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800 Block Canal Street 1910
The 901 block Canal Street in 1910 looks almost the same today. 901 block Canal Street Detroit Publishing Company postcard of the 901 block Canal Street, in 1910, possibly as late as 1915. While much of the Detroit Publishing collection dates to 1900-1905, the...
Main Entrance, Brother Martin High, 1971
The main entrance at Brother Martin High School in 1971. BMHS Main Entrance From Yesterday 1972, this photo shows the main entrance to Brother Martin High School in its third year of existence. To the left is the oeriginal Cor Jesu building. To the right is the lobby...
French Quarter Mini-bus #StreetcarSaturday
French Quarter mini-bus offered an alternative to standard-size buses. French Quarter mini-bus NOPSI 1002, a "Flxette" from the Flxible Company, going down Chartres Street in 1980. NOPSI operated a "French Quarter" line, replacing standard buses with these minis. They...
Krauss 1938 #KraussFriday
Krauss 1938 shows the badge of the Eighth National Eucharistic Congress. Krauss 1938 The Catholic Church in the United States held its Eighth National Eucharistic Congress in New Orleans. The Congress ran from 17-October to 20-October, 1938. Since Krauss Department...
Metairie Cemetery Main Entrance 1900
Metairie Cemetery main entrance in the early 1900s. Metairie Cemetery main entrance Postcard from the V. O. Hammon Collection, Newberry Library, University of Illinois. The Metairie Cemetery main entrance at Pontchartrain Boulevard and Metairie Road, in the early...
Canal Street passenger train departing #TrainThursday
Canal Street passenger train departs the Louisville and Nashville station. Canal Street passenger train A K-5 class locomotive owned by the Louisville and Nashville Railroad departs the L&N terminal, around 1950. This Canal Street passenger train was a common...
NORTA 2007 #StreetcarSaturday
NORTA 2007 is a 2000-series Von Dullen arch roof streetcar. NORTA 2007 on the Riverfront A Von Dullen streetcar, NORTA 2007, operating on the Riverfront line, 10-June-2019. Photo by/courtesy of Michelle Callahan. While the 400-series streetcars, built in 1997,...
Krauss 1903 #KraussFriday
Krauss 1903 was the first year of the store's operation. Krauss 1903 Front-page ad in The Daily Picayune for Krauss Department Store, May 15, 1903. The store opened to the public in April of 1903. So, at this point, Krauss was about a month old. The ad features a...
Norfolk Southern Track Geometry @nscorp
Norfolk Southern track geometry uses NS 33 and NS 34. Norfolk Southern Track Geometry NS 33 and NS 34 passed along the Norfolk Southern Back Belt at the end of March. The pair are loaded with equipment that simulates car loads and sensors to pick up how those loads...
Cypress Grove Cemetery
Cypress Grove was also known as Fireman's Cemetery. Cypress Grove Cemetery Theodore Lilienthal photo of Cypress Grove Cemetery, ca. 1882. The cemetery stands at the end of Canal Street, at City Park Avenue. The Firemen's Charitable and Benevolent Association (FCBA)...
Hot 5 Kid Ory
Hot 5 Kid Ory gets less attention than the band leader, Louis Armstrong. Hot 5 Kid Ory It's no surprise that articles about the Hot 5 focus around Pops, but Hot 5 Kid Ory influenced the Chicago jazz scene in the 1920s. This publicity photo for the band presents (l-r)...
Phillis Wheatley School
Phillis Wheatley School is located in Faubourg Tremé. Phillis Wheatley School Photo of an architectural model of Phillis Wheatley School, designed by Charles Colbert, in 1954. Colbert's widespread praise for the school's mid-century modern design. While the school was...
Maison Blanche Tire Store
Maison Blanche tire store on Airline Highway in Metairie. Maison Blanche tire store The "Greatest Store South," Maison Blanche operated a Tire Store at 1920 Airline Highway, in Metairie, from the late 1950s to the 1970s. The store was in between the store at S....
Cabildo Courtyard 1940
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...
Spring Week 1976 #BOSHSunday
Spring Week mini-classes replaced third quarter exams in 1976. Spring Week Brother Gaspar Rodrigue, SC, conducting a "gourmet cooking" class for Spring Week at Brother Martin High School, 1976. Brother Gaspar lived across the street from the school, on Elysian Fields,...
West End Streetcar #StreetcarSaturday
West End Streetcar line ran until 1950. West End Streetcar NOPSI 933, running on the West End Streetcar line. Undated photo, between 1948 and 1950. This is the end of the line, out by Lake Pontchartrain. The streetcar ran from the the river, up Canal Street, turning...
Krauss Warehouse Building #KraussFriday
Krauss warehouse building on Iberville Street supported the store. Krauss warehouse building The Krauss Company used this seven-story building at 201 N. Front Street (Front and Iberville) as warehouse space in the 1930s to the 1960s. The store, located at 1201 Canal,...
Sharkey’s Trumpet
Sharkey's Trumpet was a gold-plated award from the NOJC. Sharkey's Trumpet Mrs. Myra Menville presents an award trumpet to Sharkey Bonano in 1955. Bonano, who was born in Milneburg, played with a number of legends of New Orleans Jazz, including Freedie Newman and...
Richards and Gillette in Milneburg #JazzTuesday
Richards and Gillette were a married couple and jazz act. Richards and Gillette Bob Gillette and his wife, Shirley Richards, posing on the railroad tracks in Milneburg in 1952. Gillette played the banjo. He played with the New Orleans Rhythm Kings, then Bix...
Maison Blanche 1909
Maison Blanche 1909, just after the "new" store was completed. Maison Blanche 1909 Detroit Publishing Company photo of the tallest building on Canal Street, the Maison Blanche Building. The department store demolished the old (1884) Mercier Building at 901 Canal...
Brother Leo Godin, SC #BOSHSunday
Brother Leo Godin in the "Bursar's Office," in the late 1970s. Brother Leo, SC Working the Brother Martin High School bookstore was Brother Leo Godin, SC's job in the late 1970s. Note the all-khaki uniform of the time. I can't identify the student in this photo. If...
Red Streetcars Uptown #StreetcarSaturday
Red streetcars uptown aren't as common a sight as they used to be. Red streetcars uptown David Mora (@davidmora on Twitter, @davidnola on Instagram) shares some absolutely wonderful photos of New Orleans. He always posts stuff that lifts my spirits, like this photo of...
Twelve Months New Orleans May
Twelve Months New Orleans May, continuing the series by Enrique Alferez Twelve Months New Orleans May This image is the Fourth in a series of images by Enrique Alferez, published by Michael Higgins as "The Twelve Months of New Orleans." Higgins published the...
May 1862 – NOLA History Guy Podcast 01-May-2021
NOLA History Guy Podcast 01-May-2021 discusses Butler's goals in New Orleans. NOLA History Guy Podcast 01-May-2021 We're back! Since we're starting on May 1st, let's talk about the occupation of New Orleans in 1862. Consider these goals Butler had when he came to New...
Bus accident 1950
This bus accident, on the Gentilly line, involves a NOPSI bus, a car, and a building. Bus accident 1950 NOPSI 1547, a White Motor Company bus, operating on the Gentilly line. At 6:40 AM on 26-May-1950, Franck Studios documented a bus accident at Royal Street and...
US Navy Mortar Schooners
US Navy Mortar Schooners shattered Fort Jackson in 1862. US Navy Bomb Vessels Photo of a bomb vessel of the type that blasted Forts Jackson and St. Phillip on the Mississippi River, 18-23 April, 1862. Captain David Porter commanded twenty-one of these US Navy mortar...
Knights Templar Train 1924 #TrainThursday
Knights Templar train en route to New Orleans. Knights Templar train A special train, operated by the Texas and Pacific Railroad (T&P), arrives at New Orleans, 27-April-1924. The Knights Templar held their triennial convention in the city that year. The Texas and...
USS Cayuga 1862
USS Cayuga participated in Farragut's attack on Forts Jackson and St. Phillip. USS Cayuga An Unadilla-class gunboat, Cayuga was launched on 10-Oct-1861, at Portland, CT. After final fitting-out at the New York Navy Yard, she was commissioned on 21-Feb-1862. Upon...
Entering Metairie Cemetery 1930s
Entering Metairie Cemetery before the expressway, 1930s. Entering Metairie Cemetery Franck Studios photo of Metairie Cemetery, from the 1930s. The perspective is from the Metairie Road side. The original entrance to the cemetery stands just behind the photographer....
Lower Mississippi Valley 1720
Lower Mississippi Valley map showing the region in 1720. Lower Mississippi Valley French map showing New Orleans and the Lower Mississippi Valley, ca. 1720. The image features a plan of the Vieux Carre. The draftsman overlaid the city plan on top of a map of the...
Mississippi River Defenses 1862
Mississippi River defenses in 1862 consisted of Forts Jackson and St. Phillip. Mississippi River defenses Library of Congress title: Map showing the defenses of the Mississippi below New Orleans and Farragut's attack 24 April 1862. This hand-drawn map presents a great...
Kenner Shoemaker 1938
Kenner shoemaker in his shop, 1938. Kenner Shoemaker 1938 "Shoemaker in his shop. Kenner, Louisiana," by Russell Lee. Lee was a documentary photographer. He worked for the Farm Security Administration during the Great Depression. Lee traveled extensively, documenting...
Birds-eye view 1851
Birds-eye view of New Orleans, 1851, by John Bachmann. Birds-eye view 1851 "Birds' eye view of New-Orleans / drawn from nature on stone by J. Bachman [i.e., Bachmann]." The Mississippi River stands in the foreground. The view looks north to Lake Pontchartrain. Below...
Penn Central Heritage 1073 @nscorp #trainthursday
Penn Central heritage 1073 operating on the Norfolk Southern #BackBelt. Penn Central heritage 1073. From December 30, 2020, Norfolk Southern heritage 1073 heads eastbound on the Norfolk Southern #BackBelt, to the NS Gentilly yard. The engine is an EMD SD70ACe. While...
Ad Snapshot 23-April
Ad snapshot 23-April focuses on 23-April-1946 and 1947. Ad snapshot 23-April I love posting ads that are twenty-plus years old. Every day offers new thoughts. While the advertisers are quite predictable, the ads themselves provide perspective on the day, the time, and...
Maison Blanche 1906
Maison Blanche 1906 shows the Mercier Building lit up at night. Maison Blanche 1906 Photo of Maison Blanche by John Norris Teunisson. He shot the store on the evening of Monday, February 26, 1906. This was Lundi Gras that year. New Orleans Railway and Light Company,...
Fort Jackson Bombardment 1862
Fort Jackson Bombardment by Farragut's squadrons took place in April 1862. Fort Jackson Bombardment The title of this map is, "Plan of Fort Jackson, showing the effect of the bombardment by the U.S. mortar flotilla and gunboats, April 18th to 24th 1862 : flag officer...
Canal Line Arch Roofs 1960 #StreetcarSaturday
NOPSI 934 and 935 were Canal Line Arch roofs in the 1960s. Canal Line Arch Roofs 900-series streetcars operating as Canal Line arch roofs, 17-February-1960. I can't make out the ads on either streetcar; if you can, let me know! NOPSI 934 and 935 sit at the Cemeteries...
Musee Rosette Rochon 1515 Pauger Street #HABS
Musee Rosette Rochon is located in a house in Faubourg Marigny. Musee Rosette Rochon This house, located at 1515 Pauger Street, dates to the late 1820s/early 1830s. It's a "creole cottage," a typical architectural style found in the Marigny. Rosette Rochon purchased...
Unloading Coffee 1900
Unloading Coffee is the subject of a ca. 1900 postcard. Unloading Coffee Longshoremen unloading coffee from a freighter at the Port of New Orleans. Detroit Publishing Company postcard, ca 1900-1909. From the 1890s to the 1970s, New Orleans received over 80% of coffee...
Bagur Southern Souvenier Postcard
The Bagur Southern Souvenir Company produced postcards of New Orleans. Bagur Southern Souvenir "Greetings from New Orleans" postcard, published by the Dexter Press company, of Pearl River, NY. Bagur Southern Souvenir Company sold a wide range of products. They hold...
NOPSI 924 becomes NORTA 450 #StreetcarSaturday
NOPSI 924 came home as NORTA 450 on the Riverfront line. NOPSI 924 From my book, New Orleans: The Canal Streetcar Line (2004), NOPSI 924 sits at Carrollton Station. The streetcar operated on the Riverfront line until 1997. The New Orleans Regional Transit Authority...
City Park Trees 1910
City Park Trees, palm and oak, near the McFadden house. City Park Trees Palm and oak trees in front of the original house that later became the McFadden mansion. It's now part of City Park New Orleans. The Library of Congress (LOC) dates this photo as circa 1910. That...
Westbound Railroads from New Orleans
Westbound railroads from New Orleans originated with the NOOGW. Westbound railroads The New Orleans, Opelousas, and Great Western Railroad offered service to the West of New Orleans. We've talked about NOOGW in previous posts, but this particular map contains some...
Metairie Cemetery 1905ish
Metairie Cemetery at the turn of the 20th Century. Metairie Cemetery Detroit Publishing Company postcard of Metairie Cemetery, circa 1905. The state granted the Metairie Cemetery Association a charter in 1872. So, at the time of this photo, the cemetery was about...
Pumping Station 6 Metairie @SWBNewOrleans
Pumping Station 6 drains 17th Street Canal. Pumping Station 6 Drawings from Historic American Building Survey LA-1235, Pumping Station 6, Orpheum and Hyacinth Streets. This pumping station spans the 17th Street Canal, just north of Metairie Road. Built in 1899, it's...
Norman Mayer Library @NOLALibrary
The Norman Mayer Library branch of NOPL serves Gentilly. Norman Mayer Library Franck Studios photo (via HNOC) of the Norman Mayer Library. This branch of the New Orleans Public Library opened in 1949. The London Avenue Canal breach during the Federal Flood of 2005...
Southern Yacht Club 1900s
Southern Yacht Club still stands at the entrance to the New Canal. Southern Yacht Club Postcard from the Detroit Publishing Company of the Southern Yacht Club on Lake Pontchartrain. The club stands at the entrance to the New Canal. A local photographer shot this...
Arlington Saloon 1897 #TheMascot
Tom Anderson advertised his Arlington Saloon in The Mascot. Arlington Saloon Ad for the Arlington Saloon and Restaurant, 10-12 N. Rampart Street (later 112 N. Rampart, when the city's address scheme changed) in the 3-April-1897 edition of The Mascot. Anderson and the...
Twelve Months New Orleans April
Twelve Months New Orleans April, continuing the series by Enrique Alferez Twelve Months New Orleans April This image is the Fourth in a series of images by Enrique Alferez, published by Michael Higgins as "The Twelve Months of New Orleans." Higgins published the...
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