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Excavation in progress showing top wall of lined privy pit

Tooth from Interior of Burial #16 coffin

Tomb of the Unknown Slave at St. Augustine Catholic Church

Broadside advertising a sanitation system, showing two men operating a sanitation pump on a street; text below explains use of system, advantages, etc.; New Orleans dealer is New Orleans Sanitary Excavating Company, 153 Common Street.

Tin-enameled European pottery (top) and Native pottery (bottom) from post-in-ground structure

"Old Cemetery Dug Up: Twenty-five Skeletons Unearthed by Sewerage Workers"

Thurgood Marshall School at 4621 Canal Street taken in 2017

Three Outhouses (dirty) and laundry and tree (1904).

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

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.
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