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French Quarter, New Orleans – Vintage Wall Art

French Quarter, New Orleans, [between 1880 and 1897] — historic photograph
French Quarter, New Orleans, [between 1880 and 1897]. 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 French Quarter, New Orleans in remarkable detail. The original is held by the Library of Congress, so what you hang is a true record of its time.

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French Quarter, New Orleans

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The French Quarter of New Orleans, photographed on a glass plate negative sometime between 1880 and 1897, shows a street lined with the commercial storefronts that gave the district its working character. The print is attributed to William Henry Jackson, the Colorado-born photographer best known for his western survey work, and the negative passed through the Detroit Publishing Company, whose large catalog of American scenes made many such views widely available. The Quarter, with its Spanish and French colonial-era buildings and dense mix of residents and trades, was a neighborhood the photographers of the period were drawn to as an example of old-world character within an American city.

Created / published[between 1880 and 1897]
Medium1 negative : glass ; 5 x 7 in.
GenreDry plate negatives.
NotesAttribution to Jackson based on Catalogue of the W.H. Jackson Views (1898). 7409" on negative. Detroit Publishing Co. no. 8109. Gift; State Historical Society of Colorado; 1949."
SubjectsStreets. Ethnic neighborhoods. Commercial facilities.United States--Louisiana--New Orleans.
SourceLibrary of Congress, Detroit Publishing Company Collection
Original scan973 × 711 px
ReferenceAMZ-SOTP-DET-76346

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