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TulaneAveWPASurgicalSupplyStKatherine1936

New Orleans, 1936. Original caption: "WPA crews demolished the old Charity Hospital buildings to make way for the new $12,000,000 structure built by PWA. Exterior.": "WPA" = Works Progress Administration; "PWA" = Public Works Administration: View is looking riverwards across Tulane Avenue from roof of old Charity building under process of demolition. The Church partially visible at right (since demolished) was the original St. Joseph's, in the 1890s after St. Joseph's moved to the new larger church building across Claiborne Avenue it was rededicated as St. Katherine's, serving the area's "Negro" Roman Catholics.

Date
1936-11-04
Photographer / author
Uncredited WPA photographer
Archive
Wikimedia Commons
Type
photograph
Original size
600 × 471 pixels

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

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"TulaneAveWPASurgicalSupplyStKatherine1936" (1936-11-04). Uncredited WPA photographer, via Wikimedia Commons. Public domain. https://commons.wikimedia.org/wiki/File:TulaneAveWPASurgicalSupplyStKatherine1936.jpg

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