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Lee Circle — a park in New Orleans.

• Photo-postcard view from between the World Wars.
• In park's center is a column monument, with the statue of Robert E. Lee.

• St. Charles Avenue heading uptown is seen at right, long before this was bisected by the Pontchartrain Expressway/Crescent City Connection bridge onramp.
• The "Shriners Temple," refered to in the caption is the Jeruselem Temple, is the orange building a block up St. Charles from the Circle.

• Several buildings gone for decades are visible.

• The neo-Classical building just to the left of the pilar was the old Main branch of the Public Library, built in 1908 and demolished in 1959.
• The Short rectangular building with a pair of arches on its fascade and a flag flying on top was the Sherrouse-Steele Motor-Car Company building, originally a dealership in "Reo" and "Premier" automobiles.
• Behind it with two towers is the Temple Sinai synagogue, built in 1872.