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Description
Access to this collection is generously supported by Arcadia funds. Photograph of street signs posted outside a building at the corner of Dauphine and St. Louis Streets in New Orleans' French Quarter. Dauphine Street passes across the foreground along the bottom edge. Beyond it, a building stands on its opposite side, off-center to the right. Equidistant, narrow poles support the building's second-floor gallery which provides a canopy over the sidewalk. A parapet of decorative ironwork is just visible lining the balcony at the top of the image. On the sidewalk below, street signs are affixed to lampposts and the building's supporting poles at center. From left to right, the signs read, "[within a left-pointing arrow] ONE WAY STREET DEP'T. PUBLIC SAFETY," "BUS STOP," and "ST. LOUIS DAUPHINE ST." In the shop window at right, a sign reads, "QUA[L]ITY GRO[C]ERY." St. Louis Street enters frame along the lower left edge and stretches back towards center, disappearing behind the building at right. Cars parked bumper-to-bumper line the right curb of St. Louis Street. Two- and three-story buildings stand side-by-side, lining St. Louis Street as it stretches into the distance. White, opaque patches occupy the lower left and lower right corners. NRHP reference # 66000377 (Vieux Carre Historic District) Text from negative sleeve: 2377. Eastern Trip October 1947 New Orleans. 1. Mertie on Canal street 2 One Way street signs 3 One of the main boulevards leading out of the city 4 Iron work on balconies in old part of city French quarter
Type
Format
b&w nitrate negative
Identifier
uclamss_1998_2377_003 ark:/21198/zz002j3tgw
Language
No linguistic content
Subject
Streets--Louisiana--New Orleans Traffic signs & signals--Louisiana--New Orleans French Quarter (New Orleans, La.)
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