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New Orleans Louisiana USA 1934 stock footage and images

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Students sketch on canvases resting on easels in the Department of Fine Arts at Xavier University in New Orleans.

Education for African American students at the Xavier University of Louisiana (1 Drexel Dr, New Orleans, LA 70125, United States), a Catholic university for African Americans in New Orleans, Louisiana. Black students create paintings on canvases resting on easels in the Department of Fine Arts. Students are using Catholic paintings and sculptures as subjects. A black student sketching a portrait of Jesus Christ. Students honing their artistic skills. Two students making a sketch of an angel statuette. Male black students sketching some clay pots. An arts teacher sketches on a canvas to teach a student. Arts teacher demonstrates strokes on the side of the canvas. One student paint a portrait of a black female model. Female model smiles.

Date: 1940
Duration: 1 min 9 sec
Sound: No
Color: Monochrome
Clip Type: Edited
Language: English
Clip: 65675070516
Slum areas in the city of New Orleans and African American students at Xavier University in New Orleans, Louisiana.

Xavier University, America's only catholic college for African American youth, in New Orleans, Louisiana. View of run down slum and tenement areas in the city of New Orleans in the 1930s Great Depression time frame. African American citizen moves outside the houses. A woman walks on a street with a bucket. Clothes hang from a string. Children standing on a road. Nuns pray in a church. A sign: 'Xavier' on a building. Exterior of a college building. African American college students seated outside the building read books. They leave the college building. African American man talks as he climbs down the stairs.

Date: 1939
Duration: 3 min 6 sec
Sound: No
Color: Monochrome
Clip Type: Edited
Language: English
Clip: 65675070513
Decorated floats and a band at a parade on the occasion of Mardi Gras in New Orleans, Louisiana.

Mardi Gras in New Orleans, Louisiana. Decorated floats at a parade on Mardi Gras. Krewe participants in elaborate costumes throw trinkets to spectators. Some spectators catch Mardi Gras throws from passing floats. A band plays in the parade. People cheer as decorated floats move past them on the streets of New Orleans.

Date: 1920
Duration: 1 min 44 sec
Sound: No
Color: Monochrome
Clip Type: Unedited
Language: None
Clip: 65675066799
Ships underway in the Mississippi River as they enter a port in New Orleans, Louisiana.

A film about New Orleans in Louisiana. Ships underway in the Mississippi River as they enter a port of New Orleans. Buildings at the port.

Date: 1917
Duration: 1 min 2 sec
Sound: No
Color: Monochrome
Clip Type: Edited
Language: English
Clip: 65675066812
An elaborate system of dykes in New Orleans, Louisiana.

A film about New Orleans in Louisiana. Dykes and levies along the edge of sea water keeping flood waters out of New Orleans. A building in the background.

Date: 1917
Duration: 20 sec
Sound: No
Color: Monochrome
Clip Type: Edited
Language: English
Clip: 65675066813
Spanish ship Infanta Isabel, SV John H. Kirby, and tugs and freighters in a harbor in New Orleans, Louisiana.

A film about New Orleans in Louisiana. A Spanish Cruiser named Infanta Isabel from Cadiz and a freighter named Selene Holland in the harbor. Various ships, tugs, freighters, barges with cranes in the harbor. The 3 mast sailing ship or barque SV John H. Kirby of New Orleans at port (this is shortly before SV John H Kirby was sunk by the German armed merchant raider SMS Wolf in December 1917 during World War I)

Date: 1917
Duration: 1 min 36 sec
Sound: No
Color: Monochrome
Clip Type: Edited
Language: English
Clip: 65675066814