City of Iron Lace |
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St. Charles Avenue, 1936 |
"To the stranger, for the first time threading his way through its narrow streets, the old French Quarter of New Orleans seems like a city of iron lace, so lavishly did the old Creole builders make use of the wrought metal." -- New Orleans, City of Iron Lace by Harriet Joor, 1906 |
Gate at the Cabildo. |
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Photo ca. 1930's |
Gate at Court of Two Sisters, photo by C. Bennette Moore, between 1910 - 1939 |
Photo by C. Bennette Moore, taken between 1910 - 1939 |
Beautiful ironwork surrounds infamous "Sultan's House", where a massacre took place in the 1800's. Photo, 1937. |
French Quarter - notice the horse-drawn ice wagon, 1923 |