"Ladies in the balcony, perhaps of the French Opera House, during an unidentified carnival ball, undated."

ID: 5115 ~ Source: Image courtesy of New Orleans Public Library, Louisiana Division, Rare Vertical File.

This file appears in: French Opera House

This file appears in: French Opera House

French Opera House

By Louisiana Division/City Archives, New Orleans Public Library, Tulane University Students: Vanessa Smith-Torres, Shelby Farmer, Liesbeth Ramirez, Elizabeth Turner & Kathryn O'Dwyer, Editor

The fabulous French Opera House dominated a vastly different Bourbon Street than the gaudy strip of today. Designed by James Gallier Jr. and erected in 1859, the Opera House became the cultural…