Upper Pontalba Building, 1937.

ID: 3909 ~ Source: WPA Photograph Collection, The Louisiana Division, New Orleans Public Library, 219 Loyola Ave., New Orleans, LA. Series Number, 11.56.
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Upper Pontalba building, New Orleans, 1937, after WPA renovation work. Shows Jackson Square side along St. Peter Street from an archway of the Cabildo Building, with a man smoking a pipe in foreground at left. June 27, 1937.

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