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}}

Photo of New Orleans, August 29 2005, after Hurricane Katrina, aerial of people sitting on a roof waiting to be rescued, taken by Jocelyn Augustino of FEMA
New Orleans, August 29, 2005, after Hurricane Katrina: Aerial of people sitting on a roof waiting to be rescued as flood water surrounds their home.

Photo by Jocelyn Augustino of FEMA

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