File:Canal Street New Orleans 1920s Postcard Maison Blanche.jpg

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1920s postcard of Canal Street, New Orleans Central Business District

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English: Postcard view of Canal Street, New Orleans Central Business District, mid/late 1920s. Print not dated; this copy mailed postmarked February 1929.

View is from the uptown side of the 1000 block of Canal Street looking across and riverwards, with the Audubon Building and Maison Blanche Building in the 900 block seen prominently. Many period automobiles, mostly parked; streetcars run along the neutral ground.

Printed text on front of card:
Canal Street, looking East, New Orleans, La. - 26

Printed text on back of card:
Canal Street, 170 feet wide, one of the widest central business throughfares in the world, got its name from the fact that in olden days a big drainage canal ran down the center of it and marked the upper limits of the city two centuries ago, with ramparts along the edge of the canal and forts as terminals.

Note: Description is not factual. What became Canal Street was part of the city Commons in the Colonial era, and got its name after the city was transferred to US control - a navigation canal was planned, linking the Mississippi River with the Carondelet Canal, but the envisioned canal was never built.
Date 1920s
date QS:P,+1920-00-00T00:00:00Z/8
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Postcard by E. C. Kropp Co, Milwaukee.

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Author Uncredited for E. C. Kropp Co

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