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[Canal Street, New Orleans, La.] – Vintage Wall Art

[Canal Street, New Orleans, La.], [ca. 1910] — historic photograph
[Canal Street, New Orleans, La.], [ca. 1910]. 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 [Canal Street, New Orleans, La.] in remarkable detail. An authentic image from the Library of Congress, it carries the weight of the real historical record.

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[Canal Street, New Orleans, La.]

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Canal Street, the broad boulevard that divides the French Quarter from the American sector of New Orleans, is the subject here, and the view is built around the street railway that ran down its center. Canal was among the city's widest and busiest thoroughfares, lined with department stores, banks and hotels, and by the early twentieth century its streetcars were a daily fixture of commerce and travel. The photograph was made on a glass plate negative by the Detroit Publishing Company, whose crews documented American cities and landscapes for commercial sale in the years around 1910. Its survival in the Library of Congress reflects a 1949 gift from the State Historical Society of Colorado.

Created / published[ca. 1910]
Medium1 negative : glass ; 8 x 10 in.
GenreDry plate negatives.
NotesTitle from jacket. G 6866" on negative. Detroit Publishing Co. no. 039612. Gift; State Historical Society of Colorado; 1949."
SubjectsStreets. Commercial facilities. Street railroads.United States--Louisiana--New Orleans.
SourceLibrary of Congress, Detroit Publishing Company Collection
Original scan973 × 782 px
ReferenceAMZ-SOTP-DET-69230

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