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Lee Circle — a park in New Orleans.

  • Photo-postcard view from between the World Wars.
  • In park's center is a column monument, with the statue of Robert E. Lee.
  • St. Charles Avenue heading uptown is seen at right, long before this was bisected by the Pontchartrain Expressway/Crescent City Connection bridge onramp.
  • The "Shriners Temple," refered to in the caption is the Jeruselem Temple, is the orange building a block up St. Charles from the Circle.
  • Several buildings gone for decades are visible.
  • The neo-Classical building just to the left of the pilar was the old Main branch of the Public Library, built in 1908 and demolished in 1959.
  • The Short rectangular building with a pair of arches on its fascade and a flag flying on top was the Sherrouse-Steele Motor-Car Company building, originally a dealership in "Reo" and "Premier" automobiles.
  • Behind it with two towers is the Temple Sinai synagogue, built in 1872.
Date No date printed on card. This copy was mailed, postmarked August 1940. Original photo c. 1920s or 1930s.
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Photo postcard, published by Curt Teich & Co., Chicago.

Scanned from original in own collection by Infrogmation
Author No photographer credited. Published by Curt Teich & Co, Chicago.
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