c1907 NEW ORLEANS PHOTOGRAPHS SOUTHERN PACIFIC FILE PHOTOS FRENCH QUARTER SCENES

Description

Lot of Original French Quarter Photographs, c1907.
15 rare silver gelatin prints capturing Crescent City street scenes and architecture of the Vieux Carré at the turn of the 20th century, measuring approx. 7 7/8 x 6 3/4 inches. Rectos bearing rubberstamp:
SOUTHERN PACIFIC PHOTO. FILE COPY
(likely published in their periodical
Sunset
)
,
verso bearing blue numbered rubberstamp
(file #)
and identification penned in a neat hand
(1 unidentified, 1 misidentified: both remedied in the following list).
Slight edgewear, verso corners with old remnants of office scrapbook
(formerly pasted-in),
overall in excellent condition. Each accompanied with later
(mid-century)
corresponding duplicate prints measuring 10" x 8". Images include: 3507:
Live Oak, City Park
;
3576:
St. Louis Place
[Pirates Alley]
;
3510:
Club House, City-Park
;
3572:
French Market
;
3582:
Madame John's Legacy
;
3575:
French Opera House, Bourbon St.
;
3573:
North Rampart St.
;
3586:
H. Begue's Restaurant, Madison St.
;
3579:
"Napoleon's  home", Chartres St.
[Napoleon House]
;
3570:
French Market
;
3577:
Royal St.
;
3578:
French Quarter, "Jonlonse St."
[Centered on the Xiques Mansion in the 500 block of Dauphine]
;
3571:
French Market
;
3508:
Dancing Pavilion, City-Park
;
3581:
French Quarter
[701-707 Bourbon St., corner of St. Peter, centered on the establishment of Louis I. Ybos, "The Sanitary Plumber & Gasfitter", the present day location of Cat's Meow]
.