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A scene on the levee, New Orleans

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Cotton on the levee, New Orleans

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Punching out the blanks - coin, public domain photograph

Workman punching out blank coins at the U.S. mint in New Orleans. Copyright by E.S. Gardner. No. 5.

[Mardi Gras day, Rex passing up Camp Street, New Orleans]

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[Steamboat seeing New Orleans, New Orleans, La.]

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Factory Inspectors Past and Present. From left to right: Miss Madge Na...

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Marketplace at New Orleans, Louisiana

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Cottage on lower Bourbon Street, New Orleans, Louisiana

Digital image produced by Carol M. Highsmith to represent her original film transparency; some details may differ between the film and the digital images. Title, date, and keywords provided by the photographer.... More

Famous pianoist Ronnie Kole plays his keys on Bourbon Street, New Orle...

Digital image produced by Carol M. Highsmith to represent her original film transparency; some details may differ between the film and the digital images. Title, date, and keywords provided by the photographer.... More

Pirate's Alley, next to St. Louis Cathedral on Jackson Square in the F...

Digital image produced by Carol M. Highsmith to represent her original film transparency; some details may differ between the film and the digital images. Title, date, and keywords provided by the photographer.... More

Mardi Gras Parade, New Orleans, Louisiana

Title, date, and subjects provided by the photographer. Mardi Gras is organized by Carnival krewes. Krewe float riders toss throws to the crowds; the most common are strings of plastic colorful beads, doubloons... More

Store mannequin detail for the 2011 Mardi Gras celebration in New Orle...

Title, date, and subjects provided by the photographer. Credit line: Carol M. Highsmith's America, Library of Congress, Prints and Photographs Division. Gift; Carol M. Highsmith; 2011; (DLC/PP-2002:038-8). Form... More

Woods directory - African American Perspectives Materials

1911- "Being a colored business, professional and trades directory of New Orleans, Louisiana." SERBIB/SERLOC merged record

Woods directory - African American Perspectives Materials

1911- "Being a colored business, professional and trades directory of New Orleans, Louisiana." SERBIB/SERLOC merged record

Nathan W. Daniels Diary: Addition, scrapbook, 1863-1867

Woods directory - African American Perspectives Materials

1911- "Being a colored business, professional and trades directory of New Orleans, Louisiana." SERBIB/SERLOC merged record

Gl. Jackson--At the Battle of New Orleans / comp. and on stone by C. S...

Printed by Boell & Michelin, N.Y. Copyright by C. Severin. Public domain scan of portrait print from Library of Congress, free to use, no copyright restrictions image - Picryl description

New Orleans from the lower cotton press 1852 / J.W. Hill & Smith, del....

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New Orleans from the lower cotton press 1852 / J.W. Hill & Smith, del....

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New Orleans, 1919. Cityscape photograph, Panoramic Photograph

J237893 U.S. Copyright Office Copyright deposit; Geo. Prince; November 17, 1919. Copyright claimant's address: 728 St. Charles.

New edition of MacBeth. Bank-oh's! Ghost

Another satire on the Panic of 1837, again condemning Van Buren's continuation of predecessor Andrew Jackson's hard-money policies as the source of the crisis. Clay shows the president haunted by the ghost of C... More

St. Charles Hotel from Canal Street

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The Battle of New Orleans January 8th 1815 / drawn by O. Pelton ; engd...

Print shows General Andrew Jackson, American soldiers, African Americans, and irregulars firing on the advancing British forces from behind bales of cotton at the Battle of New Orleans. Engraved expressly for ... More

U.S. Custom House, New Orleans, La.

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Milling the blanks, Louisiana - coin, public domain photograph

Workman milling blank coins at the U.S. mint in New Orleans. Copyright by E.S. Gardner. No. 75.

[William McKinley making speech from balcony in New Orleans]

H4394 U.S. Copyright Office. Copyright by Teunisson, New Orleans. Public domain photograph - Portrait, United States, free to use, no copyright restrictions image - Picryl description

New Orleans views. Horse drawn carriage

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An old black and white photo of a market, Louisiana. Farmers during Gr...

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A couple of kids standing in front of a movie theater, Louisiana. Farm...

This image is one of the images made by photographers working in Stryker's unit as it existed in a succession of government agencies: the Resettlement Administration (1935-1937). The photographs of the Farm Se... More

Horses and buggies waiting for fares in front of Jackson Square, New O...

Digital image produced by Carol M. Highsmith to represent her original film transparency; some details may differ between the film and the digital images. Title, date, and keywords provided by the photographer.... More

French Quarter Detail, New Orleans, Louisiana

Title, date, and subjects provided by the photographer. Credit line: Carol M. Highsmith's America, Library of Congress, Prints and Photographs Division. Gift and purchase; Carol M. Highsmith; 2009; (DLC/PP-2010... More

Nathan W. Daniels Diary: Addition, scrapbook, 1863-1867

The city of New Orleans, and the Mississippi River Lake Pontchartrain ...

Bird's-eye view of New Orleans with the Mississippi River in the foreground; prominent building and place names are listed below the image. Copyright by Currier & Ives, N.Y. Available also through the Library o... More

The city of New Orleans, and the Mississippi River Lake Pontchartrain ...

Bird's-eye view of New Orleans with the Mississippi River in the foreground; prominent building and place names are listed below the image.

Old Absinthe House, New Orleans, La.

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A slave girl from New Orleans - Public domain portrait print

Photograph shows a bust portrait of Rebecca Huger, wearing a bonnet and sweater, facing slightly left. Photograph probably taken by Chas. Paxson of New York. "Entered, according to act of Congress, in the year... More

Plan of New Orleans the capital of Louisiana; with the disposition of ...

Public domain scan of a vintage map, city plan, atlas, cartoghraphy, free to use, no copyright restrictions - Picryl description.

New edition of the plantation record and account book by Thomas Afflec...

Available also through the Library of Congress web site in two forms: as facsimile page images and as full text in SGML. Printed Ephemera Collection; Portfolio 25, Folder 13.

Norman's plan of New Orleans & environs, 1854.

Shows boundary lines, streets and public buildings. "Entered according to Act of Congress in the year 1854, by B.M. Norman in the Clerk's Office of the District Court of the United States for Eastern District o... More

Uncle Abe--"Hello! Ben, is that you? Glad to see you!" Butler--"Yes, U...

Cartoon showing President Abraham Lincoln leaning around a door, his left arm extending toward General Benjamin Butler, shown full-length, facing slightly right, standing with carpet bag labeled, "Butler N.O." ... More

The sweetest spot on earth--sugar levee--New Orleans, La.

Stereograph showing men working among thousands of barrels of sugar; man in foreground tasting sugar from barrel; smoke from steamboat in background. H25722 U.S. Copyright Office. Copyright 1902 by Underwood & ... More

A New Orleans milk cart, New Orleans, La.

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Unloading bananas, New Orleans, La.

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[Southern Pacific Railroad transfer boat carrier, New Orleans, La.]

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Haunted House, New Orleans, La.

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Picryl description: Public domain image of byciclyst, bike, bicycle wh...

Picryl description: Public domain image of bicyclist, bike, bicycle wheel, sport event, free to use, no copyright restrictions.

Scene in Jackson Square, New Orleans, Louisiana

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Mardi Gras Parade, 2006, New Orleans, Louisiana

Photograph taken a few months after Hurricane Katrina. Title, date, and subjects provided by the photographer. Credit line: Carol M. Highsmith's America, Library of Congress, Prints and Photographs Division. Gi... More

Mardi Gras Parade, 2006, New Orleans, Louisiana

Photograph taken a few months after Hurricane Katrina. Title, date, and subjects provided by the photographer. Credit line: Carol M. Highsmith's America, Library of Congress, Prints and Photographs Division. Gi... More

Mardi Gras Parade, New Orleans, Louisiana

Title, date, and subjects provided by the photographer. Mardi Gras is organized by Carnival krewes. Krewe float riders toss throws to the crowds; the most common are strings of plastic colorful beads, doubloons... More

Woods directory - African American Perspectives Materials

1911- "Being a colored business, professional and trades directory of New Orleans, Louisiana." SERBIB/SERLOC merged record

Woods directory - African American Perspectives Materials

1911- "Being a colored business, professional and trades directory of New Orleans, Louisiana." SERBIB/SERLOC merged record

Isaac & Rosa, slave children from New Orleans, / photographed by Kimba...

Photograph shows a full-length portrait of Isaac White and Rosina Downs, standing arm-in-arm, facing front. Gladstone's inventory number and notes: CDV86; Slave Children. "Ent'd accord'g to act of Congress in ... More

[Invitation issued by the Mystik Krewe of Comus to one of their Mardi ...

Available also through the Library of Congress web site in two forms: as facsimile page images and as full text in SGML. Printed Ephemera Collection; Portfolio 25, Folder 4.

Plan of the city and suburbs of New Orleans : from an actual survey ma...

Relief shown by hachures. Oriented with north toward upper right. Includes ill. of buildings, with name and date of construction for each. Available also through the Library of Congress Web site as a raster image. Vault

[Old Absinthe House, New Orleans, Louisiana]

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In the old French Quarter, Royal St. from corner of Dumaine, New Orlea...

No. 26691. Public domain photograph of building, stereoscopic card, free to use, no copyright restrictions image - Picryl description

Keeper of a mission flophouse, New Orleans, Louisiana

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In front of cathedral, New Orleans, Louisiana

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Negro stevedores "snaking" drums down ramp to boat, New Orleans, Louis...

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Saloon, Decatur Street, New Orleans, Louisiana

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Old buildings in New Orleans, Louisiana

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Stained glass, U.S. Custom House in New Orleans, Louisiana

Photographed as part of an assignment for the General Services Administration. Title, date and keywords from information provided by the photographer. Credit line: Photographs in the Carol M. Highsmith Archive,... More

Mardi Gras Parade, New Orleans, Louisiana

Title, date, and subjects provided by the photographer. Mardi Gras is organized by Carnival krewes. Krewe float riders toss throws to the crowds; the most common are strings of plastic colorful beads, doubloons... More

Mardi Gras Parade, New Orleans, Louisiana

Title, date, and subjects provided by the photographer. Mardi Gras is organized by Carnival krewes. Krewe float riders toss throws to the crowds; the most common are strings of plastic colorful beads, doubloons... More

Nathan W. Daniels Diary: Addition, scrapbook, 1863-1867

Woods directory - African American Perspectives Materials

1911- "Being a colored business, professional and trades directory of New Orleans, Louisiana." SERBIB/SERLOC merged record

These children were turned out of the St. Lawrence Hotel, Chestnut St....

Photograph shows half-length portraits of Charles Taylor, Rosina Downs, and Rebecca Huger. Gladstone's ownership logo appears on the back. "Entered, according to act of Congress, in the year 1863, by Philip Ba... More

[Canal Street, New Orleans, La.]

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Old Absinthe House, New Orleans, La.

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Rosa, Charley, Rebecca. Slave children from New Orleans / Chas. Paxson...

Photograph shows a full-length portrait of freed slaves Rosina Downs, Charles Taylor, and Rebecca Huger, each wrapped in a portion of the U.S. flag. "Our protection" caption below image. "Entered, according to... More

Uncle Sam sick with la grippe - Drawing. Public domain image.

A satire attributing the dire fiscal straits of the nation to Andrew Jackson's banking policies, with specific reference to recent bank failures in New Orleans, New York, and Philadelphia. The artist blames th... More

Pilots Station / H. Lewis pinx. ; Lith. Jnst. Arnz & Co. Düsseldorf.

Bird's-eye view of harbor, New Orleans, Louisiana. Public domain scan of lithograph illustration, free to use, no copyright restrictions image - Picryl description

[Mardi Gras Day, royal chariot with Rex, New Orleans, La.]

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New Orleans photographs. Oblique shot of Royal St. balconies

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A View of New Orleans - stereoscopic view, public domain photorpaph

No. 33778. Public domain photograph of building, stereoscopic card, free to use, no copyright restrictions image - Picryl description

Scene in Jackson Square, New Orleans, Louisiana

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A black and white photo of a person sitting on a bench, Louisiana. Far...

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New Orleans photographs. Corn fence, Prytania and 4th St. II

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Saturday afternoon in New Orleans, Louisiana

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Carol M. Highsmith - Uptown home, New Orleans, Louisiana

Digital image produced by Carol M. Highsmith to represent her original film transparency; some details may differ between the film and the digital images. Title, date, and keywords provided by the photographer.... More

Mardi Gras doll, New Orleans, Louisiana

Digital image produced by Carol M. Highsmith to represent her original film transparency; some details may differ between the film and the digital images. Title, date, and keywords provided by the photographer.... More

Frady's corner food store in back-of-town New Orleans, Louisiana

Digital image produced by Carol M. Highsmith to represent her original film transparency; some details may differ between the film and the digital images. Title, date, and keywords provided by the photographer.... More

Aerial view of the winding Mississippi River through New Orleans, Loui...

Digital image produced by Carol M. Highsmith to represent her original film transparency; some details may differ between the film and the digital images. Title, date, and keywords provided by the photographer.... More

Living room view of the Boggs home on Bourbon Street in the French Qua...

Digital image produced by Carol M. Highsmith to represent her original film transparency; some details may differ between the film and the digital images. The home of Marie Corinne Morrison Claiborne Boggs, kno... More

Louis Armstrong statue, New Orleans, Louisiana

Digital image produced by Carol M. Highsmith to represent her original film transparency; some details may differ between the film and the digital images. Title, date, and keywords provided by the photographer.... More

Bas relief at the F. Edward Hebert Federal Building, New Orleans, Loui...

Photographed as part of an assignment for the General Services Administration. Title, date and keywords from information provided by the photographer. Built in 1939, the building is a large, modernistic, eleven... More

Mardi Gras Parade, 2006, New Orleans, Louisiana

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Mardi Gras Parade, 2006, New Orleans, Louisiana

Photograph taken a few months after Hurricane Katrina. Title, date, and subjects provided by the photographer. Credit line: Carol M. Highsmith's America, Library of Congress, Prints and Photographs Division. Gi... More

Cities of the Dead Cemetery tombs, New Orleans, Louisiana

Title, date, and subjects provided by the photographer. Credit line: Carol M. Highsmith's America, Library of Congress, Prints and Photographs Division. Gift and purchase; Carol M. Highsmith; 2009; (DLC/PP-2010... More

Streetcar, St. Charles Avenue, New Orleans, Louisiana

The St. Charles Avenue streetcar line is the oldest continuously operating street railway system in the world. Title, date, and subjects provided by the photographer. Credit line: Carol M. Highsmith's America, ... More

Mardi Gras Parade, New Orleans, Louisiana

Title, date, and subjects provided by the photographer. Mardi Gras is organized by Carnival krewes. Krewe float riders toss throws to the crowds; the most common are strings of plastic colorful beads, doubloons... More

Mardi Gras Parade, New Orleans, Louisiana

Title, date, and subjects provided by the photographer. Mardi Gras is organized by Carnival krewes. Krewe float riders toss throws to the crowds; the most common are strings of plastic colorful beads, doubloons... More

Chalmette Refinery, American Sugar Refining Company, New Orleans, La.

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Rebecca / photographed by M. H. Kimball, 477 Broadway, N.Y.

Photograph shows a full-length portrait of Rebecca Huger standing facing slightly left. Gladstone's ownership logo appears on the back. "Ent'd, according to act of Congress, in the year 1863, by Geo. H. Hanks,... More

Map showing the defenses of the Mississippi below New Orleans and Farr...

Map shows the Confederate fortifications at Fort Jackson under Gen. Duncan, Fort St. Philip and the Union fleet along the Mississippi River. This map, also shows the positions of Union ships under Farragut, who... More

Carondelet Street, New Orleans, La.

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[New Orleans, La., a corner of the French Market]

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St. Charles Avenue, New Orleans, La.

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[French Market, New Orleans, La.]

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