The Axeman’s Jazz Gallery
A selection of images from a board I set up on Pinterest. To see the full selection, check them out on Pinterest.
Trepagnier House, St. Charles Parish, 1938. Photo from Shorpy.com, via jamesmshaw.blogsp...
vintage everyday: Haunting Photographs of the Prostitutes of Storyville, New Orleans' Legalized Red Light District, circa 1912
Le Petite Theatre, 1937. Photo from Shorpy.com, via jamesmshaw.blogsp...
Courtyard at 1135 Chartres Street, 1937. Photo from Shorpy.com, via jamesmshaw.blogsp...
Napoleon House, 1905. Photo from Shorpy.com, via jamesmshaw.blogsp...
"Italian headquarters, Madison Street." 1906. Photo from Shorpy.com, via jamesmshaw.blogsp...
Le Pretre Mansion. Photo from Shorpy.com, via jamesmshaw.blogsp...
French Market, early 1900s. Photo from Shorpy.com, via jamesmshaw.blogsp...
French courtyard, 1906. Photo from Shorpy.com, via jamesmshaw.blogsp...
Storyville prostitute photographed by E.J. Bellocq, early 1900's. Photo from Shorpy.com, via jamesmshaw.blogsp...
Storyville prostitute photographed by E.J. Bellocq, early 1900's. Photo from Shorpy.com, via jamesmshaw.blogsp...
Angola landing, 1910. Photo from Shorpy.com, via jamesmshaw.blogsp...
Chartres Street. Photo from Shorpy.com, via jamesmshaw.blogsp...
Canal Street, 1903. Photo from Shorpy.com, via jamesmshaw.blogsp...
Carondelet Street, 1905. Photo from Shorpy.com, via jamesmshaw.blogsp...
Who's Next? -- New Orleans Times-Picayune coverage of the 1919 Axman attacks. ift.tt/2FpHtut ift.tt/2I7nP4o
Canal Street. 1907. Photo from Shorpy.com, via jamesmshaw.blogsp...
Canal Street, 1910. Photo from Shorpy.com, via jamesmshaw.blogsp...
Camp & Canal, 1905. Photo from Shorpy.com, via jamesmshaw.blogsp...
Old Absinthe House & Bourbon Street. Photo from Shorpy.com, via jamesmshaw.blogsp...
Old Absinthe House & Bourbon Street, 1903. Photo from Shorpy.com, via jamesmshaw.blogsp...
Lee Circle, 1928. Photo from Shorpy.com, via jamesmshaw.blogsp...
Jackson Avenue, 1920's. Photo from Shorpy.com, via jamesmshaw.blogsp...
Bourbon & St. Peters, 1937. Photo from Shorpy.com, via jamesmshaw.blogsp...
1910. Photo from Shorpy.com, via jamesmshaw.blogsp...
842 Royal Street, 1937. Photo from Shorpy.com, via jamesmshaw.blogsp...
Old Ursuline Convent, 1910. Photo from Shorpy.com, via jamesmshaw.blogsp...
Lee Circle, 1936. Photo from Shorpy.com, via jamesmshaw.blogsp...
View of the St. Charles Hotel. Photo from Shorpy.com, via jamesmshaw.blogsp...
"Smallest news & post card stand in New Orleans." 103 Royal Street, 1908. Photo from Shorpy.com, via jamesmshaw.blogsp...
"Steamer loading hides." 1903. Photo from Shorpy.com, via jamesmshaw.blogsp...
Pay day on the levee, 1906. Photo from Shorpy.com, via jamesmshaw.blogsp...
Lulu White pictured below in a 1920's New Orleans Police mug shot was one of the famous Madams of Storyville. Her Bordello was called Mahogany Hall
Oyster sluggers, 1906. Photo from Shorpy.com, via jamesmshaw.blogsp...
Mules on the levee, 1903. Photo from Shorpy.com, via jamesmshaw.blogsp...
French Opera house, 1910. Photo from Shorpy.com, via jamesmshaw.blogsp...
Esplanade Avenue, 1900. Photo from Shorpy.com, via jamesmshaw.blogsp...
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Old Cotton Exchange, 1900. Photo from Shorpy.com, via jamesmshaw.blogsp...
The abandoned Belle Grove mansion in White Castle, LA. Photo from Shorpy.com, via jamesmshaw.blogsp...
The abandoned Belle Grove mansion in White Castle, LA. Photo from Shorpy.com, via jamesmshaw.blogsp...
Southern Folk Artist & Antiques Dealer/Collector: Church of the Immaculate Conception, New Orleans 1857 & 1929
Southern Folk Artist & Antiques Dealer/Collector: Church of the Immaculate Conception, New Orleans 1857 & 1929
Southern Folk Artist & Antiques Dealer/Collector: Church of the Immaculate Conception, New Orleans 1857 & 1929
Southern Folk Artist & Antiques Dealer/Collector: Church of the Immaculate Conception, New Orleans 1857 & 1929
Oscar "Papa" Celestin (trumpet) playing for "Octavia Street Block Party" on Mardi Gras. From the photo collection of Dr Edmond Souchon
The Axeman of New Orleans was a serial killer active in New Orleans, Louisiana (and surrounding communities, including Gretna, Louisiana), from May 1918 to October 1919. Press reports during the height of public panic about the killings mentioned similar murders as early as 1911, but recent researchers have called these reports into question.