ANONYMOUS SNAPSHOTS COLLECTION
(Mss
198)
Inventory
Earl K.
Long Library
March
1988
Contents
Summary
Container
List
Index
Terms
Procedures
for Requesting Special Collections Materials
Summary
Size: 92
snapshots in souvenir album
Geographic
locations:
Inclusive dates: mid-1920s
to early 1930s
Summary: Album of unknown provenance
containing snapshot views of New Orleans and vicinity including aerial views of
business district; views of riverfront with grain elevators, dry docks, steam
boats, ferries, steamships, four- and six-masted vessels, unidentified naval
vessel, seaplanes and hanger near Industrial Canal, wharf fire of November 17,
1925 and ruins; New Basin Canal with steamer St. Tammany; Jefferson Park Race
Track; Canal, Chartres and Royal Streets; Carrollton and Esplanade Avenues; St.
Louis No. 3 Cemetery; Lafayette Square and City Hall; Immaculate Conception,
St. John the Baptist, St. Patrick, and St. Theresa Roman Catholic, and
Carrollton United Methodist and Trinity Episcopal churches; Westwego High
School; Harvey Canal; hunting and fishing vignettes probably on Lake
Pontchartrain by railroad bridge.
Source: Purchase,
March 1988
Access: No restrictions
Copyright: Physical
rights are retained by the Earl K. Long Library,
Citation: Anonymous
Snapshots Collection, Earl K. Long Library,
Container List
198-1 Souvenir
album containing snapshots
Index Terms