Long before New Orleans became a pilgrimage for ghost-tour enthusiasts, photographers were already capturing the haunting elegance of St. Louis Cemetery No. 1 — the city's oldest surviving burial ground, established 1789 — and this vivid linen-era card from E.C. Kropp renders it in the warm, saturated palette that made 1930s–40s travel cards so collectible today. The central alley stretches between walls of whitewashed and exposed-brick above-ground tomb niches, their ledges brightened with potted red geraniums; a pyramid-topped obelisk monument dominates the right foreground, its stone face striated with age; iron gates and a Creole cottage building close the background under a peach-and-blue twilight sky. The reverse carries a detailed caption noting the cemetery has been in use 175 years with inscriptions dating to 1800, and names notable interments: chess champion Paul Morphy, historian Gayarré, sugar pioneer Etienne de Bore, and Charles LaSalle, brother of the famous explorer — making this as much a history lesson as a souvenir.