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Spanish Fort by Moonlight, the Coney Island of New Orleans, La., Side 1

View s howing the Spanish Fort Bath House and adjacent water slide as they appeared on 26 August 1922

Aerial view showing Spanish Fort and Bayou St. John areas as they appeared in 1922. The recently-installed Big Dipper roller coaster (scenic railway) is shown in Spanish Fort Park.

View looking down a wooden slide ending in the lake, an early water slide; Spanish Fort was the sight of an amusement park.

Attached text: This panoramic view of New Orleans' central business district shows, at lower left, the giant $5 million South Claiborne Overpass, and, at right, the new Union Passenger Terminal. in the lower center of the photo can be seen South…

South Claiborne Avenue Overpass from Tulane Avenue east bound, showing Cleveland Street on-ramp Attached text: Rapidly approaching completion is the section of Interstate 10 from Orleans Avenue to Tulane Avenue. This project of the State Highway…

South Claiborne Overpass from Poydras to Canal

Interspersed within shell middens are numerous other types of material remains: bits of pottery, stone and bone tools, items of adornment, animal bones discarded from meals, and even human burials. Some shell middens also contain distinct living…

Social status of ‘Gente de Color’ buried in St. Peter Street Cemetery in selected year

Snake in Excavation Unit