{"title":"New Orleans, 1900","description":"\u003cp\u003eNew Orleans 1900 is the first collection Past in Color has published. The photographs were made in the city around the turn of the twentieth century, between the 1880s and 1907. All of them come from the negatives of the Detroit Photographic Company, later the Detroit Publishing Company, a firm that sold views of American cities by the thousand to travelers who wanted to take a place home with them. The Library of Congress credits some of the plates to William Henry Jackson. On others the photographer was never recorded, and we do not guess. The company's negatives passed to the Library of Congress in 1949, and that collection is where these images come from. Each print's page names the archive it came from.\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003eThese were commercial pictures, and that is exactly why they are worth looking at now. Nobody was posing the city for posterity. The cathedral turns up at the end of a rutted, cobbled street, with the utility poles and the overhead wires still in the frame. Canal Street appears twice, once with animal-powered streetcars and once with electric cars, more than a decade apart. That gap is the moment the city changed how it moved. Shop signs name the firms that were trading on each block. Some of those names belonged to immigrants who built their businesses here. These photographs were sold as souvenirs. They survive as evidence. Anyone can buy a picture of New Orleans. Almost nobody knows the story behind it. Each print carries the story we could verify, and an honest note of what remains unknown.\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003eEvery photograph here is carefully restored in full color using modern professional digital techniques. Every detail you see is in the original photograph. Only the color is new. Nothing is redrawn, sharpened, or invented. Each photograph is then printed in a small fixed edition, and the edition size is stated on its page. When an edition sells out it closes. When the collection sells out it moves to the archive, and we do not reprint it. If you have a question about a photograph or a print, write to support@pastincolor.com.\u003c\/p\u003e","products":[{"product_id":"the-old-french-market-new-orleans","title":"The Old French Market, New Orleans, c. 1890","description":"\u003cp\u003eA line of loaded wagons fills the roadway and comes on toward the camera, piled high above the wheels with bulky sacked and baled goods. Two drivers ride on top of their loads in broad-brimmed hats. At the right a team of mules stands in harness beside an empty flatbed dray with tall spoked wheels, a man on the boards with the reins in his hand. Under the market colonnade at the left, another man walks toward the lens in a dark suit and cap. The Library of Congress describes the whole scene in a single line: a procession of delivery wagons going to market.\u003csup class=\"pic-ref\"\u003e\u003ca href=\"#src-1\"\u003e1\u003c\/a\u003e\u003c\/sup\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003eThe photograph dates itself from inside the frame. Painted in one continuous band across the shopfronts on the right are the words \"227 HARDWARE STOVES\" and, on the building beside them, \"\u0026amp; SHIP CHANDLERY 229.\" New Orleans changed to its present hundred-block street numbering in the early 1890s, and numbers in the 220s belong to the older system; read against the conversion table kept by the New Orleans Public Library, those two shopfronts fall in what is now the 900 block of Decatur Street.\u003csup class=\"pic-ref\"\u003e\u003ca href=\"#src-2\"\u003e2\u003c\/a\u003e\u003c\/sup\u003e That is a reading of the painted numbers, not a statement from the archive. Across the street a long board carries the name Salatich \u0026amp; Baccich, a grocery and commission house whose partnership had ended by the middle of the same decade.\u003csup class=\"pic-ref\"\u003e\u003ca href=\"#src-3\"\u003e3\u003c\/a\u003e\u003c\/sup\u003e Painted signs outlive the firms that pay for them, so neither detail is proof on its own. Both point to the earlier part of the bracket the Library gives, 1880 to 1897.\u003csup class=\"pic-ref\"\u003e\u003ca href=\"#src-1\"\u003e1\u003c\/a\u003e\u003c\/sup\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cfigure class=\"pic-print__detail\"\u003e\u003cimg src=\"https:\/\/res.cloudinary.com\/dz7q7hk2q\/image\/upload\/f_auto,q_auto,c_limit,w_1060\/pastincolor\/details\/frenchmarket-signs.jpg\" srcset=\"https:\/\/res.cloudinary.com\/dz7q7hk2q\/image\/upload\/f_auto,q_auto,c_limit,w_420\/pastincolor\/details\/frenchmarket-signs.jpg 420w, https:\/\/res.cloudinary.com\/dz7q7hk2q\/image\/upload\/f_auto,q_auto,c_limit,w_640\/pastincolor\/details\/frenchmarket-signs.jpg 640w, https:\/\/res.cloudinary.com\/dz7q7hk2q\/image\/upload\/f_auto,q_auto,c_limit,w_840\/pastincolor\/details\/frenchmarket-signs.jpg 840w, https:\/\/res.cloudinary.com\/dz7q7hk2q\/image\/upload\/f_auto,q_auto,c_limit,w_1060\/pastincolor\/details\/frenchmarket-signs.jpg 1060w, https:\/\/res.cloudinary.com\/dz7q7hk2q\/image\/upload\/f_auto,q_auto,c_limit,w_1210\/pastincolor\/details\/frenchmarket-signs.jpg 1210w\" sizes=\"(min-width: 1100px) 1060px, (min-width: 750px) calc(100vw - 40px), calc(100vw - 56px)\" width=\"1060\" height=\"420\" alt=\"Detail from the plate: the painted shopfront band reading 227 Hardware Stoves and Ship Chandlery 229\" loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\"\u003e\u003cfigcaption\u003e227 and 229, in the old street numbering: the painted band that helps place and date the frame.\u003c\/figcaption\u003e\u003c\/figure\u003e\u003cp\u003eThe market itself is the oldest of its kind in the United States.\u003csup class=\"pic-ref\"\u003e\u003ca href=\"#src-8\"\u003e8\u003c\/a\u003e\u003c\/sup\u003e A market was built on this ground in 1791, and the oldest structures standing there date to about 1813, when the building went up as the city's meat market.\u003csup class=\"pic-ref\"\u003e\u003ca href=\"#src-8\"\u003e8\u003c\/a\u003e\u003c\/sup\u003e\u003csup class=\"pic-ref\"\u003e\u003ca href=\"#src-4\"\u003e4\u003c\/a\u003e\u003c\/sup\u003e By the time this plate was exposed the market was not one building but several: the old meat market, a vegetable market built in two phases from the 1820s, the Red Stores, and a bazaar market added around 1872, the whole run under city rules for stallholders and sanitation.\u003csup class=\"pic-ref\"\u003e\u003ca href=\"#src-4\"\u003e4\u003c\/a\u003e\u003c\/sup\u003e This picture is not about any of those buildings. It is about what fed them, arriving by mule cart before most of the city was awake.\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cfigure class=\"pic-print__detail pic-print__detail--narrow\"\u003e\u003cimg src=\"https:\/\/res.cloudinary.com\/dz7q7hk2q\/image\/upload\/f_auto,q_auto,c_limit,w_420\/pastincolor\/details\/frenchmarket-driver.jpg\" srcset=\"https:\/\/res.cloudinary.com\/dz7q7hk2q\/image\/upload\/f_auto,q_auto,c_limit,w_280\/pastincolor\/details\/frenchmarket-driver.jpg 280w, https:\/\/res.cloudinary.com\/dz7q7hk2q\/image\/upload\/f_auto,q_auto,c_limit,w_420\/pastincolor\/details\/frenchmarket-driver.jpg 420w, https:\/\/res.cloudinary.com\/dz7q7hk2q\/image\/upload\/f_auto,q_auto,c_limit,w_560\/pastincolor\/details\/frenchmarket-driver.jpg 560w, https:\/\/res.cloudinary.com\/dz7q7hk2q\/image\/upload\/f_auto,q_auto,c_limit,w_830\/pastincolor\/details\/frenchmarket-driver.jpg 830w\" sizes=\"(min-width: 476px) 420px, calc(100vw - 56px)\" width=\"420\" height=\"339\" alt=\"Detail from the plate: a driver in a broad-brimmed hat riding on top of his loaded wagon\" loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\"\u003e\u003cfigcaption\u003eA driver rides his load in toward the market, high above the wheels.\u003c\/figcaption\u003e\u003c\/figure\u003e\u003cp\u003eThe signs also record who was doing the selling. Salatich \u0026amp; Baccich were Dalmatian; Blaise Peter Salatich came to New Orleans from Ragusa on the Adriatic, today Dubrovnik, as a young man, clerked in a mercantile house, and then set up on his own.\u003csup class=\"pic-ref\"\u003e\u003ca href=\"#src-3\"\u003e3\u003c\/a\u003e\u003c\/sup\u003e By the 1890s the market had a pronounced Sicilian character as well.\u003csup class=\"pic-ref\"\u003e\u003ca href=\"#src-6\"\u003e6\u003c\/a\u003e\u003c\/sup\u003e Sicilian immigrants worked the stalls, came to dominate the city's fruit trade, handled the unloading at the docks where that fruit arrived, and built import houses of their own.\u003csup class=\"pic-ref\"\u003e\u003ca href=\"#src-6\"\u003e6\u003c\/a\u003e\u003c\/sup\u003e The market's reputation as a place where several languages crossed a single counter was not decoration; it was the ordinary condition of this block. It was not a safe one. Eleven Italian men were lynched in New Orleans in 1891, inside the years this photograph could have been made.\u003csup class=\"pic-ref\"\u003e\u003ca href=\"#src-6\"\u003e6\u003c\/a\u003e\u003c\/sup\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cfigure class=\"pic-print__detail\"\u003e\u003cimg src=\"https:\/\/res.cloudinary.com\/dz7q7hk2q\/image\/upload\/f_auto,q_auto,c_limit,w_640\/pastincolor\/details\/frenchmarket-salatich.jpg\" srcset=\"https:\/\/res.cloudinary.com\/dz7q7hk2q\/image\/upload\/f_auto,q_auto,c_limit,w_420\/pastincolor\/details\/frenchmarket-salatich.jpg 420w, https:\/\/res.cloudinary.com\/dz7q7hk2q\/image\/upload\/f_auto,q_auto,c_limit,w_640\/pastincolor\/details\/frenchmarket-salatich.jpg 640w\" sizes=\"(min-width: 1100px) 1060px, (min-width: 750px) calc(100vw - 40px), calc(100vw - 56px)\" width=\"640\" height=\"400\" alt=\"Detail from the plate: the painted board reading Salatich and Baccich above the market crowd\" loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\"\u003e\u003cfigcaption\u003eSalatich \u0026amp; Baccich: Blaise Peter Salatich came from Ragusa on the Adriatic, clerked in a mercantile house, and set up on his own.\u003c\/figcaption\u003e\u003c\/figure\u003e\u003cfigure class=\"pic-quote\"\u003e\u003cblockquote\u003e\u003cp\u003eUnder its roof every language is spoken.\u003c\/p\u003e\u003c\/blockquote\u003e\n\u003cfigcaption\u003eThe Picayune's Guide to New Orleans, 1900\u003csup class=\"pic-ref\"\u003e\u003ca href=\"#src-9\"\u003e9\u003c\/a\u003e\u003c\/sup\u003e\u003c\/figcaption\u003e\u003c\/figure\u003e\u003cp\u003eThe infrastructure in the frame is the working end of a riverfront system. The roadway is laid in stone setts, wet and reflective in places, with a deep open gutter and a granite curb along the left side and a plank thrown across it for anyone on foot. A heavy wooden utility pole stands in the left foreground and carries a bracket and wires out across the street. Electric arc lighting had reached the Quarter's riverfront by 1882, though what those particular wires carried cannot be told from the plate.\u003csup class=\"pic-ref\"\u003e\u003ca href=\"#src-5\"\u003e5\u003c\/a\u003e\u003c\/sup\u003e A short walk behind the camera lay the levee, where Lugger's Landing took in the small boats bringing oysters and other market goods and a wide wooden wharf carried carts, dray horses, laborers, stevedores and traders.\u003csup class=\"pic-ref\"\u003e\u003ca href=\"#src-5\"\u003e5\u003c\/a\u003e\u003c\/sup\u003e The ship chandlery lettered on the building opposite was selling to vessels tied up within sight of its own front door.\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003eNot all of this was as old as it looks. The bazaar market had been added to the complex around 1872, and the arc lighting on the riverfront dated to 1882.\u003csup class=\"pic-ref\"\u003e\u003ca href=\"#src-4\"\u003e4\u003c\/a\u003e\u003c\/sup\u003e\u003csup class=\"pic-ref\"\u003e\u003ca href=\"#src-5\"\u003e5\u003c\/a\u003e\u003c\/sup\u003e What the camera found was not a picturesque row of stalls but an established market set inside a working warehouse and transport district, and the wagon line is the evidence for it.\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003eThe men on those wagons could not know how much of this was near its end. The riverfront that supplied them was rebuilt around them over the following generation, and the sugar refining work near the river moved out to suburban Arabi in 1912.\u003csup class=\"pic-ref\"\u003e\u003ca href=\"#src-5\"\u003e5\u003c\/a\u003e\u003c\/sup\u003e On September 29, 1915, a hurricane came ashore and partly demolished the French Market.\u003csup class=\"pic-ref\"\u003e\u003ca href=\"#src-7\"\u003e7\u003c\/a\u003e\u003c\/sup\u003e Between that storm, the rebuilding after it, and the renovation of 1936 and 1937, the market a visitor walks through today is not the one in this frame.\u003csup class=\"pic-ref\"\u003e\u003ca href=\"#src-8\"\u003e8\u003c\/a\u003e\u003c\/sup\u003e The photograph records an ordinary morning at the start of an ordinary working day. Nothing in it suggests that any of the arrangement was temporary.\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003eEvery detail is the original photograph. Only the color is new. It is restored using modern professional digital techniques and transferred onto the scan of the original glass negative. Nothing is redrawn, sharpened, or invented.\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003ePrints are available as premium luster posters, on canvas, and framed. Each one is made to order, produced close to where it ships, and sent with tracking. Shipping is free in the United States and the European Union. The edition is small, its size is stated on this page, and it will not be reprinted. Questions are welcome at support@pastincolor.com.\u003c\/p\u003e\u003ch3\u003eSources\u003c\/h3\u003e\u003col class=\"pic-sources\"\u003e\n\u003cli id=\"src-1\"\u003eLibrary of Congress, Prints and Photographs Division, catalog record for \"The old French Market, New Orleans,\" LC-D418-8113, \u003ca href=\"https:\/\/www.loc.gov\/pictures\/item\/det1994023520\/PP\/\"\u003ehttps:\/\/www.loc.gov\/pictures\/item\/det1994023520\/PP\/\u003c\/a\u003e\n\u003c\/li\u003e\n\u003cli id=\"src-2\"\u003eNew Orleans Public Library, City Archives and Special Collections, \"Changes in Street Numbers,\" \u003ca href=\"https:\/\/nolacityarchives.org\/changes-in-street-numbers\/\"\u003ehttps:\/\/nolacityarchives.org\/changes-in-street-numbers\/\u003c\/a\u003e\n\u003c\/li\u003e\n\u003cli id=\"src-3\"\u003eAlcee Fortier, ed., Louisiana: Comprising Sketches of Parishes, Towns, Events, Institutions, and Persons, vol. 3 (1914), biography recording Blaise Peter Salatich and the firm Salatich \u0026amp; Baccich, \u003ca href=\"https:\/\/www.lagenweb.org\/orleans\/bios\/ST\/salatichPeterB.html\"\u003ehttps:\/\/www.lagenweb.org\/orleans\/bios\/ST\/salatichPeterB.html\u003c\/a\u003e\n\u003c\/li\u003e\n\u003cli id=\"src-4\"\u003eFrench Market Corporation, \"History, French Market District,\" \u003ca href=\"https:\/\/www.frenchmarket.org\/history\/\"\u003ehttps:\/\/www.frenchmarket.org\/history\/\u003c\/a\u003e\n\u003c\/li\u003e\n\u003cli id=\"src-5\"\u003eJohn Magill, French Quarterly Magazine, \"Down by the Riverfront in the French Quarter,\" \u003ca href=\"https:\/\/frenchquarterly.com\/history\/down-riverfront-french-quarter\"\u003ehttps:\/\/frenchquarterly.com\/history\/down-riverfront-french-quarter\u003c\/a\u003e\n\u003c\/li\u003e\n\u003cli id=\"src-6\"\u003eEmily Perkins, The Historic New Orleans Collection, \"Coming to New Orleans, Part III,\" \u003ca href=\"https:\/\/hnoc.org\/publishing\/first-draft\/coming-new-orleans-six-items-tell-story-immigration-between-civil-war-and\"\u003ehttps:\/\/hnoc.org\/publishing\/first-draft\/coming-new-orleans-six-items-tell-story-immigration-between-civil-war-and\u003c\/a\u003e\n\u003c\/li\u003e\n\u003cli id=\"src-7\"\u003eNOAA Atlantic Oceanographic and Meteorological Laboratory, \"100th Anniversary of the Great New Orleans Hurricane,\" \u003ca href=\"https:\/\/www.aoml.noaa.gov\/hurricane_blog\/100th-anniversary-of-the-great-new-orleans-hurricane\/\"\u003ehttps:\/\/www.aoml.noaa.gov\/hurricane_blog\/100th-anniversary-of-the-great-new-orleans-hurricane\/\u003c\/a\u003e\n\u003c\/li\u003e\n\u003cli id=\"src-8\"\u003eNew Orleans Historical, \"French Market,\" \u003ca href=\"https:\/\/neworleanshistorical.org\/items\/show\/1395\"\u003ehttps:\/\/neworleanshistorical.org\/items\/show\/1395\u003c\/a\u003e\n\u003c\/li\u003e\n\u003cli id=\"src-9\"\u003eThe Picayune's Guide to New Orleans, The Daily Picayune, 1900, \u003ca href=\"https:\/\/archive.org\/download\/picayunesguideto00unse_0\/picayunesguideto00unse_0.pdf\"\u003ehttps:\/\/archive.org\/download\/picayunesguideto00unse_0\/picayunesguideto00unse_0.pdf\u003c\/a\u003e\n\u003c\/li\u003e\n\u003c\/ol\u003e","brand":"Past in Color","offers":[{"title":"Luster poster \/ 12 x 18 in","offer_id":58385426415999,"sku":null,"price":115.0,"currency_code":"EUR","in_stock":false},{"title":"Luster poster \/ 18 x 24 in","offer_id":58385426448767,"sku":null,"price":130.0,"currency_code":"EUR","in_stock":false},{"title":"Luster poster \/ 24 x 36 in","offer_id":58385426481535,"sku":null,"price":185.0,"currency_code":"EUR","in_stock":false},{"title":"Canvas \/ 24 x 36 in","offer_id":58385426514303,"sku":null,"price":375.0,"currency_code":"EUR","in_stock":false}],"thumbnail_url":"\/\/cdn.shopify.com\/s\/files\/1\/1029\/2802\/3935\/files\/french-market.jpg?v=1788844046"},{"product_id":"canal-street-from-the-clay-monument-new-orleans","title":"Canal Street from the Clay Monument, New Orleans, c. 1890","description":"\u003cp\u003eThis view can no longer be made. The camera stands at the base of the Henry Clay monument, raised in the middle of Canal Street in 1860 and taken down in 1901; the statue stands today in Lafayette Square, and the vantage point went with it. The view looks away from the Mississippi River, up the broadest and busiest commercial avenue in the city. Canal Street was laid out along the line of a canal that was never dug, and its width is the space that was reserved for it.\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003eThe photograph dates itself, and the evidence is standing on the track. Three single-truck streetcars wait on the neutral ground, one behind the other. None of them carries a trolley pole, and no contact wire runs above the rails; the many wires overhead run pole to pole on crossarms, in the manner of telegraph and telephone lines. The cars themselves are best identified as bobtail mule cars of the type the John Stephenson Company of New York built for the city's street railways, compact one-man cars with a fare box in place of a conductor.\u003csup class=\"pic-ref\"\u003e\u003ca href=\"#src-6\"\u003e6\u003c\/a\u003e\u003c\/sup\u003e Electric operation began in New Orleans on February 1, 1893, on the Carrollton and St. Charles line, and the conversions ran on through the decade.\u003csup class=\"pic-ref\"\u003e\u003ca href=\"#src-7\"\u003e7\u003c\/a\u003e\u003c\/sup\u003e Unelectrified Canal Street track therefore places this plate in the last years of animal power, about 1890 to 1894.\u003csup class=\"pic-ref\"\u003e\u003ca href=\"#src-2\"\u003e2\u003c\/a\u003e\u003c\/sup\u003e The Library of Congress catalogs the item more loosely, as taken between 1880 and 1897, and the narrower range here rests on what the frame itself shows.\u003csup class=\"pic-ref\"\u003e\u003ca href=\"#src-1\"\u003e1\u003c\/a\u003e\u003c\/sup\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cfigure class=\"pic-print__detail\"\u003e\u003cimg src=\"https:\/\/res.cloudinary.com\/dz7q7hk2q\/image\/upload\/f_auto,q_auto,c_limit,w_1060\/pastincolor\/details\/clay-streetcars.jpg\" srcset=\"https:\/\/res.cloudinary.com\/dz7q7hk2q\/image\/upload\/f_auto,q_auto,c_limit,w_420\/pastincolor\/details\/clay-streetcars.jpg 420w, https:\/\/res.cloudinary.com\/dz7q7hk2q\/image\/upload\/f_auto,q_auto,c_limit,w_640\/pastincolor\/details\/clay-streetcars.jpg 640w, https:\/\/res.cloudinary.com\/dz7q7hk2q\/image\/upload\/f_auto,q_auto,c_limit,w_840\/pastincolor\/details\/clay-streetcars.jpg 840w, https:\/\/res.cloudinary.com\/dz7q7hk2q\/image\/upload\/f_auto,q_auto,c_limit,w_1060\/pastincolor\/details\/clay-streetcars.jpg 1060w, https:\/\/res.cloudinary.com\/dz7q7hk2q\/image\/upload\/f_auto,q_auto,c_limit,w_1217\/pastincolor\/details\/clay-streetcars.jpg 1217w\" sizes=\"(min-width: 1100px) 1060px, (min-width: 750px) calc(100vw - 40px), calc(100vw - 56px)\" width=\"1060\" height=\"485\" alt=\"Detail from the plate: three streetcars without trolley poles beside a pole stencilled POST NO BILLS\" loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\"\u003e\u003cfigcaption\u003eNone of the three cars carries a trolley pole, and no wire runs above the rails. The missing wire is what dates the plate.\u003c\/figcaption\u003e\u003c\/figure\u003e\u003cp\u003eWhat reads at first as a boulevard is really a machine for moving people. By this period the neutral ground had become a street railway corridor carrying several parallel tracks, five or six of them along some stretches, while ordinary wheeled traffic used the two flanking roadways.\u003csup class=\"pic-ref\"\u003e\u003ca href=\"#src-3\"\u003e3\u003c\/a\u003e\u003c\/sup\u003e Those roadways were paved with imported ballast blocks.\u003csup class=\"pic-ref\"\u003e\u003ca href=\"#src-3\"\u003e3\u003c\/a\u003e\u003c\/sup\u003e Around the Clay monument the lines of several competing companies terminated, looped, or passed through, which called for turntables and starter's houses in the middle of the street.\u003csup class=\"pic-ref\"\u003e\u003ca href=\"#src-3\"\u003e3\u003c\/a\u003e\u003c\/sup\u003e Sand or paving spoil is heaped along the right-hand gutter in this frame, which suggests work on that surface was under way when the shutter opened.\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003eThe block front on the right is a wall of signs, and much of the city's retail trade is somewhere in it. Canal Street was the principal shopping district, and its dry goods merchants were then expanding into department store retail; D. H. Holmes had held a large establishment on the street since 1849, and Godchaux's put up a new five-story store at Canal and Chartres in 1892.\u003csup class=\"pic-ref\"\u003e\u003ca href=\"#src-4\"\u003e4\u003c\/a\u003e\u003c\/sup\u003e Music retail was unusually prominent here. Philip Werlein's house advertises twice within a single block front, once on a projecting fascia sign and once on a painted wall sign above it, and B. Fellman offers pianos and organs a few doors along. Werlein's and Grunewald's were among the city's major music stores and sheet music publishers of the period.\u003csup class=\"pic-ref\"\u003e\u003ca href=\"#src-5\"\u003e5\u003c\/a\u003e\u003c\/sup\u003e Steinway lettering runs above the gallery, and a cloth banner hung inside it reads CHEAP DRY GOODS PALACE. A manufacturer of ladies' underwear, an importer, and a dry goods house at 127 and 129 share the same iron galleries.\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cblockquote class=\"pic-print__pull\"\u003e\u003cp\u003eThe streetcar men had just won the shortest working day of their lives.\u003c\/p\u003e\u003c\/blockquote\u003e\u003cfigure class=\"pic-print__detail pic-print__detail--right\"\u003e\u003cimg src=\"https:\/\/res.cloudinary.com\/dz7q7hk2q\/image\/upload\/f_auto,q_auto,c_limit,w_600\/pastincolor\/details\/clay-cabdriver.jpg\" srcset=\"https:\/\/res.cloudinary.com\/dz7q7hk2q\/image\/upload\/f_auto,q_auto,c_limit,w_300\/pastincolor\/details\/clay-cabdriver.jpg 300w, https:\/\/res.cloudinary.com\/dz7q7hk2q\/image\/upload\/f_auto,q_auto,c_limit,w_420\/pastincolor\/details\/clay-cabdriver.jpg 420w, https:\/\/res.cloudinary.com\/dz7q7hk2q\/image\/upload\/f_auto,q_auto,c_limit,w_600\/pastincolor\/details\/clay-cabdriver.jpg 600w, https:\/\/res.cloudinary.com\/dz7q7hk2q\/image\/upload\/f_auto,q_auto,c_limit,w_840\/pastincolor\/details\/clay-cabdriver.jpg 840w, https:\/\/res.cloudinary.com\/dz7q7hk2q\/image\/upload\/f_auto,q_auto,c_limit,w_869\/pastincolor\/details\/clay-cabdriver.jpg 869w\" sizes=\"(min-width: 990px) 300px, (min-width: 750px) calc(100vw - 40px), calc(100vw - 56px)\" width=\"600\" height=\"577\" alt=\"Detail from the plate: the cab driver seated on the box of his two-horse cab\" loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\"\u003e\u003cfigcaption\u003eThe cab driver at the head of the carriage rank, one hand on the canopy frame.\u003c\/figcaption\u003e\u003c\/figure\u003e\u003cp\u003eThe people are ordinary and specific. Two women in full-length dark dresses with bustled skirts and elaborate hats cross the foreground. A bearded cab driver in a bowler sits on the box of a two-horse cab at the head of the carriage rank. A boy leans over the upper gallery rail above the Fellman sign. A delivery wagon at the right edge is lettered for a Canal Street ice cream and confectionery house. A utility pole at center carries a stencilled number and the words POST NO BILLS, and a poster board strapped to the lamp post on the neutral ground urges passers-by to go to Werlein's for the greatest bargains in pianos and organs. Advertising was already competing for every flat surface on the street.\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cfigure class=\"pic-print__detail pic-print__detail--narrow\"\u003e\u003cimg src=\"https:\/\/res.cloudinary.com\/dz7q7hk2q\/image\/upload\/f_auto,q_auto,c_limit,w_420\/pastincolor\/details\/clay-women.jpg\" srcset=\"https:\/\/res.cloudinary.com\/dz7q7hk2q\/image\/upload\/f_auto,q_auto,c_limit,w_280\/pastincolor\/details\/clay-women.jpg 280w, https:\/\/res.cloudinary.com\/dz7q7hk2q\/image\/upload\/f_auto,q_auto,c_limit,w_420\/pastincolor\/details\/clay-women.jpg 420w, https:\/\/res.cloudinary.com\/dz7q7hk2q\/image\/upload\/f_auto,q_auto,c_limit,w_560\/pastincolor\/details\/clay-women.jpg 560w, https:\/\/res.cloudinary.com\/dz7q7hk2q\/image\/upload\/f_auto,q_auto,c_limit,w_840\/pastincolor\/details\/clay-women.jpg 840w\" sizes=\"(min-width: 476px) 420px, calc(100vw - 56px)\" width=\"420\" height=\"420\" alt=\"Detail from the plate: two women in bustled skirts crossing toward the cab rank\" loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\"\u003e\u003cfigcaption\u003eTwo women cross toward the cab rank. At the left edge stands the poster board sending passers-by to Werlein's.\u003c\/figcaption\u003e\u003c\/figure\u003e\u003cp\u003eThe street had been unsettled for years before this exposure, and it was rebuilt soon after. In 1891 the Liberty Place Monument went up at the river end of Canal Street.\u003csup class=\"pic-ref\"\u003e\u003ca href=\"#src-3\"\u003e3\u003c\/a\u003e\u003c\/sup\u003e On February 16, 1892, a fire crossed Bourbon Street and damaged or destroyed much of Touro Row, one of the street's important commercial blocks.\u003csup class=\"pic-ref\"\u003e\u003ca href=\"#src-9\"\u003e9\u003c\/a\u003e\u003c\/sup\u003e In May 1892 the streetcar operators struck and won union recognition, a closed shop, and a working day cut from sixteen hours to twelve.\u003csup class=\"pic-ref\"\u003e\u003ca href=\"#src-8\"\u003e8\u003c\/a\u003e\u003c\/sup\u003e That same year the New Orleans Traction Company took over the lines of the former New Orleans City and Crescent City railroads.\u003csup class=\"pic-ref\"\u003e\u003ca href=\"#src-3\"\u003e3\u003c\/a\u003e\u003c\/sup\u003e Then the wires went up. The first electric cars ran in February 1893, the Prytania line was converted on September 15, 1894, the North Claiborne and Tulane lines followed in 1896, and the West End line took electric power in 1898.\u003csup class=\"pic-ref\"\u003e\u003ca href=\"#src-7\"\u003e7\u003c\/a\u003e\u003c\/sup\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003eNobody in the frame could see how quickly their own arrangements would come undone. The streetcar men had just won the shortest working day of their lives; by the end of 1892 the general strike that followed, involving somewhere between twenty and twenty-five thousand workers, ended in a settlement that dissolved their union's recognition.\u003csup class=\"pic-ref\"\u003e\u003ca href=\"#src-8\"\u003e8\u003c\/a\u003e\u003c\/sup\u003e The cars they tended would be off the rails within a few years, animal power with them. The monument the photographer stood beneath was removed in 1901, and the exact view in this print became impossible to make again.\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003eThe print is made from the full-resolution scan of the original negative held by the Library of Congress, carefully restored in full color using modern professional digital techniques. Every detail is the original photograph. Only the color is new; nothing is redrawn, sharpened, or invented.\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003ePrints are available as premium luster posters, on canvas, and framed. Each one is made to order, produced close to where it ships, and sent with tracking. Shipping is free in the United States and the European Union. The edition is small, the size is stated on this page, and it will not be reprinted. Questions are welcome at support@pastincolor.com.\u003c\/p\u003e\u003ch3\u003eSources\u003c\/h3\u003e\u003col class=\"pic-sources\"\u003e\n\u003cli id=\"src-1\"\u003eLibrary of Congress, Prints and Photographs Online Catalog, \"Canal St. [Street] from the Clay Monument,\" \u003ca href=\"https:\/\/www.loc.gov\/pictures\/item\/2016817549\/\"\u003ehttps:\/\/www.loc.gov\/pictures\/item\/2016817549\/\u003c\/a\u003e\n\u003c\/li\u003e\n\u003cli id=\"src-2\"\u003eWikimedia Commons, \"File:Canal Street From Clay Monument WM Jackson uncropped.jpg,\" \u003ca href=\"https:\/\/commons.wikimedia.org\/wiki\/File:Canal_Street_From_Clay_Monument_WM_Jackson_uncropped.jpg\"\u003ehttps:\/\/commons.wikimedia.org\/wiki\/File:Canal_Street_From_Clay_Monument_WM_Jackson_uncropped.jpg\u003c\/a\u003e\n\u003c\/li\u003e\n\u003cli id=\"src-3\"\u003eH. George Friedman Jr., \"Canal Street: A Street Railway Spectacular,\" University of Illinois, \u003ca href=\"https:\/\/friedman.cs.illinois.edu\/canal\/canal.htm\"\u003ehttps:\/\/friedman.cs.illinois.edu\/canal\/canal.htm\u003c\/a\u003e\n\u003c\/li\u003e\n\u003cli id=\"src-4\"\u003eThe Historic New Orleans Collection, \"Department Stores,\" \u003ca href=\"https:\/\/hnoc.org\/virtual-exhibitions\/goods-every-description\/department-stores\"\u003ehttps:\/\/hnoc.org\/virtual-exhibitions\/goods-every-description\/department-stores\u003c\/a\u003e\n\u003c\/li\u003e\n\u003cli id=\"src-5\"\u003eThe Historic New Orleans Collection, \"Temple of Music,\" \u003ca href=\"https:\/\/hnoc.org\/virtual-exhibitions\/goods-every-description\/temple-music\"\u003ehttps:\/\/hnoc.org\/virtual-exhibitions\/goods-every-description\/temple-music\u003c\/a\u003e\n\u003c\/li\u003e\n\u003cli id=\"src-6\"\u003eMidcontinent Railway Museum, \"John Stephenson Car Co.\", \u003ca href=\"https:\/\/www.midcontinent.org\/rollingstock\/builders\/stephenson2.htm\"\u003ehttps:\/\/www.midcontinent.org\/rollingstock\/builders\/stephenson2.htm\u003c\/a\u003e\n\u003c\/li\u003e\n\u003cli id=\"src-7\"\u003eNew Orleans Historical, \"Prytania Streetcar Line,\" \u003ca href=\"https:\/\/neworleanshistorical.org\/items\/show\/540\"\u003ehttps:\/\/neworleanshistorical.org\/items\/show\/540\u003c\/a\u003e\n\u003c\/li\u003e\n\u003cli id=\"src-8\"\u003eNew Orleans Historical, \"1892 General Strike,\" \u003ca href=\"https:\/\/neworleanshistorical.org\/items\/show\/489\"\u003ehttps:\/\/neworleanshistorical.org\/items\/show\/489\u003c\/a\u003e\n\u003c\/li\u003e\n\u003cli id=\"src-9\"\u003ePreservation Resource Center of New Orleans, \"Touro Row, the Canal Street catalyst of the 1850s,\" \u003ca href=\"https:\/\/prcno.org\/touro-row-canal-street-catalyst-1850s\/\"\u003ehttps:\/\/prcno.org\/touro-row-canal-street-catalyst-1850s\/\u003c\/a\u003e\n\u003c\/li\u003e\n\u003c\/ol\u003e","brand":"Past in Color","offers":[{"title":"Luster poster \/ 12 x 18 in","offer_id":58385426678143,"sku":null,"price":115.0,"currency_code":"EUR","in_stock":false},{"title":"Luster poster \/ 18 x 24 in","offer_id":58385426710911,"sku":null,"price":130.0,"currency_code":"EUR","in_stock":false},{"title":"Luster poster \/ 24 x 36 in","offer_id":58385426743679,"sku":null,"price":185.0,"currency_code":"EUR","in_stock":false},{"title":"Canvas \/ 24 x 36 in","offer_id":58385426776447,"sku":null,"price":375.0,"currency_code":"EUR","in_stock":false}],"thumbnail_url":"\/\/cdn.shopify.com\/s\/files\/1\/1029\/2802\/3935\/files\/canal-street-clay-monument.jpg?v=1788844138"},{"product_id":"the-city-from-algiers-new-orleans","title":"The City from Algiers, New Orleans, 1900","description":"\u003cp\u003eThe famous part of this view sits small and far away, and everything close at hand is timber, mud, and work. In 1900 a photographer working for the Detroit Photographic Company set up on the Algiers bank of the Mississippi and pointed the camera back at New Orleans. The photographer's name was never recorded.\u003csup class=\"pic-ref\"\u003e\u003ca href=\"#src-2\"\u003e2\u003c\/a\u003e\u003c\/sup\u003e The year is not in doubt, because the copyright line is burned into the negative itself, and the Library of Congress catalogs the plate as one of the Detroit views of the city seen from Algiers.\u003csup class=\"pic-ref\"\u003e\u003ca href=\"#src-1\"\u003e1\u003c\/a\u003e\u003c\/sup\u003e What the plate offers is not a view so much as a piece of evidence: a working shore in the foreground, a wide reach of open river in the middle, and a city reduced to a low line of roofs and spires beyond.\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003eSt. Louis Cathedral stands at the center of the skyline, its spire and clock face above the two lower towers, marking Jackson Square exactly. Upriver of it rises an ornamented commercial mass with a corner tower, consistent with the Jackson Brewery.\u003csup class=\"pic-ref\"\u003e\u003ca href=\"#src-2\"\u003e2\u003c\/a\u003e\u003c\/sup\u003e Running across the frame in front of both is a long low wharf shed, with railway cars drawn up on the levee behind it. Those cars are the point of the photograph as much as the cathedral is.\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cfigure class=\"pic-print__detail\"\u003e\u003cimg src=\"https:\/\/res.cloudinary.com\/dz7q7hk2q\/image\/upload\/f_auto,q_auto,c_limit,w_1060\/pastincolor\/details\/algiers-skyline.jpg\" srcset=\"https:\/\/res.cloudinary.com\/dz7q7hk2q\/image\/upload\/f_auto,q_auto,c_limit,w_420\/pastincolor\/details\/algiers-skyline.jpg 420w, https:\/\/res.cloudinary.com\/dz7q7hk2q\/image\/upload\/f_auto,q_auto,c_limit,w_640\/pastincolor\/details\/algiers-skyline.jpg 640w, https:\/\/res.cloudinary.com\/dz7q7hk2q\/image\/upload\/f_auto,q_auto,c_limit,w_840\/pastincolor\/details\/algiers-skyline.jpg 840w, https:\/\/res.cloudinary.com\/dz7q7hk2q\/image\/upload\/f_auto,q_auto,c_limit,w_1060\/pastincolor\/details\/algiers-skyline.jpg 1060w, https:\/\/res.cloudinary.com\/dz7q7hk2q\/image\/upload\/f_auto,q_auto,c_limit,w_1400\/pastincolor\/details\/algiers-skyline.jpg 1400w, https:\/\/res.cloudinary.com\/dz7q7hk2q\/image\/upload\/f_auto,q_auto,c_limit,w_1800\/pastincolor\/details\/algiers-skyline.jpg 1800w, https:\/\/res.cloudinary.com\/dz7q7hk2q\/image\/upload\/f_auto,q_auto,c_limit,w_1900\/pastincolor\/details\/algiers-skyline.jpg 1900w\" sizes=\"(min-width: 1100px) 1060px, (min-width: 750px) calc(100vw - 40px), calc(100vw - 56px)\" width=\"1060\" height=\"457\" alt=\"Detail from the plate: the distant skyline with St. Louis Cathedral, the long wharf shed and railway cars\" loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\"\u003e\u003cfigcaption\u003eSt. Louis Cathedral marks Jackson Square across the river, with the wharf shed and the railway cars drawn up in front.\u003c\/figcaption\u003e\u003c\/figure\u003e\u003cp\u003eThe near bank tells the other half of the story. A wooden wharf is being taken apart plank by plank on the left, deck boards lifted and stacked, joists open to the air, timber lying scattered on the mud. A steam vessel lies at a stage a few yards away with the name JOSIE on its pilothouse and someone at the wheel behind the glass. At the bottom edge of the frame, nearer than anything else in the picture, a man in a hat moved while the shutter was open and left himself as a blur. This is what a working riverfront actually looked like: continually rebuilt against a river that moved its own bed.\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cfigure class=\"pic-print__detail\"\u003e\u003cimg src=\"https:\/\/res.cloudinary.com\/dz7q7hk2q\/image\/upload\/f_auto,q_auto,c_limit,w_1060\/pastincolor\/details\/algiers-wharf.jpg\" srcset=\"https:\/\/res.cloudinary.com\/dz7q7hk2q\/image\/upload\/f_auto,q_auto,c_limit,w_420\/pastincolor\/details\/algiers-wharf.jpg 420w, https:\/\/res.cloudinary.com\/dz7q7hk2q\/image\/upload\/f_auto,q_auto,c_limit,w_640\/pastincolor\/details\/algiers-wharf.jpg 640w, https:\/\/res.cloudinary.com\/dz7q7hk2q\/image\/upload\/f_auto,q_auto,c_limit,w_840\/pastincolor\/details\/algiers-wharf.jpg 840w, https:\/\/res.cloudinary.com\/dz7q7hk2q\/image\/upload\/f_auto,q_auto,c_limit,w_1060\/pastincolor\/details\/algiers-wharf.jpg 1060w, https:\/\/res.cloudinary.com\/dz7q7hk2q\/image\/upload\/f_auto,q_auto,c_limit,w_1400\/pastincolor\/details\/algiers-wharf.jpg 1400w, https:\/\/res.cloudinary.com\/dz7q7hk2q\/image\/upload\/f_auto,q_auto,c_limit,w_1800\/pastincolor\/details\/algiers-wharf.jpg 1800w, https:\/\/res.cloudinary.com\/dz7q7hk2q\/image\/upload\/f_auto,q_auto,c_limit,w_2120\/pastincolor\/details\/algiers-wharf.jpg 2120w\" sizes=\"(min-width: 1100px) 1060px, (min-width: 750px) calc(100vw - 40px), calc(100vw - 56px)\" width=\"1060\" height=\"609\" alt=\"Detail from the plate: the wharf deck with boards lifted and stacked and joists open to the air\" loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\"\u003e\u003cfigcaption\u003eDeck boards lifted and stacked, joists open to the air: the wharf coming apart plank by plank.\u003c\/figcaption\u003e\u003c\/figure\u003e\u003cfigure class=\"pic-print__detail pic-print__detail--narrow\"\u003e\u003cimg src=\"https:\/\/res.cloudinary.com\/dz7q7hk2q\/image\/upload\/f_auto,q_auto,c_limit,w_420\/pastincolor\/details\/algiers-josie.jpg\" srcset=\"https:\/\/res.cloudinary.com\/dz7q7hk2q\/image\/upload\/f_auto,q_auto,c_limit,w_280\/pastincolor\/details\/algiers-josie.jpg 280w, https:\/\/res.cloudinary.com\/dz7q7hk2q\/image\/upload\/f_auto,q_auto,c_limit,w_420\/pastincolor\/details\/algiers-josie.jpg 420w, https:\/\/res.cloudinary.com\/dz7q7hk2q\/image\/upload\/f_auto,q_auto,c_limit,w_560\/pastincolor\/details\/algiers-josie.jpg 560w, https:\/\/res.cloudinary.com\/dz7q7hk2q\/image\/upload\/f_auto,q_auto,c_limit,w_840\/pastincolor\/details\/algiers-josie.jpg 840w\" sizes=\"(min-width: 476px) 420px, calc(100vw - 56px)\" width=\"420\" height=\"352\" alt=\"Detail from the plate: the pilothouse of the steamer JOSIE with a face at the window beside the wheel\" loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\"\u003e\u003cfigcaption\u003eThe JOSIE at her stage, someone at the wheel behind the pilothouse glass.\u003c\/figcaption\u003e\u003c\/figure\u003e\u003cp\u003eAlgiers itself was a river-and-rail district, not a residential quarter. Its economy ran on shipbuilding, ship repair, dry docks, sawmills, lumber yards, an iron foundry, railroad yards, ferries, and a streetcar from the ferry landing toward Gretna.\u003csup class=\"pic-ref\"\u003e\u003ca href=\"#src-4\"\u003e4\u003c\/a\u003e\u003c\/sup\u003e\u003csup class=\"pic-ref\"\u003e\u003ca href=\"#src-6\"\u003e6\u003c\/a\u003e\u003c\/sup\u003e Railroad cars were ferried across the river here, and the site that later became a naval station began as a dry dock.\u003csup class=\"pic-ref\"\u003e\u003ca href=\"#src-7\"\u003e7\u003c\/a\u003e\u003c\/sup\u003e The work drew African American laborers and immigrants from Italy, Germany, and Ireland into the shipyards, the stockyards, and the railroads.\u003csup class=\"pic-ref\"\u003e\u003ca href=\"#src-6\"\u003e6\u003c\/a\u003e\u003c\/sup\u003e The ferry carried them across to the French Quarter and downtown, and the district kept its own shops, churches, schools, bars, and dance halls; by 1911 the neighborhood reportedly counted between thirty-six and thirty-nine bars.\u003csup class=\"pic-ref\"\u003e\u003ca href=\"#src-6\"\u003e6\u003c\/a\u003e\u003c\/sup\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003eFive years before this plate, much of that neighborhood burned. The Great Algiers Fire of October 20 and 21, 1895 began in a crowded tenement, ran through wooden housing and stored fuel, destroyed roughly ten blocks and nearly two hundred houses, took the courthouse, and displaced about twelve hundred people.\u003csup class=\"pic-ref\"\u003e\u003ca href=\"#src-5\"\u003e5\u003c\/a\u003e\u003c\/sup\u003e\u003csup class=\"pic-ref\"\u003e\u003ca href=\"#src-4\"\u003e4\u003c\/a\u003e\u003c\/sup\u003e Contemporary accounts record how little the wells, pumps, and hoses could do against it.\u003csup class=\"pic-ref\"\u003e\u003ca href=\"#src-5\"\u003e5\u003c\/a\u003e\u003c\/sup\u003e Rebuilding was fast. Streets were paved, electric service and a new waterworks arrived, a viaduct went in, and new Victorian and shotgun houses replaced much of what had been lost.\u003csup class=\"pic-ref\"\u003e\u003ca href=\"#src-4\"\u003e4\u003c\/a\u003e\u003c\/sup\u003e\u003csup class=\"pic-ref\"\u003e\u003ca href=\"#src-6\"\u003e6\u003c\/a\u003e\u003c\/sup\u003e The camera in this photograph stands in a neighborhood that had just been made again.\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003eThe wharves across the water were about to be made again too. In 1896 the Louisiana Legislature created the Board of Commissioners of the Port of New Orleans, but an existing lease kept the wharf system in private hands.\u003csup class=\"pic-ref\"\u003e\u003ca href=\"#src-3\"\u003e3\u003c\/a\u003e\u003c\/sup\u003e Before the Board took over, only a few wharves had protective sheds at all, which is why the single long shed in this frame is worth noticing.\u003csup class=\"pic-ref\"\u003e\u003ca href=\"#src-3\"\u003e3\u003c\/a\u003e\u003c\/sup\u003e The lease expired on May 29, 1901, within a year and a half of this exposure.\u003csup class=\"pic-ref\"\u003e\u003ca href=\"#src-3\"\u003e3\u003c\/a\u003e\u003c\/sup\u003e Within seven years the public system had been substantially rebuilt with heavy timber wharves on creosoted piles and modern steel sheds, and a statute of 1908 authorized three and a half million dollars in bonds to keep the work going.\u003csup class=\"pic-ref\"\u003e\u003ca href=\"#src-3\"\u003e3\u003c\/a\u003e\u003c\/sup\u003e By the early 1920s the docks ran to miles of permanent wharf, covered shed space, electric traveling cranes, electric trucks, escalators, and banana conveyors.\u003csup class=\"pic-ref\"\u003e\u003ca href=\"#src-3\"\u003e3\u003c\/a\u003e\u003c\/sup\u003e The loose, open, wooden riverfront in this photograph had perhaps a decade left.\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003eThe people on this bank could not know any of it. They could not know that the lease would lapse the following May and hand the whole waterfront to a public board. They could not know that Algiers would receive a United States Naval Station in 1901.\u003csup class=\"pic-ref\"\u003e\u003ca href=\"#src-7\"\u003e7\u003c\/a\u003e\u003c\/sup\u003e They could not know that in 1905 the last yellow-fever epidemic in the United States would begin near this river, among the Italian immigrant workers who unloaded the banana boats.\u003csup class=\"pic-ref\"\u003e\u003ca href=\"#src-8\"\u003e8\u003c\/a\u003e\u003c\/sup\u003e What the photograph holds is the ordinary day before all of that: one boat, one broken wharf, and a cathedral on the far side of the river.\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cfigure class=\"pic-print__detail pic-print__detail--narrow\"\u003e\u003cimg src=\"https:\/\/res.cloudinary.com\/dz7q7hk2q\/image\/upload\/f_auto,q_auto,c_limit,w_420\/pastincolor\/details\/algiers-figure.jpg\" srcset=\"https:\/\/res.cloudinary.com\/dz7q7hk2q\/image\/upload\/f_auto,q_auto,c_limit,w_280\/pastincolor\/details\/algiers-figure.jpg 280w, https:\/\/res.cloudinary.com\/dz7q7hk2q\/image\/upload\/f_auto,q_auto,c_limit,w_420\/pastincolor\/details\/algiers-figure.jpg 420w, https:\/\/res.cloudinary.com\/dz7q7hk2q\/image\/upload\/f_auto,q_auto,c_limit,w_560\/pastincolor\/details\/algiers-figure.jpg 560w, https:\/\/res.cloudinary.com\/dz7q7hk2q\/image\/upload\/f_auto,q_auto,c_limit,w_700\/pastincolor\/details\/algiers-figure.jpg 700w\" sizes=\"(min-width: 476px) 420px, calc(100vw - 56px)\" width=\"420\" height=\"347\" alt=\"Detail from the plate: a man in a hat at the bottom edge of the frame, blurred by his own movement\" loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\"\u003e\u003cfigcaption\u003eThe nearest man in the photograph moved while the shutter was open, and stayed a blur.\u003c\/figcaption\u003e\u003c\/figure\u003e\u003cp\u003eEach print is made to order and carefully restored in full color using modern professional digital techniques. Every detail is the original photograph. Only the color is new; nothing is redrawn, sharpened, or invented.\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003ePrints are available as premium luster posters, on canvas, and framed, and each one ships with tracking. Production happens close to where the print ships. Shipping is free in the United States and the European Union. The edition is small, the size is stated on this page, and it will not be reprinted. Questions are welcome at support@pastincolor.com.\u003c\/p\u003e\u003ch3\u003eSources\u003c\/h3\u003e\u003col class=\"pic-sources\"\u003e\n\u003cli id=\"src-1\"\u003eLibrary of Congress, Prints and Photographs Online Catalog, [The City from Algiers, New Orleans, Louisiana], \u003ca href=\"https:\/\/www.loc.gov\/pictures\/item\/2016800690\/\"\u003ehttps:\/\/www.loc.gov\/pictures\/item\/2016800690\/\u003c\/a\u003e\n\u003c\/li\u003e\n\u003cli id=\"src-2\"\u003eWikimedia Commons, File:AlgiersToJacksonSquareNOLADetroitSeries.jpg, \u003ca href=\"https:\/\/commons.wikimedia.org\/wiki\/File:AlgiersToJacksonSquareNOLADetroitSeries.jpg\"\u003ehttps:\/\/commons.wikimedia.org\/wiki\/File:AlgiersToJacksonSquareNOLADetroitSeries.jpg\u003c\/a\u003e\n\u003c\/li\u003e\n\u003cli id=\"src-3\"\u003eJohn Kendall, History of New Orleans, Chapter 38, \u003ca href=\"https:\/\/penelope.uchicago.edu\/Thayer\/E\/Gazetteer\/Places\/America\/United_States\/Louisiana\/New_Orleans\/_Texts\/KENHNO\/38*.html\"\u003ehttps:\/\/penelope.uchicago.edu\/Thayer\/E\/Gazetteer\/Places\/America\/United_States\/Louisiana\/New_Orleans\/_Texts\/KENHNO\/38*.html\u003c\/a\u003e\n\u003c\/li\u003e\n\u003cli id=\"src-4\"\u003eWilliam H. Seymour, The Story of Algiers, 1718-1896, \u003ca href=\"https:\/\/www.buhler-family.net\/Library\/TheStoryOfAlgiers\/TheStoryOfAlgiers.pdf\"\u003ehttps:\/\/www.buhler-family.net\/Library\/TheStoryOfAlgiers\/TheStoryOfAlgiers.pdf\u003c\/a\u003e\n\u003c\/li\u003e\n\u003cli id=\"src-5\"\u003ePreservation Resource Center of New Orleans, \"The Great Fire of 1895\", \u003ca href=\"https:\/\/prcno.org\/great-fire-1895\/\"\u003ehttps:\/\/prcno.org\/great-fire-1895\/\u003c\/a\u003e\n\u003c\/li\u003e\n\u003cli id=\"src-6\"\u003ePreservation Resource Center of New Orleans, \"Algiers Point\", \u003ca href=\"https:\/\/prcno.org\/help-for-homeowners\/historic-districts-neighborhoods\/algiers-point\/\"\u003ehttps:\/\/prcno.org\/help-for-homeowners\/historic-districts-neighborhoods\/algiers-point\/\u003c\/a\u003e\n\u003c\/li\u003e\n\u003cli id=\"src-7\"\u003eThe Historic New Orleans Collection, \"The Overlooked History of Algiers Point as Seen from the Levee\", \u003ca href=\"https:\/\/hnoc.org\/publishing\/first-draft\/walk-along-levee-and-catch-view-overlooked-history-algiers-point\"\u003ehttps:\/\/hnoc.org\/publishing\/first-draft\/walk-along-levee-and-catch-view-overlooked-history-algiers-point\u003c\/a\u003e\n\u003c\/li\u003e\n\u003cli id=\"src-8\"\u003ePBS American Experience, \"Epidemic in New Orleans\", \u003ca href=\"https:\/\/www.pbs.org\/wgbh\/americanexperience\/features\/fever-epidemic-new-orleans\/\"\u003ehttps:\/\/www.pbs.org\/wgbh\/americanexperience\/features\/fever-epidemic-new-orleans\/\u003c\/a\u003e\n\u003c\/li\u003e\n\u003c\/ol\u003e","brand":"Past in Color","offers":[{"title":"Luster poster \/ 12 x 18 in","offer_id":58385426809215,"sku":null,"price":115.0,"currency_code":"EUR","in_stock":false},{"title":"Luster poster \/ 18 x 24 in","offer_id":58385426841983,"sku":null,"price":130.0,"currency_code":"EUR","in_stock":false},{"title":"Luster poster \/ 24 x 36 in","offer_id":58385426874751,"sku":null,"price":185.0,"currency_code":"EUR","in_stock":false},{"title":"Canvas \/ 24 x 36 in","offer_id":58385426907519,"sku":null,"price":375.0,"currency_code":"EUR","in_stock":false}],"thumbnail_url":"\/\/cdn.shopify.com\/s\/files\/1\/1029\/2802\/3935\/files\/algiers-panorama.jpg?v=1788844175"},{"product_id":"jackson-square-and-the-cathedral-of-st-louis-1900","title":"Jackson Square, New Orleans, 1900","description":"\u003cp\u003eThe sharpest sentence in this photograph is cut into stone. On the river-facing side of the pedestal at its center the monument reads \"THE UNION MUST AND SHALL BE PRESERVED,\" words a Union general ordered carved into the central square of a Confederate city.\u003csup class=\"pic-ref\"\u003e\u003ca href=\"#src-2\"\u003e2\u003c\/a\u003e\u003c\/sup\u003e In 1900 the Detroit Photographic Co. set a camera inside Jackson Square to make a tourist view, and recorded, in passing, an argument the city had not settled.\u003csup class=\"pic-ref\"\u003e\u003ca href=\"#src-1\"\u003e1\u003c\/a\u003e\u003c\/sup\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cfigure class=\"pic-print__detail\"\u003e\u003cimg src=\"https:\/\/res.cloudinary.com\/dz7q7hk2q\/image\/upload\/f_auto,q_auto,c_limit,w_880\/pastincolor\/details\/jacksonsquare-inscription.jpg\" srcset=\"https:\/\/res.cloudinary.com\/dz7q7hk2q\/image\/upload\/f_auto,q_auto,c_limit,w_420\/pastincolor\/details\/jacksonsquare-inscription.jpg 420w, https:\/\/res.cloudinary.com\/dz7q7hk2q\/image\/upload\/f_auto,q_auto,c_limit,w_640\/pastincolor\/details\/jacksonsquare-inscription.jpg 640w, https:\/\/res.cloudinary.com\/dz7q7hk2q\/image\/upload\/f_auto,q_auto,c_limit,w_840\/pastincolor\/details\/jacksonsquare-inscription.jpg 840w, https:\/\/res.cloudinary.com\/dz7q7hk2q\/image\/upload\/f_auto,q_auto,c_limit,w_880\/pastincolor\/details\/jacksonsquare-inscription.jpg 880w\" sizes=\"(min-width: 1100px) 1060px, (min-width: 750px) calc(100vw - 40px), calc(100vw - 56px)\" width=\"880\" height=\"540\" alt=\"Detail from the plate: the pedestal block carved with The Union Must and Shall Be Preserved\" loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\"\u003e\u003cfigcaption\u003eCut into the river-facing block: THE UNION MUST AND SHALL BE PRESERVED, carved by order of General Butler during the occupation.\u003c\/figcaption\u003e\u003c\/figure\u003e\u003cp\u003eThe view looks inland toward the Cathedral of St. Louis, from the river side of the walk. The Cabildo stands to the left of the cathedral, the Presbytere to the right. Clark Mills' equestrian statue of Andrew Jackson rises in the middle distance, the horse rearing and Jackson raising his hat. Two men walk away from the camera along the gravel path, one in a suit and bowler, the other in a long heavy overcoat and a soft felt hat. Figures rest on a bench inside the fence line. The planting beds beside the path are bare earth with dormant stems, and utility poles and overhead wires cross the sky at the right of the frame.\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cfigure class=\"pic-print__detail pic-print__detail--narrow\"\u003e\u003cimg src=\"https:\/\/res.cloudinary.com\/dz7q7hk2q\/image\/upload\/f_auto,q_auto,c_limit,w_420\/pastincolor\/details\/jacksonsquare-walkers.jpg\" srcset=\"https:\/\/res.cloudinary.com\/dz7q7hk2q\/image\/upload\/f_auto,q_auto,c_limit,w_280\/pastincolor\/details\/jacksonsquare-walkers.jpg 280w, https:\/\/res.cloudinary.com\/dz7q7hk2q\/image\/upload\/f_auto,q_auto,c_limit,w_420\/pastincolor\/details\/jacksonsquare-walkers.jpg 420w, https:\/\/res.cloudinary.com\/dz7q7hk2q\/image\/upload\/f_auto,q_auto,c_limit,w_560\/pastincolor\/details\/jacksonsquare-walkers.jpg 560w, https:\/\/res.cloudinary.com\/dz7q7hk2q\/image\/upload\/f_auto,q_auto,c_limit,w_630\/pastincolor\/details\/jacksonsquare-walkers.jpg 630w\" sizes=\"(min-width: 476px) 420px, calc(100vw - 56px)\" width=\"420\" height=\"580\" alt=\"Detail from the plate: two men from behind on the gravel path, one in a bowler, one in a long overcoat and soft felt hat\" loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\"\u003e\u003cfigcaption\u003eOne bowler, one soft felt hat: two men walking toward the cathedral on the morning the negative was made.\u003c\/figcaption\u003e\u003c\/figure\u003e\u003cp\u003eThis was not an empty colonial plaza. By 1900 the square was an established ceremonial park, with ornamental iron fencing, formal gardens, gravel paths and benches set around the monument at its center.\u003csup class=\"pic-ref\"\u003e\u003ca href=\"#src-3\"\u003e3\u003c\/a\u003e\u003c\/sup\u003e Most of that arrangement dated from the early 1850s, when Micaela Almonester, Baroness de Pontalba, built the two long red-brick blocks that flank the square (1849 to 1851) and the ground took its formal garden shape.\u003csup class=\"pic-ref\"\u003e\u003ca href=\"#src-6\"\u003e6\u003c\/a\u003e\u003c\/sup\u003e The ground itself was older and heavier. It had been the Place d'Armes of French colonial New Orleans and the Plaza de Armas under Spanish rule, and the transfer of Louisiana to the United States was completed in 1803 at the Cabildo on its edge.\u003csup class=\"pic-ref\"\u003e\u003ca href=\"#src-6\"\u003e6\u003c\/a\u003e\u003c\/sup\u003e The parade ground was renamed for Andrew Jackson in 1851, and Mills' statue was dedicated on 9 February 1856.\u003csup class=\"pic-ref\"\u003e\u003ca href=\"#src-10\"\u003e10\u003c\/a\u003e\u003c\/sup\u003e\u003csup class=\"pic-ref\"\u003e\u003ca href=\"#src-6\"\u003e6\u003c\/a\u003e\u003c\/sup\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cfigure class=\"pic-print__detail pic-print__detail--narrow\"\u003e\u003cimg src=\"https:\/\/res.cloudinary.com\/dz7q7hk2q\/image\/upload\/f_auto,q_auto,c_limit,w_420\/pastincolor\/details\/jacksonsquare-statue.jpg\" srcset=\"https:\/\/res.cloudinary.com\/dz7q7hk2q\/image\/upload\/f_auto,q_auto,c_limit,w_280\/pastincolor\/details\/jacksonsquare-statue.jpg 280w, https:\/\/res.cloudinary.com\/dz7q7hk2q\/image\/upload\/f_auto,q_auto,c_limit,w_420\/pastincolor\/details\/jacksonsquare-statue.jpg 420w, https:\/\/res.cloudinary.com\/dz7q7hk2q\/image\/upload\/f_auto,q_auto,c_limit,w_560\/pastincolor\/details\/jacksonsquare-statue.jpg 560w, https:\/\/res.cloudinary.com\/dz7q7hk2q\/image\/upload\/f_auto,q_auto,c_limit,w_840\/pastincolor\/details\/jacksonsquare-statue.jpg 840w\" sizes=\"(min-width: 476px) 420px, calc(100vw - 56px)\" width=\"420\" height=\"502\" alt=\"Detail from the plate: the equestrian statue of Andrew Jackson, the horse rearing, Jackson raising his hat\" loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\"\u003e\u003cfigcaption\u003eClark Mills' Jackson, the horse rearing and the hat raised, dedicated on this ground in 1856.\u003c\/figcaption\u003e\u003c\/figure\u003e\u003cp\u003eThe words on the pedestal are not original to the monument. They were carved during the federal occupation of New Orleans in the Civil War, by order of General Benjamin Butler, who adapted a toast Jackson had given in 1830 into something flatter and more pointed.\u003csup class=\"pic-ref\"\u003e\u003ca href=\"#src-2\"\u003e2\u003c\/a\u003e\u003c\/sup\u003e By the time this negative was made, the sentence had stood there for nearly forty years. It is still there.\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003eThe neighborhood around the frame was working-class and changing fast. Creole families had been moving out toward Esplanade and Uptown, and Sicilian immigrants were taking subdivided rooms in what had been mansions.\u003csup class=\"pic-ref\"\u003e\u003ca href=\"#src-5\"\u003e5\u003c\/a\u003e\u003c\/sup\u003e The lower Quarter was already known as \"Little Palermo\" by 1875.\u003csup class=\"pic-ref\"\u003e\u003ca href=\"#src-5\"\u003e5\u003c\/a\u003e\u003c\/sup\u003e Sicilian families ran stalls in the French Market a short walk from this path, managed the unloading of fruit at the wharves, and built import businesses out of that trade.\u003csup class=\"pic-ref\"\u003e\u003ca href=\"#src-5\"\u003e5\u003c\/a\u003e\u003c\/sup\u003e The same years carried severe hostility toward them, including the lynching of eleven Italian men in 1891 after the Hennessy case.\u003csup class=\"pic-ref\"\u003e\u003ca href=\"#src-5\"\u003e5\u003c\/a\u003e\u003c\/sup\u003e The Pontalba blocks on either side of the square had lost their wealthy tenants after the Civil War, and a later preservationist remembered poverty and decay over the whole Quarter, with tattered clothing hanging on the balconies of what had been a fashionable address.\u003csup class=\"pic-ref\"\u003e\u003ca href=\"#src-3\"\u003e3\u003c\/a\u003e\u003c\/sup\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003eThe wires at the right of the frame belong to a city that had recently rebuilt how it moved. Street railway routes ran past Jackson Square and the French Market as early as an 1884 guide to the system, and in 1893 electric cars replaced the horse-drawn ones across New Orleans.\u003csup class=\"pic-ref\"\u003e\u003ca href=\"#src-9\"\u003e9\u003c\/a\u003e\u003c\/sup\u003e The poles and lines in this photograph are the visible edge of that change, though the record does not allow any single wire here to be traced to a particular service. Behind the camera, out of frame, the riverfront had changed as well: in 1896 the open wooden wharves were replaced by covered sheds, which obstructed the views between the Quarter and the river.\u003csup class=\"pic-ref\"\u003e\u003ca href=\"#src-8\"\u003e8\u003c\/a\u003e\u003c\/sup\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003eOther changes came just before and just after the shutter. A fountain had been installed inside the square in 1895.\u003csup class=\"pic-ref\"\u003e\u003ca href=\"#src-7\"\u003e7\u003c\/a\u003e\u003c\/sup\u003e In 1903 the square was used for the centennial of the Louisiana transfer, and in 1915 for the centennial of the Battle of New Orleans.\u003csup class=\"pic-ref\"\u003e\u003ca href=\"#src-7\"\u003e7\u003c\/a\u003e\u003c\/sup\u003e Artists and writers began settling around it during and just after the First World War, drawn by cheap rents and faded architecture.\u003csup class=\"pic-ref\"\u003e\u003ca href=\"#src-4\"\u003e4\u003c\/a\u003e\u003c\/sup\u003e In 1919 the president of the Association of Commerce proposed converting the Pontalba buildings into studios and living space for artists.\u003csup class=\"pic-ref\"\u003e\u003ca href=\"#src-4\"\u003e4\u003c\/a\u003e\u003c\/sup\u003e The Pontalba property was sold in 1920, and by that decade the revival taking hold here was being called the Renaissance of the Vieux Carre, in a neighborhood still full of tenements and failing buildings.\u003csup class=\"pic-ref\"\u003e\u003ca href=\"#src-3\"\u003e3\u003c\/a\u003e\u003c\/sup\u003e\u003csup class=\"pic-ref\"\u003e\u003ca href=\"#src-4\"\u003e4\u003c\/a\u003e\u003c\/sup\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003eNone of that was available to the two men on the path. They were walking through a district that respectable opinion had largely written off, two decades before it turned fashionable and tourist-oriented. The cheap rents and faded architecture that marked the Quarter as a failure in their day were the very things that drew the artists and writers who helped save its buildings.\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003eThe print is made from the Library of Congress master scan of the original, carefully restored in full color using modern professional digital techniques. Every detail is the original photograph. Only the color is new. Nothing is redrawn, sharpened, or invented, so the caption along the bottom margin, the 1900 copyright stamp, and the lettering on the pedestal all remain exactly as they are on the original.\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cfigure class=\"pic-print__detail pic-print__detail--narrow\"\u003e\u003cimg src=\"https:\/\/res.cloudinary.com\/dz7q7hk2q\/image\/upload\/f_auto,q_auto,c_limit,w_420\/pastincolor\/details\/jacksonsquare-cartouche.jpg\" srcset=\"https:\/\/res.cloudinary.com\/dz7q7hk2q\/image\/upload\/f_auto,q_auto,c_limit,w_280\/pastincolor\/details\/jacksonsquare-cartouche.jpg 280w, https:\/\/res.cloudinary.com\/dz7q7hk2q\/image\/upload\/f_auto,q_auto,c_limit,w_420\/pastincolor\/details\/jacksonsquare-cartouche.jpg 420w\" sizes=\"(min-width: 476px) 420px, calc(100vw - 56px)\" width=\"420\" height=\"450\" alt=\"Detail from the plate: the round Detroit Photographic Co. copyright stamp dated 1900\" loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\"\u003e\u003cfigcaption\u003eThe company's copyright stamp, printed into the negative itself: this is where the year 1900 comes from.\u003c\/figcaption\u003e\u003c\/figure\u003e\u003cp\u003ePrints are available as premium luster posters, on canvas, and framed, made to order and produced close to where they ship. Every order ships with tracking. Shipping is free in the United States and the European Union. The edition is small, the size is stated on this page, and it will not be reprinted. Questions are welcome at support@pastincolor.com.\u003c\/p\u003e\u003ch3\u003eSources\u003c\/h3\u003e\u003col class=\"pic-sources\"\u003e\n\u003cli id=\"src-1\"\u003eLibrary of Congress, Prints and Photographs Division, \"Jackson Square \u0026amp; Cathedral of St. Louis, New Orleans,\" LOT 9093-B, LC-DIG-ppmsca-53304, \u003ca href=\"https:\/\/www.loc.gov\/pictures\/item\/2017658694\/\"\u003ehttps:\/\/www.loc.gov\/pictures\/item\/2017658694\/\u003c\/a\u003e\n\u003c\/li\u003e\n\u003cli id=\"src-2\"\u003eMary Ann Wegmann, \"Jackson Square during the Battle of New Orleans,\" New Orleans Historical, \u003ca href=\"https:\/\/neworleanshistorical.org\/items\/show\/623\"\u003ehttps:\/\/neworleanshistorical.org\/items\/show\/623\u003c\/a\u003e\n\u003c\/li\u003e\n\u003cli id=\"src-3\"\u003eHilary Irvin, \"Pontalba Buildings,\" 64 Parishes, Louisiana Endowment for the Humanities, \u003ca href=\"https:\/\/64parishes.org\/entry\/pontalba-buildings\"\u003ehttps:\/\/64parishes.org\/entry\/pontalba-buildings\u003c\/a\u003e\n\u003c\/li\u003e\n\u003cli id=\"src-4\"\u003eJohn Shelton Reed, \"French Quarter Renaissance,\" 64 Parishes, Louisiana Endowment for the Humanities, \u003ca href=\"https:\/\/64parishes.org\/entry\/french-quarter-renaissance\"\u003ehttps:\/\/64parishes.org\/entry\/french-quarter-renaissance\u003c\/a\u003e\n\u003c\/li\u003e\n\u003cli id=\"src-5\"\u003eEmily Perkins, \"Coming to New Orleans, Part III,\" The Historic New Orleans Collection, \u003ca href=\"https:\/\/hnoc.org\/publishing\/first-draft\/coming-new-orleans-six-items-tell-story-immigration-between-civil-war-and\"\u003ehttps:\/\/hnoc.org\/publishing\/first-draft\/coming-new-orleans-six-items-tell-story-immigration-between-civil-war-and\u003c\/a\u003e\n\u003c\/li\u003e\n\u003cli id=\"src-6\"\u003eNational Park Service, \"Place d'Armes (Jackson Square),\" \u003ca href=\"https:\/\/www.nps.gov\/places\/places-darmes.htm\"\u003ehttps:\/\/www.nps.gov\/places\/places-darmes.htm\u003c\/a\u003e\n\u003c\/li\u003e\n\u003cli id=\"src-7\"\u003e\"Jackson Square,\" French Quarterly Magazine, \u003ca href=\"https:\/\/frenchquarterly.com\/history\/jackson-square\"\u003ehttps:\/\/frenchquarterly.com\/history\/jackson-square\u003c\/a\u003e\n\u003c\/li\u003e\n\u003cli id=\"src-8\"\u003e\"Our Riverfront, Past and Present,\" French Quarterly Magazine, \u003ca href=\"https:\/\/frenchquarterly.com\/history\/our-riverfront-past-and-present\"\u003ehttps:\/\/frenchquarterly.com\/history\/our-riverfront-past-and-present\u003c\/a\u003e\n\u003c\/li\u003e\n\u003cli id=\"src-9\"\u003e\"New Orleans Streetcar Guide,\" NewOrleans.com, \u003ca href=\"https:\/\/www.neworleans.com\/plan\/transportation\/streetcars\/\"\u003ehttps:\/\/www.neworleans.com\/plan\/transportation\/streetcars\/\u003c\/a\u003e\n\u003c\/li\u003e\n\u003cli id=\"src-10\"\u003eThe Historic New Orleans Collection, \"From Soldiers to Statues: a Brief History of Jackson Square,\" \u003ca href=\"https:\/\/hnoc.org\/publishing\/first-draft\/brief-history-jackson-square-soldiers-statues\"\u003ehttps:\/\/hnoc.org\/publishing\/first-draft\/brief-history-jackson-square-soldiers-statues\u003c\/a\u003e\n\u003c\/li\u003e\n\u003c\/ol\u003e","brand":"Past in Color","offers":[{"title":"Luster poster \/ 8 x 10 in","offer_id":58385426121087,"sku":null,"price":90.0,"currency_code":"EUR","in_stock":false},{"title":"Luster poster \/ 16 x 20 in","offer_id":58385426153855,"sku":null,"price":115.0,"currency_code":"EUR","in_stock":false},{"title":"Canvas \/ 16 x 20 in","offer_id":58385426186623,"sku":null,"price":235.0,"currency_code":"EUR","in_stock":false},{"title":"Framed \/ 16 x 20 in","offer_id":58385426219391,"sku":null,"price":340.0,"currency_code":"EUR","in_stock":false}],"thumbnail_url":"\/\/cdn.shopify.com\/s\/files\/1\/1029\/2802\/3935\/files\/jackson-square.jpg?v=1788844206"},{"product_id":"orleans-street-looking-toward-the-cathedral-of-st-louis","title":"Orleans Street, New Orleans, c. 1890","description":"\u003cp\u003eThis street ends in trees because the city ended it. In 1831 New Orleans bought the narrow strips of ground on both sides of Orleans Street and closed that section of the roadway; by 1848 the space had passed to the Cathedral trustees, who enclosed it as a private garden.\u003csup class=\"pic-ref\"\u003e\u003ca href=\"#src-2\"\u003e2\u003c\/a\u003e\u003c\/sup\u003e The camera looks down a street that was deliberately stopped.\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cfigure class=\"pic-print__detail pic-print__detail--narrow\"\u003e\u003cimg src=\"https:\/\/res.cloudinary.com\/dz7q7hk2q\/image\/upload\/f_auto,q_auto,c_limit,w_420\/pastincolor\/details\/orleansstreet-vista.jpg\" srcset=\"https:\/\/res.cloudinary.com\/dz7q7hk2q\/image\/upload\/f_auto,q_auto,c_limit,w_280\/pastincolor\/details\/orleansstreet-vista.jpg 280w, https:\/\/res.cloudinary.com\/dz7q7hk2q\/image\/upload\/f_auto,q_auto,c_limit,w_420\/pastincolor\/details\/orleansstreet-vista.jpg 420w, https:\/\/res.cloudinary.com\/dz7q7hk2q\/image\/upload\/f_auto,q_auto,c_limit,w_560\/pastincolor\/details\/orleansstreet-vista.jpg 560w, https:\/\/res.cloudinary.com\/dz7q7hk2q\/image\/upload\/f_auto,q_auto,c_limit,w_720\/pastincolor\/details\/orleansstreet-vista.jpg 720w\" sizes=\"(min-width: 476px) 420px, calc(100vw - 56px)\" width=\"420\" height=\"834\" alt=\"Detail from the plate: the cathedral clock, spire and the trees of St. Anthony's Garden closing the street\" loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\"\u003e\u003cfigcaption\u003eThe street ends in the trees of St. Anthony's Garden, with the rear of the cathedral and its clock closing the view.\u003c\/figcaption\u003e\u003c\/figure\u003e\u003cp\u003eThe roadway is cobbled and crowned high in the middle, with deep granite curbs and open gutters on both sides. On the left, a two-story building carries a cast-iron gallery on each floor, the railings worked in a lacework pattern. Low Creole cottages run along the right, their shutters louvered and their granite steps set down to the sidewalk. At the far end stand the trees of St. Anthony's Garden, and behind them the rear of the Cathedral of St. Louis, its pediment carrying a round clock face and the central spire rising above. The Library of Congress catalogs the plate only as \"Street in New Orleans near cathedral,\" with a publisher's stock number in place of an address.\u003csup class=\"pic-ref\"\u003e\u003ca href=\"#src-1\"\u003e1\u003c\/a\u003e\u003c\/sup\u003e That commercial indifference is exactly why the picture works as evidence. The photographer recorded the block as he found it, and left the rest to us.\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cfigure class=\"pic-print__detail\"\u003e\u003cimg src=\"https:\/\/res.cloudinary.com\/dz7q7hk2q\/image\/upload\/f_auto,q_auto,c_limit,w_1060\/pastincolor\/details\/orleansstreet-lacework.jpg\" srcset=\"https:\/\/res.cloudinary.com\/dz7q7hk2q\/image\/upload\/f_auto,q_auto,c_limit,w_420\/pastincolor\/details\/orleansstreet-lacework.jpg 420w, https:\/\/res.cloudinary.com\/dz7q7hk2q\/image\/upload\/f_auto,q_auto,c_limit,w_640\/pastincolor\/details\/orleansstreet-lacework.jpg 640w, https:\/\/res.cloudinary.com\/dz7q7hk2q\/image\/upload\/f_auto,q_auto,c_limit,w_840\/pastincolor\/details\/orleansstreet-lacework.jpg 840w, https:\/\/res.cloudinary.com\/dz7q7hk2q\/image\/upload\/f_auto,q_auto,c_limit,w_1060\/pastincolor\/details\/orleansstreet-lacework.jpg 1060w, https:\/\/res.cloudinary.com\/dz7q7hk2q\/image\/upload\/f_auto,q_auto,c_limit,w_1400\/pastincolor\/details\/orleansstreet-lacework.jpg 1400w, https:\/\/res.cloudinary.com\/dz7q7hk2q\/image\/upload\/f_auto,q_auto,c_limit,w_1510\/pastincolor\/details\/orleansstreet-lacework.jpg 1510w\" sizes=\"(min-width: 1100px) 1060px, (min-width: 750px) calc(100vw - 40px), calc(100vw - 56px)\" width=\"1060\" height=\"892\" alt=\"Detail from the plate: the cast-iron gallery with lacework railings on the two-story building\" loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\"\u003e\u003cfigcaption\u003eThe gallery on the left of the frame, its railings worked in iron lacework.\u003c\/figcaption\u003e\u003c\/figure\u003e\u003cfigure class=\"pic-quote\"\u003e\u003cblockquote\u003e\u003cp\u003eStory above story the balconies climb upward, till the house-front is veiled in iron lace; while at the banquette edge, stair-flights are guarded by wrought-iron gates, and high in the steep gable ends long fan windows look out from behind iron guards.\u003c\/p\u003e\u003c\/blockquote\u003e\n\u003cfigcaption\u003eThe Craftsman, November 1906\u003csup class=\"pic-ref\"\u003e\u003ca href=\"#src-15\"\u003e15\u003c\/a\u003e\u003c\/sup\u003e\u003c\/figcaption\u003e\u003c\/figure\u003e\u003cp\u003eThe ground behind that wall of green had already served as a Capuchin kitchen garden, as a dueling place, and as shelter for people burned out of their homes.\u003csup class=\"pic-ref\"\u003e\u003ca href=\"#src-2\"\u003e2\u003c\/a\u003e\u003c\/sup\u003e What closed the street was a municipal land transaction completed roughly forty years before the exposure, and the garden it produced still separates this block from the cathedral today.\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003eThe buildings on either side are ordinary housing in a district that photographs as grand. The Quarter of this period was built of Creole cottages, galleried townhouses, courtyards and iron balconies, and a great deal of it was rented.\u003csup class=\"pic-ref\"\u003e\u003ca href=\"#src-3\"\u003e3\u003c\/a\u003e\u003c\/sup\u003e A cottage of about 1835 documented on Toulouse Street had four rooms around a central chimney, worked as rental property, and at times held as many as ten occupants.\u003csup class=\"pic-ref\"\u003e\u003ca href=\"#src-4\"\u003e4\u003c\/a\u003e\u003c\/sup\u003e Read the low roofs on the right of the frame with that number in mind. The people who filled such housing were not one community. Sicilian immigrants arrived in large numbers through the port after Italian unification, and by 1875 part of the Lower Quarter was known as Little Palermo, with Sicilian families prominent in the French Market fruit trade and in work along the wharves.\u003csup class=\"pic-ref\"\u003e\u003ca href=\"#src-5\"\u003e5\u003c\/a\u003e\u003c\/sup\u003e They lived within a wider Creole, Black, Irish, French and American city, among Catholic institutions, immigrant commerce, crowded rentals and open prejudice. This block sits at the upper end of the Quarter rather than in that lower district, so the mixture belongs to the neighborhood and is not a claim about these particular doors.\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003eThe two largest signs in the frame are for wood, coal and ice. Those were the goods a New Orleans household bought all year round, fuel for cooking in a hot climate and ice for keeping food. The ice was local industry rather than a luxury import. The federal census of 1900 identified a New Orleans plant built in 1866 as the first important American ice factory, and recorded manufactured-ice production growing quickly through the 1880s.\u003csup class=\"pic-ref\"\u003e\u003ca href=\"#src-7\"\u003e7\u003c\/a\u003e\u003c\/sup\u003e Wagons carried it out to household iceboxes across the city, and a painted board like the one on this street was the retail end of that chain.\u003csup class=\"pic-ref\"\u003e\u003ca href=\"#src-8\"\u003e8\u003c\/a\u003e\u003c\/sup\u003e In a picture full of weathered stucco and old iron, the ICE sign is the most modern thing visible.\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cfigure class=\"pic-print__detail\"\u003e\u003cimg src=\"https:\/\/res.cloudinary.com\/dz7q7hk2q\/image\/upload\/f_auto,q_auto,c_limit,w_590\/pastincolor\/details\/orleansstreet-signs.jpg\" srcset=\"https:\/\/res.cloudinary.com\/dz7q7hk2q\/image\/upload\/f_auto,q_auto,c_limit,w_420\/pastincolor\/details\/orleansstreet-signs.jpg 420w, https:\/\/res.cloudinary.com\/dz7q7hk2q\/image\/upload\/f_auto,q_auto,c_limit,w_590\/pastincolor\/details\/orleansstreet-signs.jpg 590w\" sizes=\"(min-width: 1100px) 1060px, (min-width: 750px) calc(100vw - 40px), calc(100vw - 56px)\" width=\"590\" height=\"590\" alt=\"Detail from the plate: a wood and coal dealer's angled signboard with a vertical ICE sign below and a gas lamp in front\" loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\"\u003e\u003cfigcaption\u003eWood, coal and ice under one gallery: the goods a New Orleans household bought all year round, with the gas lamp at the curb.\u003c\/figcaption\u003e\u003c\/figure\u003e\u003cp\u003eThe street surface and the wires tell the same story of uneven modernity. Quarter streets in this period were paved in a mixture of cobblestone, granite, brick and shell, while the sidewalks, gutters, drainage and sanitation stayed imperfect.\u003csup class=\"pic-ref\"\u003e\u003ca href=\"#src-6\"\u003e6\u003c\/a\u003e\u003c\/sup\u003e Around 1880 the city still depended largely on privies, and households drew drinking water from cisterns.\u003csup class=\"pic-ref\"\u003e\u003ca href=\"#src-6\"\u003e6\u003c\/a\u003e\u003c\/sup\u003e The lamp standard at the left curb burns gas, although electric arc lighting had reached New Orleans in 1882, with wires strung across intersections and run along building fronts and beneath galleries.\u003csup class=\"pic-ref\"\u003e\u003ca href=\"#src-6\"\u003e6\u003c\/a\u003e\u003c\/sup\u003e The poles in this frame carry only a handful of wires. There is no streetcar track in the roadway at all, and the citywide conversion from horse cars to electric traction did not begin until 1893.\u003csup class=\"pic-ref\"\u003e\u003ca href=\"#src-11\"\u003e11\u003c\/a\u003e\u003c\/sup\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003eWhat sits just outside this photograph in time is a public-health emergency and its long aftermath. The yellow-fever epidemic of 1878 killed more than 4,000 people in New Orleans and disrupted the port and its commerce.\u003csup class=\"pic-ref\"\u003e\u003ca href=\"#src-9\"\u003e9\u003c\/a\u003e\u003c\/sup\u003e The Auxiliary Sanitary Association formed the following year, and yet by 1880 the city still had neither a modern sewerage system nor a safe common water supply.\u003csup class=\"pic-ref\"\u003e\u003ca href=\"#src-9\"\u003e9\u003c\/a\u003e\u003c\/sup\u003e After this plate was made, the fever returned in 1897 and killed nearly 300.\u003csup class=\"pic-ref\"\u003e\u003ca href=\"#src-9\"\u003e9\u003c\/a\u003e\u003c\/sup\u003e The outbreak of 1905 was fought with the new understanding that mosquitoes carry the disease, and with cisterns covered against them; it was the last yellow-fever epidemic in the United States.\u003csup class=\"pic-ref\"\u003e\u003ca href=\"#src-9\"\u003e9\u003c\/a\u003e\u003c\/sup\u003e\u003csup class=\"pic-ref\"\u003e\u003ca href=\"#src-10\"\u003e10\u003c\/a\u003e\u003c\/sup\u003e Drainage came later still. Albert Baldwin Wood joined the Sewerage and Water Board in 1899, presented plans for a twelve-foot screw pump in 1913, and saw the first four installed in 1915.\u003csup class=\"pic-ref\"\u003e\u003ca href=\"#src-12\"\u003e12\u003c\/a\u003e\u003c\/sup\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003eThe people standing on this street could not know any of it. They could not know that the ice trade whose sign hangs above them would become a public scandal in 1902, when an alleged monopoly provoked open anger.\u003csup class=\"pic-ref\"\u003e\u003ca href=\"#src-8\"\u003e8\u003c\/a\u003e\u003c\/sup\u003e They could not know that the cisterns behind their houses would be covered as a matter of public health within a decade.\u003csup class=\"pic-ref\"\u003e\u003ca href=\"#src-10\"\u003e10\u003c\/a\u003e\u003c\/sup\u003e In 1896, at the late edge of this photograph's date range, the Supreme Court decided Plessy v. Ferguson, a case brought by a committee of New Orleans citizens, and set the separate-but-equal doctrine that would shape their city for two generations.\u003csup class=\"pic-ref\"\u003e\u003ca href=\"#src-13\"\u003e13\u003c\/a\u003e\u003c\/sup\u003e In the same span of years, between 1890 and 1910, the music that would carry the city's name around the world was being worked out elsewhere in town.\u003csup class=\"pic-ref\"\u003e\u003ca href=\"#src-14\"\u003e14\u003c\/a\u003e\u003c\/sup\u003e None of it is visible here. That is the ordinary condition of a photograph, and it is most of the reason to look at one closely.\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cfigure class=\"pic-print__detail pic-print__detail--narrow\"\u003e\u003cimg src=\"https:\/\/res.cloudinary.com\/dz7q7hk2q\/image\/upload\/f_auto,q_auto,c_limit,w_420\/pastincolor\/details\/orleansstreet-man.jpg\" srcset=\"https:\/\/res.cloudinary.com\/dz7q7hk2q\/image\/upload\/f_auto,q_auto,c_limit,w_280\/pastincolor\/details\/orleansstreet-man.jpg 280w, https:\/\/res.cloudinary.com\/dz7q7hk2q\/image\/upload\/f_auto,q_auto,c_limit,w_420\/pastincolor\/details\/orleansstreet-man.jpg 420w\" sizes=\"(min-width: 476px) 420px, calc(100vw - 56px)\" width=\"420\" height=\"1080\" alt=\"Detail from the plate: a man in a bowler standing on the banquette with his back to the street\" loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\"\u003e\u003cfigcaption\u003eA man in a bowler stands at the granite steps, his back to the street.\u003c\/figcaption\u003e\u003c\/figure\u003e\u003cp\u003eThe print is made from the Library of Congress digital file of the original glass negative, carefully restored in full color using modern professional digital techniques. Every detail is the original photograph. Only the color is new. Nothing is redrawn, sharpened, or invented.\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003ePrints are available as premium luster posters, on canvas, and framed. Each is made to order and produced close to where it ships. Every order ships with tracking, and shipping is free in the United States and the European Union. The edition is small, the size is stated on this page, and it will not be reprinted. Questions are welcome at support@pastincolor.com.\u003c\/p\u003e\u003ch3\u003eSources\u003c\/h3\u003e\u003col class=\"pic-sources\"\u003e\n\u003cli id=\"src-1\"\u003eLibrary of Congress, Prints and Photographs Division, \"Street in New Orleans near cathedral,\" LC-D418-8107, \u003ca href=\"https:\/\/www.loc.gov\/pictures\/item\/det1994023514\/PP\/\"\u003ehttps:\/\/www.loc.gov\/pictures\/item\/det1994023514\/PP\/\u003c\/a\u003e\n\u003c\/li\u003e\n\u003cli id=\"src-2\"\u003eThe Cultural Landscape Foundation, \"St. Anthony's Garden,\" \u003ca href=\"https:\/\/www.tclf.org\/st-anthonys-garden\"\u003ehttps:\/\/www.tclf.org\/st-anthonys-garden\u003c\/a\u003e\n\u003c\/li\u003e\n\u003cli id=\"src-3\"\u003ePreservation Resource Center of New Orleans, \"French Quarter,\" \u003ca href=\"https:\/\/prcno.org\/help-for-homeowners\/historic-districts-neighborhoods\/french-quarter\/\"\u003ehttps:\/\/prcno.org\/help-for-homeowners\/historic-districts-neighborhoods\/french-quarter\/\u003c\/a\u003e\n\u003c\/li\u003e\n\u003cli id=\"src-4\"\u003eThe Historic New Orleans Collection, \"726-28 Toulouse Street: Creole Cottage,\" \u003ca href=\"https:\/\/hnoc.org\/research-collections\/our-buildings\/726-28-toulouse-street-creole-cottage\"\u003ehttps:\/\/hnoc.org\/research-collections\/our-buildings\/726-28-toulouse-street-creole-cottage\u003c\/a\u003e\n\u003c\/li\u003e\n\u003cli id=\"src-5\"\u003eThe Historic New Orleans Collection, \"Coming to New Orleans, Part III,\" \u003ca href=\"https:\/\/hnoc.org\/publishing\/first-draft\/coming-new-orleans-six-items-tell-story-immigration-between-civil-war-and\"\u003ehttps:\/\/hnoc.org\/publishing\/first-draft\/coming-new-orleans-six-items-tell-story-immigration-between-civil-war-and\u003c\/a\u003e\n\u003c\/li\u003e\n\u003cli id=\"src-6\"\u003ePreservation Resource Center of New Orleans, \"Managing Streets, Utilities, and Municipal Services in Historic New Orleans,\" \u003ca href=\"https:\/\/prcno.org\/managing-streets-utilities-municipal-services-historic-new-orleans\/\"\u003ehttps:\/\/prcno.org\/managing-streets-utilities-municipal-services-historic-new-orleans\/\u003c\/a\u003e\n\u003c\/li\u003e\n\u003cli id=\"src-7\"\u003eU.S. Census Office, Bulletin 174, \"Manufactured Ice,\" \u003ca href=\"https:\/\/www2.census.gov\/library\/publications\/decennial\/1900\/bulletins\/manufacturing\/174-manufactures-manufactured-ice.pdf\"\u003ehttps:\/\/www2.census.gov\/library\/publications\/decennial\/1900\/bulletins\/manufacturing\/174-manufactures-manufactured-ice.pdf\u003c\/a\u003e\n\u003c\/li\u003e\n\u003cli id=\"src-8\"\u003eThe Historic New Orleans Collection, \"The Big Freezy,\" \u003ca href=\"https:\/\/hnoc.org\/publishing\/first-draft\/the-big-freezy\"\u003ehttps:\/\/hnoc.org\/publishing\/first-draft\/the-big-freezy\u003c\/a\u003e\n\u003c\/li\u003e\n\u003cli id=\"src-9\"\u003eThe Historic New Orleans Collection, \"When Yellow Fever Forced New Orleans to Confront Its Sanitation Problem,\" \u003ca href=\"https:\/\/hnoc.org\/publishing\/first-draft\/late-1800s-devastating-yellow-fever-epidemics-forced-new-orleans-confront\"\u003ehttps:\/\/hnoc.org\/publishing\/first-draft\/late-1800s-devastating-yellow-fever-epidemics-forced-new-orleans-confront\u003c\/a\u003e\n\u003c\/li\u003e\n\u003cli id=\"src-10\"\u003ePBS American Experience, \"Epidemic in New Orleans,\" \u003ca href=\"https:\/\/www.pbs.org\/wgbh\/americanexperience\/features\/fever-epidemic-new-orleans\/\"\u003ehttps:\/\/www.pbs.org\/wgbh\/americanexperience\/features\/fever-epidemic-new-orleans\/\u003c\/a\u003e\n\u003c\/li\u003e\n\u003cli id=\"src-11\"\u003eNewOrleans.com, \"New Orleans Streetcar Guide,\" \u003ca href=\"https:\/\/www.neworleans.com\/plan\/transportation\/streetcars\/\"\u003ehttps:\/\/www.neworleans.com\/plan\/transportation\/streetcars\/\u003c\/a\u003e\n\u003c\/li\u003e\n\u003cli id=\"src-12\"\u003eAmerican Society of Mechanical Engineers, \"The A.B. Wood Low Head High Volume Screw Pump,\" \u003ca href=\"https:\/\/www.asme.org\/wwwasmeorg\/media\/resourcefiles\/aboutasme\/who%20we%20are\/engineering%20history\/landmarks\/3-abwood-screw-pump.pdf\"\u003ehttps:\/\/www.asme.org\/wwwasmeorg\/media\/resourcefiles\/aboutasme\/who%20we%20are\/engineering%20history\/landmarks\/3-abwood-screw-pump.pdf\u003c\/a\u003e\n\u003c\/li\u003e\n\u003cli id=\"src-13\"\u003eOyez, \"Plessy v. Ferguson,\" \u003ca href=\"https:\/\/www.oyez.org\/cases\/1850-1900\/163us537\"\u003ehttps:\/\/www.oyez.org\/cases\/1850-1900\/163us537\u003c\/a\u003e\n\u003c\/li\u003e\n\u003cli id=\"src-14\"\u003eSmithsonian Center for Folklife and Cultural Heritage, \"Freedom Sounds\"; National Park Service, \"A New Orleans Jazz History, 1895-1927,\" \u003ca href=\"https:\/\/folklife.si.edu\/magazine\/freedom-sounds-new-orleans-music-spirit-of-a-community\"\u003ehttps:\/\/folklife.si.edu\/magazine\/freedom-sounds-new-orleans-music-spirit-of-a-community\u003c\/a\u003e\n\u003c\/li\u003e\n\u003c\/ol\u003e","brand":"Past in Color","offers":[{"title":"Luster poster \/ 12 x 18 in","offer_id":58385426547071,"sku":null,"price":115.0,"currency_code":"EUR","in_stock":false},{"title":"Luster poster \/ 18 x 24 in","offer_id":58385426579839,"sku":null,"price":130.0,"currency_code":"EUR","in_stock":false},{"title":"Luster poster \/ 24 x 36 in","offer_id":58385426612607,"sku":null,"price":185.0,"currency_code":"EUR","in_stock":false},{"title":"Canvas \/ 24 x 36 in","offer_id":58385426645375,"sku":null,"price":375.0,"currency_code":"EUR","in_stock":false}],"thumbnail_url":"\/\/cdn.shopify.com\/s\/files\/1\/1029\/2802\/3935\/files\/orleans-street.jpg?v=1788844231"},{"product_id":"canal-street-new-orleans-1907","title":"Canal Street at Godchaux's, New Orleans, 1907","description":"\u003cp\u003eThe year is not a guess. It is printed into the negative itself, in a Detroit Publishing Company copyright cartouche in the lower left corner, beside the caption CANAL ST., NEW ORLEANS, LA. and the plate number 019937. The camera stands low and centered in the roadway of Canal Street, looking away from the Mississippi. Four sets of streetcar rail run toward the vanishing point, span wires cross the whole width of the street overhead, and three electric cars wait abreast in the middle ground with their trolley poles raised to the wire.\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003eThe street is full of people, and the plate holds them at glass negative resolution. A man in a three-piece suit and bowler stands alone in the foreground with his hands behind his back, looking toward the camera. About ten more men, most of them in bowlers, stand in the track between the cars, with a boy in a light jacket at the edge of the group. A woman in a long dark skirt crosses at the left. A one-horse dray waits at the corner while its driver stands at the horse's head. Every man in the frame wears a coat, and the shadows are short and hard, which suggests a cool, bright day rather than a New Orleans summer.\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003eThe three roof boards are the most precise dating evidence in the picture after the cartouche. They read ST. CHARLES BELT, PRYTANIA and ANNUNCIATION. The Prytania line ran through Canal Street and had been electrified in 1894, carrying uptown residents down from the Garden District to shop.\u003csup class=\"pic-ref\"\u003e\u003ca href=\"#src-6\"\u003e6\u003c\/a\u003e\u003c\/sup\u003e The St. Charles and Tulane lines had run together as a belt service only since 1900.\u003csup class=\"pic-ref\"\u003e\u003ca href=\"#src-7\"\u003e7\u003c\/a\u003e\u003c\/sup\u003e The Annunciation line was one of the city's older names, and its cars still worked Canal Street beside the newer belts. All three names appear on the same stretch of neutral ground in this frame, and only for a narrow span of years.\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cfigure class=\"pic-print__detail\"\u003e\u003cimg src=\"https:\/\/res.cloudinary.com\/dz7q7hk2q\/image\/upload\/f_auto,q_auto,c_limit,w_1060\/pastincolor\/details\/godchaux-trams.jpg\" srcset=\"https:\/\/res.cloudinary.com\/dz7q7hk2q\/image\/upload\/f_auto,q_auto,c_limit,w_420\/pastincolor\/details\/godchaux-trams.jpg 420w, https:\/\/res.cloudinary.com\/dz7q7hk2q\/image\/upload\/f_auto,q_auto,c_limit,w_640\/pastincolor\/details\/godchaux-trams.jpg 640w, https:\/\/res.cloudinary.com\/dz7q7hk2q\/image\/upload\/f_auto,q_auto,c_limit,w_840\/pastincolor\/details\/godchaux-trams.jpg 840w, https:\/\/res.cloudinary.com\/dz7q7hk2q\/image\/upload\/f_auto,q_auto,c_limit,w_1060\/pastincolor\/details\/godchaux-trams.jpg 1060w, https:\/\/res.cloudinary.com\/dz7q7hk2q\/image\/upload\/f_auto,q_auto,c_limit,w_1400\/pastincolor\/details\/godchaux-trams.jpg 1400w, https:\/\/res.cloudinary.com\/dz7q7hk2q\/image\/upload\/f_auto,q_auto,c_limit,w_1800\/pastincolor\/details\/godchaux-trams.jpg 1800w, https:\/\/res.cloudinary.com\/dz7q7hk2q\/image\/upload\/f_auto,q_auto,c_limit,w_2120\/pastincolor\/details\/godchaux-trams.jpg 2120w\" sizes=\"(min-width: 1100px) 1060px, (min-width: 750px) calc(100vw - 40px), calc(100vw - 56px)\" width=\"1060\" height=\"446\" alt=\"Detail from the plate: three electric streetcars abreast, roof boards reading St. Charles Belt, Prytania and Annunciation\" loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\"\u003e\u003cfigcaption\u003eSt. Charles Belt car 181, a Prytania car marked SPECIAL, and Annunciation car 04, abreast on the neutral ground.\u003c\/figcaption\u003e\u003c\/figure\u003e\u003cp\u003eThe car on the left can be identified. Its dash carries the number 181 twice, beside the headlight, under the ST. CHARLES BELT roof board. The surviving photographic record places car 181 on the St. Charles Belt, in a group of seventy cars numbered 160 to 229 that the American Car Company built in St. Louis in 1899 for the New Orleans and Carrollton Railroad, to a single-truck design drawn for New Orleans by the engineering firm Ford, Bacon and Davis.\u003csup class=\"pic-ref\"\u003e\u003ca href=\"#src-4\"\u003e4\u003c\/a\u003e\u003c\/sup\u003e\u003csup class=\"pic-ref\"\u003e\u003ca href=\"#src-5\"\u003e5\u003c\/a\u003e\u003c\/sup\u003e A streetcar in a street photograph is usually anonymous. This one has a number, a builder, a birthplace, and a year.\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cfigure class=\"pic-print__detail pic-print__detail--narrow\"\u003e\u003cimg src=\"https:\/\/res.cloudinary.com\/dz7q7hk2q\/image\/upload\/f_auto,q_auto,c_limit,w_420\/pastincolor\/details\/godchaux-car181.jpg\" srcset=\"https:\/\/res.cloudinary.com\/dz7q7hk2q\/image\/upload\/f_auto,q_auto,c_limit,w_280\/pastincolor\/details\/godchaux-car181.jpg 280w, https:\/\/res.cloudinary.com\/dz7q7hk2q\/image\/upload\/f_auto,q_auto,c_limit,w_420\/pastincolor\/details\/godchaux-car181.jpg 420w, https:\/\/res.cloudinary.com\/dz7q7hk2q\/image\/upload\/f_auto,q_auto,c_limit,w_560\/pastincolor\/details\/godchaux-car181.jpg 560w, https:\/\/res.cloudinary.com\/dz7q7hk2q\/image\/upload\/f_auto,q_auto,c_limit,w_670\/pastincolor\/details\/godchaux-car181.jpg 670w\" sizes=\"(min-width: 476px) 420px, calc(100vw - 56px)\" width=\"420\" height=\"419\" alt=\"Detail from the plate: the dash of streetcar 181, the number painted twice beside the headlight\" loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\"\u003e\u003cfigcaption\u003eThe dash of car 181. The number places it among the seventy cars built in St. Louis in 1899.\u003c\/figcaption\u003e\u003c\/figure\u003e\u003cp\u003eThe three cars are not three of a kind. By 1907 the fleet held several generations at once. The Prytania line's early electric cars were small Brills with mahogany interiors and rattan seats, though larger St. Louis-built Palace cars also ran under Prytania signs in these years, and the Annunciation line's first Brills had been replaced by Ford, Bacon and Davis cars in the late 1890s.\u003csup class=\"pic-ref\"\u003e\u003ca href=\"#src-4\"\u003e4\u003c\/a\u003e\u003c\/sup\u003e\u003csup class=\"pic-ref\"\u003e\u003ca href=\"#src-6\"\u003e6\u003c\/a\u003e\u003c\/sup\u003e What stands abreast in this frame is the system's recent history, side by side on one stretch of neutral ground.\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003eOn the right, under a large ribbed metal canopy with the family name lettered across it, is Godchaux's. Leon Godchaux was a Jewish immigrant from Alsace-Lorraine who began as a river peddler carrying needles, thread and dry goods, opened a Canal Street store, and turned its profits into sugar plantations and mills.\u003csup class=\"pic-ref\"\u003e\u003ca href=\"#src-3\"\u003e3\u003c\/a\u003e\u003c\/sup\u003e He founded his clothing business in the 1840s,\u003csup class=\"pic-ref\"\u003e\u003ca href=\"#src-8\"\u003e8\u003c\/a\u003e\u003c\/sup\u003e and the fortune it built ran to a sugar operation of fourteen plantations at its height.\u003csup class=\"pic-ref\"\u003e\u003ca href=\"#src-9\"\u003e9\u003c\/a\u003e\u003c\/sup\u003e He died in 1899, so this photograph shows the store eight years into its life without him.\u003csup class=\"pic-ref\"\u003e\u003ca href=\"#src-12\"\u003e12\u003c\/a\u003e\u003c\/sup\u003e The building in the frame was put up in 1892 by his descendants, who also widened the merchandise into women's clothing and household goods; the Historic New Orleans Collection records the address as 527 to 537 Canal Street.\u003csup class=\"pic-ref\"\u003e\u003ca href=\"#src-2\"\u003e2\u003c\/a\u003e\u003c\/sup\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003eAround it, the block is a full commercial street rather than a single landmark. Signs legible on the plate include a cut-rate drugstore, a bookseller, an engraver and an outfitter, while the office windows opposite advertise attorneys, a coal merchant and a life insurance agency. This was the retail spine of the city. Canal Street's dry goods houses and clothiers had grown into department stores selling fabrics, hosiery, accessories, stationery, household furnishings and bric-a-brac, and by this period the Historic New Orleans Collection describes D. H. Holmes, further along the street, as the largest department store in the South.\u003csup class=\"pic-ref\"\u003e\u003ca href=\"#src-3\"\u003e3\u003c\/a\u003e\u003c\/sup\u003e The streetcars in the foreground are what delivered the customers.\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cfigure class=\"pic-quote\"\u003e\u003cblockquote\u003e\u003cp\u003eCanal street, with the Clubs, Shops and Confectioners, is the dividing line between the old French and the new American parts of the city.\u003c\/p\u003e\u003c\/blockquote\u003e\n\u003cfigcaption\u003eJames S. Zacharie, New Orleans Guide, 1902\u003csup class=\"pic-ref\"\u003e\u003ca href=\"#src-13\"\u003e13\u003c\/a\u003e\u003c\/sup\u003e\u003c\/figcaption\u003e\u003c\/figure\u003e\u003cp\u003eBeneath the paving there was another New Orleans being built, and it does not appear in the photograph at all. The city sits low, and its future depended on drainage. A drainage commission had been created in 1896 and the Sewerage and Water Board in 1899.\u003csup class=\"pic-ref\"\u003e\u003ca href=\"#src-11\"\u003e11\u003c\/a\u003e\u003c\/sup\u003e Sewer construction began in 1903, and the pumping stations were ready in 1906.\u003csup class=\"pic-ref\"\u003e\u003ca href=\"#src-11\"\u003e11\u003c\/a\u003e\u003c\/sup\u003e On the day this plate was exposed, the system was largely built and not yet fully in service; it entered full operation in February 1909.\u003csup class=\"pic-ref\"\u003e\u003ca href=\"#src-11\"\u003e11\u003c\/a\u003e\u003c\/sup\u003e Two cities sit in the same view. One is visible, made of canopies, rails and bowler hats. The other is buried, made of pipes and pumps, and it would decide how far the first one could grow.\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003eThe people in the track could not know how little time some of it had. The store behind them had less time on this corner than it looked. In 1923 Leon Godchaux Jr. agreed to move it up the street to 828 Canal, where it stayed until it closed in 1986.\u003csup class=\"pic-ref\"\u003e\u003ca href=\"#src-12\"\u003e12\u003c\/a\u003e\u003c\/sup\u003e The corner in this frame is the store's original downtown home.\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003eThat an ordinary day here was preserved at all is an accident of commerce. The Detroit Publishing Company photographed the street for the postcard trade, and its stock views outlived the trade that paid for them.\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003eThe plate is a Detroit Publishing Company glass negative held by the Library of Congress, and every detail you see is the original photograph.\u003csup class=\"pic-ref\"\u003e\u003ca href=\"#src-1\"\u003e1\u003c\/a\u003e\u003c\/sup\u003e Only the color is new. It is restored using modern professional digital techniques and transferred onto the original scan, so nothing is redrawn, sharpened, or invented. Our master is an uncropped scan, complete with the plate edge and the caption band.\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003ePrints are available as premium luster posters, on canvas, and framed. Each is made to order, produced close to where it ships, and sent with tracking. Shipping is free in the United States and the European Union. The edition is small, the size is stated on this page, and it will not be reprinted. Questions are welcome at support@pastincolor.com.\u003c\/p\u003e\u003ch3\u003eSources\u003c\/h3\u003e\u003col class=\"pic-sources\"\u003e\n\u003cli id=\"src-1\"\u003eLibrary of Congress, Prints and Photographs Online Catalog, \"Canal St., New Orleans, La.\", \u003ca href=\"https:\/\/www.loc.gov\/pictures\/item\/2016795057\/\"\u003ehttps:\/\/www.loc.gov\/pictures\/item\/2016795057\/\u003c\/a\u003e\n\u003c\/li\u003e\n\u003cli id=\"src-2\"\u003eThe Historic New Orleans Collection, \"Godchaux's\", \u003ca href=\"https:\/\/vop.omeka.net\/exhibits\/show\/goods-of-every-description\/department-stores\/godchauxs\"\u003ehttps:\/\/vop.omeka.net\/exhibits\/show\/goods-of-every-description\/department-stores\/godchauxs\u003c\/a\u003e\n\u003c\/li\u003e\n\u003cli id=\"src-3\"\u003eThe Historic New Orleans Collection, \"Department Stores\", \u003ca href=\"https:\/\/hnoc.org\/virtual-exhibitions\/goods-every-description\/department-stores\"\u003ehttps:\/\/hnoc.org\/virtual-exhibitions\/goods-every-description\/department-stores\u003c\/a\u003e\n\u003c\/li\u003e\n\u003cli id=\"src-4\"\u003eH. George Friedman Jr., \"The Streetcars of New Orleans\" research archive, Appendix III, \u003ca href=\"http:\/\/friedman.cs.illinois.edu\/app3\/Page__c5.htm\"\u003ehttp:\/\/friedman.cs.illinois.edu\/app3\/Page__c5.htm\u003c\/a\u003e\n\u003c\/li\u003e\n\u003cli id=\"src-5\"\u003eMidcontinent Railway Museum, \"American Car Company\", \u003ca href=\"https:\/\/www.midcontinent.org\/rollingstock\/builders\/american_carco.htm\"\u003ehttps:\/\/www.midcontinent.org\/rollingstock\/builders\/american_carco.htm\u003c\/a\u003e\n\u003c\/li\u003e\n\u003cli id=\"src-6\"\u003eNew Orleans Historical, \"Prytania Streetcar Line\", \u003ca href=\"https:\/\/neworleanshistorical.org\/items\/show\/540\"\u003ehttps:\/\/neworleanshistorical.org\/items\/show\/540\u003c\/a\u003e\n\u003c\/li\u003e\n\u003cli id=\"src-7\"\u003eH. George Friedman Jr., \"New Orleans Streetcar Album,\" University of Illinois, \u003ca href=\"https:\/\/friedman.cs.illinois.edu\/album\/Album.htm\"\u003ehttps:\/\/friedman.cs.illinois.edu\/album\/Album.htm\u003c\/a\u003e\n\u003c\/li\u003e\n\u003cli id=\"src-8\"\u003e64 Parishes, \"Shopping Crossroads,\" Louisiana Endowment for the Humanities, \u003ca href=\"https:\/\/64parishes.org\/shopping-crossroads\"\u003ehttps:\/\/64parishes.org\/shopping-crossroads\u003c\/a\u003e\n\u003c\/li\u003e\n\u003cli id=\"src-9\"\u003eFriends of the Cabildo, \"Researching the Sugar King of New Orleans,\" \u003ca href=\"https:\/\/friendsofthecabildo.org\/researching-the-sugar-king-of-new-orleans\/\"\u003ehttps:\/\/friendsofthecabildo.org\/researching-the-sugar-king-of-new-orleans\/\u003c\/a\u003e\n\u003c\/li\u003e\n\u003cli id=\"src-10\"\u003eScott P. Marler, The Merchants' Capital (Cambridge University Press), \"Rural Merchants on the Cotton Frontier,\" \u003ca href=\"https:\/\/www.cambridge.org\/core\/books\/merchants-capital\/rural-merchants-on-the-cotton-frontier\"\u003ehttps:\/\/www.cambridge.org\/core\/books\/merchants-capital\/rural-merchants-on-the-cotton-frontier\u003c\/a\u003e\n\u003c\/li\u003e\n\u003cli id=\"src-11\"\u003eW. B. Behrman, \"Brief History of Sewerage, Water and Drainage in New Orleans\", \u003ca href=\"https:\/\/penelope.uchicago.edu\/Thayer\/E\/Gazetteer\/Places\/America\/United_States\/Louisiana\/New_Orleans\/_Texts\/Behrman*.html\"\u003ehttps:\/\/penelope.uchicago.edu\/Thayer\/E\/Gazetteer\/Places\/America\/United_States\/Louisiana\/New_Orleans\/_Texts\/Behrman*.html\u003c\/a\u003e\n\u003c\/li\u003e\n\u003cli id=\"src-12\"\u003eThe Times-Picayune archive via nola.com, \"From early horrors to present day: The 121-year history of a Canal Street landmark\", \u003ca href=\"https:\/\/www.nola.com\/entertainment_life\/from-early-horrors-to-present-day-the-121-year-history-of-a-canal-street-landmark\/article_dd32ca64-6427-11ed-ac3a-d3b105315c42.html\"\u003ehttps:\/\/www.nola.com\/entertainment_life\/from-early-horrors-to-present-day-the-121-year-history-of-a-canal-street-landmark\/article_dd32ca64-6427-11ed-ac3a-d3b105315c42.html\u003c\/a\u003e\n\u003c\/li\u003e\n\u003cli id=\"src-13\"\u003eJames S. 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