... and other equipment on hostile shores. Higgins Industries, New Orleans." Photo by Howard Hollem, Office of War Information. View full ... during WWII.
WWII Museum The WWII museum in New Orleans is located in the Higgins Main Office Building. A well worth visit ...
... block of Royal Street.
Circa 1923. "Street scene, New Orleans." Who can name the street? It has a nice view of the Hibernia Bank ...
(The Gallery, Arnold Genthe, Cars, Trucks, Buses, New Orleans) ...
"Street in the French Quarter, New Orleans." At left, the portrait studio of photographer Louis ... PHOTOGRAPHER 227 Royal Street, according to the 1893 New Orleans City Directory. Below, the sign over the door, unsquashed by ... are for streetcar tracks. - Dave]
(The Gallery, DPC, New Orleans, W.H. Jackson) ...
New Orleans circa 1925. "View of a courtyard." Evidently the rear entrance to ...
Decrepit I am always amazed at old photos of New Orleans. The french colonial influence is often obvious, and I sometimes ... had clung onto Louisiana.
(The Gallery, Arnold Genthe, New Orleans) ...
New Orleans in 1910. "Maison Blanche, Canal Street." Continuing our tour of ... building in the empty space between them in 1913.
New Orleans seems to have kept its old business district department stores ... have been the wonder of the day!
(The Gallery, DPC, New Orleans, Stores & Markets, Streetcars) ...
... stop sign at the corner of Canal Street and Royal Street, New Orleans. Note beer advertisement confirming pre-Prohibition date.
... for filming of period scene in movie.
Infrogmation of New Orleans
(The Gallery, Cars, Trucks, Buses, D.C., Harris + Ewing) ...
... steamer Chalmette during high water, March 23, 1903, New Orleans." 8x10 inch dry plate glass negative, Detroit Publishing Company. ... to prefab houses.
(The Gallery, Boats & Bridges, DPC, New Orleans) ...
... collar, and they are L.N.O. & T. The Louisville, New Orleans and Texas RR ran from Memphis to New Orleans, and became part of the Illinois Central in 1892.
This is ...
... they wanted to try was to bring the Mardi Gras floats from New Orleans to Omaha. While in New Orleans this group was so impressed by the Mardi Gras Krewes that they ...
... Ohio River in 1893. Owned by Captain LaVerrier Cooley in New Orleans, City Of Camden operated on the lower Mississippi River between New Orleans and the Ouachita and Red Rivers. She was sold to Captain Frank ...
New Orleans circa 1905. "Mississippi River from Hennen Building." Panorama made ... the state's northern parishes see it about once a year. New Orleans' last snowfall, in 2004, was a dusting that came nine months before ... these old-time shots is astonishing.
(Panoramas, DPC, New Orleans) ...
New Orleans circa 1923. "View of a street and roofs." Also an ice wagon whose ... that sound? I like these early 20s photos of New Orleans and can almost hear the jazz and Dixieland music in the background. ... fame and fortune.
(The Gallery, Arnold Genthe, Horses, New Orleans) ...
New Orleans circa 1890. "St. Charles Hotel from Canal Street." 5x7 inch glass ... the horsecar after them.
Most cities (including New Orleans) tried replacing horsecars with different solutions: ammonia ... powered streetcars using trolleys became the norm. In New Orleans, horsecars were replaced by overhead powered electric streetcars ...
... scientific games of Chess, Checkers, and Whist."
New Orleans circa 1903. "Chess, Checkers and Whist Club, Canal and Baronne ... some connection with Paul Morphy
(1837-1884), a lifelong New Orleans resident, who was a self-taught
chess prodigy (and eccentric) and ...
March 1943. "New Orleans oil truck." Note the wings atop the tank. Medium format negative by ...
(The Gallery, Cars, Trucks, Buses, John Vachon, New Orleans) ...
New Orleans, 1937. "Le Pretre Mansion, 716 Dauphine Street, built 1835-6. ... Palace." The legend of the massacre, much beloved of New Orleans ghost tour guides is, of course, bogus. The legend, initially ... another photograph.
(The Gallery, F.B. Johnston, New Orleans) ...
... , which was launched on March 12, 1958. Renamed New Orleans for scrapping, she was beached at Alang, India in December 2003. ... the dock. On September 6 the last buyer renamed her New Orleans and soon began repairs that would allow her to sail under her own ...
New Orleans circa 1923. "Upper stories of buildings with wrought iron ... in a commercial ice plant, the first of which opened in New Orleans in 1868. -tterrace]
Looks just the same today Except for ... house on Royal St").
(The Gallery, Arnold Genthe, New Orleans) ...
New Orleans circa 1903. "Jackson Square and St. Louis Cathedral." Panorama made ... mysterious silver streetcar went by.
(Panoramas, DPC, New Orleans) ...
Circa 1910. "New Orleans, Louisiana. N.O. & Mississippi river from Hotel Grunewald." At ... seen under construction in 1911
(Panoramas, DPC, New Orleans, Stores & Markets, Streetcars) ...