Streets signs posted outside a building in the French Quarter, New Orleans, 1947

Item Overview

Title

Streets signs posted outside a building in the French Quarter, New Orleans, 1947

Photographer

West, H. H. (Henry Hebard), 1872-1958

Date Created

October, 1947

Date

1947-10

Language

No linguistic content

Collection

West (H. H.) Collection

Notes

Description

Photograph of street signs posted outside a building at the corner of Dauphine and St. Louis Streets in New Orleans' French Quarter. Dauphine Street passes across the foreground along the bottom edge. Beyond it, a building stands on its opposite side, off-center to the right. Equidistant, narrow poles support the building's second-floor gallery which provides a canopy over the sidewalk. A parapet of decorative ironwork is just visible lining the balcony at the top of the image. On the sidewalk below, street signs are affixed to lampposts and the building's supporting poles at center. From left to right, the signs read, "[within a left-pointing arrow] ONE WAY STREET DEP'T. PUBLIC SAFETY," "BUS STOP," and "ST. LOUIS DAUPHINE ST." In the shop window at right, a sign reads, "QUA[L]ITY GRO[C]ERY." St. Louis Street enters frame along the lower left edge and stretches back towards center, disappearing behind the building at right. Cars parked bumper-to-bumper line the right curb of St. Louis Street. Two- and three-story buildings stand side-by-side, lining St. Louis Street as it stretches into the distance. White, opaque patches occupy the lower left and lower right corners.
NRHP reference # 66000377 (Vieux Carre Historic District)

Caption

Text from negative sleeve: 2377. Eastern Trip October 1947 New Orleans. 1. Mertie on Canal street 2 One Way street signs 3 One of the main boulevards leading out of the city 4 Iron work on balconies in old part of city French quarter

Physical Description

Extent

1 photographic negative

Medium

b&w nitrate negative

Keywords

Genre

cellulose nitrate film
black-and-white photographs

Location

Louisiana--New Orleans

Longitude

29.957661

Latitude

-90.067888

Resource type

still image

Subjects

Streets--Louisiana--New Orleans
Traffic signs & signals--Louisiana--New Orleans
French Quarter (New Orleans, La.)