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

[Canal Street, New Orleans, La.], [between 1900 and 1910] — historic photograph
[Canal Street, New Orleans, La.], [between 1900 and 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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Few images capture their era like this historic photograph of [Canal Street, New Orleans, La.]. It comes from the collections of the Library of Congress, scanned from the original and carefully restored.

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[Canal Street, New Orleans, La.]

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Canal Street, one of the widest thoroughfares in the American South, separates the old French Quarter from the newer business district, and this panorama shows it in the years before the automobile took over. The wide view is built from two glass negatives that were made to be read side by side, and it shows the street railroad tracks and the storefronts along the busy commercial blocks. The Detroit Publishing Company, which sent photographers across the country around 1900, issued city views like this one for tourists and promoters. Today such panoramas are useful records of how American streetscapes looked in the early twentieth century.

Created / published[between 1900 and 1910]
Medium2 negatives : glass ; 10 x 8 in.
GenrePanoramic photographs.Dry plate negatives.
NotesTitle from jacket. Videodisc images are out of sequence; actual left to right order is 1A-19013, 19012. 617 G" on left negative; "618 G" on right negative. Detroit Publishing Co. no. 037047. Gift; State Historical Society of Colorado; 1949."
SubjectsStreets. Street railroads. Commercial facilities.United States--Louisiana--New Orleans.
SourceLibrary of Congress, Detroit Publishing Company Collection
Original scan795 × 980 px
ReferenceAMZ-SOTP-DET-68390

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