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The link to this page is: http://www.thepastwhispers.com/Old_New_Orleans.html
   Welcome!  This site is a work in progress, please visit often to see the new pages
that have been added.
   I already had a collection of vintage New Orleans photos online, but, after the levee failures, I felt a need to create a series of pages that would enable me to devote more attention to specific places, customs and groups of people, with the emphasis still on old photos, but including some of the city's rich and fascinating history.  In this way, I can provide a more complete picture of each and, ultimately, a more complete picture of my historic, unique and wonderful hometown, the grand old lady by the river....New Orleans.
   She has given me so much.  This is my gift to her.   
Nancy Brister
INDEX OF PAGES (new pages are added at bottom):

Out to Old West End
A Night at the French Opera
Field of Honor:  Duels in Old New Orleans
Fort San Juan del Bayou:  History of the Old Spanish Fort
Old Spanish Fort, Part II:  The Resort and Amusement Park
Old Spanish Fort Today
"Pralinieres" - Praline Sellers of Old New Orleans
A Duel Over the Honor of the Mighty Mississippi
Audubon & City Park Children's Wading Pools
Ames Crevasse in the MS River Levee:  The Flood of 1891
The Spanish Moss Gatherers
The Story of the Roman Candy Man
St. Louis No. 1 Cemetery
The Spirit of New Orleans
Yesterday's Children
Yesterday's Children, 2
Old Girod Street Cemetery
The Case of the Gris-Gris Gone Bad
Out and About in Old New Orleans - Page 1
Out and About in Old New Orleans - Page 2
Vintage Pictures of New Orleans
Vintage Postcards of Canal Street: 1870 - 1950
Images and Histories: Old New Orleans Hospitals
New Orleans Hurricane of 1947
Lakes Scenes: Photos by Kathy Bloodworth
Info from the 1939 Sugar Bowl Program  
Photos of Audubon Zoo, ca 1936
Vintage Photos of Camps at Irish Bayou & Little Woods
Sarah's Excellent Street Car Ride
Vintage Photos of Canal Street Scenes & Events
Vieux Carre:  1941 - 1959
Remembering the Krewe of Nor
The Poetry of Jim Metcalf
A Picture Book of New Orleans, 1945
Historic Images of New Orleans
Commodity Credit Corp. ~&~ Masonic Temple Building
Illustrations from Harper's and Frank Leslie's, 1863 -1884
New Orleans Fire Department:  A Look Back
McDonogh Day
Building with a History:  Old Carrollton Courthouse
A Night to Remember:  The Re-Opening of the Dome
St. Roch Playground
Ode to NOLA
New Orleans Bank Notes, 1840s-1860s
Old Engine No. 745 - Restored
Vintage Photos, Orleans Parish Court Buildings
NOPSI Bus Transfers, 1940's
Raising Cane on Baronne Street
Cruising on the President
White Kitchen Restaurants
Illustrations: Battle of N. O. & Vintage Photos: Chalmette Battlefield
The Soul of a CIty - September 1, 2005
Louisiana World Exposition, 1984
A Ride on the West End Trolley
Harper's Weekly, Issues from 1862 & 1863
Postcards of Old New Orleans
Postcards of Old New Orleans, 2
D. H. Holmes:  I'll Meet You Under the Clock
Sketch:  Sunday Morning at the Market, 1883
The Midway Restaurant at Milneburg
Kingsley House:  A Beacon of Hope
City Park Photos:  1899-1913
Ivy A. Smith Baseball Team Photo, 1949
Downtown at Night - 1941 & early 1900's
Mementoes of Martin Brothers Restaurant
"Little Fort" & Sunny Schiro's Efforts to Save It
Oaks Along Bienville - A Photo by Cathy Crozat
Old New Orleans Advertisements
Old New Orleans Panoramas
"Old & New Louisiana" - published 1873
Bayou St. John:  Flowing through the Heart of the City
Around Town on the Old Milk Cart
Hurricane Betsy, 1965
New Orleans in LEGOS!
MS River Bridge Photo: 1940
Photo:  Swanboat, Audubon Park
"Let Me Live in Louisiana"
Breakfast at Madame Begue's
St. Joseph's Altars of New Orleans
Memories of Grand Isle
Vintage Photos:  Elmer's Candy Company
1932 Junior Baseball Champions
City of Iron Lace
Front Page:  1915 Hurricane
Port of New Orleans:  1873
Margaret Haugherty - The Bread Lady of New Orleans
Saulet Plantation/Old Mercy Hospital
Favorite Vintage Canal Street Photos
The Longest Bridge in the World!
Gus Stevens Restaurant, Biloxi
Rainbow Girls:  Ben Kippies Chapter
Kolb's German Restaurant & Kolb's Farm
An Afternoon at the Basin
Pontchartrain Beach Memories - I've removed this link because people continue to send the whole page in an e-mail or a document format, instead of simply sharing the link.  Using the "Send Page" feature of a computer to send an entire page distorts the page's contents & separates it from the site.  It makes webpage creators very, very grumpy!  Nancy
Lincoln Beach Memories
A Look Back at Baseball in New Orleans
A Look Back at Baseball, Page 2
1947:  First Police Emergency Unit
A New Orleans Lullaby
Valence Street Cemetery
French Quarter Organ Grinder
Three Generations of O'Briens & the N.O. Fire Department
Camp Plauche:  Pictures and History
Three Pages:  Businesses of Old New Orleans
Rheem Softball Team - 1940
The Hep Kings
Rudy Voltolina's Band
Three Pages:  Postcards from the Coast
The Old State Capitol
Mardi Gras in Old New Orleans
Photos:  Shadows of the Past
Election Day in N.O., 1952
Sketch:  French Quarter Scene, 1923
Lafitte's Blacksmith Shop
Old Courtyards of the Vieux Carre
N.O. Scenes, 1941 - 1959
Come Down to the Levee
New Orleans Easter Memories
Fort Pike:  Guarding the Pass
Posing with the Old Black Bear
1927 Flood:  Dynamiting the Crevasse to Save the City
Photo:  NOPD 3-Wheeler K-9 Unit
Photos & video - Hotel Senator Fire, 1968
Vintage Photos of Old Algiers
Duverge Chapel/Cemetery, 1910 Article
The Historic New Canal Lighthouse
"Father of Rolling Waters" - 1896 Poem
Pictures from the Past
Bridges of Bayou St. John
Old Bayou St. John Towpath
Tranchina's Restaurant, Old Spanish Fort
Mandeville, A Hundred Years Ago
Financial District - Carondelet Canyoun, 1927
Apothecary Shops of Old New Orleans
T. Pittari's Restaurant
City Park Panorama, 1909
Naval Air Station at the Lakefront, 1940's
Lovers' Lane at Audubon Park
The City Park Peristyle
Historic Washington Artillery Hall
Memories of Municipal Auditorium
Royal Street After Dark
Huey P. Long Bridge
9th District Police Station
Historic Fort Livingston, Grand Terre
Image:  Southern Yacht Club
Sketch:  French Quarter, 1900
Mystery Building
Street Scenes:  Canal Boulevard
Street Scenes:  St. Bernard Avenue
Favorite Images of St. Louis Cathedral
All Saints Day:  An Old New Orlaens Custom
Old Pelican Stadium
The LA Purchase & the Historic Cabildo
SIster Xavier's Herb Garden & Letter to the Ursulines from Thomas Jefferson
Jax Brewery:  Today and Yesterday
President Taft Comes to Town, 1909
The Girod-Napoleon House
Painting:  Vieux Carre Scene, 1928
A Few Early Streetcar Photos
The Old Union Station Depot

New Orleans:  Storyville and the Birth of Jazz:
Early Musicians, Early Bands, Storyville & the Birth of Jazz, The Disappearance of
Storyville and more.

FAMILIES:
(Many of the Family Pages have interesting photos and info!)

The de la Vergne Family
The Anselmo Family Clubs - 1930's-1990's
Moulin Family
The Serio Family Store on Decatur Street
3 Generations of O'Briens in the NO Fire Department
Ignatious Tedesco Family
Tedesco Family Photos
Tedesco-Klemm Photo:  Cruising in the Quarter
Gangolf Family Memories
Singer Betty Owens, 1940's
Bullinger Family
Huibers-Sloan Family
Legendre Family
Alfred J. Bose & the West End Rowing Club
Crozat, Campbell, Parkinson, McComb Families
Jackson, Rouse, Hancock Families
Wehl Family Photos
Burger-Sepulveda Families
Pela Family Photo
The Edgecombe Family
Labry Family
Stephens Family

CHURCHES:
Vintage Images:  Christ Church Cathedral, St. Paul's Episcopal Church, St. Atnhony's Catholic Church, St. Stephen's Catholic Church, The Old French Church, First Presbyterian Church, The Chinese Church, St. Charles Avenue Methodist Church
St. Roch Shrine, Chapel & Campo Santo
Napoleon Avenue Methodist Church
Yellow Fever Mortuary Chapel
St. Patrick's Catholic Church
Rayne Memorial Methodist Church
St. Matthew Evangelical (now St. Matthew Central-Congregational UCC)
St. John the Baptist Catholic Church & School
Second Methodist Church
Mater Dolorosa Catholic Church
St. Catherine's Catholic Church (the first St. Joseph's Church)
Beecher Memorial Congregational UCC
Favorite Images of St. Louis Cathedral
St. Mary's Assumption Church

SCHOOLS:
1927 Easton High School Yearbook
1955 Easton High School Yearbook
1957 Easton High School Yearbook
1964 Easton High School Yearbook
Vintage Photos of Warren Easton High School
Jesuit High School, Class of 1948
Jesuit High School Class of 1949
Henry W. Allen School Photos
St. Simeon's School
1909 Class of Straight University
1943 St. Matthias Graduating Class
1959 St. Joseph High School Yearbook (Seniors)
1963 Nicholls High School Class
Photo - McDonogh #18
Photos - McDonogh #6
1924 McDonogh #11 Graduating Class
Gayarre Elementary School
B. M. Palmer Elementary School
St. John the Baptist School
Photo - Webster & Jefferson Schools
Beauregard Junior High School
All-City Grammar School Bands, 1954-55
Photos - Charles J. Colton School
1956 Bradley Elementary School Photo
1954 William Frantz Elementary School Photo
1942 - Edward White High School
1926 St. Paul School Photo
Photo:  Delgado School, 1927
Newcomb College Photos:  1900-1952
Vintage Photos of LSU Campus

WORLD WARS I & II:
332nd Fighter Group, Tuskegee Airmen
73rd Bombardment Wing, "Now it Can Be Told"
States-Item Front Page:  End of WWI
New Orleans WW II Ration Books
WWII LaGarde Army Hospital

~ AND ~

When Time Stood Still:  My Katrina Retrospective
"Heart" - August 29, 2009
Old New Orleans Recipes
A Day in the Quarter, 2006
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Life of a Building, 1817-2010:  Ballroom-Convent-School-HotelImage:  Streetcar on the AvenueMaison Blanche:  Greatest Store SouthChurch of the Immaculate Conception & Jesuit High SchoolThe Delord Sarpy House, 1818-1957Aerial View of the City, 1955Out and About in Old New Orleans, Page 3Sophie Wright SchoolPhotos:  NOFD, Elysian Fields, Engine Co. 28, ca. 1939The Old Absinthe HouseOld New Orleans Advertisements, Page 4History of Tivoli-Lee Circle;   Photos:  Carrollton Aveue Methodist Church, 1930Photos:  Belleville School, ca. 1900The Clock - Loyola and Tulane AvenuesMartinez-Smith Family PhotosSome Old New Orleans PhotosThe Saints and the Superdome   Added to existing pages:   Photo to Henry W. Allen SchoolPhoto to Street Scenes:  St. Bernard Ave.