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LakefrontGreatWhiteWayOpening1937
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LakefrontGreatWhiteWayOpening1937

New Orleans, 1937. Showing new electric lighting system and roadway by shorefront of Lake Pontchartrain. Appears to be New Basin Canal at right; area shown is across canal from West End. Original caption: "Opening of the "Great White Way" on Lakefront Drive. The lighting system of the Lakefront Drive is said to be one of the finest in the South and was built by the WPA. Exterior." Notes: Presumably taken from the New Basin Lighthouse.

Date
1937-07-22
Photographer / author
Uncredited WPA photographer
Archive
Wikimedia Commons
Type
photograph
Original size
600 × 432 pixels

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Reason: a US government work (Works Progress Administration).

Read from: Commons licence category: PD US WPA; no CC BY, CC BY-SA, GFDL or deletion tag on the file page.

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"LakefrontGreatWhiteWayOpening1937" (1937-07-22). Uncredited WPA photographer, via Wikimedia Commons. Public domain. https://commons.wikimedia.org/wiki/File:LakefrontGreatWhiteWayOpening1937.jpg

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