Lakefront Paving

Black and white photograph showing an active worksite in the mid-twentieth century. Some men are digging with shovels, others are standing, others are walking on make-shift plank roads.

Dublin Core

Title

Lakefront Paving

Description

WPA crews prepare to pour concrete on First Avenue, East [at St. John Street, looking towards Canal Boulevard] in the Lakefront Subdivision. Exterior.

Source

Works Progress Administrative Photograph Collection, City Archives & Special Collections, New Orleans Public Library

Date

7/6/1938

Rights

Use with the permission and discretion of the source

Collection

Spanish Fort

Citation

“Lakefront Paving,” GNOArch: The Archaeology of the Greater New Orleans Area, accessed October 22, 2026, https://gnoarch.com/items/show/851.

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