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Evening on Bayou St. John, New Orleans, La. – Vintage Wall Art

Evening on Bayou St. John, New Orleans, La., c1903. — historic photograph
Evening on Bayou St. John, New Orleans, La., c1903.. 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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Few images capture their era like this historic photograph of Evening on Bayou St. John, New Orleans, La.. The original is held by the Library of Congress, so what you hang is a true record of its time.

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Evening on Bayou St. John, New Orleans, La.

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Bayou St. John is one of the oldest waterways in New Orleans, a slow tidal channel that linked the early French settlement to Lake Pontchartrain long before the city's drainage canals and levees reshaped the area. This Detroit Publishing Company view, dated around 1903, shows the bayou at evening, with the fishing activity noted on its caption card suggesting that the water was then a working landscape as well as a scenic one. The company traveled widely photographing American towns and waterways for commercial postcards and guidebooks, so the picture reflects the turn-of-the-century interest in capturing quiet local scenes for a national audience.

Created / publishedc1903.
Medium1 photographic print.
SubjectsPhotograph by the Detroit Publishing Co. No. 016350. Detroit Publishing Company Photograph Collection (Library of Congress). This record contains unverified, old data from caption card. Caption card tracings: La.--NO; Fishing; Geogr.; Shelf.
SourceLibrary of Congress, Prints and Photographs Division
Original scan1,536 × 1,202 px · prints to 5 × 4 in at 300 dpi
ReferenceAMZ-SOTP-HPA-141762

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