Past Exhibitions

Lost New Orleans: Photographs by Theodore Lilienthal for
Emperor Napoleon III
September - November 2000

Organized by Gary Van Zante, Curator of the Southeastern Architectural archive at Tulane. This is an exhibition of 126 photographs from the Napoleon Museum in Arenberg, Switzerland. These were commissioned for the Emperor Napoleon III and exhibited in the Paris World Exposition of 1867. This was one of the earliest photographic surveys of an American city. The exhibition and accompanying catalogue investigate themes around the photography of cities and the urban and architectural history of New Orleans. Some potential areas of interdisciplinary activity: Urban Studies, representations of The City, 19th c. America, History of New Orleans.

Methodist Church Carondelet Street

St. Louis Hotel