800 block Royal (808-810 Royal)

ID: 5878 ~ Source: Image hosted by The Collins C. Diboll Vieux Carre Digital Survey, https://www.hnoc.org/vcs/property_info.php?lot=18525. Image owned by Special Collections Division, Tulane University Libraries. ~ Date: [1900?]

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New Orleans street scene from late nineteenth century, with building at 810 Royal visible at right.

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Fur Traders, Indigenous Peoples, and the Violence of Urban Slavery

By D. Ryan Gray

Very few well-preserved archaeological sites dating from the French Colonial era have been excavated in New Orleans. As most of these are located in areas that have been developed continuously since the early eighteenth century, many are disturbed…