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Circa 1925. "Stairway in the old Ursuline convent, New Orleans." 4x5 nitrate negative by Arnold Genthe. View full size.
An amazing and well framed photograph. It is visually interesting all by itself, but knowing the subject, one wonders about the stories that could be told.
"There's a lady who's sure all that glitters is gold and she's buying a stairway to heaven"
Yesterday upon the stair,
I met a man who wasn't there.
He wasn't there again today,
Oh, how I wish he'd go away.
In the Mississippi River Valley
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