Girod Cemetery entrance, 1953
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Alexander Allison took this photograph only 4 years before the cemetery was dismantled. Parts of Charity Hospital and the Veterans Administration Hospital are visible in the background.
The Special Collections Division of Tulane University Libraries houses the Girod Cemetery records.
Image courtesy of the Louisiana Division/City Archives, New Orleans Public Library
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Girod Cemetery
The Girod Cemetery was the city's oldest Protestant cemetery, opened by the wardens of Christ Church in 1822. The cemetery had fallen into disrepair by the time most of these photographs were taken.…