New Orleans (Orleans Parish) Louisiana
Links to Historical Photographs and Illustrations


As one of America's most photogenic cities, New Orleans was (and is) frequently the subject of professional and amateur photographers. There are photographs from the 1840s and 1850s in the collections of the major New Orleans archives and museums, but many are not yet online. Many photographs from the later 1800s and the 1900s are online. A list of links to such photographs follows.

Photographs:

New Orleans Public Library -- City Archives and Special Collections
     https://cdm16880.contentdm.oclc.org/

Library of Congress -- Prints & Photographs Division
     https://www.loc.gov/rr/print/ 
     https://www.loc.gov/pictures/search/?q=new%20orleans&sg=true
     https://www.loc.gov/collections/cities-and-towns/?q=new+orleans
     https://www.loc.gov/photos/?q=new+orleans

Louisiana Digital Library
     https://ingest.louisianadigitallibrary.org/

The Historic New Orleans Collection
     https://www.hnoc.org/research/digital-collections

Old New Orleans
     http://www.thepastwhispers.com/Old_New_Orleans


Recommended books:

Photography in New Orleans: The Early Years, 1840-1865
     by Margaret Denton Smith and Mary L. Tucker

New Orleans 1867: Photographs by Theodore Lilienthal
     by Gary Van Zante

Historic Photos of New Orleans
     by Melissa Lee Smith

New Orleans Then and Now
     by Richard Campanella and Marina Campanella


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