Rising Sun Excavation Unit 6

ID: 4768 ~ Source: University of New Orleans Department of Anthropology ~ Date: 2005
This file appears in: The Rising Sun Hotel
Rising Sun Excavation Unit 6

A transfer-printed plate in debris from the Rising Sun Hotel fire.

This file appears in: The Rising Sun Hotel

By Alahna Moore & Charlotte Willcox, editor
Many visitors to New Orleans are familiar with the song “The House of the Rising Sun,” made popular by the English band The Animals in 1967. The song itself has roots far back in English folk balladry, long before any association with New Orleans.…