New Orleans City Guide
1st Edition
Published on 15. August 2011
430 pages
978-1-891053-40-5 (ISBN)
Description
In 1938, under the direction of novelist and historian Lyle Saxon, The Federal Writers' Project of the Works Progress Administration produced this delightfully detailed portrait of New Orleans. Containing recipes, photographs and folklore, it is consistently hailed as one of the best books produced about the city. Remarkably, many of the sites and attractions the WPA chronicled in 1938 are still around today.
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Language
English
Place of publication
New York
United States
File size
25,90 MB
ISBN-13
978-1-891053-40-5 (9781891053405)
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Project of the Works Progress Administration
New Orleans City Guide 1938
Book
03/2009
Garrett County Press
€18.50
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Content
- NEW ORLEANS CITY GUIDE 1938
- CONTENTS
- Foreword
- Foreword
- Preface
- New Orleans - Old and New
- General Information
- Church Guide
- Hotel and Other Accomodations
- Night Life
- Recreational Facilities
- Amateur and Professional Sports Events
- Restaurants
- Calendar of Events
- I. NEW ORLEANS: THE GENERAL BACKGROUND
- Natural Setting
- History
- Government
- Racial Distribution
- II. ECONOMIC AND SOCIAL DEVELOPMENT
- Commerce, Industry, and Labor
- Transportation
- Folkways
- Social Life and Social Welfare
- Education
- Relgion
- Sports and Recreation
- Radio
- Newspapers
- Arts and Crafts
- Literature
- Theater
- Music
- Architecture
- Science
- Creole Cuisine
- The Carnival
- Cemeteries
- Some Negro Cults
- Gay Times In Old New Orleans
- Gardens
- III. SECTIONAL DESCRIPTIONS AND TOURS
- French Quarter Tour
- Water-Front Tour
- Motor Tour 1 (Canal Street to Lake-Front)
- Motor Tour 2 (Bayou Road to City Park)
- Motor Tour 3 (Audubon Park to Universities)
- Motor Tour 4 (Irish Channel to Garden District)
- Algiers Tour
- Here and There
- Environs
- Plantation Tour
- St. Bernard - Plaquemines Tour
- New Orleans - Covington Tour
- Plaquemines - Delta Tour
- New Orleans - Grand Isle Tour
- Checklist of Some Noted Personalities
- Chronology
- Street Names in New Orleans
- Place Names
- Glossary
- Bibliography
- Index
