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New Orleans: View of Madison Street looking lakewards from Decatur towards Chartres, with Begue's Exchange Restaurant visible at right. Captioned "Italian Headquarters" as area was heavily populated with Sicilian immigrants at the time.

Madam Begue's restaurant at right. Note poster for "The Ham Tree", a blackface minstrel comedy staring McIntyre & Heath, touring after the Broadway run; W.C. Field's part in the show propells him into stardom.
Beer bar at left.
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Source Detroit Publishing Company photo via Library of Congress website [1]
Author Photographer not credited
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Public domain This work is from the Detroit Publishing Co. collection at the Library of Congress. According to the library, there are no known copyright restrictions on the use of this work.
Most of the images in this collection were published before 1929 and are therefore in the public domain in the United States. A few images were published after this date and may be restricted by copyright.
Other versions Colored postcard made from this photo: File:TujaguesItalianHeadquartersPostcard.jpeg

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