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Courtyard & Prison Rooms, Cabildo, New Orleans

Courtyard & Prison Rooms, Cabildo, New Orleans Louisiana
Original Vintage Card
  
 Price: $6.95
Stock #:1147784
Type: Postcard
City: New Orleans
State: Louisiana (LA)
County: Orleans
Publisher: New Orleans News Co.
E.C. Kropp Co.
Size: 3.5" x 5.5" (9 x 14 cm)
Publisher's Series #: 14548
Additional Details:
The Court Yard and Prison Rooms in the Cabildo at Chartres and St. Peter Streets. Note the tiers and cells, and the wide galleries around them. The room, with the door standing open on the ground floor, is the cell in which the Pirate LaFitte was incarcerated after his capture by the Americans. Later on his services were accepted by General Jackson and he participated in the Battle of New Orleans, where he covered himself with glory, subsequently receiving a pardon from the Congress of the United States.
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