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The Clay Monument, [Canal Street], New Orleans – Historic Photo Reproduction

The Clay Monument, [Canal Street], New Orleans, [between 1880 and 1897] — historic photograph
The Clay Monument, [Canal Street], New Orleans, [between 1880 and 1897]. 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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This rare historic photograph captures The Clay Monument, [Canal Street], New Orleans in remarkable detail. Sourced directly from the Library of Congress, it represents an authentic piece of documented history.

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The Clay Monument, [Canal Street], New Orleans

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The monument at the center of this view is a statue of Henry Clay, the Kentucky statesman, set on the broad median of Canal Street in New Orleans. Sculptor Joel Tanner Hart's likeness was dedicated in 1860, and it became one of the city's best-known landmarks. The tracks running past it carried the horse railroad, whose mule-drawn cars were a common sight on Canal Street in the late 1800s. The photograph is attributed to William Henry Jackson, based on its listing in his 1898 catalog of views, and the negative later passed through the Detroit Publishing Company.

Created / published[between 1880 and 1897]
Medium1 negative : glass ; 5 x 7 in.
GenreDry plate negatives.
NotesAttribution to Jackson based on listing as photo no. 8102 in Catalogue of the W.H. Jackson Views (1898). Negative taped to second sheet of glass. Detroit Publishing Co. no. 7402. Gift; State Historical Society of Colorado; 1949.
SubjectsClay, Henry,--1777-1852--Statues. Monuments & memorials. Commercial facilities. Horse railroads.United States--Louisiana--New Orleans.
SourceLibrary of Congress, Detroit Publishing Company Collection
Original scan973 × 640 px
ReferenceAMZ-SOTP-DET-76340

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