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[Street scene in New Orleans, Louisiana] – Antique Photo Print

[Street scene in New Orleans, Louisiana], [between 1920 and 1924] — historic photograph
[Street scene in New Orleans, Louisiana], [between 1920 and 1924]. 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 [Street scene in New Orleans, Louisiana], 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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[Street scene in New Orleans, Louisiana]

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Catalogued simply as a street scene in New Orleans, this print is one of a numbered series of views from the early 1920s, when photographers often recorded ordinary city life. New Orleans was then a busy port, with French Quarter blocks, Creole and American neighborhoods, streetcar lines, and buildings with galleries and iron balconies. Images like this one show how such streets served workers, shoppers, and passersby before automobiles began to reshape city traffic later in the decade. The record does not name a photographer or exact location, so the picture is best read as a document of the streetscape itself.

Created / published[between 1920 and 1924]
Medium1 photographic print.
GenrePhotographic prints 1920-1930.
NotesNo. 282.
SubjectsStreets--Louisiana--New Orleans--1920-1930.
SourceLibrary of Congress, Prints and Photographs Division
Original scan1,035 × 1,536 px · prints to 3 × 5 in at 300 dpi
ReferenceAMZ-SOTP-HPA-169969

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