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[Entrance to Metairie Cemetery, New Orleans, La.] – Historic Print

[Entrance to Metairie Cemetery, New Orleans, La.], [between 1900 and 1910] — historic photograph
[Entrance to Metairie Cemetery, 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 [Entrance to Metairie Cemetery, New Orleans, La.]. An authentic image from the Library of Congress, it carries the weight of the real historical record.

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[Entrance to Metairie Cemetery, New Orleans, La.]

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Few cemeteries in the South carry the sense of a city laid out for the dead quite like Metairie Cemetery, and this glass negative records its entrance as it stood in the first decade of the 1900s. Metairie opened in 1872 on land that had once been a racetrack, and its gatehouse and gates set the tone for the above-ground tombs, mausoleums, and tree-lined avenues that visitors would find within. The picture comes from the Detroit Publishing Company, whose photographers traveled widely to document American places for commercial sale around the turn of the century. Its 8 by 10 inch format gives unusually fine detail in the gatehouse stonework and the approach.

Created / published[between 1900 and 1910]
Medium1 negative : glass ; 8 x 10 in.
GenreDry plate negatives.
NotesTitle from jacket. G 2731" on negative. Detroit Publishing Co. no. 034326. Gift; State Historical Society of Colorado; 1949."
SubjectsCemeteries. Gatehouses.United States--Louisiana--New Orleans.
SourceLibrary of Congress, Detroit Publishing Company Collection
Original scan973 × 803 px
ReferenceAMZ-SOTP-DET-67295

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