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Runaway slave ad describing Pauline

Runaway slave ad describing Francoise

Runaway slave ad describing Alexis

L’industrie du tabac, Labat, Nouveaux Vogages aux Îles d’Amerique. 1724

Decree of Pierre Clément Laussat upholding the Code Noir in the Louisiana Territory, 1803.

Former slaves of Jefferson Davis in a Baton Rouge contraband camp, 1863

“On to Orleans" : The Negro Insurrection (1888), LJ Bridgman

Report on the activities and state of the Vieux Carre Commission

B&W photo, circa 1930s. Delord Sarpy House, Howard Ave. near Camp St., New Orleans, Louisiana. Written on photo: Once a plantation house facing the Mississippi River.

Sketch of park labeled: "River Front and Elysian Fields Expressway, New Orleans, Louisiana. Vieux Carré. Louisiana Department of Highways. Rader and Associates - Engineers and Architects - Miami, Florida - New Orleans, Louisiana." On reverse:…