"City Park entrance from Delgado Museum. Exterior."

ID: 447 ~ Source: Image courtesy of the New Orleans Public Library, Louisiana Division/City Archives, WPA Photographs, Parks, CIty Park, 32.37.01. ~ Creator: Works Progress Administration ~ Date: July 6, 1938.
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Looking out from the front steps of the Delgado Museum (since renamed the New Orleans Museum of Art) towards the Monteleone Gates.

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By Kimberly Jochum
Opened as the Isaac Delgado Art Museum in 1911, it was renamed the New Orleans Museum of Art in 1971. In the early 1900s, wealthy sugar broker Isaac Delgado wrote the following to the City Park Board…