Lake Pontchartrain (Images of America)

The New Land

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This 1936 photograph includes a scale model of a section of the land reclamation project for the New Orleans lakeshore. This housing development would be built on what was formerly the lake. (Courtesy New Orleans Public Library.)

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By 1937 the New Orleans lakeshore had been coined the "Great White Way" and was said to have one of the finest lighting systems in the South. Here is view of West End Boulevard looking from the lake. The New Basin Canal is on the right. (Courtesy New Orleans Public Library.)

    

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Excerpts from New Orleans City Park (Images of America)

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The Beginning
Milneburg
West End
Back to the Bayou
Lighthouses
Literature
Jazz
Change
War and Peaceful Pursuits
Life on the Lake
Photo Gallery
Acknowledgments
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