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French Opera House, New Orleans – Historic Reproduction

French Opera House, New Orleans, c1900. — historic photograph
French Opera House, New Orleans, c1900.. 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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A window into the past: French Opera House, New Orleans, preserved in this historic photograph. An authentic image from the Library of Congress, it carries the weight of the real historical record.

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French Opera House, New Orleans

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Built on Bourbon Street in the French Quarter, the French Opera House opened in 1859 and became one of the most celebrated theaters in the South, staging French and Italian opera for the city's Creole audiences. The Detroit Publishing Company, which documented American cities and landscapes around 1900, made this glass plate negative at about that time. A fire destroyed the house in 1919, so this view preserves a landmark that no longer stands. The negative is broken at the lower right and has been taped to a second sheet of glass, a reminder of how fragile early dry plates could be.

Created / publishedc1900.
Medium1 negative : glass ; 8 x 10 in.
GenreDry plate negatives.
NotesNegative broken bottom right and taped to second sheet of glass. Detroit Publishing Co. no. 04888. Gift; State Historical Society of Colorado; 1949.
SubjectsOpera houses.United States--Louisiana--New Orleans.
SourceLibrary of Congress, Detroit Publishing Company Collection
Original scan812 × 647 px
ReferenceAMZ-SOTP-DET-53778

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