Cabildo Courtyard 1940

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Cabildo courtyard, captured in a 1940 postcard. Cabildo courtyard "Courtyard and Prison Rooms in the Cabildo." This postcard, from the Curt Teich Postcard Archives Digital Collection at the Newberry Library, University of Illinois, is from a photo by Bill Leeper. It features the Cabildo, the building that housed the seat of the Spanish Colonial government in New Orleans. While the original government building was destroyed in the Great Fire of 1788, this building replaced it. The Spanish government completed the Cabildo in 1799. The United States took ownership of the Cabildo in 1803, as part of the Louisiana Purchase. Louisiana...