New Orleans City Guide
Subtitle: Looking back at the Future
By: written and compiled by the Federal Writers' Project of the Works Progress Administration for the city of New Orleans ...
Series: American guide series
Publisher: Houghton Mifflin Company
Published: 1938
Place of publication: Boston
Language: eng
Format: Hardcover
Number of pages: 430
Subjects: New Orleans (La.); New Orleans (La.) -- Guidebooks
Description: This edition provides the complete and original table of contents.
Table of contents: title: FOREWORD v; title: By Harry L. Hopkins, Federal Administrator, Works Progress; title: Administration; title: FOREWORD vii; title: By Robert S. Maestri, Mayor of New Orleans; title: PREFACE ix; label: By Lyle Saxon, State Director, Federal Writers' Project; label: NEW ORLEANS OLD AND NEW xix; label: GENERAL INFORMATION xxv; label: CHURCH GUIDE xxvii; label: HOTEL AND OTHER ACCOMMODATIONS xxxiii; label: NIGHT LIFE xxxvii; label: RECREATIONAL FACILITIES Ixi; label: Amateur and Professional Sports Events; label: RESTAURANTS liii; label: CALENDAR OF EVENTS Ixiii; label: I. NEW ORLEANS: THE GENERAL BACKGROUND; label: NATURAL SETTING 3; label: HISTORY 7; label: GOVERNMENT 40; label: RACIAL DISTRIBUTION 43; label: II. Economic and Social Development; label: Commerce, Industry and Labor 47; label: Transportation 51; label: Folkways 56; label: Social Life and Social Welfare 67; label: Education 72; label: Sports and Recreation 77; label: Radio 84; label: Newspapers 88; label: Arts and Crafts 90; label: Literature 109; label: Theater 123; label: Music 131; label: Architecture 145; label: Science 156; label: Creole Cuisine 163; label: The Carnival 174; label: Cemeteries 186; label: Some Negro Cults 199; label: Gay Times in Old New Orleans 212; label: Gardens 220; title: III. Sectional Descriptions and Tours; label: French Quarter Tour 229; label: Water-Front Tour 270; label: Motor Tour 1 (Canal Street to Lake-Front) 286; label: Motor Tour 2 (Bayou Road to City Park) 304; label: Motor Tour 3 (Audubon Park to Universities) 313; label: Motor Tour 4 (Irish Channel to Garden District) 345; label: Algiers Tour 358; label: Here and There 363; title: Environs; label: Plantation Tour 371; label: St. Bernard - Plaquemines Tour 379; label: New Orleans - Covington Tour 384; label: Plaquemines  - Delta Tour 387; label: New Orleans - Grand Isle Tour 391; label: Checklist of Some Noted Personalities 395; label: Chronology 399; label: Street Names in New Orleans 403; label: Place Names 405; label: Glossary 407; label: Bibliography 411; label: Index 417