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"240 Bourbon St., Orleans, Orleans Parish, Louisiana" (sic, should be "240 Bourbon St., New Orleans")

Shows "Old Absinthe House" at uptown river corner of Bourbon and Bienville Streets in the French Quarter, New Orleans, Louisiana, 1937.

Notes: Old street signs for Bienville and Bourbon Street (dating from c. 1890s) attached to corner of building. Newer "humpback" style sign attached to lamp post, stating Bourbon Street with intersecting street Bienville in smaller lettering up top.
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Source Photograph by Frances Benjamin Johnston via Library of Congress website [1]; highest res TIF converted to jpg, border cropped and contrast slightly adjusted before uploading to Wikimedia Commons.
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Frances Benjamin Johnston  (1864–1952)  wikidata:Q462707
 
Frances Benjamin Johnston
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Frances "Fannie" Benjamin Johnston
Description American journalist, photographer, photojournalist, architectural photographer and artist
Date of birth/death 15 January 1864 Edit this at Wikidata 16 May 1952 Edit this at Wikidata
Location of birth/death West Virginia New Orleans
Work period 1883 Edit this at Wikidata–1950 Edit this at Wikidata
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United States of America (1884–1952) Edit this at Wikidata
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