Street view of row of wooden houses with overhangs and porches, near the former Destrehan Plantation, Louisiana, United States
September 1938
Destrehan was the location of a former plantation that housed a number of enslaved people working in the sugar crop production. The plantation was sold in 1910.
African American residents can be seen outside their house on porches. The street is lined with utility poles.
Gelatin silver print
comp.: 26.4 x 34.2 cm mat: 35.5 x 43.2 cm sheet: 27.9 x 35.3 cm
PH1985:0302
inscribed - 313 49-D (in pencil, in unknown hand, on print, verso, C)
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