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[Royal Street from Canal Street, New Orleans, La.] – Historic Photograph Print

[Royal Street from Canal Street, New Orleans, La.], [1906?] — historic photograph
[Royal Street from Canal Street, New Orleans, La.], [1906?]. 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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[Royal Street from Canal Street, New Orleans, La.] comes to life in this historic photograph, reproduced from the original with every detail intact. Sourced directly from the Library of Congress, it represents an authentic piece of documented history.

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[Royal Street from Canal Street, New Orleans, La.]

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Royal Street running off Canal Street is the subject here, a view of one of the French Quarter's best-known thoroughfares captured on a large glass negative around 1906. The Detroit Publishing Company, which made thousands of such views of American cities, towns and scenery for postcards and travel books, produced this print from the negative, and the company's commercial photography offers a snapshot of early twentieth-century urban life. Look along the street for the storefronts, signage and street traffic that marked the commercial edge of the Quarter, where Canal Street's department stores and shops gave way to older residential blocks.

Created / published[1906?]
Medium1 negative : glass ; 8 x 10 in.
GenreDry plate negatives.
NotesTitle from jacket. G 3760" on negative. Detroit Publishing Co. no. 034321. Gift; State Historical Society of Colorado; 1949."
SubjectsStreets. Commercial facilities.United States--Louisiana--New Orleans.
SourceLibrary of Congress, Detroit Publishing Company Collection
Original scan789 × 980 px
ReferenceAMZ-SOTP-DET-67290

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