Customs House, interior

ID: 6464 ~ Source:

“(i) Grand Stairway. (ii) Custom House - Marble Hall,” 1892, The Historic New Orleans Collection, Permanent Collection, https://catalog.hnoc.org/web/arena/search#/entity/thnoc-archive/1970.29.7%20i%2Cii/(i)-grand-stairway.--(ii)-custom-house---marble-hall.

This file appears in: Rodolphe and Daniel Desdunes

The interior of the Customs House. While employed here, Desdunes wrote numerous articles about public rights, racial equality, and justice.

This file appears in: Rodolphe and Daniel Desdunes

Rodolphe and Daniel Desdunes

By Connie Dorsey Abdul-Salaam and Jason Van, edited by Jessica Dauterive and Lauren Smith

Born in New Orleans in 1849, Rodolphe Desdunes actively participated in the city’s Creole social and political scene, eventually co-founding the Comité des Citoyens (Citizens’ Committee) in 1891. As the son of Pierre Feremie Desdunes, of Haitian…