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| Keywords: MilneburgEastFromTracksOLB.jpg New Orleans Milneburg View looking east from the intersection of the L N railroad tracks and the levee at Milneburg Notes The L N line here was the route established in 1830 as the Pontchartrain Rail-Road Location of photo now is Elysian Fields Avenue about at Leon C Simon View shows the typical Milneburg camps buildings on piers in the shallows of Lake Pontchartrain connected by docks rather than streets Photo marked OBL Orleans Levee Board Presumably part of the photographic collection started by the Orleans Levee Board which was taken over by the Works Progress Administration when the WPA took over the lakefront reclamation project from the OLB in the 1930s WPA photo collection Via http //nutrias org/photos/wpa/wpa24 htm Dated on photo 3-4- 19 27 Photographer not credited PD-USGov Milneburg 1927 in New Orleans Pontchartrain Rail-Road | ||||
