I don’t know about you, but I love looking through old photographs. There’s something so interesting about seeing photographs of places you recognize, and seeing how things have changed (and how they’ve stayed the same) over the years. In no particular order, we’ve compiled some amazing black and white photographs of New Orleans that will absolutely enchant you.
- Bayou St. John, 1910.
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- Canal Street, 1903.
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- Claiborne Market, late 1800s.
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- Conductors pose around a streetcar, 1915.
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- A milkman with his horse and buggy, 1901.
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- Workers wait in line for their paycheck near the levee, early 1900s.
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- Pontchartrain Beach bath house, 1941.
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- Pontchartrain Beach, 1941.
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- Schwegmann Brothers Grocery Store, 1895.
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- Pontchartrain Beach, 1941.
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- Aerial shot of the CBD looking towards Algiers Point, 1922.
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- Liberty Theater, 1935.
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- View of Canal Street at Camp looking towards the lake, 1905.
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- Carondelet Street, early 1900s.
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- D.H. Holmes Department Store on Canal, 1943.
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- Canal Street, 1935.
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- Old Absinthe House, 1941.
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- Napoleon House, 1934.
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