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Ruby Comisky on bank street in mid city, mid 1940's. New Orleans. This image was collected…

Black-and-white 1940s snapshot of three young women sitting on a blanket on a grassy curb, with a residential street lined by shotgun-style houses and trees behind them.

Collection

Do You Know What it Means

Ruby Comisky on bank street in mid city, mid 1940'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 27696

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“Ruby Comisky on bank street in mid city, mid 1940's. New Orleans. This image was collected…,” Hurricane Digital Memory Bank, accessed November 3, 2026, https://hurricanearchive.org/items/show/27696.

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