[New Orleans, La., old slave block in St. Louis Hotel] – Historic Print
![[New Orleans, La., old slave block in St. Louis Hotel], [between 1900 and 1910] — historic photograph](https://images.jameslantos.com/img/69/695b6a3afc91-L.webp)
(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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This rare historic photograph captures [New Orleans, La., old slave block in St. Louis Hotel] in remarkable detail. An authentic image from the Library of Congress, it carries the weight of the real historical record.
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[New Orleans, La., old slave block in St. Louis Hotel]
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Inside the rotunda of the old St. Louis Hotel in New Orleans, an auction block stands in this view, with the words "M. Barnett / Office" lettered on the wall nearby. The hotel, completed in the late 1830s, was one of the city's grand public buildings, and before the Civil War its rotunda was used for slave auctions, part of New Orleans's large domestic slave trade. Made on a glass negative between 1900 and 1910 by the Detroit Publishing Company, the photograph shows the room decades after those sales had ended, when the hotel was a working commercial building.
| Created / published | [between 1900 and 1910] |
|---|---|
| Medium | 1 negative : glass ; 8 x 10 in. |
| Notes | Title from jacket. G 778" on negative. Lettering on wall: M. Barnett / Office |
| Subjects | Slave trade. Auctions. Hotels. Interiors.United States--Louisiana--New Orleans. |
| Source | Library of Congress, Detroit Publishing Company Collection |
| Original scan | 800 × 980 px |
| Reference | AMZ-SOTP-DET-67293 |
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