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[Jackson Square, New Orleans, La.] – Historic Reproduction

[Jackson Square, New Orleans, La.], [between 1900 and 1910] — historic photograph
[Jackson Square, New Orleans, La.], [between 1900 and 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 [Jackson Square, New Orleans, La.], a historic photograph rich in period detail. It comes from the collections of the Library of Congress, scanned from the original and carefully restored.

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[Jackson Square, New Orleans, La.]

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Two glass negatives record this view of Jackson Square as a single wide panorama, with the plaza's iron fence and walks laid out before St. Louis Cathedral. The square was called the Place d'Armes until 1851, when it was renamed for Andrew Jackson, the hero of the Battle of New Orleans. Flanking it are the Pontalba Buildings, row apartments completed in the late 1840s and often cited as among the oldest apartment buildings in the United States. The Detroit Publishing Company, which issued views like this for tourists and publishers, made the prints in the early 1900s.

Created / published[between 1900 and 1910]
Medium2 negatives : glass ; 8 x 10 in.
GenrePanoramic photographs.Dry plate negatives.
NotesTitle from jacket. Videodisc images are out of sequence; actual left to right order is 1A-19015, 19014. 631 G" on left negative; "632 G" on right negative. Detroit Publishing Co. no. 037048. Gift; State Historical Society of Colorado; 1949."
SubjectsPlazas. Apartment houses. Cathedrals.United States--Louisiana--New Orleans.
SourceLibrary of Congress, Detroit Publishing Company Collection
Original scan973 × 793 px
ReferenceAMZ-SOTP-DET-68392

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