"Entrance. Lelong Avenue showing the Delgado Museum in the background. Exterior."

ID: 5458 ~ Source: Image courtesy of the New Orleans Public Library, Louisiana Division/City Archives, WPA Photographs, Parks, CIty Park, 32.53.02. ~ Creator: Works Progress Administration ~ Date: October 2, 1940.
This file appears in: New Orleans Museum of Art
This file appears in: New Orleans Museum of Art

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…