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Recollections of New Orleans past.
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New Orleans Historian John DeMajo recalls some of his favorite places in the. For sixty years preceding Hurricane Katrina, my family and I lived in New Orleans. While our home, and most of our favorite places in town were wiped out by the Katrina related flood, I wanted to share with you some of my historic New Orleans photographs of places I held near and dear. If you lived in or ever visited New Orleans, perhaps these places were near and dear to you also. NEW ORLEANS CITY PARK. The old ice house on No...
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Home Chapel at the Museum of Yesterday
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A CHAPEL DEDICATED TO BLESSED FRANCIS XAVIER SEELOS CSsR. A FEATURE OF THE MUSEUM OF YESTERDAY. For more information, photographs and history on the churches of New Orleans, Louisiana and Richmond, Virginia, please visit our virtual church tour web sites at:. And www.churchesofvirginia.org. Imported Italian hand-carved altar crucifix from the altar of the DeMajo residence chapel. Renewal of the Pascal Candle signifies the beginning of Easter season. S parish church, The National Shrine St. Ann, in ou...
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Antique Medical Equipment
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YOU ARE IN THE MUSEUM OF YESTERDAY'S GALLERY HONORING AMERICAN BUSINESS. This gallery is dedicated to American businesses and the role they played in the 20th Century development of the United States. WW-II Era Underwood manual typewriter, was essential to business in America. A typical office of the Depression Era in America. A mechanical Burroughs calculating invoice machine from the 1940s. Some of the desktop office supplies one would expect to find in the 1940s business office. Far removed from today...
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Museum of Yesterday Photographic Equipment Collection
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From pin-hole cameras to high resolution digital images, the 20th Century ushered in the science of modern photography. Here are some items from the Museum of Yesterday's Photographic Equipment Collection. Another 1930's press camera of the type used by newspaper reporters of the day. The camera was restored to it's original state, and has become a crowning piece to the museum's early photographic equipment collection. Restoration was performed in the shops of DeMajo Organ Works, LLC in Richmond, VA&...
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Toys of the 20th Century at the Museum Of Yesterday
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You are now in the Museum Of Yesterday's. 20th Century Toy collection. TOYS FOR THE 20th CENTURY CHILD. Come with Ol' Santa now as I take you on a nostalgic walk through the Museum of Yesterday's toy store. If you were a child of that era, you will probably meet some old friends along the way. Late 1940s Christmas lighting ad from General Electric. A Christmas scene reminiscent of millions of middle-class American homes and families in the late 1940s. Here is a Weeden Model 17 engine from our collection.
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Home Life In The 20th Century - The Museum Of Yesterday
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You are now in the Museum Of Yesterday's. 20th Century Household Artifacts collection. LIFE IN THE MID- 20th CENTURY AMERICAN HOME. This portion of our exhibits serves to illustrate the development of both decor and technology in the home, beginning with upscale homes of the late 1800s through the great era of American productivity that was Post-World War II America. The average life expectancy for men was 47 years. Fuel for cars was sold in drug stores only. Only 14 percent of the homes had a bathtub.
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Museum Of Yesterday Art Collection
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You are now in the gallery housing. The MUSEUM OF YESTERDAY art collection. Much of the museum's collection of mid-20th Century advertising art can be seen in our other galleries. For example, the railroad art collection is shown in the gallery devoted to railroad history. Only a small portion of our advertising art is actually shown on this page, so please be sure to tour our other galleries. . The Jackson Brewing Company of New Orleans was a major employer in Louisiana. Jax Beer was sold throughout...
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Government and Commerce in the 20th Century
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You are now in the GOVERNMENT HISTORY GALLERY of the Museum Of Yesterday. In this gallery you will have an opportunity to explore the 20th Century people and things that made our country great. 20th Century Commerce and Government. December 7, 1941: The world is changed forever as Japan brings the United States of America into World War II with the attack and bombing of Pearl Harbor in Hawaii. Click here. To listen to Franklin D. Roosevelt address to Congress requesting a Declaration of War. The deployme...
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Save The Organ, The Organ Place, America's organ technical resource site.
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Most complete information resource for the pipe organ technician or hobbyist. The links below will take you to dedicated pages about organ installations which we have visited, or where information was made available to our editors. Additional pages will be added to this site shortly. Please visit http:/ atos.stirlingprop.com. For the former ATOS - SMGC website. PHOTOS OF ORGAN IN KRESS STORE NEW ORLEANS AND OTHER PHOTOS OF OLD NEW ORLEANS THEATRES. AEOLIAN-SKINNER RESIDENCE ORGAN, NEW ORLEANS, LA.
