{"product_id":"old-pictorial-map-of-new-orleans-by-gillican-1929-jackson-sq-st-louis-cathedral-french-market-bourbon-st-congo-sq","title":"Old Map of New Orleans by Gillican, 1929: Jackson Sq, St Louis Cathedral, French Market, Bourbon St, Congo Sq","description":"\u003cp\u003eLe Vieux Carre de la Nouvelle Orleans Over a Span of Many Years is Lucile Gillican’s exuberant love letter to the French Quarter, cast as a pictorial chronicle rather than a sterile plan. The familiar checkerboard of Burgundy, Dauphine, Royal, Bourbon, and Chartres is crisply staged between Decatur and Rampart, with St. Peter, St. Ann, St. Louis, and St. Philip stitching the blocks into intimate scenes. A theatrical compass rose tips its hat to the city’s maritime bearings, while a decorative border brims with local emblems that signal New Orleans’ layered past. As a city map, it is notable for translating the Quarter’s lived texture—its streets, stories, and seasonal rites—into a narrative geography that rewards both close study and imaginative wandering.\u003c\/p\u003e\n\u003cp\u003eThe cartouche of landmarks reads like a who’s who of the Vieux Carré. Jackson Square emerges as the civic stage, anchored by the spires of St. Louis Cathedral and flanked by the Cabildo and the Presbytère, while the French Market straddles Decatur in a bustle of stalls and river breezes. The old Ursuline Convent along Chartres and the shadowed allure of Lafitte’s Blacksmith Shop on Bourbon add ecclesiastical calm and piratical rumor. Just beyond Rampart lies a nod to Congo Square, where rhythms that shaped jazz once pulsed. Gillican peppers the quarter with local characters—musicians, maskers, café-goers—so that architecture and life mingle. It is a city map that doubles as a cultural atlas, positioning memory and myth block by block.\u003c\/p\u003e\n\u003cp\u003eThough centered on the Quarter, the sheet gestures outward to the American Sector and the working riverfront, tying place to commerce and legend. Tchoupitoulas and Poydras summon the levees and warehouses; St. Charles hints at the storied streetcar line; Calliope and St. Mary mark the upriver seam where Creole town and modern city meet. Desire Street appears like a premonition of literary fame, while Charity and Robinson note civic and residential layers beyond the tourist gaze. Even Lalaurie St slips in as a wink to the Quarter’s darker folklore. The Mississippi’s crescent governs all, its curve implicit in Decatur’s sweep and the orientation of the compass rose. As urban cartography, the map excels by connecting the grid to the water, the port to the parlor.\u003c\/p\u003e\n\u003cp\u003eCreated in 1929, the work bears the hand and eye of Lucile Gillican, whose ties to Walter Boyer Gillican’s turpentine enterprise placed her at the crossroads of Southern industry and art. It was likely undertaken in the orbit of the Arts and Crafts Club of New Orleans, where design reform met Creole vernacular with brio. Co-authorship by Louis Elizabeth Andrews Fischer—a club member and accomplished illustrator—infuses the sheet with assured linework, saturated color, and an artisan’s respect for craft. Together they channel the Arts and Crafts ethos into cartography, celebrating iron lace, courtyard gardens, and stuccoed facades as civic ornament. The result predates formal preservation drives yet anticipates them, elevating the Vieux Carré from old neighborhood to treasured patrimony.\u003c\/p\u003e\n\u003cp\u003eFor collectors and connoisseurs of city maps, this piece shines because it fuses orientation with storytelling. Street names become a walking tour; vignettes turn corners into chapters; borders of fleurs-de-lis, masks, pelicans, and musical emblems frame a city that performs itself year-round. It captures an early twentieth-century New Orleans poised between storied past and modern momentum, preserving the feel of stoops and balconies as carefully as the whereabouts of squares and markets. Above all, it offers a richly legible portrait of the Vieux Carré’s fabric—social, architectural, and ceremonial—rendered with warmth, wit, and an archivist’s instinct, inviting the viewer to trace the Quarter not just as it is, but as it has been over many years.\u003c\/p\u003e\n\u003cp\u003eStreets and roads on this map\u003c\/p\u003e\n\u003cul\u003e\n\u003cli\u003eBurgundy St\u003c\/li\u003e\n\u003cli\u003eDauphine St\u003c\/li\u003e\n\u003cli\u003eDecatur St\u003c\/li\u003e\n\u003cli\u003eRoyal St\u003c\/li\u003e\n\u003cli\u003eRampart St\u003c\/li\u003e\n\u003cli\u003eSt. Ann St\u003c\/li\u003e\n\u003cli\u003eSt. Peter St\u003c\/li\u003e\n\u003cli\u003eTchoupitoulas St\u003c\/li\u003e\n\u003cli\u003eChartres St\u003c\/li\u003e\n\u003cli\u003eBourbon St\u003c\/li\u003e\n\u003cli\u003eSt. Louis St\u003c\/li\u003e\n\u003cli\u003eDesire St\u003c\/li\u003e\n\u003cli\u003eSt. Philip St\u003c\/li\u003e\n\u003cli\u003eSt. Charles St\u003c\/li\u003e\n\u003cli\u003eSt. Mary St\u003c\/li\u003e\n\u003cli\u003eLalaurie St\u003c\/li\u003e\n\u003cli\u003eCharity St\u003c\/li\u003e\n\u003cli\u003eRobinson St\u003c\/li\u003e\n\u003cli\u003eCalliope St\u003c\/li\u003e\n\u003cli\u003ePoydras St\u003c\/li\u003e\n\u003c\/ul\u003e\n\u003cp\u003eNotable Features \u0026amp; Landmarks\u003c\/p\u003e\n\u003cul\u003e\n\u003cli\u003eIllustrations of key buildings and landmarks\u003c\/li\u003e\n\u003cli\u003eDecorative borders with cultural motifs\u003c\/li\u003e\n\u003cli\u003ePictorial representations of local characters and scenes\u003c\/li\u003e\n\u003cli\u003eA compass rose\u003c\/li\u003e\n\u003cli\u003eNotable symbols associated with New Orleans\u003c\/li\u003e\n\u003c\/ul\u003e\n\u003cp\u003eHistorical and design context\u003c\/p\u003e\n\u003cul\u003e\n\u003cli\u003eCreated in 1929 by Lucile Gillican; co-authored with Louis Elizabeth Andrews Fischer (Arts and Crafts Club of New Orleans).\u003c\/li\u003e\n\u003cli\u003eMay have been commissioned to support the Arts and Crafts Club of New Orleans.\u003c\/li\u003e\n\u003cli\u003eFocuses on the Vieux Carré (French Quarter) in New Orleans, Louisiana.\u003c\/li\u003e\n\u003cli\u003eThematic, pictorial style with illustrative details, bright colors, and a whimsical design.\u003c\/li\u003e\n\u003cli\u003eThemes highlight local culture, landmarks, and artistic elements.\u003c\/li\u003e\n\u003cli\u003eReflects early 20th-century cultural and artistic evolution of New Orleans, showcasing architecture during the rise of the Arts and Crafts movement.\u003c\/li\u003e\n\u003c\/ul\u003e\u003cp\u003ePlease double check the images to make sure that a specific town or place is shown on this map. You can also get in touch and ask us to check the map for you.\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003eThis map looks great at every size, but I always recommend going for a larger size if you have space. That way you can easily make out all of the details. \u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003eThis map looks amazing at sizes all the way up to 90in (230cm). If you are looking for a larger map, please \u003ca href=\"\/es\/pages\/contact-us\"\u003eget in touch\u003c\/a\u003e.\u003c\/p\u003e \u003cp\u003ePlease note: the labels on this map are hard to read if you order a map that is 16in (40cm) or smaller. The map is still very attractive, but if you would like to read the map easily, please buy a larger size.\u003c\/p\u003e \u003cp\u003eThe model in the listing images is holding the 24x36in (60x90cm) version of this map.\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003eThe fifth listing image shows an example of my map personalisation service.\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003eIf you’re looking for something slightly different, check out my collection of the \u003ca href=\"\/es\/collections\/all-old-vintage-antique-maps\"\u003ebest old maps\u003c\/a\u003e to see if something else catches your eye.\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003ePlease \u003ca href=\"\/es\/pages\/contact-us\"\u003econtact me\u003c\/a\u003e to check if a certain location, landmark or feature is shown on this map.\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003eThis would make a wonderful birthday, Christmas, Father's Day, work leaving, anniversary or housewarming gift for someone from the areas covered by this map.\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003eThis map is available as a giclée print on acid free archival matte paper, or you can buy it framed. The frame is a nice, simple black frame that suits most aesthetics. Please get in touch if you'd like a different frame colour or material. My frames are glazed with super-clear museum-grade acrylic (perspex\/acrylite), which is significantly less reflective than glass, safer, and will always arrive in perfect condition.\u003c\/p\u003e","brand":"The Unique Maps Co.","offers":[{"title":"12x18in (30x45cm) \/ Map","offer_id":58249403400576,"sku":"UM00295007A","price":75.0,"currency_code":"CAD","in_stock":true},{"title":"12x18in (30x45cm) \/ Framed map","offer_id":58249403433344,"sku":"UM00295008A","price":201.0,"currency_code":"CAD","in_stock":true},{"title":"12x18in (30x45cm) \/ Framed canvas map","offer_id":58249403466112,"sku":"UM00295009A","price":0.0,"currency_code":"CAD","in_stock":true},{"title":"A3 (297x420mm) \/ Map","offer_id":58249403498880,"sku":"UM00295010A","price":75.0,"currency_code":"CAD","in_stock":true},{"title":"A3 (297x420mm) \/ Framed map","offer_id":58249403531648,"sku":"UM00295011A","price":201.0,"currency_code":"CAD","in_stock":true},{"title":"A3 (297x420mm) \/ Framed canvas 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