N.O. CEMETERIES:
TINTED
PHOTOS
These photos were taken about 1910 and have been "hand-tinted" with photo manipulation software. The original images are available from the remarkable collection at the American Memory Homepage.
They are formatted as inline jpegs.
If you like these images, take a look at New Orleans Cemetery Images, a selection of modern photos presented with brief audio commentary from the photgrapher.
St.
Louis Number One. Illustrating the wrought iron fencework around many
of the crypts (75K).
This
shot (also from St. Louis #1) brings to mind the term necropolis,
as the tombs seem to rise several stories off the street (57K).
Eerie
view down a side street -- City of the Dead(38K).
Metairie
Cemetery. It really looks like each tomb has its own driveway...(57K)
Monumental
site in Metairie Cemetery(38K).
