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The Old Absinthe House

Date: 09 15 1928
Description: Street scene featuring the Old Absinthe House, a famous New Orleans establishment in the city's French Quarter. The building was built in 1806 by Pedro Fro...
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View Down Canal Street

Date: 1906
Description: View down Canal Street in New Orleans. View is toward the lake from Camp/Chartres Streets. The first building on the right reads "May's Drug Store". The tw...
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Mississippi Steamer being Loaded at Wharf

Date: 1900
Description: View of the T.P. Leathers Steamer at dock. Men can be seen loading cargo onto the ship. Caption reads: "A Mississippi Steamer."
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USS Illinois in Dry Dock

Date: 1901
Description: The USS Illinois in the largest floating dry dock in the world at the time, surrounded by rowboats in the foreground. The battleship was built at Ne...
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Striking Sugar Workers

Date: 1955
Description: Striking members of the United Packinghouse Workers employed by the Colonial Sugar Company in New Orleans, Louisiana, distribute literature to passers-by u...
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Industrial 10-20 Factory Hauling Fiber

Date: 12 21 1925
Description: A man operating a McCormick-Deering 10-20 industrial tractor to haul a long train of carts holding bundles of fiber, possibly for burlap. Another man is lo...
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Burlap Train Entering Warehouse

Date: 1925
Description: A man rides on the back of a train of carts loaded with burlap sacks as it enters the Chase Bag Company warehouse from the steamship dock.
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Launching S.S. Robert M. La Follette

Date: 01 10 1942
Description: S.S. Robert M. La Follette splashing into the Industrial Canal at its launch.
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Chalmette Laundry Truck

Date: 09 22 1938
Description: A man loads boxes and packages into the back of an International D-2 truck owned by the Chalmette Laundry division of the Crescent City Laundries, Incorpor...
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IH 3400 Commercial Bus at Hotel de la Monnaie

Date: 1995
Description: View towards an International model 3400 Commercial Bus parked in front of the Hotel de la Monnaie. The bus is white with red and blue stripes, with the "I...
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Multiple Tractor Scenes — Parks, Cemeteries, Etc.

Date: 1950
Description: Subject: "Multiple Tractor Scenes — Parks, Cemeteries, Etc." Where Taken: "SW." Information with photograph reads: "Used by the Fairgrounds Race Track (New...

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