References and Resources

References and Resources

Behrman, Martin

1914    New Orleans: A History of Three Great Public Utilities Sewerage, Water and Drainage and their influence upon the Health and Progress of a Big City. Paper Read by Hon. Martin Behrman, Mayor of New Orleans, LA Before Convention of League of American Municipalities, Milwaukee, WIS., 29, September. Original of speech a 16-page pamphlet, printed by Brandao Print, New Orleans, transcribed by Bill Thayer. < https://penelope.uchicago.edu/Thayer/e/gazetteer/places/america/united_states/louisiana/new_orleans/_texts/Behrman*.html >. Accessed 29 August 2021.

Campanella, Richard

2006    Geographies of New Orleans: Urban fabrics before the storm. Center for Louisiana Studies, Lafayette, LA:

2017    A Look Back at New Orleans’ 300-Year-Long Drainage Drama. Cityscapes Column, NOLA.com. < https://www.nola.com/archive/article_1b472e73-e021-5d3b-bfaa-450bfdb56940.html >. Accessed 29 August 2021.

2023    Draining New Orleans: the 300-Year Quest to Dewater the Crescent City, Louisiana State University Press, New Orleans, Louisiana.

City of New Orleans

1896-1918.      Real Estate Tax Assessment Records: Second Municipality, Sixth District, Microfiche roll CJ430. City Archives and Special Collections, New Orleans Public Library, New Orleans, LA. 

1900-   Sewerage and Water Board House Connection Department: Street Index A-Z, Microfiche roll LLD1. City Archives and Special Collections, New Orleans Public Library, New Orleans, LA.

1900-   Sewerage and Water Board House Connection Department: Foreman's & Inspector Sewerage Reports, Microfiche roll LLD2. City Archives and Special Collections, New Orleans Public Library, New Orleans, LA.

Colten, Craig E.

2002    Basin Street Blues: Drainage and Environmental Equity in New Orleans, 1890-1930. Journal of Historical Geography 28(2):237-257.

2005    An Unnatural Metropolis: Wresting New Orleans from Nature. Louisiana State University Press, Baton Rouge, LA.

Daily Picayune

1906    First Sewer Connection. Daily Picayune, 31 October:5.

Gandy, Matthew

1999    The Paris Sewers and the Rationalization of Urban Space. Transactions of the Institute of British Geographers, 24(1):23–44.

Holt, Joseph.

1879a  History of the Yellow Fever Epidemic in the Fourth District, Annual Report to the Board of Health for 1878, New Orleans, LA. In Maygarden, Benjamin, and Mary Elizabeth Weed and Sara Orton. Development in the St. Thomas Area. Report to the Housing Authority of New Orleans, New Orleans, LA from Earth Search Inc., New Orleans, LA

1879b  The Evil and the Remedy for the Privy System of New Orleans, Annual Report to the Board of Health for 1878, New Orleans, LA. In Maygarden, Benjamin, and Mary Elizabeth Weed and Sara Orton. Development in the St. Thomas Area. Report to the Housing Authority of New Orleans, New Orleans, LA from Earth Search Inc., New Orleans, LA

Kaika, Maria and Erik Swyngedouw

2000    Fetishizing the Modern City: The Phantasmagoria of Urban Technological Networks. International Journal of Urban and Regional Research 24(1):120-138.

Kelman, Ari

2003    A River and Its City: The Nature of Landscape in New Orleans. University of California Press, Berkeley, CA.

Lewis, P. F.

2003    New Orleans: The Making of an Urban Landscape, 2nd edition. Center for American Places in association with the University of Virginia Press, Santa Fe, NM.

Palus, Matthew M.

2005    Building an Architecture of Power: Electricity in Annapolis, Maryland in the 19th and 20th Centuries. In Archaeologies of Materiality, Lynn Meskell, editor, pp. 162-189. Blackwell Publishing, Malden, MA.

2010    Materialities of Government: A Historical Archaeology of Infrastructure in Annapolis and Eastport, 1865 – 1951” Doctoral Dissertation, Columbia University, New York, NY.

Schneller, John III

2016    Electrical Power: Its Advent and Role in Revitalizing and Expanding New Orleans 1880-1915. Masters Thesis, Department of History, University of New Orleans, New Orleans, LA.

Stottman, Jay

2000    Out of Sight, Out of Mind: Privy Architecture and the Perception of Sanitation, In Thematic Issue, View From the Outhouse: What We Can Learn from the Excavation of Privies, Kathleen Wheeler, editor. Thematic Issue, Historical Archaeology 34(1):39-61.

Williams, Jr., Robert

1961    Martin Behrman and New Orleans Civic Development, 1904-1920. Louisiana History 2:373-400.

               

References and Resources