Louisiana Division/City Archives   New Orleans Public Library

Images of the Month Gallery
March 2005

This month's images are taken from various issues of the New Orleans Times-Picayune for March, 1930, and provide a glimpse (admittedly selective) of what was going on in the city seventy-five years ago. The selection is limited to local articles and leans heavily toward the "lighter side" of the news. The text presented in bold type is quoted from the captions accompanying each image in the newspaper.

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2/24/2005