Date: | 1906 |
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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... |
Date: | 1900 |
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Description: | View of the T.P. Leathers Steamer at dock. Men can be seen loading cargo onto the ship. Caption reads: "A Mississippi Steamer." |
Date: | 1901 |
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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... |
Date: | 08 16 1955 |
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Description: | Elevated view of scabs hired by the Colonial Sugar Company of New Orleans gathering around a diner. United Packinghouse Workers Local 1124 was then on stri... |
Date: | 1948 |
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Description: | Two members of United Packinghouse Workers Local 1124 in New Orleans on strike against the Colonial Sugar Company. They graphically symbolize the UPWA's d... |
Date: | 11 1946 |
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Description: | Senator Claude Pepper of Florida greets admirers at the annual convention of the Southern Conference for Human Welfare. Pepper was present to deliver the k... |
Date: | 11 1946 |
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Description: | Delegates to the annual convention of the Southern Conference for Human Welfare gather outside the convention hall. |
Date: | 11 1946 |
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Description: | Mary McLeod Bethune, noted civil rights leader and educator, is introduced to the audience at the annual convention of the Southern Conference for Human Ri... |
Date: | 11 1946 |
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Description: | Mary McLeod Bethune (left), noted educator and civil rights leader, at the annual convention of the Southern Conference for Human Rights. The woman to her... |
Date: | 11 1946 |
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Description: | Delegates to the annual convention of the Southern Conference for Human Welfare (SCHW) vote on a resolution. |
Date: | 11 1946 |
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Description: | Aubrey Williams (seated at right), who would become president of the Southern Conference Education Fund (SCEF) at the annual convention of the Southern Con... |
Date: | 01 10 1942 |
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Description: | S.S. Robert M. La Follette splashing into the Industrial Canal at its launch. |
Date: | 1972 |
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Description: | Three children stand holding signs along with adults. They're protesting city neglect of the Ninth Ward in New Orleans. In the background are musicians on ... |
Date: | 09 10 1965 |
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Description: | A New Orleans group hold signs as they rally at Mercy Seat Baptist Church for compensation for lives lost and 25,000 homes ruined during a flood. Reverend ... |
Date: | 1930 |
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Description: | View of a log cabin with large glass windows overlooking a lake. |
Date: | 1910 |
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Description: | View of the Morgan's Louisiana and Texas Railway engine, the Sabine, on display. The engine is situated on an elevated piece of land surrounded by shrubs. ... |
Date: | 1901 |
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Description: | A view of oil wells in Louisiana. On October 7, 1901, oil gushed to a height of seventy-five or eighty feet, continuing for seven hours. Caption reads: "Gu... |
Date: | 1920 |
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Description: | Aerial view of the Baldwin Lumber Company, which sits next to a river. The main building consists of two long, rectangular structures that sit perpendicula... |
Date: | 1963 |
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Description: | Nathaniel Smith and Ernest Morgan enter the St. Francisville courthouse to vote. Three white men are sitting on a porch railing outside of the courthouse. |
Date: | 1917 |
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Description: | Recruitment poster for the U.S. Marines. Poster text reads: "Americans! Eyes Open! Mouths Shut! Help win the war by obeying these rules. Do not repeat any ... |
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