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Home of Armand Duplantier
Circa 1795, West Baton Rouge Parish

 


Typical Greek Revival home
circa 1850, New Orleans
courtesy Library of congress


Invitation circa 1867, Comus Ball Mardi Gras
courtesy Library of Congress


Fendlason descendent
Bogalousa, Louisiana
circa early 20th century

 


Fendlason descendent
with mother, circa early 20th century Louisiana

 


young Creole boys,
early 20th century


Louis Forstall home
circa 1850, vieux carre
courtesy Library of Congress


Kitchen view, Destrehan Plantation, Louisiana circa 1850


Destrehan Plantation, Destrehan, Louisiana



Monument commemorating 1876 riot, foot of Canal street
New Orleans


Classic New Orleans style home, circa 1855, Pauger Street

courtesy Library of Congress


Creole plantation home near
New Orleans, circa 1840
Aime plantation

courtesy Library of Congress


A view of the Sugar Exchange,
New Orleans
built 1880's, destroyed 1963

courtesy of the Library of Congress


Ruins of Trepagnier Plantation near New Orleans

courtesy of the Library of Congress

 


The Orleans Theatre, scene of many French language productions,
a center of Creole society, New Orleans circa 1840

Courtesy of the Library of congress


Sugar Cane harvest by
traditional methods,
Cuba 20th century

courtesy of the Sugar Board

 


typical home, New Orleans,
circa late 19-early 20th centuries


young Creole woman
New Orleans, circa early
20th century


Fendlason and Duplantier
descendant, circa mid 20th century

 

 


French American,
mid 20th century


typical Creole gardens: left a New Orleans courtyard,
right a garden view of a country home


Folk painting, Destrehan Plantation, Louisiana


Facade of the Sugar Exchange,
New Orleans, circa 1880

courtesy of the Library of Congress


Folk painting, Destrehan
plantation, Louisiana