New Orleans Public Service removed the infamous "race screens" from local buses and streetcars in 1958. Many of us remember them, but few--if any--of us miss these symbols of segregation. That use of the screens was institutionalized within the NOPSI organization is testified to by this memorandum. [City Archives. Law Dept. Records]

Form 542COPY 12-26-2m NEW ORLEANS PUBLIC SERVICE INC. TRANSPORTATION DEPARTMENT ORDER No. 1128 Subject: ADJUSTING RACE SCREENS COPY Date March 6, 1928. TO ALL TRANSPORTATION EMPLOYEES:- We have received quite a number of complaints from the public lately to the effect that some of our conductors will not attempt to seat white passengers when it is possible to do so, by having the colored passengers who occupy a single seat to move to another seat occupied by only one passenger. It is the conductor's duty to see that the race screens are placed in the cars at all times in such a way as to prevent too many seats being occupied by the single colored passenger. This arrangement can only be had by the conductor requesting the colored passengers to change from the single window seat to another seat that is occupied by only one other colored passenger. If your request is refused do not attempt to force the passenger off the car but call the first Police Officer you meet and enlist his aid in having the passenger move. Be sure that you personally make the request upon the passenger to move and not indifferently shift that responsibility upon the person making the request to be seated, in cases where a seat is to be had, thru a shift of the colored passenger, nor tell them you cannot do anything that might assist them in obtaining a seat. Division Superintendent Approved:- (signed) D. C. O'Dowd Supt. of Transportation Copies to: Arabella Prytania Carrollton Canal Poland Canal & Wells Canal & Bourbon Switchboard Training School Mr. A. B. Paterson Mr. A. B. Mc Coard Mr. W. H. Renaud, Jr. Mr. J. C. Barnes Mr. F. E. Bourgeois Mr. A. E. Kern Mr. E. T. Colton Mr. J. J. Kornfeld Mr. P. Mc Kay Mr. A. J. Sarre Division #194

The second Cotton Exchange building stood at the corner of Gravier and Carondelet Streets from 1883 until its demolition and replacement in 1920. The Cotton Exchange itself is now just a memory, but its third building still stands. [Louisiana Photograph Collection]

The day General Lee flew--January 19, 1954. The year before, major renovations to the deteriorating foundation of the seventy-year-old Lee Monument, required that the statue of Robert E. Lee and its tall pedestal be dismantled and stored away. When the repairs were completed, the statue was replaced and General Lee resumed his perch over Lee Circle, with his back to the North. [Louisiana Photograph Collection. General Interest Collection]

New Orleans was in a state of turmoil on April 26, 1862. The Union fleet had reached the port one day earlier and Admiral David Farragut was demanding the city's surrender. Mayor Monroe urged his fellow citizens to keep the peace during negotiations with the Federal leaders. He surrendered the city four days later. Look elsewhere in this exhibit for the Union "response" to this proclamation. [City Archives. Office of the Mayor Records]

TO THE CITIZENS OF NEW ORLEANS MAYOR'S OFFICE, APRIL 26th, 1862 The sad & melancholy circumstances through which we are passing require the utmost wisdom and forbearance on the part of our citizens. They should not suffer themselves to be carried away by too keen a sense of the difficulties by which they are surrounded, but ought, on the contrary, to aid the Municipal Authority in maintaining order in the city. To facilitate my duties as the constituted Chief of the Police, I have called to my assistance the services of the European Brigade, and they have been invested by me with the duty of watching over the public tranquility. Patrols under the direction of the Commanding Officer of said Brigade should be treated with respect and obeyed. John T. Monroe Mayor Approved: WM. FRERET, Chairman Safety Committee

The oaks on North Claiborne Avenue, August 1966, before they were destroyed to make way for Interstate 10 and the surrounding neighborhood was irrevocably changed. [Louisiana Photograph Collection. Municipal Government Collection; Department of Streets Series]	Remember when this, the Highway 11 bridge over Lake Pontchartrain, was the longest bridge in the world? Remember when the Lake Pontchartrain Causeway had that title? History does repeat itself, if only temporarily. [Louisiana Postcard Collection: Bridges]

This notice recalls the days when our four-legged friends supplied us with a major means of intracity transportation. Animal rights activists and city officials are still trying to make sure that today's version of the "Hot Weather Rules" are enforced. The public horse troughs are now just a memory. [Rare Vertical File: Broadsides]

The Louisiana State Society for the Prevention of Cruelty to Animals 805 HOWARD AVENUE NEAR CARONDELET STREET New Orleans, La. E.S. Fremont, Supt. NEW ORLEANS, LA., May, 1915 HOT WEATHER RULES: Load lightly and drive slowly. Stop in the shade, if possible. Water your horse as often as possible. So long as a horse is working, water, in moderate quantities, will not hurt him. But let him drink only a few swallows if he is going to stand still. When he comes in after work sponge off the harness marks and sweat, his eyes, his nose and his mouth and the dock. Wash his feet but not his legs. If the thermometer is 75 degrees or higher, wipe him all over with a wet sponge. Use vinegar water, if possible. Do not turn the hose on him. Saturday night give him a bran mash cold and add a tablespoonful of saltpetre. Feed him at noon. Do not use a horse hat, unless it is a canopy-top hat. The ordinary bell-shaped hat does more harm than good. A sponge on top of the head or even a wet cloth is good, if kept wet. If dry, it is worse than nothing. If the horse is overcome by heat, get him into the shade, remove harness and bridle, wash out his mouth, sponge him all over, shower his legs and five him four ounces of aromatic spirits of ammonia, or two ounces of sweet spirits of nitre, in a pint of water, or give him a pint of coffee, warm. Cool his head at once, using cold water, or if convenient, chopped ice wrapped in a cloth. Call ambulance and have animal removed to hospital, or call professional aid. If the horse is off his feed, try him with two quarts of oats mixed with bran and add a little water; add a little salt or sugar. Or give him oatmeal gruel or barley water to drink. Watch your horse. If he stops sweating suddenly, or if he breaths short and quick, or if his ears droop, or if he stands with his legs braced sideways, he is in danger of heat or sunstroke and needs attention at once. If it is so hot that the horse sweats in the stable at night, tie him outside. Unless he cools off during the night he cannot well stand the next day's heat. Our Office is open all day and night. Telephone Main 51. Telephone stations receive all calls for this number free of charge. LOCATION OF TROUGHS. Up Town Carrollton and St. Charles Ave. Carrollton and Mobile Canal Carrollton and New Basin Claiborne and Washington Dryades and Thalia Fourth and Carondelet Howard Ave. and Annunciation Howard Ave. and Carondelet Howard Ave. and Baronne Julia and Fulton Julia and S. Rampart Julia and Magnolia Julia and River Front Jackson Ave. and St. Charles Louisiana Ave. and Tchoupitoulas Louisiana Ave. and Magazine Laurel and Calhoun Magnolia and Washington Magnolia and Berlin Napoleon Ave. and Magazine Napoleon Ave. and St. Charles Newton and Tech [sic] (Algiers) Nashville Ave. and Magazine Tchoupitoulas and St. Mary Metairie Ridge Down Town Bienville and River Front Burgundy and Lafayette Ave. Burgundy and Poland Canal and Front Canal and Galvez Canal and Carrollton Ave. Canal and Anthony Claiborne and Carondelet Walk Claiborne and St. Bernard Ave. Claiborne and Frenchmen Dorgenois and Aubry Esplanade and N. Peters Esplanade and N. Rampart Esplanade and Moss Gentilly Road and Frenchmen Gentilly Road and Eastern Gravier and Rampart Hagan Ave. and Dumaine Poydras and S. Peters Press and Urquhart St. Louis and Villere St. Claude and Kentucky Tulane Ave. and Galvez Tulane Ave. and Broad Tulane Ave. and Hagan Ave. IF ANY TROUGHS ARE FOUND UNCLEAN OR OUT OF ORDER, PLEASE PHONE MAIN 51.

The Rolling Stones at the Superdome. The Beatles at City Park Stadium. Louis Armstrong's triumphal homecoming at the Suburban Gardens in 1931. Jenny Lind, the Swedish Nightingale, at the St. Charles Theatre. Music superstars have been coming to play New Orleans for a very long time indeed. [Rare Vertical File: Programs--Concerts]

Remember when the now empty acres at the corner of Tulane Avenue and South Jefferson Davis Parkway housed a sprawling industrial complex? Just in case you don't, we've included this illustrated letterhead as proof! The Dibert, Bancroft and Ross foundry closed shop in the late 1960s, but we are reminded of its past every time we walk across a NOPSI manhole cover. [Rare Vertical File: Letterheads--Twentieth Century Business Firms]

St. Mary's Academy, still a vital educational institution in the Crescent City, began its days in the old Orleans Ballroom, famous as the setting for the legendary "quadroon balls" of the antebellum era. This prospectus gives us a glimpse of what life was like for young black women at the school on Orleans Street in the Vieux Carre. [Rare Vertical File: Prospectuses]

[Cover] St. Mary's Academy . . . . FOR . . . . YOUNG LADIES . . DIRECTED BY . . The Sisters of the Holy Family, No. 717 ORLEANS STREET, Between Royal and Bourbon, NEW ORLEANS, LA. INCORPORATED IN 1880. T. FITZWILLIAM & CO., PRINTERS AND ENGRAVERS, N.O. [Page 1] . . PROSPECTUS . . The Religious Congregation having this name was established in 1842, by the Rev. S. Rousselon, V.G., with the approbation of the Most Reverend Anthony Blanc, D. D., and his successors, and received a special blessing from our present Holy Father Leo XIII, for their works of education. The members of this community follow the rule of the great St. Augustine in all its vigor for active orders. Parents and guardians may rest assured that the Sisters consider themselves bound to respond to the confidence placed in them by giving their pupils a Christian and Virtuous education, strictly attending to their intellectual improvement, cultivating that refinement of manners which will fit them for Society and giving them that physical care which they would receive under the parental roof. The Course of Instruction embraces: Reading, Penmanship, Spelling, Orthography, Grammar, Composition, Geography, Science, Geology, Astronomy, Chemistry, Rhetoric, Physics, Natural Philosophy, Arithmetic, United States History, Algebra, Book-keeping and Typewriting. Sewing in all its branches: Embroidery, Crochet, Tapestry, Tarleton Flowers, Drawing, Painting, French , Spanish, (Vocal and Instrumental Music.) DRESS FOR THE BOARDERS Every Pupil must be provided with six regular changes of linen, six Pairs of Stockings, a sufficient number of Dresses, four Night, Gowns, three Black Alpaca Aprons for school. Each Pupil must have a White Dress, also an Umbrella; a Toilet Set consisting of : a Hair, a Tooth, and a Finger-nail Brush, a Comb, Tooth-powder and Soap; Table Furniture: consisting of a Goblet, Knife and Fork, a Table and Teaspoon, A Napkin-ring and six Napkins; six Towels, four Sheets, four Pillow Cases, two Blankets, one Comforter, one Mosquito Bar. All Articles must be Marked with the Pupil's name before her entrance. [page 2] TERMS IN ADVANCE Board and Tuition, per month .......... $15.00 Fuel for the Winter .......... 1.50 Books, at Convent Prices DAY SCHOLARS First Class, per month .......... $3.00 Second Class, per month .......... 2.00 Third Class, per month .......... 1.00 EXTRA CHARGES Lessons on the Piano, per month .......... $3.00 Lessons on the Guitar, per month .......... 3.00 Lessons on the Organ, per month .......... 3.00 Lessons on the Mandolin, per month .......... 3.00 Lessons in Typewriting, per month .......... 7.00 Lessons in Oil Painting, per month .......... 5.00 Lessons in Drawing, per month .......... 3.00 Lessons in French, per month .......... 1.00 Lessons in Spanish, per month .......... 1.00 Wax Flowers, per month .......... 3.00 Wax Confectionary .......... 3.00 Tarleton Flowers .......... 4.00 Material for Wax Flowers .......... 5.00 Vocal Music .......... 1.00 Fish Scale Flowers .......... 3.00 A Semi-Annual Report of the progress of each pupil, will be sent to the parents or guardians. In these Reports, the Standing of the Pupil will be represented. When Pupils have finished the prescribed Courses, a Testimonial of Merit will be given to each one who has passed a good examination. Payments must invariably be made in advance, or within one month after the Bill is sent. The Exercises of the Academy will be resumed on the First Monday in September. Parents will find it to their advantage to send their Children as soon as School commences. Letters of inquiry are to be directed to the MOTHER SUPERIORESS, Convent of the Holy Family, No. 717 Orleans Street, NEW ORLEANS, LA.

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