French Market, New Orleans, Louisiana – Antique Wall Art
(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 historic photograph of French Market, New Orleans, Louisiana brings a moment of history to your wall. Sourced directly from the Library of Congress, it represents an authentic piece of documented history.
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French Market, New Orleans, Louisiana
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The French Market in New Orleans is the subject here, a commercial district that had been trading along the Mississippi riverfront for well over a century by the time this glass negative was made around 1900. The Detroit Publishing Company, which produced and sold views of American places in that period, catalogued it as a street and market scene, and the subjects listed for it point to the mix of stalls and the neighborhoods that supplied them. Large 8 by 10 inch glass plates like this one captured fine detail, so the stalls, goods and crowds of the market's working days survive with a clarity that smaller formats often lost.
| Created / published | c1900. |
|---|---|
| Medium | 1 negative : glass ; 8 x 10 in. |
| Genre | Dry plate negatives. |
| Notes | Date from transparency. Detroit Publishing Co. no. 05739. Gift; State Historical Society of Colorado; 1949. |
| Subjects | Streets. Markets. Ethnic neighborhoods.United States--Louisiana--New Orleans. |
| Source | Library of Congress, Detroit Publishing Company Collection |
| Original scan | 3,037 × 2,074 px · prints to 10 × 7 in at 300 dpi |
| Reference | tif12641_FrenchmarketNewOrleansLouisian |
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