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Public library, New Orleans, La. – Historic Print

Public library, New Orleans, La., [between 1900 and 1910] — historic photograph
Public library, 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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Many of the Detroit Publishing Company's views of New Orleans were made for travelers and postcard buyers, and this one shows the public library, a civic building that reflected the city's growing commitment to reading rooms and free access to books in the early 1900s. The company's large-format glass negatives, made between about 1900 and 1910, recorded streets and landmarks in unusually fine detail, so the architecture and the surrounding street life are worth a close look. Because the record does not describe the building's interior or its exact location, the picture is best read as a snapshot of how a Southern city presented its institutions to the public at the turn of the century.

Created / published[between 1900 and 1910]
Medium1 negative : glass ; 8 x 10 in.
GenreDry plate negatives.
NotesDetroit Publishing Co. no. 071105. Gift; State Historical Society of Colorado; 1949.
SubjectsLibraries.United States--Louisiana--New Orleans.
SourceLibrary of Congress, Detroit Publishing Company Collection
Original scan824 × 642 px
ReferenceAMZ-SOTP-DET-72491

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