File:BasinStreetDowntheLine.JPG
Original file (1,195 × 735 pixels, file size: 228 KB, MIME type: image/jpeg)
 | This is a file from the Wikimedia Commons. Information from its description page there is shown below. Commons is a freely licensed media file repository. You can help. |
Summary
| Description |
New Orleans: "Basin Street Down the Line". View is of the high-rent section of the "Storyville" Red light district. Looking down river showing buildings on the lake side of Basin; the corner at bottom left is with Customhouse Street (since renamed Iberville Street). Block of visible buildings includes from left to right Tom Anderson's Saloon (with pillared sidewalk gallery/balcony), the brothels of Hilma Burt, Diana & Norma, Lisette Smith, Minnie White, Josie Arlington (with rounded cupola), Martha Clarke (smaller older building), Lulu White's Mahogany Hall (with pointed cupola) and Lulu White's Saloon. The first building on the next block is Frank Toro's Saloon. The sheds for the Southern Railway along the Basin Street neutral ground, running back from the New Orleans Terminal building, are visible going back diagonally starting at the bottom right. |
||||||
| Date | before 1917. Storyville historian Al Rose dates this to 1909. | ||||||
| Source | Early 20th century postcard; this scan via [1] (Archived copy) | ||||||
| Author | Photographer not credited. Likely George Francois Mugnier. | ||||||
| Permission (Reusing this file) |
|
||||||
| Other versions | Compare with photo showing most of the same buildings as viewed from the other end of the block: Image:BasinStreetUptheLine.JPG |
File history
Click on a date/time to view the file as it appeared at that time.
| Date/Time | Thumbnail | Dimensions | User | Comment | |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| current | 20:22, 11 December 2007 | | 1,195 × 735 (228 KB) | Infrogmation | {{Information |Description= New Orleans: "Basin Street Down the Line". View is of the high-rent section of the "Storyville" Red light district. Visible are Tom Anderson's, Hilma Bert's, Lulu White's Mahogany Hall. |Source= Early 20th century postcard; |
File usage
Global file usage
The following other wikis use this file:
- Usage on es.wikipedia.org
- Usage on fr.wikipedia.org
- Usage on hu.wikipedia.org
- Usage on it.wikipedia.org
