Original scan973 × 789 px
ReferenceAMZ-SOTP-DET-73057

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