These views look in (toward the river) from Carondelet Street.  The top picture features the Touro Building, on the downtown side of Canal Street at the corner of Bourbon.  Note the unusually large separation between the two inner tracks at the left side of the picture.  In the middle and bottom pictures, we see that the curve from Carondelet to Canal, in the foreground, passes under a leg of the steel tower; that tower had not yet been built when the top picture was taken.  At the next intersection, St. Charles/Royal, we can see the back of the Clay statue, and beyond that, the gazebo or fountain at the Camp/Chartres intersection (for a closeup of this gazebo, see Picture 66).  In the middle picture, all the horsecars in the block between Carondelet and St. Charles are coming toward us.  We can clearly see the mules leading the cars on the third track from the camera in the middle picture.  This confirms that cars operated lakebound on all except the rightmost two tracks.  Two different stereo cards containing the middle picture are known, one copyrighted 1891, the other 1904.  By 1904, the horsecar lines had been electrified for nine years, so the 1891 date seems more likely.  In the bottom picture, we see all four inner tracks of the New Orleans City & Lake RR occupied, three with cars facing out (lakebound, toward us) awaiting the start of their next runs, and the right one with cars facing inward (away from us) toward the turntable just this side of the Clay statue.  This picture also gives us a clear view of a ticket booth in the left foreground, with signs saying “Tickets for West End” and, on a window, “Lake RR”; presumably, windows that we can't read said “New Orleans City and”.  Note in the foreground the “ballast block” paving of the streets. — S. T. Blessing (top), J. F. Jarvis (middle), collection of Jessica Spring (bottom)