View looking east down Canal Street, New Orleans, 1947

Description: Photograph of Canal Street in New Orleans, as viewed from the west and looking east. Canal Street spans the width of the bottom edge and stretches on an angle back to the right. A car in the road sits in the foreground at right; it is viewed at an angle from the rear. To left of the car, a median stretches through the middle of the street. Buildings line the far (or left) side of Canal Street. The leftmost building is the Maison Blanche department store. It enters frame from left and extends beyond the top frame. A cross street separates it from the rest of the buildings that are visible lining Canal Street. Signage on the buildings reads, from front to back, "Chandler's Shops," "LERNER SHOPS," and "HOLMES." A billboard atop the building second from left reads, " They cant live on less! [...]ve more give NOW! [...] COMMUNITY CHEST." Pedestrians are visible walking in front of the shops at left and on the median at center. Cable car lines hang overhead. Four punched holes dot the top edge at left.
According to the negative sleeve, this set of photographs is captured in color. The scans of these images are in black and white.
Caption: Text from negative sleeve: 2342. COLOR Eastern trip October 1947 New Orleans 1 & 2 The Del Norte alongside wharf 3 Vessels at anchor in Mississippi river above town 4 & 5 Two views of Canal street 6 A main boulevard out toward Lake Ponchartrain 7 Vessels alongside the docks 8 General Jackson's statue in Jackson Square Park

Genre: cellulose nitrate film
black-and-white photographs
Location: Louisiana--New Orleans
Longitude: 29.954485
Latitude: -90.07122
Resource type: still image
Subjects: Cities & towns--Louisiana
Department stores--Louisiana--New Orleans
Canal Street (New Orleans, La.)
Buildings--Louisiana--New Orleans
City & town life--Louisiana--New Orleans

Repository: University of California, Los Angeles. Library. Department of Special Collections
Local Identifier: uclamss_1998_2342_005
ARK: ark:/21198/zz002j3j4v
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Rights statement: copyrighted
Funding Note: Access to this collection is generously supported by Arcadia funds.