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Neighborhood kids in Gentilly, early 1950's. New Orleans. This image was collected in a…

Black-and-white group photo of neighborhood children posed on and around a playground slide, with a corrugated-metal shed and monkey bars in the background.

Collection

Do You Know What it Means

Neighborhood kids in Gentilly, early 1950's. New Orleans.

This image was collected in a workshop with students from the Mount Carmel Academy in the Lakeview neighborhood of New Orleans. The Mount Carmel Academy is a private, Catholic secondary school for girls in the Archdiocese of New Orleans. It is conducted by the Sisters of Our Lady of Mount Carmel, who have educated young ladies in New Orleans since 1833.

Original title

Item 27676

Citation

“Neighborhood kids in Gentilly, early 1950's. New Orleans. This image was collected in a…,” Hurricane Digital Memory Bank, accessed November 3, 2026, https://hurricanearchive.org/items/show/27676.

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