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Posted by: Ellen Terrell
This great black and white photo was taken around 1910 and features the French Market in New Orleans. It’s not too far from Mme Begues, the subject of a recent blog post. The location of the French Market – near the Mississippi River and later the railroad tracks – has long been a place for …
Posted in: Business, New Orleans
Posted by: Ellen Terrell
The Soulé Commercial College and Literary Institute taught business skills in New Orleans for many years - read a bit about its history.
Posted in: Business, New Orleans
Posted by: Ellen Terrell
This is a picture of the building that served as the US Mint branch on Esplanade Avenue on the edge of the French Quarter in New Orleans. The Mint in New Orleans was in operation during two separate periods – from 1838 to January 1861 and again from 1879 to 1910. While it hasn’t been …
Posted in: Business, New Orleans
Posted by: Ellen Terrell
This great black and white photo taken some time between 1900 and 1906 features a restaurant in New Orleans at the corner of Decatur and Madison – right down the street from Jackson Square. The restaurant – H. Bégué’s Exchange – was opened in 1863 by husband and wife Hippolyte Bégué and Elizabeth Kettenring Dutreuil …
Posted in: Business, Heritage Months, Holidays, and Today in History, New Orleans
Posted by: Ellen Terrell
In June 2017 the Washington Post featured a story about The Negro Motorist Green Book published from the mid 1930’s until the late 1960‘s and used by African American travelers in the United States. I had heard about them and figured we had them, which we do (New York Public Library has digitized a number …
Posted in: African American History, Business, Heritage Months, Holidays, and Today in History, New Orleans
Posted by: Ellen Terrell
While looking for images to use for various things we are doing for the New Orleans 2018 Tricentennial celebration, I ran across these wonderful images. The focus of both is a monument to Henry Clay, but beyond the statue itself, the details in both photos are great and contain a number of interesting things, such …
Posted in: Heritage Months, Holidays, and Today in History, New Orleans
Posted by: Ellen Terrell
The first official post celebrating the business history of New Orleans at it's tricentennial.
Posted in: Business, Heritage Months, Holidays, and Today in History, New Orleans
Posted by: Ellen Terrell
Read a little about the busy Christmas season at the US Post Office.
Posted in: Business, Heritage Months, Holidays, and Today in History, World War I
Posted by: Ellen Terrell
Even with the wide availability, popularity and convenience of both frozen and bakery pies, many people continued to bake their own pumpkin pies. For some late 20th century cooks, that may have meant stewing a pie pumpkin, but many baby boomers grew up associating pumpkin pie with the recipe on the back of the pumpkin can, the one with evaporated milk, eggs, canned pumpkin, a prebaked crust—and pumpkin pie spice.
Posted in: Cookbooks and Food, Heritage Months, Holidays, and Today in History, Science