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Bourbon Street, New Orleans / Caroline Durieux. – Antique Photo Print

Bourbon Street, New Orleans / Caroline Durieux., 1943 — antique lithograph
Bourbon Street, New Orleans / Caroline Durieux., 1943. Antique lithograph 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 Bourbon Street, New Orleans / Caroline Durieux., an antique lithograph rich in period detail. The original is held by the Library of Congress, so what you hang is a true record of its time.

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Bourbon Street, New Orleans / Caroline Durieux.

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Bourbon Street in New Orleans, shown here as a 1943 lithograph by Caroline Durieux, centers on a Black woman singing in a bar, a scene that captures the street's nightlife during the Second World War. The print is signed and dated in pencil below the image. Durieux, a New Orleans artist known for lithographs of Louisiana life, drew many scenes of the city's working neighborhoods and its music. Wartime brought troops, defense workers and heavy traffic to the port city, and bars and music venues like this one were busy gathering places. The picture offers a close look at the social life of that moment.

Created / published1943
Medium1 print : lithograph.
GenreLithographs 1940-1950.
NotesSigned and dated in pencil below impression.
SubjectsWorld War, 1939-1945--Social aspects. African Americans--Women--1940-1950. Singing--1940-1950. Bars--Louisiana--New Orleans--1940-1950.
SourceLibrary of Congress, Prints and Photographs Division
Original scan1,321 × 1,536 px · prints to 4 × 5 in at 300 dpi
ReferenceAMZ-SOTP-HPA-159563

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