Close up of Storyville neighborhood from Sanborn Fire Insurance Map.

ID: 5120 ~ Source: Retrieved from the Library of Congress, <www.loc.gov/item/sanborn03376_003/>. ~ Creator: Sanborn Map Company ~ Date: 1887

This file appears in: Storyville District

This file appears in: Storyville District

Storyville District

By Helen Bouzon , Jessica Jennings & Charles Chamberlain

A legalized prostitution district associated with the early development of New Orleans-style jazz existed from 1897-1917. Romanticized by early historians as the birth-place of jazz, this red-light…