New Orleans

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English: New Orleans is a city in Louisiana, United States of America.
Español: Nueva Orleans es una ciudad del estado de Luisiana, Estados Unidos de América.
Français : La Nouvelle Orléans est une ville en Louisiane, États-Unis d'Amérique.
Português: Nova Orleães é uma cidade no Louisiana, nos Estados Unidos da América.
Suomi: New Orleans on kaupunki Louisianassa, Yhdysvalloissa.
Svenska: New Orleans är en stad i Louisiana i Förenta staterna.
日本語: ニュー オーリンズはアメリカ合衆国のルイジアナ州の街である。
Main category: New Orleans
New Orleans in 1726
New Orleans in 1803
Late 1840s
New Orleans panorama 1919 Central business district with Canal Street in the center, looking towards the Mississippi River
Central Business District from the air, 2007

Skyline[edit]

Main category: New Orleans skylines

  • Skyline from the Mississippi River

  • The modern New Orleans skyline, around the foot of Canal Street, as seen from across the Mississippi in Algiers, Louisiana

  • New Orleans skyline seen from the river

  • Central Business District seen from Uptown

French Quarter[edit]

Main category: French Quarter

  • The Cabildo, Jackson Square.

  • Jackson Square

  • Presbytere building at Jackson Square

  • St. Louis Cathedral

  • St. Louis Cathederal at night

  • Lower Pontabla building, and portion of the awning of Café du Monde

  • A historical sign at Jackson Square in the French Quarter of New Orleans

  • Colorful houses in the French Quarter of New Orleans

  • The famous Rue Bourbon (Bourbon Street) in New Orleans

  • French Quarter building at night

  • Nice balconies in Royal Street

  • Sign outside Arnaud's restaurant & oyster bar

  • A dark alley in the French Quarter at night. 03-20-2005

  • Costume Jewelry in a French Quarter Merchant's Window

  • A sign outside of the Old Absinthe Bar, Bourbon Street

  • Lafitte's Blacksmith Shop, Bourbon Street.

  • French Market under a heavy shower

  • Sign outside Central Grocery on Decatur st.

  • Bourbon Street toward Canal Street

  • "Old Rookery", 1887

Uptown[edit]

Main category: Uptown New Orleans

  • Residential architecture

  • Shops, restaurants, and galleries along Magazine Street

  • Famous Commander's Palace restaurant, Garden District

  • Boswell Sisters house

  • St. Charles Avenue

  • Neighborhood shops and restaurants

  • Zoo entrance, Audubon Park

  • Tulane University

Lower Garden District[edit]

Main category: Lower Garden District, New Orleans

  • House with banana tree

  • Fence posts

  • Residential and commercial building

  • Neighborhood grocery

Other parts of town[edit]

Main category: New Orleans neighborhoods and divisions

  • Moss entangling the trees at the Park

  • Crossing the Lake Pontchartrain Causeway

  • The under-photographed side of town

  • The ferry connecting New Orleans to Algiers

  • City Park

  • Esplanade Avenue

Cemeteries[edit]

Main category: Cemeteries in New Orleans

  • New Orleans cemetery

  • Lafayette no. 1, cemetery

  • Tomb, Metairie Cemetery

  • Fireman's monument, Greenwood Cemetery

Mardi Gras celebrations[edit]

Main category: New Orleans Mardi Gras

  • Costumed musicians at Mardi Gras

  • Costumed revelers watching parade

  • Rex parade float

  • Boeuf Gras float, Rex parade

  • Zulu parade

  • 1867 Comus parade

  • 1904 Rex parade

  • Ball invitation, 1912

  • House on Magazine Street, Uptown, decorated for Mardi Gras

  • Float on St. Charles Avenue

  • Thoath parade, Magazine Street

  • Krewe of Muses parade

  • Maskers

  • Costumers in Bywater

  • Mother and daughter

  • Photo oportunities

  • Mardi Gras Indians

  • Revelers on Frenchmen Street

  • Carnival face

Music[edit]

Main category: Music of New Orleans

  • Caricature of New Orleans band, 1890

  • Superior Orchestra, 1910

  • New Orleans Owls, 1922

  • Louis Armstrong with the King of the Zulu, Mardi Gras 1955

  • Fats Domino, 1997

  • Preservation Hall Jazz Band

  • Entertainment at the Market Cafe

  • Snooks at Mid-City Rock 'n' Bowl

  • Jazz band on porch

  • At a "jazz funeral" in Treme neighborhood

  • Rosie Ledet at Jazz Fest

  • Free music at Jazz Park

  • Dancing in the street at the Po-Boy Festival

  • Second line parade

  • Stanton Moore at Tipitina's

Hurricane Katrina aftermath[edit]

Main category: Hurricane Katrina aftermath in New Orleans

  • Residents on roof of flooded house

  • Working to repair failed levee along 17th Street Canal

  • Escaping through flood waters, Central Business District

  • House atop truck, Lower 9th Ward

  • Smashed church, Upper 9th Ward

  • Doorway with flood lines, Gentilly

  • House with missing wall, Lower Garden District

  • Cat on a Cold Tin Car, Algiers

  • Barge that landed in residential neighborhood

  • Refrigerator on roof of smashed house

  • House and car, 7th Ward

  • Cleanup begins: Trashed appliances arranged as folk art

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