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To view more turn-of-the-century New Orleans locales, roll your mouse over the red dots. The quotations are from Harper's New Monthly Magazine February 1893. |
- 1. Image 1 - Metarie Cemetery
- Metarie Cemetery . . . it is certain that the cemeteries of New Orleans are worth a visit.
- 2. Image 2 - City Park
- November Scene in City Park.
- 3. Image 3 - Milk Cart
- The milk-carts are worth going to see...women drive many of these carts, but when they are managed by men they dart madly about, and accidents to them are frequent.
- 4. Image 4 - City Hall
- City Hall . . . it offers the theatres, shops, restaurants, crowds, clubs, and multiform entertainments of a city of the first class.
- 5. Image 5 - Canal Street Nighttime
- The electric lights are mounted in tall towers of iron lattice-work.
- 6. Image 6 - French Market
- No city has finer markets.
- 7. Image 7 - Residence at St. Charles
- The large galleried houses stand back in broad gardens, with the most beautiful surround of lawn, banana-plants, orange trees [and] clouds of roses . . .
- 8. Image 8 - Plantation House
- There are some rambling old Southern mansions with halls through the centres, some modern stately mansions, and some little boxes . . .
- 9. Image 9 - St. Louis Cemetery
- St. Louis Cemetery . . . These tombs are houses built upon the ground and rise white and gray from mounds of green, beside white shell roads, beneath orange-trees laden with golden fruit, magnolias, cedars, and oaks, some of the trees being draped or bearded with pendant moss.