The U.S. Custom House, also known as the Old Post Office and Custom House, is a historic government building at 423 Canal Street in New Orleans, Louisiana. It was designated a National Historic Landma
View of the Custom House on Canal Street, 1892
The Custom House in 2026
Custom House building, Decatur Street side, October 2008
New Orleans slave market
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New Orleans, Louisiana, United States was one of the most important American slave markets of the lower Mississippi River valley from approximately 1830 until the American Civil War. Slaves from the u
Slaves for Sale, 156 Common St., watercolor and ink by draftsman Pietro Gualdi, 1855
"A Slave Pen at New Orleans—Before the Auction, a Sketch of the Past" (Harper's Weekly, January 24, 1863)
View of the Port at New Orleans, circa 1855, etching from Lloyd's Steamboat Directory
Slave sale broadside (Gail and Stephen Rudin Slavery Collection, Cornell University Libraries)