Hook and Ladder Cemetery, Gretna Louisiana
Opened in 1858 and originally a firefighters' burial ground, the Hook and Ladder Cemetery is one of south Louisiana's notable above-ground cemeteries in Gretna, a small, mostly working-class city in Jefferson Parish on the West Bank, or west side, of the Mississippi River, near New Orleans. (Louisiana calls its counties "parishes."). Even though it is on the West Bank, Gretna lies east of nearby New Orleans, the anomaly owing to the serpentine twists of the river. Gravesites were placed above ground because of the area's high water table.
- Date
- 2021
- Photographer / author
- Carol M. Highsmith
- Collection
- Carol M. Highsmith Archive
- Archive
- Library of Congress (via Wikimedia Commons)
- Type
- photograph
- Original size
- 14,204 × 10,652 pixels
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Reason: Carol M. Highsmith Archive: dedicated to the public domain by the photographer.
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"Hook and Ladder Cemetery, Gretna Louisiana" (2021). Carol M. Highsmith. Library of Congress, Prints and Photographs Division, via Wikimedia Commons. Public domain. https://commons.wikimedia.org/wiki/File:Hook_and_Ladder_Cemetery,_Gretna_Louisiana.tifNeed photos for a whole script? Add Find Any Photo to Claude and ask for this one by its id: 139973.
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