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

Bathing beach under construction by WPA on the Lakefront Drive between Shushan Airport and Little Woods. Exterior.

Six early-twentieth century pale blue-green bottles and bottle fragments displayed on black velvet with a fifteen-centimter scale bar
Series of late-nineteenth, early-twentieth century bottles from Killdeer locus farther away from Spanish Fort

Lead Bullet Casings

A modern map showing 81 neighborhoods of New Orleans, major roads, and major waterways. All neighborhoods are in green, except for the neighborhoods Lakeview, Lake Vista, and Lake Terrace and Oaks, as well as the Lakefront Airport, which are the color of water and outlined with dashes.
Map showing the inclusion of Lake Vista, Lakeview, Lakefront Airport, and Lake Terrace and Oaks

Corroded cupreous metal medallion on displayed on black velvet with a five-centimeter scale bar.
Rex 'Souvenir of the Mardi Gras' Medallion, 1892

Black and white photograph showing a man in mid-twentieth century clothes, chaps, and a bowler hat holding a pump sprayer. The photograph shows houses in the distance and marsh grass in the foreground.
WPA workers are shown here spraying fuel oil to kill malaria mosquitoes in the area adjacent to the U.S. Army's recreation center and other army and navy facilities on the lakefront. The work of malaria control is being carried on under a national…

Colorless mug with words “SPANISH FORT RESORT” displayed on black velvet with a fifteen-centimeter scale bar.
Mug embossed 'Spanish Fort'

Nineteenth-century British pottery

Inscribed with the number "79" and a bird. Possibly Spanish uniform button
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