NEW ORLEANS

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NEW ORLEANS Produced: 1917

Description The original catalog description provided by the Ford Motor Company reads as follows: “The New Orleans of today has a population of 400,000 and is the second port in the United States. It is situated 120 miles from the Gulf of Mexico.” Public buildings and parks - residential area - streetcar. “Canal Street.” Automobile, pedestrian, streetcar traffic, business district. “New Orleans, styled the ‘Crescent City,’ derives its name from the crescent formed by the Mississippi River.” Waterfront and Mississippi River. “Exchange Alley.” “Royal Street.” Marx art store - V. Hurwitz, furniture - streetcar - automobile traffic. “Lee Circle - St. Charles Street.” “The Old French Market Built in 1791 by the Spaniards.” Pedestrians - truck traffic - mule-drawn wagon - produce stalls. “The Old Cabildo. Erected and donated to the city in 1795 by Don Alexander Almonaster y Roxas. Many a royal visitor has been entertained in the Cabildo and the first Protestant church service in Louisiana was held within its walls.” “Scenes along the bayou St. John.” Boats, dredges, piers, and buildings. “Jackson Square.” Equestrian statue of General Andrew Jackson. “Motarie Cemetery. All guests are entertained above ground.” “Statue of General Albert Sydney Johnson of the Confederate Army. ‘A man tried in many high offices and critical enterprises and found faithful in all.’” “St. Charles Street and residential section.” “Statue of General Beauregard.” “A trip up the Mississippi showing the immense shipping that enters the port of New Orleans.” “New Orleans below the level of the sea. An elaborate system of dykes protects the city from inundation.” Dykes - homes. “The ‘Infanta Isabel,’ the ship that returned Ambassador Gerard to civilization.” ‘Infanta Isabel, Cadiz’ painted on side of large ship - freighter ‘Selens’ - ‘Holland’ - tugs, freighters, barges with cranes - coal loading conveyor machinery - sailing ship - ‘John H. Kirdy’ - riverboats. “A British Merchantman with a gun mounted aft for defense against submarines.” Gun on ship. Ships, ‘Lisboa,’ ‘Oxen-Sverige,’ and ‘Malfalda Norge.’ “Scenes in a cotton warehouse.” Workers move cotton bales with dollies. “Unloading bananas.” Conveyor belts bring bananas ashore, dock workers carry them into warehouse. [1917]

https://catalog.archives.gov/id/91464

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