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Lauren Comiskey at lakefront, 1943. New Orleans. This image was collected in a workshop…

Black-and-white photo of a young woman in a letterman sweater sitting on a concrete post near a lakefront sign reading "HELP! Keep the Lakefront Clean, put your waste-paper here, Orleans Levee Board."

Collection

Do You Know What it Means

Lauren Comiskey at lakefront, 1943. 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.

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Item 27698

Citation

“Lauren Comiskey at lakefront, 1943. New Orleans. This image was collected in a workshop…,” Hurricane Digital Memory Bank, accessed November 3, 2026, https://hurricanearchive.org/items/show/27698.

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