The Streetcars Of New Orleans

Author : Elbridge Harper Charlton
Publisher : Pelican Publishing
ISBN 13 : 9781455612598
Total Pages : 248 pages
Book Rating : 4.96/5 ( download)

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Download or read book The Streetcars of New Orleans written by Elbridge Harper Charlton and published by Pelican Publishing. This book was released on with total page 248 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: This extensively illustrated, 240-page volume documents the long and colorful history of streetcar transportation in the city of New Orleans. This reprint of a 1965 volume, written by the two leading authorities on the subject, represents the complete work on the subject of New Orleans traction and urban railways. Featured are sections on early city transportation, and the golden era of electric traction (1893-1926), along with technical aspects, trackage, and mileage routes. A series of maps pinpoints, for traction enthusiasts, the locations of tracks no longer extant and provides information on companies that once operated the network of rails. Also included is a special section on the types of cars that were used throughout the traction era. Authors Hennick and Charlton also have collaborated on a companion volume to this work, Street Railways of Louisiana , also published by Pelican.

Author : Hilary Mc Laughlin-Stonham
Publisher : Oxford University Press
ISBN 13 : 1789622247
Total Pages : 272 pages
Book Rating : 4.49/5 ( download)

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Download or read book From Slavery to Civil Rights written by Hilary Mc Laughlin-Stonham and published by Oxford University Press. This book was released on 2020 with total page 272 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: The history of Louisiana from slavery until the Civil Rights Act of 1964 shows that unique influences within the state were responsible for a distinctive political and social culture. In New Orleans, the most populous city in the state, this was reflected in the conflict that arose on segregated streetcars that ran throughout the crescent city. This study chronologically surveys segregation on the streetcars from the antebellum period in which black stereotypes and justification for segregation were formed. It follows the political and social motivation for segregation through reconstruction to the integration of the streetcars and the white resistance in the 1950s while examining the changing political and social climate that evolved over the segregation era. It considers the shifting nature of white supremacy that took hold in New Orleans after the Civil War and how this came to be played out daily, in public, on the streetcars. The paternalistic nature of white supremacy is considered and how this was gradually replaced with an unassailable white supremacist atmosphere that often restricted the actions of whites, as well as blacks, and the effect that this had on urban transport. Streetcars became the 'theatres' for black resistance throughout the era and this survey considers the symbolic part they played in civil rights up to the present day.

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Publisher : Pelican Publishing
ISBN 13 : 9781455601882
Total Pages : 246 pages
Book Rating : 4.88/5 ( download)

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Download or read book Canal Street written by and published by Pelican Publishing. This book was released on with total page 246 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Ext: general view.

Author : Blair Murphy Kelley
Publisher : Univ of North Carolina Press
ISBN 13 : 0807833541
Total Pages : 279 pages
Book Rating : 4.44/5 ( download)

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Download or read book Right to Ride written by Blair Murphy Kelley and published by Univ of North Carolina Press. This book was released on 2010 with total page 279 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Through a reexamination of the earliest struggles against Jim Crow, Blair Kelley exposes the fullness of African American efforts to resist the passage of segregation laws dividing trains and streetcars by race in the early Jim Crow era. Right to Ride<

Author : Lucy Gallun
Publisher : MoMA One on One Series
ISBN 13 : 9781633451193
Total Pages : 47 pages
Book Rating : 4.94/5 ( download)

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Download or read book Robert Frank written by Lucy Gallun and published by MoMA One on One Series. This book was released on 2021 with total page 47 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: During an extended road trip across the United States, Robert Frank pointed his camera lens at a passing trolley in New Orleans, took a single exposure, and then turned back to bustling Canal Street, where crowds of people swarmed the sidewalks. That single click of the shutter produced a picture with enduring clarity: a row of windows framing the streetcar's passengers--white passengers in the front, Black passengers in the back. An essay by curator Lucy Gallun explores images in the context of Frank's photobook The Americans and in relation to other photographs of the 1950s and '60s.

Author : Edward J. Branley
Publisher : Arcadia Publishing
ISBN 13 : 9780738516059
Total Pages : 132 pages
Book Rating : 4.58/5 ( download)

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Download or read book New Orleans written by Edward J. Branley and published by Arcadia Publishing. This book was released on 2004 with total page 132 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: The clanging of a streetcar's bell conjures images of a time when street railways were a normal part of life in the city. Historic Canal Street represents the common ground between old and new with buses driving alongside steel rails and electric wires that once guided streetcars. New Orleans was one of the first cities to embrace street railways, and the city's love affair with streetcars has never ceased. New Orleans: The Canal Streetcar Line showcases photographs, diagrams, and maps that detail the rail line from its origin and golden years, its decline and disappearance for almost 40 years, and its return to operation. From the French Quarter to the cemeteries, the Canal Line ran through the heart of the city and linked the Creole Faubourgs with the new neighborhoods that stretched to Lake Pontchartrain.

Author : Kenneth C. Springirth
Publisher : Fonthill Media
ISBN 13 :
Total Pages : pages
Book Rating : 4./5 ( download)

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Download or read book New Orleans Fabulous Streetcars written by Kenneth C. Springirth and published by Fonthill Media. This book was released on 2017-01-24 with total page pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:

Author : Edward J. Branley
Publisher : Arcadia Publishing
ISBN 13 : 1439629501
Total Pages : 128 pages
Book Rating : 4.05/5 ( download)

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Download or read book New Orleans written by Edward J. Branley and published by Arcadia Publishing. This book was released on 2004-03-24 with total page 128 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: The clanging of a streetcar's bell conjures images of a time when street railways were a normal part of life in the city. Historic Canal Street represents the common ground between old and new with buses driving alongside steel rails and electric wires that once guided streetcars. New Orleans was one of the first cities to embrace street railways, and the city's love affair with streetcars has never ceased. New Orleans: The Canal Streetcar Line showcases photographs, diagrams, and maps that detail the rail line from its origin and golden years, its decline and disappearance for almost 40 years, and its return to operation. From the French Quarter to the cemeteries, the Canal Line ran through the heart of the city and linked the Creole Faubourgs with the new neighborhoods that stretched to Lake Pontchartrain.

Author : Lawrence N. Powell
Publisher : Harvard University Press
ISBN 13 : 0674065441
Total Pages : 449 pages
Book Rating : 4.44/5 ( download)

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Download or read book The Accidental City written by Lawrence N. Powell and published by Harvard University Press. This book was released on 2012-04-13 with total page 449 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Chronicles the history of the city from its being contended over as swampland through Louisiana's statehood in 1812, discussing its motley identities as a French village, African market town, Spanish fortress, and trade center.

Author : Edward J. Branley
Publisher : Arcadia Publishing
ISBN 13 : 143966269X
Total Pages : 144 pages
Book Rating : 4.94/5 ( download)

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Download or read book Krauss written by Edward J. Branley and published by Arcadia Publishing. This book was released on 2017-09-25 with total page 144 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: For almost one hundred years, generations of New Orleans shoppers flocked to Krauss. The Canal Street store was hailed for its vast merchandise selection and quality customer service. In its early days, it sold lace and fabric to the ladies of the notorious red-light district of Storyville. The store's renowned lunch counter, Eddie's at Krauss, served Eddie Baquet's authentic New Orleans cuisine to customers and celebrities such as Julia Child. Although the beloved store finally closed its doors in 1997, Krauss is still fondly remembered as a retail haven. With vintage photographs, interviews with store insiders and a wealth of research, historian Edward J. Branley brings the story of New Orleans' Creole department store back to life.