New Orleans Outskirts of Factory District 1936
New Orleans, 1936. "Outskirts of factory district. New Orleans. Louisiana". Shows street along railway tracks with somewhat dilapidated 19th century wooden residential architecture; at left part of a billboard is seen showing a school boy reading with the caption "Defective Vision"; behind it is a gasometer.: Location not identified in information. This may be the old "back of town" lakewards from the Central Business District; the gasometer seen in the background at right may be the one formerly at the Poydras Coalworks.
- Date
- 1936-02
- Photographer / author
- Walker Evans
- Collection
- FSA/OWI
- Archive
- Library of Congress (via Wikimedia Commons)
- Type
- photograph
- Original size
- 12,134 × 9,658 pixels
Public domainsafest
Reason: a US government work (Farm Security Administration / Office of War Information).
Read from: Commons licence category: PD US FSA/OWI; no CC BY, CC BY-SA, GFDL or deletion tag on the file page.
Credit line
"New Orleans Outskirts of Factory District 1936" (1936-02). Walker Evans. Library of Congress, Prints and Photographs Division, via Wikimedia Commons. Public domain. https://commons.wikimedia.org/wiki/File:New_Orleans_Outskirts_of_Factory_District_1936.tifNeed photos for a whole script? Add Find Any Photo to Claude and ask for this one by its id: 123039.
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