Pictures of New Orleans

St. Louis Cathedral in New Orleans

St. Louis Cathedral in the French Quarter

Photo by Krakers; Licensed under Creative Commons Attribution ShareAlike 3.0

Marie Laveau, Hoodoo Queen

Marie Laveau, Hoodoo Queen

Original Painting by Smerdis of Tlön; Modeled after the portrait by Frank Schneider

Marie Laveau may not have actually looked like this as “[Marie Laveau's] daughter Philomene Glapion Legendre declared, when interviewed by a Daily Picayune reporter after Marie’s death, that her mother never sat for an artist or allowed herself to be photographed.” (page 56-57 of A New Orleans Voudou Priestess)

Pere Antoine

Pere Antoine, age 74, New Orleans, 1822

Painted by Edmund Brewster; Under {{PD-Art}}

For pictures of the aftermath of Hurricane Katrina in New Orleans, see Wikimedia Commons.

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