File:CanalStoryvillePostcard.jpg

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English: "Bird's-eye View of New Orleans, Louisiana". Early 20th century postcard view.

Text on back of card:
"Bird's-Eye View Of New Orleans LA. This view is taken from the top of Hotel Grunewald showing that section of the City lying beyond the New Orleans Terminal Passinger Station".

View shows a section of Canal Street at bottom left. Rampart street is to bottom of photo (someone has labeled it in green ink pen). The building with the large arch fronting Canal Street is the old Basin Street railway terminal. Krauss store visible on Canal just beyond it. Of particular interest is the row of buildings seen fronting Basin Street, including Tom Anderson's, Josie Arlington's, and Lulu White's, and "the District" behind it. This is one of the few published cards showing what history recalls as "Storyville"; from the card's language about "that section of the City" this was clearly an intended focus. The line of the old Carondelet Canal is slightly visible diagonally towards the top of the view.

Note the view of the buildings at Canal and Rampart Street which were demolished for the construction of the new Saenger Theater in the 1920s.
Date Not dated. 1910s or early 1920s. ("The Grunewald" was renamed "The Roosevelt" in 1923).
Source Postcard published by B. Mason, New Orleans, La. Scanned by Infrogmation
Author None credited.
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