Views of the Ursuline Convent, New Orleans, Louisiana by One of the Sisters Cover

This disbound album of 37 photographs retains the original front and back covers held together by a partially torn spine. The album was manufactured by the Scovill Manufacturing Company and is called the Howard Album, which had interchangable pages.

The title is imprinted on the front cover. There are 20 board pages in all, including a title page which indicates the album was "offered to G. W. Nott," who retired as the president of Citizen's Bank in 1912. George William Nott was listed as a reference in the first prospectus for Ursuline Academy, published in 1888.

The album contains 37 mounted albumen photographs with handwritten titles on the mount below each print. 3 prints are copies of paintings and letters and 34 are original views of the Ursuline Convent when it was located on Dauphine Street in the Ninth Ward, 1824-1912. Included are exterior and interior views of the buildings, the sisters, and young girls engaged in various activities in and about the convent.