# NEW ORLEANS

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…

- Kind: Educational
- Year: 1917
- By: National Archives
- Genres: Education
- Archive: [Internet Archive](https://archive.org/details/fc-fc-941)
- Licence or status: none stated by the archive
- Who can watch: Tweens profiles and older (the archive gives no rating; placed by Invisible Network from its collection and subjects)

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