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Black and white photograph of men working in the mid-twentieth century. Men are standing or digging with shovels on either side of a ditch, centered around a pulley. A large industrial building is in the background; marsh grass is in the foreground.
WPA workers are extending water lines to supply the Army and Navy facilities on the lakefront. A total of 1,100 feet of 12 and 16 inch water pipe has been extended from Franklin Avenue and Dreux Street. The line will be extended another 1,100 feet to…

Black and white photograph showing a man mid-twentieth century clothing pointing to a large hole in the ground. He appears to be standing in a large ditch.
Cypress stumps several feet in circumference had to be removed in some sections of the Lakefront Subdivision so WPA workers could backfill and lay concrete paving. Exterior.

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.

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…

A cropped map shows the location of “Spanish Fort” by the water’s edge. Other original text on the page reads “OLD FORT,” “HOTEL,” DEPOT,” LAWN,” “OPERA,” and “CASINO.” Four red triangles are imposed on the page to display the excavations in relation to the old fort and the shore line. The waterways Bayou St. John and Lake Pontchartrain have been labeled.
Close up of the area on the ca. 1884 map depicting Spanish Fort with approximate markers of artifact-rich locations along the Killdeer Street Waterline Trench.

Copper Deutschmark displayed on black velvet with ten-centimeter scale bar.
A German "1891" Mark coin marked "1".

Two complete pale blue-green water bottles. One reads, “New Hope Manufacturing Company,” the other “1922 Bienville Av.”, displayed on black velvet with ten-centimeter scale bar.
Water bottles from New Hope Manufacturing Company, 1922 Bienville Street, Louisiana

Two colorless glass tumbler fragments; one rim and one with a sunburst pattern base, displayed on black velvet with ten-centimeter scale bar.
Tumbler base and body
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