Photographs COLLECTION
Earl K. Long Library
University of New Orleans
July 1997
Size: 9 linear feet
Geographic locations: Primarily New Orleans, La.
Inclusive dates: ca. 1850-present
Summary: An artificial collection of photographs, compiled from various sources.
Related collections: Frank B. Moore Collection (Mss 145); Vieux Carré Photographs Collection (Mss 207); William Hession Collection (Mss 229); New Orleans Views Collection (Mss 235)
Source: Gifts, purchases
Access: No restrictions
Copyright: Physical rights are retained by the Earl K. Long Library, University of New Orleans.
Citation: Photographs Collection, Earl K. Long Library, University of New Orleans
Nienaber family tomb, Carrollton Cemetery; probably shortly after Miss Margaret Nienaber's funeral, September 4, 1907 (See Daily Picayune, September 4, 1907, p. 5, col. 6-7)
St. Patrick's Day Banquet, St. Charles Hotel
Group pose with sign "6th Grade | 1907." McDonogh 23 School?
Child in urban winter scene with considerable ice
Large frame residence in rural community (St. Tammany Parish?)
Posed group of girls with "Wright High School" banner; school building in rear
Man at controls of motorized wagon parked on Elysian Fields Avenue; Washington Square and Dauphine Street in background
Wagon with name "GARLAND" stenciled on side; Elysian Fields Avenue with railroad tracks, Washington Square, and Dauphine Street in background
Black Civil War soldier identified in accompanying copy of National Archives letter (August 4, 1942) as Jules Dickerson, alias Jules Dixon, Corporal, Company B, 80th United States Colored Volunteer Infantry. Mr. Jules Edward, a Dickerson descendant, stated that the subject was originally from St. James Parish, Louisiana
Public market, New Orleans
Interior group scene, "50'TH BIRTHDAY. R. PELAYO | N.O. FEB 28 .1913."
Street scene featuring two-story brick building with sign, "THE M[I]DWAY SALOON. [C] CRESSIONNIE PROP." View includes two men, one of whom appears to be the bartender. Support columns of building's gallery bear signs advertising Louisiana Pilsener Beer, New Orleans Brewing Company. Building, now demolished, stood on the downtown side of the 400 block of Jackson Avenue. See also Remarks below.
Group portrait of students in front of frame building (1405 St. Mary Street) with sign "Southern College of Music"
Formal three-quarter portrait of a young black woman
Formal three-quarter portrait of middle-aged black woman
View of Canal Street (downtown side of 500 and 600 blocks) and Exchange Alley, featuring obelisks memorializing New Orleanians killed in World War I; includes Werlein and Godchaux buildings, moving streetcar, and parked automobiles
View of Canal Street (downtown side of 600 block) and Exchange Alley featuring obelisk memorializing New Orleanians killed in World War I; includes parked automobiles and moving streetcar and automobile
Close-up of obelisk with plaque containing names of New Orleanians killed in World War I; background includes part of 600 block of Canal Street, a streetcar, and parked automobiles
Montage of individual bust portraits of members of 1935 class, Loyola University, School of Dentistry; includes portrait of Dr. C. Victor Vignes, Dean
Mercier Building on Canal Street being dismantled; view includes portion of adjacent Grand Opera House and buildings along Dauphine Street
Outdoor group portrait of young people and Roman Catholic clergy. Probably a First Communion or Confirmation portrait; physiognomy of the youths suggests Indian/Mexican origins
Double row of live oaks, probably at Audubon Park
Cemetery wall vaults (close-up)
Interior of Horticultural Hall, Audubon Park
Ushers Society, St. Stephen's Church
Church altar decorated for Good Friday
Cotton Levee and Canal Street with Custom House and Christ Church in background
Rex parade on Canal Street passing Dauphine Street
Garage / service station, 915 Broad Street
Construction work, Sewerage and Water Board facilities, South Claiborne Avenue between Eagle and Monticello Streets
Jefferson Commercial and Savings Bank, Copernicus Street, Gretna, La.
Interior, Deluxe Lunchroom, 705 Poydras Street
Portrait of a group of men before entrance to Consolidated Rice Co. and National Rice Milling Co., both 31 North Peters Street
Entrance hall and sitting room with staircase, 2726 Esplanade Avenue
Exterior view of residence, 2726 Esplanade Avenue
Bedroom, 2726 Esplanade Avenue
Dining room, 2726 Esplanade Avenue
Parlor/music room, 2726 Esplanade Avenue
New Orleans and Carrollton Railroad "halfway station," downtown/river corner of Napoleon and St. Charles Avenues
Group of men and women in rural setting, probably Bonnet Carre Spillway
Charity Hospital newly completed
Street view of three-bay cottage, 3527 Carondelet Street
Delta Orchestra of New Orleans
Group portrait, personnel of New Orleans Quartermaster Depot
Group portrait, Kiwanis Mid-City Club of New Orleans
Portrait of unidentified group
Standing portrait of Oscar J. Dunn?
Group portrait of Shriners in automobile; probably delegates to Thirty-Sixth Annual Session of Imperial Council, New Orleans, April 1910
Exterior view, restaurant, Buck Town, Jefferson Parish
Interior view, restaurant, Buck Town, Jefferson Parish
Interior view, Herman R. Brunies Restaurant, 700 Second Street, Gretna, La.
Portrait of Loyola University, School of Dentistry, Class of 1919
Group portrait of Professor Harry Mendelson's School Band on steps of Isaac Delgado Museum of Art
Group portrait of Professor Harry Mendelson's School Band before Harry Mendelson's Conservatory of Music, Singing, Dancing, and Dramatic Art, 2209 St. Charles Ave. (uptown-lake corner of St. Charles and Jackson Avenues)
Group portrait, annual reunion banquet, Class of 1884-1885, McDonogh School No. 13, Monteleone Hotel, March 16, 1929
Cornerstone dedication, Courthouse, Royal and St. Louis Streets
Roman Catholic Confirmation Class; unidentified parish but probably New Orleans
Studio portrait of three men in buffoonish costumes with legend "ELK'S CIRCUS"
Group portrait of female members of American Red Cross
French Opera House
Group portrait, Regal Sales Meeting, American Brewing Co., New Orleans, Dec. 18, 19, 1949
Group portrait of twelve men in dining room, possibly St. Charles or Grunewald Hotel
Group portrait, graduation class, St. Henry's Catholic School, 821 General Pershing Street
Group portrait, Jefferson City Buzzards
Group portrait, James Hubert Blenk Council, Knights of Columbus, Class Initiation, Gretna, La.
Group portrait, interior of St. James A.M.E. Church, 220 N. Roman Street
Group portrait, formally attired girls (graduating class?)
Group portrait, formally attired girls (graduating class?)
Group portrait, New Orleans Oratorio Society and Symphony Orchestra
Group portrait of St. Stanislaus College baseball team
Holy Savior Convent, Main and Vacherie streets, Lockport, La.
Formal landscape with moss-draped live oaks, Brookgreen Gardens, S.C.
Three steamboats on Mississippi
Grove of oak trees in City Park or Audubon Park
French Quarter street scene, several people in front of a saloon
Formal portrait of officials and delegates, United Daughters of the Confederacy Convention, Mansfield, La., April 6, 7, 8, 1925, posed before Dick Taylor Chapter House, Grand Cane, La.
Formal portrait of military cadets, St. Simeon's Select School
Group portrait of female students with Father Thomas J. Larkin, A.M., Holy Name of Mary School, Algiers
Group portrait of female students with Father Thomas J. Larkin, A.M., Holy Name of Mary School, Algiers
Group portrait, Dock Board baseball team
Steamboat Jesse K. Bell at New Orleans wharf
Steamboat Baton Rouge
View of Horticultural Hall, World's Industrial and Cotton Centennial Exposition (1884/85), with cart and driver in foreground
View of standpipe on grounds on World's Industrial and Cotton Centennial Exposition (1884/85)
Interior view of Main Building, World's Industrial and Cotton Centennial Exposition (1884/85), before installation of displays
Palmyra Pleasure Club, a fishing camp on pilings over water with boardwalk from land to camp
Group of men in room that appears to be a saloon
Michael Untereiner
Group of seven black children in rural setting
Montage of 81 portraits of teenage girls from Girls High School No. 3
Group portrait of male parishioners arrayed before Franklin Street Methodist Episcopal Church, 2001 So. Franklin (now Loyola Avenue)
Attorney General Eugene Stanley, probably at his inaugural ceremonies
Rex parade on Canal Street
Banquet of New Orleans Mid-Winter Sports Association
Street scene of two-story double residence, ca. 1910
City street after heavy snowfall; New Iberia?
Canal Street with mule cars and Henry Clay statue
Sisters of the Holy Family Convent / School, 717 Orleans Street
Cotton factor's grading room; probably New Orleans
St. Louis Cathedral garden
Montage of portraits of Charity Hospital administrators and physicians; titled "Charity Hospital Interne Corps"
Formal portrait of African-American family in rural setting
Visitors with naval officers on deck of Italian cruiser Etruria, New Orleans harbor
Aerial view, Central Business District
Sugar Refinery, Loreauville (Iberia Parish), Louisiana
Student body, Sarah C. Banner Private School, 726 Third Street
Residence on Elmfield Plantation, Assumption Parish, La.
Informal group portrait (probably picnickers) in rural setting
Automobile with driver in Audubon Park
Center-hall, raised residence at 928 Orange Street (old number 122 Orange Street)
Formal portrait, 1909 Graduating Class, New Orleans Normal School
Statue of Virgin and Christ Child in garden of St. Mary's Assumption Church
Studio portrait, Dr. Peter B. Salatich (died March 8, 1967), New Orleans surgeon
Studio portrait, Dr. R. J. Salatich (died June 19, 1966), New Orleans dentist
Formal portrait, A. H. Wilson School, graduating class of 1935
Mayor Robert S. Maestri with Harry L. Hopkins and other Works Projects Administration officials inspecting City Park Stadium
Real estate development in vicinity of Lake Vista
Roadway and real estate development in vicinity of Lake Vista
Nine views of ruins of French Opera House
Josephine Hutchinson Memorial Building (1551 Canal Street) of Tulane University Medical School
George Paoletti's band
Rex parade float moving uptown; Masonic Temple and buildings on lake side of 400 block of St. Charles Avenue in background
Group portrait, Actuarial Science Club, Boys' High School of Commerce (Samuel J. Peters High School)
Second Convent of St. Michael, Convent, La.
Hope Haven Band, Marrero, La.
Sugar cane mill, Gramercy, La.
Column of troops marching on a broad street of small town or suburban area
Large group of African-American children in rear yard of wooden building, probably in New Orleans
"The Tuxedo Brass Band, at a Masonic cornerstone laying, about 1919"
New Orleans plainclothesmen with shotguns in touring car surrounded by other officers; First Precinct Police Station (227 S. Saratoga Street)
Higgins Incorporated ships and shipyards
Residence, ca. 1925, probably in uptown or Carrollton section of New Orleans
Bust portrait of Governor Huey P. Long
Senator Huey P. Long standing in front of a parked DeSoto automobile, probably his, in the District of Columbia
Panoramic view of Louisiana State University band, with campus in background
South Claiborne Avenue
Pair of African-American convicts in striped prison garb, handcuffed together
Cemetery tombs, probably New Orleans
Panoramic view of Jerusalem Temple Band in front of auditorium, 1137 St. Charles Avenue, with other buildings to right and left
Launch with two men on Bayou Lafourche
Large gathering of people by Bayou Lafourche, possibly in Lockport
Alcee Fortier High School Senior Band, 1942
Xavier University, Grade 10-5
Graduating Class, Evening School No. 3
Historical Note
Photography was brought to New Orleans by Jules Lion, a portrait painter and lithographer, in March 1840. Just six months before, the daguerreotype process had been introduced in Paris by its originator, Louis Jacques Mandé Daguerre. According to Photography in New Orleans: The Early Years, 1840-1865 by Margaret Denton Smith and Mary Louise Tucker (Baton Rouge: Louisiana State University Press, 1982), "The early history of photography in the Crescent City was similar to that of many cities in the United States. There was at first a reaction of total amazement to the daguerreotype; local commentators expressed curiosity and delight in the process that enabled one to create pictures with light" (p. [3]).
An Englishman, Frederick Scott Archer, in 1851 "developed a method of using a light-sensitive collodion emulsion as the medium for creating a negative image. When the negative was formed upon a glass plate and backed by a dark ground, the image appeared positive. This unique photograph was called an ambrotype. When the negative was formed on a thin iron sheet, which had been japanned black or dark brown, it was called a ferrotype or tintype. This was also a unique image. Photographs upon glass or common sheet metal were much cheaper to produce than daguerreotypes, which required more precious metals as well as hours of preparation. But the most important use of the collodion process was for the production of glass negatives from which many paper positives could be made, thus introducing a means of rapid production of inexpensive multiple prints" (p. 5).
"If New Orleans was like other American cities in its enthusiastic acceptance and participation in the development of the photographic processes the first two decades, it was radically different from them in the 1860s. In 1861 the trend was dramatically reversed by the events and consequences of the Civil War: the blockade of the port, federal occupation and confiscation of property, and finally Reconstruction government. A tragic decline in private fortunes and quality of life persisted for almost twenty years" (p. 6).
"The war created a shift from an emphasis on leisurely portrait making to a fast turnout of inexpensive images such as the tintype and carte-de-visite, which recorded the faces of the young soldiers and their families as well as the generals of opposing armies. The carte-de-visite was a small paper photograph, usually 2½ by 4 inches, which was mounted on a card about the size of a visiting card. It was a French invention, patented in 1854. Works of this type were mailed by the thousands to loved ones, who placed them in albums as cherished mementoes or popular souvenirs. The war also contributed to the expanson of the photographer's interests and to commissions beyond the portrait." Several New Orleans photographers "participated in recording a tragic part of their country's history" (p. 6).
During its first quarter-century, "photography in New Orleans evolved from a one-man artistic endeavor to a business-oriented profession intent on the rapid production of inexpensive prints. The multiplication character inherent in the paper photographic processes was fully exploited. The stereo view card became as popular an item as the carte-de-visite, and in 1866 the cabinet portrait was introduced. This was a print, 4 by 5½ inches, mounted on a card that was 4¼ by 6½ inches. By 1865 the paper photograph had replaced the unique images of the daguerreotype and ambrotype, and the tintype was in declining use" (p. 7).
"In 1869 several important changes occurred. A method for retouching the negative rather than the finished print revolutionized the portrait business; the opening of the American West by the railroad companies stimulated an interest in landscape photography and boosted the stereo trade card. In 1871 a radical change was made by a British physician, Richard L. Maddox, who took the first steps in the development of a gelatin-based negative, which would eventually lead to the production of cameras for the millions. Photography was then taken out of the exclusive domain of the professional operator, who offered traditional and formal images, and was put into the hands of the amateur who used the camera for personal expression" (p. 7).
Container List
Number: P-1
Location: 4.1
Subject: Nienaber family tomb, Carrollton Cemetery; probably shortly after Miss Margaret Nienaber's funeral, September 4, 1907 (See Daily Picayune, September 4, 1907, p. 5, col. 6-7)
Date: Probably September 4, 1907
Photographer: Ernest J. Bellocq, New Orleans
Form: Print (7" x 9") mounted on paper board (11" x 14")
Condition: Some foxing on print and mount board; corner of mount board chipped
Remarks: See also P-2
Source: Purchase, 1980
Number: P-2
Location: 4.1
Subject: Nienaber family tomb, Carrollton Cemetery; probably shortly after Miss Margaret Nienaber's funeral, September 4, 1907 (See Daily Picayune, September 4, 1907, p. 5, col. 6-7)
Date: Probably September 4, 1907
Photographer: Ernest J. Bellocq, New Orleans
Form: Print (7" x 9") mounted on paper board (11" x 14")
Condition: Some foxing on print and mount board
Remarks: See also P-1. Lent to New Orleans Museum of Art, Bellocq Exhibition, 1996
Source: Purchase, 1980
Number: P-7
Location: 5.2
Subject: St. Patrick's Day Banquet, St. Charles Hotel
Date: 1910
Photographer: Unknown
Form: Print (8" x 12") tinted green, mounted on paper board (12" x 15")
Condition: Holes and tears on print and mounting board
Remarks: Printed list of dignitaries on mounting board
Source: Purchase, 1978
Number: P-8
Location: 4.1
Subject: Group pose with sign "6th Grade | 1907." McDonogh 23 School?
Date: 1907
Photographer: Teunisson Photo, N.O.LA.
Form: Print (7¾" x 9_") mounted on paper board (11" x 14")
Condition:
Remarks: Dealer reported picture came from same source as photographs P-and P-2
Source: Purchase, 1980
Number: P-20
Location: 5.2
Subject: Child in urban winter scene with considerable ice
Date: ca. 1920s?
Photographer: Unknown
Form: Print (8" x 10") mounted on paper board (12" x 14")
Condition: Edge of mounting board scuffed
Remarks: Penciled on reverse "Albert Robert | 4713 S. Carrollton Ave."
Source: Unknown
Number: P-21
Location: 4.1
Subject: Large frame residence in rural community (St. Tammany Parish?)
Date: 1910?
Photographer: Unknown
Form: Print (7" x 9") with mat (11" x 14")
Condition:
Remarks:
Source: Purchase, 1980
Number: P-23
Location: 5.2
Subject: Posed group of girls with "Wright High School" banner; school building in rear
Date: ca. 1920?
Photographer: Unknown
Form: Print (8" x 10") mounted on paper board (12" x 14")
Condition: Edges broken on mounting board
Remarks: Inscribed on reverse, "High School Class of Lillian Olga Fincke"
Source: Unknown
Number: P-24
Location: 5.2
Subject: Man at controls of motorized wagon parked on Elysian Fields Avenue; Washington Square and Dauphine Street in background
Date: ca. 1915-1920
Photographer: H. J. Harvey ½ Photo-N.O.
Form: Print (7" x 10") mounted on paper board (12" x 14")
Condition: Print stained; mounting board stained and corners broken
Remarks: See also P-25; Garland Wagon Company is listed in city directories of 1914 through 1962 at 725 and 731 Elysian Fields Avenue. Earlier city directories from 1880s to 1914 list Garland family at same address and as blacksmiths, wheelwrights, and wagon manufacturers
Source: Purchase, 1979
Number: P-25
Location: 4.1
Subject: Wagon with name "GARLAND" stenciled on side; Elysian Fields Avenue with railroad tracks, Washington Square, and Dauphine Street in background
Date: ca. 1915-1920
Photographer: Unknown
Form: Print (8" x 10") mounted on paper board (12" x 14")
Condition: Print foxed; mounting board cracked with missing corners
Remarks: See also P-24; Garland Wagon Company is listed in city directories of 1914 through 1962 at 725 and 731 Elysian Fields Avenue. Earlier city directories from 1880s to 1914 list Garland family at same address and as blacksmiths, wheelwrights, and wagon manufacturers
Source: Purchase, 1979
Number: P-32
Location: 4.1
Subject: St. Patrick's Day Banquet, St. Charles Hotel
Date: ca. 1905-1915
Photographer: Teunisson
Form: Print (7¾" x 9½") mounted on paper board (11" x 14")
Condition: Minor scratches on print; mounting board torn with frayed corners and edges
Remarks: Inscribed on reverse in pencil: "I don't know | and I [dont] care"
Source: Purchase, 1980
Number: P-36
Location: 3.1
Subject: Black Civil War soldier identified in accompanying copy of National Archives letter (August 4, 1942) as Jules Dickerson, alias Jules Dixon, Corporal, Company B, 80th United States Colored Volunteer Infantry. Mr. Jules Edward, a Dickerson descendant, stated that the subject was originally from St. James Parish, Louisiana.
Date: ca. 1865
Photographer: Unknown
Form: Modern color print (10" x 8") of earlier print tinted by pastel and/or water color
Condition: Good
Remarks:
Source: Gift, 1981
Number: P-39
Location: 1.1
Subject: Public market, New Orleans
Date: ca. 1920s or 1930s
Photographer: Unknown
Form: Print (4½" x 2¾")
Condition: Some yellowing, corners bent
Remarks:
Source: Purchase, 1982
Number: P-40
Location: 4.1
Subject: Interior group scene, "50'TH BIRTHDAY. R. PELAYO | N.O. FEB 28 .1913."
Date: February 28, 1913
Photographer: C. L. Franck, 1717 Third St., New Orleans, La.
Form: Print (8" x 10¼") mounted on card (11" x 14")
Condition: Top corners on card mount broken; minor water stains; some surface dirt
Remarks: Lettered in white on face of print: "50'th BIRTHDAY. R. PELAYO. | N.O. FEB 28.1913." Stamped on reverse: " C. L. Franck, | 1717 THIRD ST. | NEW ORLEANS, LA. | Telephone Jackson [18]72." New Orleans city directories for 1913 and 1914 list a Rudolph Pelayo, clerk, residing at 2314 Franklin Avenue.
Source: Purchase
Number: P-48
Location: 3.2
Subject: Street scene featuring two-story brick building with sign, "THE M[I]DWAY SALOON. [C] CRESSIONNIE PROP." View includes two men, one of whom appears to be the bartender. Support columns of building's gallery bear signs advertising Louisiana Pilsener Beer, New Orleans Brewing Company. Building, now demolished, stood on the downtown side of the 400 block of Jackson Avenue. See also Remarks below.
Date: ca. 1910-1915
Photographer: Stamped on reverse: "...J. A. Hammond...Birmingham, Alabama"
Form: Print (5½" x 4") mounted on paper board (8" x 6")
Condition: Print yellowing with dark spot in upper left corner; small flake spot to right of center; otherwise good with sharp image
Remarks: Building to right of center in background of image is American Paint Works, 424 Josephine Street. The 1912 city directory lists Claybert Cressionnie as a bartender at 458 Jackson Avenue
Source: Purchase, 1983
Number: P-50
Location: 4.1
Subject: Group portrait of students in front of frame building (1405 St. Mary Street) with sign "Southern College of Music"
Date: ca. 1900
Photographer: Ink stamp on reverse: "Rojas & Conner ½ Photographers ½ 1007 Canal [St.]"
Form: Print (4¾" x 8") mounted on paper board (10" x 12")
Condition: Minor surface loss, scratches, stains on print; paper board stained and foxed with tears and cracks
Remarks: For additional material on Southern College of Music, see Ben C. Toledano Collection, Accession 70
Source: Purchase, 1983
Number: P-54
Location: 3.2
Subject: Formal three-quarter portrait of a young black woman
Date: ca. 1910-1915
Photographer: A. P. Bedou
Form: Sepia print (5½" x 3¾") mounted in studio folder (9" x 14" when open)
Condition: Slight blemishes on print; folder foxed and light-faded
Remarks:
Source: Purchase, 1983
Number: P-57
Location: 2.1
Subject: Formal three-quarter portrait of middle-aged black woman
Date: ca. 1870s or 1880s
Photographer: Unknown
Form: Print (5½" x 4") mounted on paper board (6½" x 4¼")
Condition: Some light fade, probably from previous framing; minor foxing
Remarks: Clear image; number 4104 written on reverse
Source: Purchase, 1983
Number: P-59-1
Location: 2.1
Subject: View of Canal Street (downtown side of 500 and 600 blocks) and Exchange Alley, featuring obelisks memorializing New Orleanians killed in World War I; includes Werlein and Godchaux buildings, moving streetcar, and parked automobiles
Date: 1919
Photographer: Unknown
Form: Print (5" x 7")
Condition: Sharp image with minor surface dents; 603 penciled on reverse
Remarks: See also P-59-2 and P-59-3 for other views of same subject
Source: Purchase, 1983. Negative made by Colorpix, April 12, 1993
Number: P-59-2
Location: 2.1
Subject: View of Canal Street (downtown side of 600 block) and Exchange Alley featuring obelisk memorializing New Orleanians killed in World War I; includes parked automobiles and moving streetcar and automobile
Date: 1919
Photographer: Unknown
Form: Print (5" x 7")
Condition: Clear image with minor surface dents; 603 penciled on reverse
Remarks: See also P-59-1 and P-59-3 for other views of same subject
Source: Purchase, 1983
Number: P-59-3
Location: 2.1
Subject: Close-up of obelisk with plaque containing names of New Orleanians killed in World War I; background includes part of 600 block of Canal Street, a streetcar, and parked automobiles
Date: 1919
Photographer: Unknown
Form: Print (5" x 7")
Condition: Sharp image with minor surface dents; 603 penciled on reverse together with "WWI Monument ½ New Orleans" in red ink
Remarks: See P-59-1 and P-59-2 for other views of same subject
Source: Purchase, 1983
Number: P-60
Location: 4.1
Subject: Montage of individual bust portraits of members of 1935 class, Loyola University, School of Dentistry; includes portrait of Dr. C. Victor Vignes, Dean
Date: 1935
Photographer: Pons Studio
Form: Print (11" x 14")
Condition: Sharp images; minor stains and surface loss resulting from original framing
Remarks:
Source: Purchase, 1983. Copy negative made by department
Number: P-62
Location: 1.1
Subject: Mercier Building on Canal Street being dismantled; view includes portion of adjacent Grand Opera House and buildings along Dauphine Street
Date: Made from original print, ca. 1906
Photographer: Unknown
Form: Print (4" x 4½") made from earlier, ca. 1906 original print
Condition: Sharp image revealing minor surface loss and flaws in original print; numerous surface cracks in present print
Remarks: Blank border of print face annotated: "opera" and "MB"
Source: Purchase, 1983
Number: P-77
Location: 3.2
Subject: Outdoor group portrait of young people and Roman Catholic clergy. Probably a First Communion or Confirmation portrait; physiognomy of the youths suggests Indian/Mexican origins
Date: ca. 1900s
Photographer: "N. H. Reed, Santa Barbara" imprinted on face of mounting board
Form: Print (6" x 8") on mounting board (9¾" x 11¾")
Condition: Considerable foxing on face of print
Remarks: Stamped on reverse: "ST. JOSEPH'S CHURCH | 1802 TULANE AVE. | NEW ORLEANS 19 LA."
Source: Purchase, 1983
Number: P-82
Location: 3.2
Subject: Double row of live oaks, probably at Audubon Park
Date: ca. 1895
Photographer: Unknown; probably amateur
Form: Cyanotype, circular image (3¼" diameter) on rectangle (3¾" x 4½")
Condition: Excellent; paper remnants on reverse suggests previous mounting
Remarks: "New Orleans" printed in pencil, bottom right of facing surface; purchased in lot with P-83, P-84, P-85
Source: Purchase, 1985
Number: P-83
Location: 3.2
Subject: Cemetery wall vaults (close-up)
Date: ca. 1895
Photographer: Unknown; probably amateur
Form: Cyanotype, circular image (3¼" diameter) on rectangle (3¾" x 4½")
Condition: Excellent; paper remnants on reverse suggests previous mounting
Remarks: "New Orleans." printed in pencil, bottom right of facing surface; notation "25" in pencil, top right of facing surface; purchased in lot with P-82, P-84, P-85
Source: Purchase, 1985
Number: P-84
Location: 3.2
Subject: Cemetery wall vaults
Date: ca. 1895
Photographer: Unknown; probably amateur
Form: Cyanotype, circular image (3¼" diameter) on rectangle (3¾" x 4½")
Condition: Excellent; paper remnants on reverse suggests previous mounting
Remarks: "New Orleans." printed in pencil, bottom right of facing surface; notation "10" in pencil, top left of facing surface; purchased in lot with P-82, P-83, P-85
Source: Purchase, 1985
Number: P-85
Location: 3.2
Subject: Interior of Horticultural Hall, Audubon Park
Date: ca. 1895
Photographer: Unknown; probably amateur
Form: Cyanotype, circular image (3¼" diameter) on rectangle (3¾" x 4½")
Condition: Excellent; paper remnants on reverse suggests previous mounting
Remarks: "New Orleans" printed in pencil, bottom right of facing surface; purchased in lot with P-83, P-84, P-85
Source: Purchase, 1985
Number: P-86
Location: 3.2
Subject: Ushers Society, St. Stephen's Church
Date: ca. 1922
Photographer: Charles L. Franck
Form: Print (9½" x 8") on cardboard mount
Condition: Fair; photograph is sharp but upper left corner is missing
Remarks: "St. Stephen's Ushers Society 1922" written in ink, left side of reverse surface
Source: Gift, 1985
Number: P-97
Location: 4.1
Subject: Church altar decorated for Good Friday
Date: April 14, 1911
Photographer: E. Claudel
Form: Print (9½" x 7¾") on mount board crudely trimmed to 10½" x 8½"
Condition: Dark image; much foxing; minor surface damage
Remarks:
Source: Purchase, 1986
Number: P-98
Location: 3.2
Subject: Cotton Levee and Canal Street with Custom House and Christ Church in background
Date: ca. 1880
Photographer: Unknown
Form: Print (4¼" x 7¼") on cardboard mount (5" x 8")
Condition: Sharp image and overall condition good, but considerable foxing, numerous fine scratches, and some surface grime; minor damage on two corners of mount
Remarks: Legend on face of print: "No. 672, Cotton Levee, Canal St."
Source: Purchase, 1986
Number: P-100
Location: 2.1
Subject: Rex parade on Canal Street passing Dauphine Street
Date: ca. 1920
Photographer: Unknown; published by Keystone View Company
Form: Stereograph (overall 3½" x 7")
Condition: Sharp images; minor surface scratches
Remarks:
Source: Purchase, 1986
Number: P-109
Location: 3.2
Subject: Garage / service station, 915 Broad Street
Date: ca. 1925/26
Photographer: Unknown, probably commercial
Form: Print (5" x 7") on mount board (7" x 9")
Condition: Sharp image; slight yellowing and minor foxing and surface grime
Remarks: Two signs on the building identify it respectively as the "Broadway Garage" and the "Ed Thiery & ______ Service Station." City directories for the period list no Broadway Garage, but the directory for 1926 lists a Thiery & Cucullu as operators of an "oil filling station" at 915 N. Broad Street.
Source: Purchase, 1986
Number: P-111
Location: 3.2
Subject: Construction work, Sewerage and Water Board facilities, South Claiborne Avenue between Eagle and Monticello Streets
Date: December 11, 1927
Photographer: Charles L. Frank
Form: Print (8" x 10") backed with cloth
Condition: Sharp image with some yellowing and minor surface dirt
Remarks: "Dec. 11 - 1927" printed on face; reverse stamped with Chas. L. Frank stamp; cloth backing has end flap to permit binding
Source: Purchase, 1986
Number: P-112
Location: 4.1
Subject: Jefferson Commercial and Savings Bank, Copernicus Street, Gretna, La.
Date: ca. 1916
Photographer: C. L. Franck
Form: Print (8" x 10") on mount trimmed to 9" x 10½"
Condition: Sharp image; one frayed edge; depression and tear in center of image
Remarks: Stamped on reverse: "C. L. Franck, 1717 Third St. New Orleans, La. Telephone [Jack]son 1873-[W]."
Source: Purchase, 1986
Number: P-113
Location: 3.2
Subject: Interior, Deluxe Lunchroom, 705 Poydras Street
Date: ca. 1935
Photographer: Unknown; probably commercial
Form: Five prints, all 5" x 7"; two on cardboard mounts (7" x 9")
Condition: Clear images; all yellowing and with much surface grime; insect damage to all, one severe
Remarks: One print identified on face as "DE LUXE LUNCH | 705 POYDRAS ST." City directories for 1931 through 1964 list the DeLuxe Lunchroom at 705 Poydras Street; directory for 1930 lists a Christopher A. Antonatos Lunch Room at 705 and 707 Poydras Street; other directories for 1930s list Antonatos as operator of the DeLuxe Lunchroom.
Source: Purchase, 1986
Number: P-114
Location: 3.2
Subject: Portrait of a group of men before entrance to Consolidated Rice Co. and National Rice Milling Co., both 31 North Peters Street
Date: ca. 1893
Photographer: Unknown
Form: Print (4¼" x 7½") on cardboard mount (4¼" x 7¾")
Condition: Sharp image with overall yellowing, spots, minor surface scratches and dirt; print and cardboard mount crudely trimmed
Remarks: Penciled on reverse by apparently different hands: "Alfred [F]rellsen Kuly 4th 95" and "4¼ x 7¾"
Source: Purchase, 1986
Number: P-116
Location: 4.1
Subject: Entrance hall and sitting room with staircase, 2726 Esplanade Avenue
Date: ca. 1907
Photographer: Unknown but probably professional
Form: Print (6" x 8") on cardboard mount (10" x 12")
Condition: Sharp image; overall yellowing
Remarks:
Source: Purchase, 1986
Number: P-117
Location: 4.1
Subject: Exterior view of residence, 2726 Esplanade Avenue
Date: ca. 1920
Photographer: Signed lower right: "T. Krieg ½ N. Orleans"
Form: Print (7½" x 9½") on cardboard mount (10¾" x 13¾")
Condition: Sharp image; minor surface scratches; foxing on mat
Remarks: Hand tinted with water color
Source: Purchase, 1986
Number: P-117
Location: 4.1
Subject: Bedroom, 2726 Esplanade Avenue
Date: ca. 1907
Photographer: Unknown but probably professional
Form: Print (6" x 8") on cardboard mount (10" x 12")
Condition: Sharp image; overall yellowing
Remarks:
Source: Purchase, 1986
Number: P-117
Location: 4.1
Subject: Dining room, 2726 Esplanade Avenue
Date: ca. 1907
Photographer: Unknown but probably professional
Form: Print (6" x 8") on cardboard mount (10" x 12")
Condition: Overall yellowing
Remarks:
Source: Purchase, 1986
Number: P-117
Location: 4.1
Subject: Parlor/music room, 2726 Esplanade Avenue
Date: ca. 1907
Photographer: Unknown but probably professional
Form: Print (6" x 8") on cardboard mount (10" x 12")
Condition: Sharp image; overall yellowing; minor surface scratches and spotting
Remarks:
Source: Purchase, 1986
Number: P-124
Location: 2.2
Subject: New Orleans and Carrollton Railroad "halfway station," downtown/river corner of Napoleon and St. Charles Avenues
Date: ca. late 1860s
Photographer: Lilienthal's Photographic Establishment, 131 Poydras St.
Form: Stereograph (3½" x 6¾")
Condition: Sharp images marred by dark striations across lower half of print; minor surface grime
Remarks: In addition to printed advertisement for Lilienthal's Photographic Establishment at 131 Poydras Street, reverse bears handwritten notation "Napoleon Ave. | R.R. Depot | New Orleans"
Source: Purchase, 1986. Copy negative available
Number: P-127
Location: 3.2
Subject: Group of men and women in rural setting, probably Bonnet Carre Spillway
Date: November 23, 1930
Photographer: Unknown
Form: Print (5" x 8")
Condition: Sharp image; yellowing with minor foxing
Remarks: Printed in ink on reverse: " -'JENUINE JAHNCKE CLUB' - | - SPILLWAY, LA. - | - NOV - 23 - 1930 -"
Source: Purchase, 1986
Number: P-145
Location: 3.2
Subject: Charity Hospital newly completed
Date: 1939
Photographer: Unknown
Form: Print (image 9¾" x 7¾" on paper 10" x 8")
Condition: Sharp image; minor creases and surface abrasions
Remarks: Found with papers apparently the property of a Ben C. Eastwood, longtime resident at 1926 Milan Street, New Orleans, La.
Source: Purchase, 1986
Number: P-150
Location: 3.2
Subject: Street view of three-bay cottage, 3527 Carondelet Street
Date: 1902
Photographer: Unknown, but probably John T. Eastwood who resided at this address from 1901 to 1906
Form: Cyanotype (4" x 4¾") mounted on board (6½" x 8½")
Condition: Small amount of foxing on print; mount board foxed and stained
Remarks: Inscription on face of mount board: "First House Keeping N.O. La. Sept. 1901 | Res. Jhn. T. Eastwood Esq." Found with papers apparently the property of a Ben C. Eastwood, longtime resident at 1926 Milan Street, New Orleans, La.
Source: Purchase, 1986
Number: P-151
Location: 3.2
Subject: Delta Orchestra of New Orleans
Date: October 5, 1930
Photographer: Unknown; probably professional
Form: Print (image 7½" x 9½" on paper 8" x 10")
Condition: Sharp image; numerous creases on surface
Remarks: Orchestra, location, date, and musicians identified in unknown hand on reverse
Source: Purchase, 1987
Number: P-152
Location: 3.2
Subject: Group portrait, personnel of New Orleans Quartermaster Depot
Date: January 12, 1935
Photographer: Unknown
Form: Print (ca. 4¾" x 6¾" on paper ca. 5" x 7¼"); mounted in crudely trimmed cardboard frame
Condition: Sharp image; some yellowing; surface scratches; oxidative-reductive deterioration
Remarks: Subject, individuals, date, and photographer identified on mimeographed sheet pasted to reverse of frame
Source: Purchase, 1987
Number: P-154
Location: 3.2
Subject: Group portrait, Kiwanis Mid-City Club of New Orleans
Date: March 29, 1945
Photographer: Unknown; probably professional
Form: Print (image 7¾" x 9½" on paper 8¼" x 10")
Condition: Sharp image; minor surface flaws
Remarks: Organization, date, and individuals pictured are identified in text under portrait
Source: Purchase, 1987
Number: P-155
Location: 3.2
Subject: Portrait of unidentified group
Date: ca. early 1950s
Photographer: Wolbrette & Mortenson ?
Form: Print (image 7½" x 9½" on paper 8" x 10")
Condition: Sharp image; minor surface soiling, mars, and creases
Remarks: "Wolbrette & Mortenson | 235 Chartres St. | New Orleans, La." stamped on reverse. Victor H. Schiro is in group.
Source: Purchase, 1987
Number: P-158
Location: 3.2
Subject: Standing portrait of Oscar J. Dunn?
Date: ca. 1870
Photographer: Unknown but probably professional
Form: Albumen print (5½" x 4") on cardboard mount (5¾" x 4¼"), the whole crudely mounted (probably of a later date) over second photograph on cardboard mount (10" x 8")
Condition: Some fading; spot in upper right corner; minor surface loss crudely touched up. Large chip missing from edge of second cardboard mount.
Remarks:
Source: Purchase, 1987
Number: P-162
Location: 3.2
Subject: Group portrait of Shriners in automobile; probably delegates to Thirty-Sixth Annual Session of Imperial Council, New Orleans, April 1910
Date: ca. April 10-14, 1910.
Photographer: Unknown but probably professional
Form: Print (5" x 7") on cardboard mount (5½" x 7½")
Condition: Sharp image; minor surface scuffs
Remarks: "to Willie Mr. Andrews" in pencil on reverse. Individual closest to camera appears to be James T. Nix, whose portrait appears in Official Souvenir Program, Thirty-Sixth Annual Session, Imperial Council, Ancient Arabic Order, Nobles of The Mystic Shrine, New Orleans, Louisiana, April 1910 ([S.l., 1910?], p.84).
Source: Purchase, 1987
Number: P-166
Location: 2.2
Subject: Exterior view, restaurant, Buck Town, Jefferson Parish
Date: ca. 1926-1928
Photographer: Unknown
Form: Print (6¼" x 4¾")
Condition: Sharp image; surface grime with a few scratches; some oxidative-reductive deterioration; picture plane warped
Remarks: Inscription on sign above establishment: "FAMILY | RESTAURANT | SEA FOOD OUR SPECIALTY | H. BRUNIES - PROP. & CHEF." Photographs P-163 through P-169 were probably obtained from the same source by the vendor from whom they were purchased.
Source: Purchase, 1987
Number: P-167
Location: 3.2
Subject: Interior view, restaurant, Buck Town, Jefferson Parish
Date: ca. 1926-1928
Photographer: Unknown but probably professional
Form: Print; (image (6" x 8") on paper (8" x 10")
Condition: Poor: considerable fading; emulsion crazed; several small holes and tears
Remarks: Hand lettered in border: "ONE OF THE DINING ROOMS OF THE OLD FAMILY RESTAURANT AT 'BUCK TOWN' HERMAN BRUNIES, PROP." Image reveals row of slot machines for gambling. Photographs P-163 through P-169 were probably obtained from the same source by the vendor from whom they were purchased.
Source: Purchase, 1987
Number: P-168
Location: 3.2
Subject: Brunies' Restaurant
Date: ca. 1913/14
Photographer: Unknown but probably professional
Form: Print (4" x 6") on cardboard mount (6" x 9")
Condition: Sharp image; much surface grime with some scratches and minor loss of emulsion
Remarks: 1914 city directory lists a Henry Brunies lunch house at 1000 Teche St. in Algiers. Photographs P-163 through P-169 were probably obtained from the same source by the vendor from whom they were purchased.
Source: Purchase, 1987
Number: P-169
Location: 2.2
Subject: Interior view, Herman R. Brunies Restaurant, 700 Second Street, Gretna, La.
Date: ca. 1934/35
Photographer: Unknown but probably professional
Form: Print (5" x 7")
Condition: Sharp image; very minor oxidative-reductive deterioration
Remarks: Photographs P-163 through P-169 were probably obtained from the same source by the vendor from whom they were purchased.
Source: Purchase, 1987
Number: P-184
Location: 6.1
Subject: Portrait of Loyola University, School of Dentistry, Class of 1919
Date: 1919
Photographer: C. Bennette Moore, 141 Baronne St.
Form: Print (14½" x 19½") of 27 individual portraits arranged symmetrically
Condition: Sharp image; minor surface grime and fraying along edges; overall yellowing
Remarks: Individuals depicted are identified
Source:
Number: P-187
Location: 6.1
Subject: Group portrait of Professor Harry Mendelson's School Band on steps of Isaac Delgado Museum of Art
Date: February 1933
Photographer: Charles L. Franck
Form: Print (7" x 17") on paper (8" x 17¾")
Condition: Sharp image; minor creases; grime and minor oxidative-reductive deterioration; small holes in border
Remarks: The New Orleans Times-Picayune of August 5, 1969 (p. 12, col. 1, 2, 7) contains an extensive obituary for Harry Mendelson. See also P-188.
Source: Purchase, 1988
Number: P-188
Location: 6.1
Subject: Group portrait of Professor Harry Mendelson's School Band before Harry Mendelson's Conservatory of Music, Singing, Dancing, and Dramatic Art, 2209 St. Charles Ave. (uptown-lake corner of St. Charles and Jackson Avenues)
Date: May 1934
Photographer: Charles L. Franck
Form: Print (7½" x 19") on paper (8" x 19½")
Condition: Sharp image; numerous creases; tears and missing edges on border; small hole not affecting image; small spot of grime in center of image; minor oxidative-reductive deterioration
Remarks: The New Orleans Times-Picayune of August 5, 1969 (p. 12, col. 1, 2, 7) contains an extensive obituary for Harry Mendelson. See also P-187.
Source: Purchase, 1988
Number: P-190
Location: 4.1
Subject: Group portrait, annual reunion banquet, Class of 1884-1885, McDonogh School No. 13, Monteleone Hotel, March 16, 1929
Date: March 16, 1929
Photographer: Moses Studio
Form: Print (10" x 13¾")
Condition: Sharp image; overall yellowing; minor oxidative-reductive deterioration
Remarks: See also P-189
Source: Purchase, 1983
Number: P-191
Location: 4.1
Subject: Cornerstone dedication, Courthouse, Royal and St. Louis Streets
Date: January 8, 1908
Photographer: Charles T. Yenni, 631 Canal St.
Form: Print (7¾" x 9¾") on mount board (11" x 14")
Condition: Poor: two holes in upper left corner of print; edge of mount board chipped; roach damage to edge of print; mold spots and paint splatters on surface
Remarks: Same image featured on front page of Daily Picayune, January 9, 1908. Handwritten notation on bottom left corner of mount board: "Laying Corner Stone | Court House | Jany 8th 1908".
Source: Purchase, 1988
Number: P-193
Location: 4.1
Subject: Roman Catholic Confirmation Class; unidentified parish but probably New Orleans
Date: 1923
Photographer: Charles L. Franck
Form: Print (8¼" x 10") on cardboard mount (10" x 12")
Condition: Sharp image with some yellowing and minor oxidative-reductive deterioration
Remarks: "Conformation [sic] class of 1923" written on mount. Reverse bears stamp of Charles L. Franck
Source: Purchase, 1988
Number: P-195
Location: 4.1
Subject: Studio portrait of three men in buffoonish costumes with legend "ELK'S CIRCUS"
Date: ca. 1900
Photographer: Thomas J. Brennan
Form: Print (8" x 9¾") on mount board (11" x 13")
Condition: Considerable surface grime with some mold spots
Remarks: Figures identified on print as J. A. Bacon, F. Pokorny, and R. J. Goebel, "SOME OF THE STARS IN SUZY'S BAND"
Source: Purchase, 1988
Number: P-196
Location: 4.1
Subject: Group portrait of female members of American Red Cross
Date: ca. 1918
Photographer: Sadlier, New Orleans
Form: Print (7¾" x 9¾") on mount board (10" x 13¾")
Condition: Small patches of print surface missing; some oxidative-reductive deterioration; top of mount missing; considerable mold spotting
Remarks: Reverse bears handwritten notation "Armistice [Day] World War I"; image surface bears handwritten notation, "Craft" with arrow pointing to one of the figures
Source: Purchase, 1988
Number: P-205
Location: 3.3
Subject: French Opera House
Date: ca. 1910
Photographer: Unknown but probably professional
Form: Modern copy print (8" x 10")
Condition: Excellent
Remarks: Gift, 1988
Source:
Number: P-206
Location: 5.1
Subject: Group portrait, Regal Sales Meeting, American Brewing Co., New Orleans, Dec. 18, 19, 1949
Date: December 18 or 19, 1949
Photographer: de Sylva-Dyer, 618 Royal Street
Form: Print (8" x 19½")
Condition: Upper left corner damaged; minor loss of picture emulsion
Remarks:
Source: Purchase, 1989
Number: P-207
Location: 4.1
Subject: Group portrait of twelve men in dining room, possibly St. Charles or Grunewald Hotel
Date: ca. 1915
Photographer: G. Moses & Son
Form: Print (7¼" x 9¼") on cardboard mount (10" x 12")
Condition: Minor surface blemishes
Remarks: Found with Fellowship Pledge of American College of Surgeons
Source: Purchase, 1988
Number: P-210
Location: 5.1
Subject: Group portrait, graduation class, St. Henry's Catholic School, 821 General Pershing Street
Date: ca. mid-1930s
Photographer: Unknown but professional
Form: Print (8¼" x 10") on mount board (12" x 14")
Condition: Overall yellowing; minor oxidative-reductive deterioration; minor pencil markings; edges of mount board broken and missing
Remarks: Annotations in unknown hand on mount board
Source: Purchase, 1989
Number: P-213
Location: 4.1
Subject: Group portrait, Jefferson City Buzzards
Date: June 26, 1904
Photographer: Unknown but professional
Form: Print (8¼" x 10") on mount board (9¾" x 12")
Condition: Overall yellowing; heavy surface grime; emulsion missing on one corner; one corner of mount board missing and one corner cracked, with tape on reverse; edges of mount board crudely trimmed
Remarks:
Source: Purchase, 1989
Number: P-214
Location: 4.1
Subject: Group portrait, James Hubert Blenk Council, Knights of Columbus, Class Initiation, Gretna, La.
Date: June 10, 1923
Photographer: Benjamin F. Linnenkohl
Form: Print (8¼" x 10") on cardboard mount (11¾" x 13¾")
Condition: Some yellowing and minor oxidative-reductive deterioration, surface scratches, and foxing
Remarks:
Source: Purchase, 1987
Number: P-221
Location: 3.3
Subject: Group portrait, interior of St. James A.M.E. Church, 220 N. Roman Street
Date: ca. 1950s
Photographer: Unknown but probably professional
Form: Print (8" x 10")
Condition: Numerous creases; small tears along edges; moderate foxing; surface grime
Remarks:
Source: Purchase, 1988
Number: P-223
Location: 4.1
Subject: Group portrait, formally attired girls (graduating class?)
Date: Ca. early 1920s
Photographer: Unidentified but probably professional
Form: Print (7¾" x 13")
Condition: Minor creases; some oxidative-reductive deterioration; two small tears on edge
Remarks: The name "Ruth E. Moore" written in pencil on reverse
Source: Purchase, 1988
Number: P-224
Location: 3.3
Subject: Two views, probably of South Louisiana bayou(s): one with palmetto cabins, the other with typical Acadian cabin and small lugger
Date: ca. 1870s or 1880s
Photographer: Unknown
Form: Two prints (6¾" x 2½" each), mounted one above the other on mount board (6½" x 8½")
Condition: Minor surface grime; minor insect damage to edges of one print; corners of mount board frayed
Remarks: Includes negative of same created by Colorpix, April 12, 1993
Source: Purchase, 1989
Number: P-225
Location: 4.1
Subject: Group portrait, New Orleans Oratorio Society and Symphony Orchestra
Date: January 21, 1922
Photographer: H. J. Harvey
Form: Print (9¾" x 14¾")
Condition: Some yellowing and general oxidative-reductive deterioration; minor surface scratches, grime, and mold; original mat removed and cardboard backing trimmed
Remarks:
Source: Purchase, 1989
Number: P-226
Location: 4.1
Subject: Group portrait of St. Stanislaus College baseball team
Date: ca. 1915
Photographer: Hambacher, 231 Bourbon Street
Form: Print (8¼" x 10") on mount board (12" x 14")
Condition: Overall yellowing; minor stains on mount board
Remarks: Found with Fellowship Pledge of American College of Surgeons
Source: Purchase, 1989
Number: P-227
Location: 2.1
Subject: Holy Savior Convent, Main and Vacherie streets, Lockport, La.
Date: ca. 1890
Photographer: Unknown but probably professional
Form: Print (4¾" x 6¾") on mount board (7" x 9")
Condition: Surface grime and minor abrasions; insect damage to mount board
Remarks: For additional information, see A Picture History of Lockport, 1835-1935
Source: Purchase, 1989
Number: P-229
Location: 2.2
Subject: Formal landscape with moss-draped live oaks, Brookgreen Gardens, S.C.
Date: ca. 1940s
Photographer: Unknown, but photograph copyrighted by Brookgreen Gardens, S.C.
Form: Print (8" x 10")
Condition: Sharp image; oxidative-reductive deterioration; small area of corner missing; several small tears, rents, and pinholes; numerous creases; minor surface grime
Remarks:
Source: Purchase
Number: P-232
Location: 3.3
Subject: Three steamboats on Mississippi
Date: Late 19th century
Photographer: Unknown
Form: Print (4½" x 6½") on cardboard mount (7" x 11")
Condition: Surface of print marred by foxing and insect excrement; large portions of cardboard mount missing
Remarks: Originally part of Paul Veith Collection (Mss 215)
Source:
Number: P-233
Location: 3.3
Subject: Grove of oak trees in City Park or Audubon Park
Date: Probably 20th century
Photographer: Unknown but probably professional
Form: Modern copy print (5" x 7") pasted on stiff paper-board (8" x 10")
Condition: Excellent
Remarks: Notation on reverse asserts City Park Location
Source: Purchase, 1989
Number: P-235
Location: 2.1
Subject: French Quarter street scene, several people in front of a saloon
Date: ca. 1890
Photographer: Unknown but probably professional
Form: Print (3¾" x 4¾") on cardboard mount (5¼" x 6¼")
Condition: Overall yellowing; surface grime and minor scratches; oxidative-reductive deterioration; foxing; separation occurring in cardboard mount
Remarks:
Source: Purchase, 1990
Number: P-236
Location: 6.1
Subject: Formal portrait of officials and delegates, United Daughters of the Confederacy Convention, Mansfield, La., April 6, 7, 8, 1925, posed before Dick Taylor Chapter House, Grand Cane, La.
Date: April 1925
Photographer: Eureka Studio, Mansfield, La.
Form: Print (8" x 19½")
Condition: Overall yellowing; several tears and missing sections along edges; one severe crease; oxidative-reductive deterioration; minor foxing, surface grime, and roach droppings
Remarks:
Source: Purchase, 1990
Number: P-237
Location: 3.3
Subject: Formal portrait of military cadets, St. Simeon's Select School
Date: ca. 1900
Photographer: Unknown but probably professional
Form: Print (7" x 5") on cardboard mount (10" x 8")
Condition: Excellent; overall yellowing and some oxidative-reductive deterioration; minor foxing on reverse of cardboard mount
Remarks: City directories for 1874 through 1915 locate St. Simeon's Select School on Annunciation Street in the block between Thalia and Melpomene streets. For additional information, see O'Brien Collection photographs of St. Simeon's Select School (Mss 120-35) and article in Times-Picayune, "Dixie" section, October 6, 1963
Source: Purchase, 1990
Number: P-240
Location: 3.1
Subject: Group portrait of female students with Father Thomas J. Larkin, A.M., Holy Name of Mary School, Algiers
Date: ca. 1900
Photographer: Unknown but probably professional
Form: Print (5" x 8") on mount board (8" x 10")
Condition: Sharp image; large parts of mount board missing; corner of image missing; minor grime, scratches, and nicks; overall oxidative-reductive deterioration
Remarks:
Source: Purchase, 1990
Number: P-241
Location: 3.1
Subject: Group portrait, school girls with musical instruments (Holy Name of Mary School, Algiers?)
Date: ca. 1900
Photographer: A. C. Falor
Form: Print (5" x 7") on mount board (8" x 10")
Condition: Corners of mount board missing; roach damage to surface of mount board and edge of print; minor surface grime and oxidative-reductive deterioration; names written on print identify three students
Remarks:
Source: Purchase, 1990
Number: P-243
Location: 3.2
Subject: Group portrait, Dock Board baseball team
Date: 1923?
Photographer: Charles L. Franck, 904 Baronne Street
Form: (Print (8" x 10")
Condition: Some fading and overall yellowing; numerous surface wrinkles; minor surface grime; small rents on edges, not affecting image; some oxidative-reductive deterioration
Remarks: On reverse: Franck stamp, penciled date 1923, inked notation "25¢"
Source: Purchase, 1990
Number: P-244
Location: 3.3
Subject: Steamboat Jesse K. Bell at New Orleans wharf
Date: ca. 1888
Photographer: Original photographer unknown; copy print made by Charles L. Franck
Form: Copy print (8" x 10")
Condition: Overall yellowing; minor surface grime; some oxidative-reductive deterioration
Remarks: Face bears printed inscription "STEAMBOAT "JESSE K. BELL" AT NEW ORLEANS ABOUT-1888." Reverse bears Charles L. Franck business stamp
Source: From Atwood Sugar Mill Collection (Mss 81)
Number: P-245
Location: 3.3
Subject: Steamboat Baton Rouge
Date: ca. 1900
Photographer: Original photographer unknown; copy print made by Charles L. Franck
Form: Copy print (8" x 10")
Condition: Minor overall yellowing; glue remnant on face and reverse of top corners from previous mounting; halftone postcard with illustration of a steamboat pasted on face of print
Remarks: Reverse bears Charles L. Franck business stamp
Source: From Atwood Sugar Mill Collection (Mss 81)
Number: P-246
Location: 2.1
Subject: View of Horticultural Hall, World's Industrial and Cotton Centennial Exposition (1884/85), with cart and driver in foreground
Date: 1885
Photographer: Edward L. Wilson, Centennial Photographic Co.
Form: Stereograph (4¼" x 7")
Condition: Sharp image; minor surface abrasions and grime
Remarks:
Source: Gift, 1981
Number: P-247
Location: 2.1
Subject: View of standpipe on grounds on World's Industrial and Cotton Centennial Exposition (1884/85)
Date: ca. 1884
Photographer: Edward L. Wilson, Centennial Photography Co.
Form: Stereograph (4¼" x 7")
Condition: Sharp image; surface abrasions and grime; 3½" crack on lower left corner
Remarks:
Source: Gift, 1981
Number: P-248
Location: 2.1
Subject: Interior view of Main Building, World's Industrial and Cotton Centennial Exposition (1884/85), before installation of displays
Date: ca. 1884
Photographer: Edward L. Wilson, Centennial Photographic Co.
Form: Stereograph (4¼" x 7")
Condition: Minor scratches and surface grime; ½" tear on upper left edge
Remarks:
Source: Gift, 1981
Number: P-249
Location: 2.2
Subject: Palmyra Pleasure Club, a fishing camp on pilings over water with boardwalk from land to camp
Date: ca. 1911
Photographer: Unknown but probably professional
Form: Print (4¾" x 6¾") on mount board (7" x 9")
Condition: Overall yellowing and fading; minor surface grime and scratches; some oxidative-reductive deterioration
Remarks: City directory for 1911 lists a Palmyra Pleasure Club at West End; see also P-250
Source: Gift, 1989
Number: P-250
Location: 3.1
Subject: Group of men in room that appears to be a saloon
Date: ca. 1910-1920
Photographer: Unknown but probably professional
Form: Print (5" x 7¼") on mount board (7" x 9")
Condition: Two severe cracks running through print and mount board from top to bottom; crack through lower right corner of mount board; minor surface grime and scratches; some oxidative-reductive deterioration
Remarks: Michael Untereiner, who died in 1959 at age 82, is on left in second row; Mrs. Michael J. Untereiner suggested that photograph depicts interior of Palmyra Pleasure Club (see also P-249)
Source: Gift, 1989
Number: P-253
Location: 2.2
Subject: Group of seven black children in rural setting
Date: ca. 1920s
Photographer: Unknown but possibly professional
Form: Snapshot print (6½" x 4¼")
Condition: Sharp image; overall yellowing' upper right corner missing; one-inch tear in bottom edge; oxidative-reductive deterioration; small dirt smudge on surface above figures
Remarks:
Source: Purchase, 1991
Number: P-254
Location: 6.1
Subject: Montage of 81 portraits of teenage girls from Girls High School No. 3
Date: 1912
Photographer: C. Bennette Moore
Form: Print (16" x 20")
Condition: Sharp images; water stains not affecting image along blank edges; missing small part of edge on lower right corner
Remarks: Portraits identified by name
Source: Purchase, 1991
Number: P-255
Location: 6.1
Subject: Group portrait of male parishioners arrayed before Franklin Street Methodist Episcopal Church, 2001 So. Franklin (now Loyola Avenue)
Date: ca. 1914
Photographer: Albert Bellier de Villentroy
Form: Print (13¼" x 10½") on mount board (25" x 17")
Condition: Sharp image; overall yellowing and oxidative-reductive deterioration; minor spotting and scuffs on face of print; large section missing from top of mount board
Remarks: Name "John Hilsman" and other penciled notations on reverse
Source: Purchase, 1991
Number: P-256
Location: 2.2
Subject: Attorney General Eugene Stanley, probably at his inaugural ceremonies
Date: 1940?
Photographer: Unidentified but probably professional
Form: Print, trimmed to 6¾" x 8½"
Condition: Sharp image, minor surface cracks
Remarks:
Source: Gift
Number: P-257
Location: 4.1
Subject: Rex parade on Canal Street
Date: Late 1930s
Photographer: Unknown but probably professional
Form: Sepia print (11" x 14")
Condition: 3/8" tear on top edge; small area of print surface missing in lower left corner; 2" section of transparent tape, not affecting image, on lower edge
Remarks:
Source: Gift, 1992
Number: P-258
Location: 6.1
Subject: Banquet of New Orleans Mid-Winter Sports Association
Date: Early 1950s
Photographer:
Form: Print (6" x 10")
Condition: Overall yellowing; numerous creases; some oxidative-deductive deterioration; traces of former scrapbook-mounting on surface of right edge
Remarks: Image in foreground, right of center reveals alteration of print
Source: Gift, 199
Number: P-259
Location: 3.1
Subject: Street scene of two-story double residence, ca. 1910
Date: ca. 1910
Photographer: Unknown but probably professional
Form: Print (3¾" x 6_") on mount board (7" x 9")
Condition: 3" tear in mount board, not affecting print; overall yellowing with considerable surface grime
Remarks: Dealer said he thought print "came from a residence in old Jewish neighborhood around Dryades Street"
Source: Purchase, 1992
Number: P-260
Location: 3.1
Subject: City street after heavy snowfall; New Iberia?
Date: 1895?
Photographer: Unknown but probably professional
Form: Print (6" x 8") on mount board (8" x 10")
Condition: Mount board cracked and missing two corners; print has numerous surface abrasions
Remarks: "New Iberia, La." written on reverse of mount board
Source: Purchase, 1984
Number: P-261
Location: 2.1
Subject: Canal Street with mule cars and Henry Clay statue
Date: ca. 1890s
Photographer: Unknown; J. F. Jarvis, publisher; and Underwood & Underwood, seller
Form: Stereograph
Condition: Considerable surface grime and scuffing; insect spotting on reverse
Remarks:
Source: Purchase, 1981
Number: P-262
Location: 2.1
Subject: Sisters of the Holy Family Convent / School, 717 Orleans Street
Date: ca. 1940s
Photographer: Unknown but probably professional
Form: Print (5½" x 3½") on postcard stock
Condition: Excellent, except for considerable oxidative-reductive deterioration
Remarks: "ORLEANS THEATRE QUADROON BALLROOM" printed on margin of print face
Source: Purchase, 1981
Number: P-263
Location: 3.1
Subject: Cotton factor's grading room; probably New Orleans
Date: ca. 1920
Photographer: Unknown but probably professional
Form: Print (5" x 7") on mount board (8" x 9¾")
Condition: Sharp image but overall yellowing; water damage to bottom third of print and mount board
Remarks: Dealer reported that he obtained photograph from a New Orleans source
Source: Purchase, 1992
Number: P-267
Location: 4.1
Subject: St. Louis Cathedral garden
Date: Probably 1940s or 1950s
Photographer: Dan Leyrer
Form: Print (13¾" x 11")
Condition: Good
Remarks:
Source: Gift, 1992
Number: P-272
Location: 5.1
Subject: Montage of portraits of Charity Hospital administrators and physicians; titled "Charity Hospital Interne Corps"
Date: 1934/35
Photographer: C. Bennette Moore
Form: Print (10½" x 14")
Condition: Excellent; reverse stained by corrugated backing of earlier framing
Remarks:
Source: Purchase, 1983
Number: P-276
Location: 6.1
Subject: Formal portrait of African-American family in rural setting
Date: ca. 1900
Photographer: Unknown but probably professional
Form: Print (16" x 20") on linen backing
Condition: Flaking and missing chips along edges; three cracks in print surface; minor staining
Remarks: Removed from canvas stretcher by department staff
Source: Gift
Number: P-277
Location: 3.4
Subject: Visitors with naval officers on deck of Italian cruiser Etruria, New Orleans harbor
Date: February 6, 1908
Photographer: Unknown
Form: Snapshot print (3½" x 5")
Condition: Overall yellowing; cracks along top and right edges; three corners missing; oxidative-reductive deterioration
Remarks: "Sunny Italy" penned on face of print; "Alla carissima amica | Pola Matranga | per ricordo | Rosa ed Angelina Favalora | New Orleans-6-2-908" penned on reverse. For articles on the ship's visit to New Orleans, see Daily Picayune, January 2 and 4, 1908, and February 4 and 5, 1908.
Source: Purchase, 1978
Number: P-278
Location: 6.1
Subject: Aerial view, Central Business District
Date: ca. 1940s
Photographer: Unknown but probably professional
Form: Print (16" x 20")
Condition: Sharp image; corners marred by tack holes; minor surface grime and pen markings
Remarks:
Source: Gift, 1992
Number: P-279
Location: 5.1
Subject: Sugar Refinery, Loreauville (Iberia Parish), Louisiana
Date: ca. early 1900s
Photographer: Unknown but probably professional
Form: Print (8" x 10¼") on cut-down mount board (9" x 12")
Condition: Edges of mount board cut down and chipped; edges of print cracked with minor loss; minor grime and scratches on print face; stains (probably chemical) on upper left corner of print
Remarks: "Maria Central. Factor. Loreauville. La." penned on bottom edge of mount board
Source: Removed from Atwood Sugar Mill Collection (Mss 81) when deaccessioned July 22, 1992
Number: P-282
Location: 3.4
Subject: Student body, Sarah C. Banner Private School, 726 Third Street
Date: 1935
Photographer: Unknown
Form: Copy print (5" x 7") of original print
Condition: Good
Remarks: Obituary in Times-Picayune of January 5, 1940, reported Sarah C. Banner died January 4, 1940. Photograph reproduced in Times-Picayune, March 31, 1996, p. D-10
Source: Gift, 1992
Number: P-283
Location: 6.1
Subject: Residence on Elmfield Plantation, Assumption Parish, La.
Date: ca. 1940s or 1950s
Photographer: "Fox Co. San Antonio" impressed on lower right corner of mount board
Form: Print (13¾" x 16¾") on mount board (19" x 22")
Condition: Print very good; top and left border of mount board broken off
Remarks: For additional material on Elmwood Plantation, see Monnot/Lanier Family Collection (Mss 48). A negative of original print produced by university photographer and stored with original.
Source: Gift, 1974
Number: P-284
Location: 2.1
Subject: Informal group portrait (probably picnickers) in rural setting
Date: ca. 1932; reverse bears penciled notation "1932”
Photographer: Reverse stamped "Nick Marquis, Photos, 927 Belleville St. Algiers, La."
Form: Print (5" x 7")
Condition: Sharp image; minor crease and surface grime
Remarks:
Source: Purchase, 1992
Number: P-285
Location: 3.4
Subject: Automobile with driver in Audubon Park
Date: ca. 1930
Photographer: Unknown but probably professional
Form: Print (2¾" x 3½") mounted on paper and board (5" x 6")
Condition: Sharp image; minor surface grime and oxidative-reductive deterioration
Remarks:
Source: Purchase, 1992
Number: P-286
Location: 3.4
Subject:
Date: ca. 1890 Center-hall, raised residence at 928 Orange Street (old number 122 Orange Street)
Photographer: Unknown but probably professional
Form: Print (6" x 8") on mount board of unknown original size
Condition: Sharp image; mount board broken away to edge of print; two corners of print missing; one corner of print cracked; 1" tear on right edge; overall foxing and yellowing; minor loss and crazing of print face; minor surface grime
Remarks: Penned on reverse: "928 Orange Street (old number) 122 Orange Street"; "persons at 924 Orange recognize persons on porch as relatives." and "900 Orange" with line drawn through it
Source: Purchase, 1992
Number: P-288
Location: 5.1
Subject: Formal portrait, 1909 Graduating Class, New Orleans Normal School
Date: 1909
Photographer: Unknown but undoubtedly professional
Form: Print (10¼" x 15¼") on mount board (10¼" x 16")
Condition: 6" vertical tear bearing at center of bottom edge; overall chipping of edges with loss; 2" vertical crack on top edge and 3½" vertical crack on bottom edge; numerous surface abrasions, dents, scratches; minor foxing; repaired with transparent tape
Remarks: Photograph was reproduced in Times-Picayune, March 11, 1990, p. F-8; a photocopy of same accompanies the photograph
Source: Gift
Number: P-299
Location: 4.1
Subject: Statue of Virgin and Christ Child in garden of St. Mary's Assumption Church
Date: ca. 1980s
Photographer: Unknown but probably professional
Form: Modern print (9½" x 6¼") on mount board (14½" x 10½")
Condition: Minor surface scratches and grime; tack holes in mount board with bent corners
Remarks:
Source: Gift, 1993
Number: P-300
Location: 3.4
Subject: Studio portrait, Dr. Peter B. Salatich (died March 8, 1967), New Orleans surgeon
Date: ca. 1905
Photographer: Washburn, 625 Canal Street, New Orleans, La.
Form: Print (5½" x 4") on mount board (7½" x 5¼")
Condition: Minor surface grime and foxing
Remarks: See Times-Picayune of March 9, 1967 (sec. 2, p. 2, col. 1) for Salatich obituary; see also P-301
Source: Unknown
Number: P-301
Location: 3.4
Subject: Studio portrait, Dr. R. J. Salatich (died June 19, 1966), New Orleans dentist
Date: ca. 1905
Photographer: Achilles J. B. Simon, 1125 Dauphine Street, New Orleans, La.
Form: Print (oval 5" x 4½") on mount board (7¼" x 5¼")
Condition: Minor foxing and scratches on surface
Remarks: See Times-Picayune of January 20, 1966 (sec. 1, p. 1) for Salatich obituary; see also P-300
Source: Unknown
Number: P-303
Location: 3.4
Subject: Formal portrait, A. H. Wilson School, graduating class of 1935
Date: 1935
Photographer: Charles L. Franck
Form: Print (7¾" x 10")
Condition: Overall yellowing; numerous cracks and scratches; minor surface loss; nine edge tears crudely reinforced on reverse with tape; nine faces marred
Remarks:
Source: Purchase, 1993
Number: P-305
Location: 3.4
Subject: Mayor Robert S. Maestri with Harry L. Hopkins and other Works Projects Administration officials inspecting City Park Stadium
Date: November 28, 1936
Photographer: Unknown but probably professional
Form: Two duplicate prints (8" x 10")
Condition: Sharp images with minor creases, surface grime, and oxidative-reductive deterioration
Remarks: Each print has an attached typescript identifying the persons depicted
Source: Found in discarded duplicate copy of Union Station Survey, New Orleans, Louisiana, 1937: Preliminary Report, 1993
Number: P-306
Location: 3.4
Subject: Real estate development in vicinity of Lake Vista
Date: ca. 1938
Photographer: Chas. L. Franck, 409 Baronne St., N.O., La.
Form: Print (8" x 9¾")
Condition: Sharp image; minor oxidative-reductive deterioration
Remarks: Caption on face of print: "FIRST ST.-STA. 33+25"; see also P-307, P-308, P-309, P-310
Source: Found in copy of The State of Louisiana through the Board of Levee Commissioners . . . presents "Lake-Vista": A Delux Real Estate Subdivision . . . Sponsored by Governor Richard W. Leche . . . I. B. Rennyson-Realtor -Sales Director (S.l.: s.n., [1938]), 1993
Number: P-307
Location: 3.4
Subject: Roadway and real estate development in vicinity of Lake Vista
Date: ca. 1938
Photographer: Chas. L. Franck, 409 Baronne St., N.O., La.
Form: Print (8" x 9¾")
Condition: Sharp image; considerable oxidative-reductive deterioration
Remarks: Caption on face of print: "STA 66 + 00 AVE A FROM INTERSECTION MEMPHIS ST. LOOKING WEST"; see also P-306, P-308, P-309, P-310
Source: Found in copy of The State of Louisiana through the Board of Levee Commissioners . . . presents "Lake-Vista": A Delux Real Estate Subdivision . . . Sponsored by Governor Richard W. Leche . . . I. B. Rennyson-Realtor -Sales Director (S.l.: s.n., [1938]), 1993
Number: P-308
Location: 3.4
Subject: Real estate development in vicinity of Lake Vista
Date: ca. 1938
Photographer: Chas. L. Franck, 409 Baronne St., N.O., La.
Form: Print (8" x 9¾")
Condition: Sharp image; minor surface scratches and oxidative-reductive deterioration
Remarks: Caption on face of print: "FIRST ST. STA 30 + 25"; see also P-306, P-307, P-309, P-310
Source: Found in copy of The State of Louisiana through the Board of Levee Commissioners . . . presents "Lake-Vista": A Delux Real Estate Subdivision . . . Sponsored by Governor Richard W. Leche . . . I. B. Rennyson-Realtor-Sales Director (S.l.: s.n., [1938]), 1993.
Number: P-309
Location: 3.4
Subject: Real estate development, probably in vicinity of Lake Vista
Date: ca. 1938
Photographer: Chas. L. Franck, 409 Baronne St., N.O., La.
Form: Print (8" x 10")
Condition: Sharp image; minor scratches and oxidative-reductive deterioration; overall yellowing
Remarks: See also P-306, P-307, P-308, P-310
Source: Found in copy of The State of Louisiana through the Board of Levee Commissioners . . . presents "Lake-Vista": A Delux Real Estate Subdivision . . . Sponsored by Governor Richard W. Leche . . . I. B. Rennyson-Realtor -Sales Director (S.l.: s.n., [1938]), 1993
Number: P-310
Location: 3.4
Subject: Real estate development, probably in vicinity of Lake Vista
Date: ca. 1938
Photographer: Chas. L. Franck, 409 Baronne St., N.O., La.
Form: Print (8" x 10")
Condition: Sharp image; overall yellowing; minor surface blemishes
Remarks: See also P-306, P-307, P-308, P-309
Source: Found in copy of The State of Louisiana through the Board of Levee Commissioners . . . presents "Lake-Vista": A Delux Real Estate Subdivision . . . Sponsored by Governor Richard W. Leche . . . I. B. Rennyson-Realtor-Sales Director (S.l.: s.n., [1938]), 1993
Number: P-311
Location: 3.4
Subject: Nine views of ruins of French Opera House
Date: December 5, 1919
Photographer: Unknown
Form: Prints (3" x 5")
Condition: Generally good; some with oxidative-reductive deterioration; most with crazing and minor surface scratches; all with remnants of previous mounting on reverse
Remarks:
Source: Gift, 1993
Number: P-312
Location: 3.4
Subject: Nine views of ruins of French Opera House
Date: December 5, 1919
Photographer: Unknown
Form: Prints (3" x 5")
Condition: Generally good; some with oxidative-reductive deterioration; most with crazing and minor surface scratches; all with remnants of previous mounting on reverse
Remarks:
Source: Gift, 1993
Number: P-313
Location: 3.4
Subject: Nine views of ruins of French Opera House
Date: December 5, 1919
Photographer: Unknown
Form: Prints (3" x 5")
Condition: Generally good; some with oxidative-reductive deterioration; most with crazing and minor surface scratches; all with remnants of previous mounting on reverse
Remarks:
Source: Gift, 1993
Number: P-314
Location: 3.4
Subject: Nine views of ruins of French Opera House
Date: December 5, 1919
Photographer: Unknown
Form: Prints (3" x 5")
Condition: Generally good; some with oxidative-reductive deterioration; most with crazing and minor surface scratches; all with remnants of previous mounting on reverse
Remarks:
Source: Gift, 1993
Number: P-315
Location: 3.4
Subject: Nine views of ruins of French Opera House
Date: December 5, 1919
Photographer: Unknown
Form: Prints (3" x 5")
Condition: Generally good; some with oxidative-reductive deterioration; most with crazing and minor surface scratches; all with remnants of previous mounting on reverse
Remarks:
Source: Gift, 1993
Number: P-316
Location: 3.4
Subject: Nine views of ruins of French Opera House
Date: December 5, 1919
Photographer: Unknown
Form: Prints (3" x 5")
Condition: Generally good; some with oxidative-reductive deterioration; most with crazing and minor surface scratches; all with remnants of previous mounting on reverse
Remarks:
Source: Gift, 1993
Number: P-317
Location: 3.4
Subject: Nine views of ruins of French Opera House
Date: December 5, 1919
Photographer: Unknown
Form: Prints (3" x 5")
Condition: Generally good; some with oxidative-reductive deterioration; most with crazing and minor surface scratches; all with remnants of previous mounting on reverse
Remarks:
Source: Gift, 1993
Number: P-318
Location: 3.4
Subject: Nine views of ruins of French Opera House
Date: December 5, 1919
Photographer: Unknown
Form: Prints (3" x 5")
Condition: Generally good; some with oxidative-reductive deterioration; most with crazing and minor surface scratches; all with remnants of previous mounting on reverse
Remarks:
Source: Gift, 1993
Number: P-319
Location: 3.4
Subject: Nine views of ruins of French Opera House
Date: December 5, 1919
Photographer: Unknown
Form: Prints (3" x 5")
Condition: Generally good; some with oxidative-reductive deterioration; most with crazing and minor surface scratches; all with remnants of previous mounting on reverse
Remarks:
Source: Gift, 1993
Number: P-325
Location: 4.2
Subject: Josephine Hutchinson Memorial Building (1551 Canal Street) of Tulane University Medical School
Date: ca. 1910
Photographer: Franck
Form: Print (3½" x 5½")
Condition: Some oxidative-reductive deterioration
Remarks:
Source: Purchase, 1983
Number: P-329
Location: 5.1
Subject: George Paoletti's band
Date: ca. 1910
Photographer: Unknown but probably professional
Form: Print (5½" x 13")
Condition: Some oxidative-reductive deterioration and staining along edges
Remarks:
Source: Purchase, 1993
Number: P-330
Location: 1.1
Subject: Rex parade float moving uptown; Masonic Temple and buildings on lake side of 400 block of St. Charles Avenue in background
Date: ca. 1910
Photographer: Unknown
Form: Snapshot print (4" x 3")
Condition: Small section of picture surface missing from lower edge of print, not affecting image; minor creases and surface grime; remnants of original scrapbook mount on reverse
Remarks: See also P-331, which was removed from same scrapbook page
Source: Gift, 1994
Number: P-331
Location: 1.1
Subject: Rex parade float moving uptown; Masonic Temple and buildings on lake side of 400 block of St. Charles Avenue in background
Date: ca. 1910
Photographer: Unknown
Form: Snapshot print (4" x 3")
Condition: Minor surface grime and possible mucilage on print surface; crease across right side of print; remnants of original scrapbook mount on reverse
Remarks: See also P-330, which was removed from same scrapbook page
Source: Gift, 1994
Number: P-332
Location: 3.2
Subject: Group portrait, Actuarial Science Club, Boys' High School of Commerce (Samuel J. Peters High School)
Date: 1929
Photographer: Unknown but probably professional
Form: Print (8" x 10")
Condition: Minor creases; small tear on bottom edge and ¾" tear on top edge; small loss on top edge; minor surface grime
Remarks: Photograph was used to illustrate 1929 yearbook
Source: Purchase, 1994
Number: P-336
Location: 5.1
Subject: Second Convent of St. Michael, Convent, La.
Date: ca. 1850s or 1860s
Photographer: Unknown but probably professional
Form: Albumin print (7½" x 11¼") on mount board (11" x 14")
Condition: Sharp image; considerable yellowing and foxing; 4" tear with minor print loss extending into print from lower right edge of mount board; horizontal crack with minor print loss across center of mount board and print
Remarks: Rare image which should be high priority for restoration
Source: Originally part of Charity Hospital School of Nursing Collection (Mss 220), 1992
Number: P-337
Location: 3.2
Subject: Hope Haven Band, Marrero, La.
Date: 1930s
Photographer: Unknown but probably professional
Form: Print (3½" x 5½") on postcard stock
Condition: Surface grime; minor print loss; overall yellowing; oxidative-reductive deterioration
Remarks:
Source: Purchase, 1994
Number: P-338
Location: 3.4
Subject: Sugar cane mill, Gramercy, La.
Date: 1912
Photographer: Unknown but probably professional
Form: Print (2_" x 5") on mount board (5_" x 6½")
Condition: Overall yellowing and heavy grime; mount board cracked on two sides and top; "Gramercy 1912" crudely inked on face and back of mount board
Remarks:
Source: Purchase, 1994
Number: P-339
Location: 3.4
Subject: Column of troops marching on a broad street of small town or suburban area
Date: ca. 1900
Photographer: Unknown
Form: Print (3_" x 5½") on postcard stock
Condition: Staining on bottom and sides of face; minor grime
Remarks: Architecture suggests Louisiana setting
Source: Purchase, 1994
Number: P-340
Location: 4.2
Subject: Large group of African-American children in rear yard of wooden building, probably in New Orleans
Date: 1919?
Photographer: Unknown but probably professional
Form: Print (5" x 7_") on crudely trimmed mount board (8"± x 6¼"±)
Condition: Sharp image; moderate surface grime, scratches, dents; overall yellowing with some oxidative-reductive deterioration
Remarks: "April 27, 1919" and "2203 Orleans N.O. La." written on reverse of mount board together with other, largely illegible names and notations
Source: Purchase, 1994
Number: P-341
Location: 4.2
Subject: "The Tuxedo Brass Band, at a Masonic cornerstone laying, about 1919"
Date: ca. 1919
Photographer: Unknown, but probably professional
Form: Print (6½" x 8½") on crudely trimmed mount board of undetermined size
Condition: Print separated into two pieces by horizontal crack through center of print and mount; surface grime and minor foxing
Remarks: This print is the original from which illustration in Jazz: New Orleans 1885-1963 by Samuel Barclay Charters (New York, 1963) was made
Source: Purchase, 1995
Number: P-342
Location: 5.1
Subject: New Orleans plainclothesmen with shotguns in touring car surrounded by other officers; First Precinct Police Station (227 S. Saratoga Street)
Date: ca. 1930
Photographer: Unknown but probably professional
Form: Print (7½" x 9½") on mount board (11" x 13¾")
Condition: Overall yellowing; minor foxing; horizontal crack through lower half of mount board; print rippled by imperfect attachment to mount board
Remarks: Plainclothesman in rear seat of car is George Reyer
Source: Purchase, 1995
Number: P-343
Location: 5.1
Subject: Higgins Incorporated ships and shipyards
Date: ca. late 1940s
Photographer: "Higgins Inc. Official Photo" stamped on reverse of three mount boards; photographer unknown
Form: Six prints (all ca. 10¼"± x 13¼"±) on mount boards of various size
Condition: Generally good with minor surface grime
Remarks: Labeling on some mount boards suggests images were prepared for promotional purposes
Source: Gift, 1993
Number: P-344
Location: 4.1
Subject: Residence, ca. 1925, probably in uptown or Carrollton section of New Orleans
Date: ca. 1925
Photographer: Charles L. Franck
Form: Print (8" x 9¾") on mount board (10" x 12")
Condition: Overall yellowing with foxing and minor surface grime; oxidative-reductive deterioration; upper left corner of mount board missing
Remarks: Architectural style of residence reflects bungalow and mission influences
Source: Purchase, 1995
Number: P-345
Location: 6.1
Subject: Bust portrait of Governor Huey P. Long
Date: ca. 1930
Photographer: Unknown, but probably professional
Form: Print (20" x 16") on board (20" x 16")
Condition: Very good
Remarks: Print hand-tinted to enhance contrast; possibly a campaign photograph
Source: Gift, 1995
Number: P-352
Location: 4.2
Subject: Senator Huey P. Long standing in front of a parked DeSoto automobile, probably his, in the District of Columbia
Date: 1935
Photographer: Unknown but probably professional
Form: Sepia print (8" x 10")
Condition: Sharp image; minor surface grime; overall oxidative-reductive deterioration
Remarks:
Source: Gift, 1995
Number: P-353
Location:
Subject: Panoramic view of Louisiana State University band, with campus in background
Date: 1933
Photographer: Rembrandt Studio
Form: Print (9" x 29")
Condition: Sharp image; crudely trimmed on left side with loss of probably approximately half of image; two serious vertical cracks in center of remaining image; minor surface grime and loss to lower edge
Remarks: Oversize (tied, separately)
Source: Purchase, 1995
Number: P-354
Location: 4.2
Subject: South Claiborne Avenue
Date: ca. 1914
Photographer: [S.] Backer
Form: Snapshot print (5¾" x 3½")
Condition: Minor surface grime; general cracking of paper support; overall yellowing and oxidative-reductive deterioration
Remarks: Penned on reverse: "Poles & track - before the laying of the S. Claiborne Street railway"
Source: Purchase, 1988
Number: P-355
Location: 4.2
Subject: Pair of African-American convicts in striped prison garb, handcuffed together
Date: 19--
Photographer: Unknown
Form: Snapshot (3½" x 3¼")
Condition: Sharp image; overall yellowing
Remarks:
Source: Purchase, 1988
Number: P-357
Location: 4.2
Subject: Cemetery tombs, probably New Orleans
Date: Mid-1900s
Photographer: Unknown
Form: Print (5¾" x 3½")
Condition: Minor surface loss and grime; horizontal crease across upper third of print; overall yellowing and oxidative-reductive deterioration
Remarks:
Source: Purchase, 1988
Number: P-358
Location:
Subject: Panoramic view of Jerusalem Temple Band in front of auditorium, 1137 St. Charles Avenue, with other buildings to right and left
Date: April 26, 1922
Photographer: Gasquet
Form: Print (7¾" x 34") mounted on cardboard of same size
Condition: Overall yellowing and minor surface grime; fungus growth on lower right edge; water damage to upper right corner with fragments of same detached but present
Remarks: Oversize (tied, separately)
Source: Purchase, 1996
Number: P-360
Location: 4.2
Subject: Launch with two men on Bayou Lafourche
Date: ca. 1920
Photographer: Unknown
Form: Print (3½" x 5½") on postcard stock
Condition: Numerous cracks on upper area, reinforced on reverse with transparent tape; oxidative-reductive deterioration; surface grime; minor surface loss
Remarks: See also P-361, P-362
Source: Purchase, 1989
Number: P-361
Location: 4.1
Subject: Launch on banks of Bayou Lafourche with group of men
Date: ca. 1920
Photographer: Unknown but probably professional
Form: Print (6¼" x 8½") on mount (10" x 12")
Condition: Overall yellowing; oxidative-reductive deterioration; considerable surface grime, including insect excrement
Remarks: See also P-360, P-362
Source: Purchase, 1989
Number: P-362
Location: 4.2
Subject: Large gathering of people by Bayou Lafourche, possibly in Lockport
Date: ca. 1920
Photographer: Unknown, but image carries advertisement for "Barrios Photo."
Form: Print (5" x 7")
Condition: Overall yellowing; oxidative-reductive deterioration; horizontal crease across lower half of print; minor surface grime
Remarks: P-360, P-361
Source: Purchase, 1989
Number: P-364
Location: 4.1
Subject: Alcee Fortier High School Senior Band, 1942
Date: 1942
Photographer: Leon Trice Picture Service
Form: Print (7" x 11")
Condition: Overall yellowing; minor oxidative-reductive deterioration; overall ripple deformation
Remarks: "Alcee Fortier High School Senior Band - 1942 - Tri State Champions | 194¼2 Enid Oklahoma. Dr. Charles Hamil Cupero"
Source: Purchase, 1996
Number: P-365
Location:
Subject: Xavier University, Grade 10-5
Date: November 29, 1922
Photographer: Charles A. Stead
Form: Print (8" x 20")
Condition: Overall yellowing; numerous vertical creases; 1½" horizontal tear at left edge and 2" horizontal tear at right edge; surface grime and minor stains
Remarks: Oversize (tied, separately)
Source: Purchase, 1996
Number: P-366
Location: 5.1
Subject: Graduating Class, Evening School No. 3
Date: April 15, 1930
Photographer: Neal H. Simes
Form: (8" x 17¾")
Condition: Overall yellowing; minor surface grime and creases on border
Remarks: "T L. Trawick, Prin." and "Graduating Clas [sic] Evening school no 3. Apr. 15, 1930" printed on image, together with "Simes N.O."
Source: Purchase, 1996
List of Known Photographers Represented in the Collection
Backer, [S.]
Bedou, A. P.
Bellier de Villentroy, Albert
Bellocq, Ernest J.
Brennan, Thomas J.
Claudel, E.
de Sylva-Dyer
Eastwood, John T.
Eureka Studio
Falor, A. C.
Franck, Charles L.
Gasquet
Hambacher
Hammond, J. A.
Harvey, H. J.
Krieg, T.
Leyrer, Dan
Lilienthal's Photographic Establishment
Linnenkohl, Benjamin F.
Marquis, Nick
Moore, C. Bennette
Moses Studio
Moses, G., & Son
Pons Studio
Reed, N. H.
Rembrandt Studio
Rojas & Conner
Sadlier
Simes, Neal H.
Simon, Achilles J. B.
Stead, Charles A.
Teunisson
Trice, Leon
Washburn
Wilson, Edward L.
Wolbrette & Mortenson
Yenni, Charles T.
Other Index Terms
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