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[Good Friday in front of old St. Louis Cathedral, New Orleans, La.] – Historic Print

[Good Friday in front of old St. Louis Cathedral, New Orleans, La.], [ca. 1910] — historic photograph
[Good Friday in front of old St. Louis Cathedral, New Orleans, La.], [ca. 1910]. Historic photograph from the St. Louis 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: [Good Friday in front of old St. Louis Cathedral, New Orleans, La.], preserved in this historic photograph. Sourced directly from the Library of Congress, it represents an authentic piece of documented history.

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[Good Friday in front of old St. Louis Cathedral, New Orleans, La.]

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Palms are the detail that sets this view apart, tying the scene to the Holy Week observances of New Orleans's Catholic community. The photograph was made around 1910 in front of St. Louis Cathedral, the church that faces Jackson Square at the heart of the old French Quarter. It is a glass dry plate negative from the Detroit Publishing Company, a firm known for documenting American towns and landmarks in the early twentieth century, and its 8 by 10 inch size gave the photographer fine detail for large prints.

Created / published[ca. 1910]
Medium1 negative : glass ; 8 x 10 in.
GenreDry plate negatives.
NotesTitle from jacket. G 6863" on negative. Detroit Publishing Co. no. 039641. Gift; State Historical Society of Colorado; 1949."
SubjectsPalms. Cathedrals. Good Friday.United States--Louisiana--New Orleans.
SourceLibrary of Congress, Detroit Publishing Company Collection
Original scan973 × 782 px
ReferenceAMZ-SOTP-DET-69256

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