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Archaeologist in action taking detailed notes from a hand-excavated test unit, with the backhoe used for stripping the surface in the background.

Mapping features revealed near the surface of Trench 6.

Archaeologists clearing off top layer of soil exposed by heavy machinery.

Pieces of a clear cake stand of glass decorated in pressed patterns of diamonds, fluting, circles, cross-hatching and fan patterns.

Thurgood Marshall School at 4621 Canal Street taken in 2017

Excavation in progress showing top wall of lined privy pit

Four toys recovered from this site: a chess piece, doll face fragment, and two doll leg pieces

One whole whiteware ceramic teacup and one pieced together cup with burned and unburned sections

Wall of excavation unit showing pile of crushed, burned, and buried medical waste

Yellow fever sufferer in a Veracruz hospital, 1892. Wikipedia Commons