File:Walker Evans New Orleans street corner B.jpg

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"New Orleans sandwich shop, Louisiana." Mid 1930s
"N.E.Sauls Grocery & Sandwich Shop"

Note: This is one of two known Walker Evans photos of this building, the other seen at Image:Walker Evans New Orleans street corner.jpg. The Library of Congress site dates that image to August 1936 and this image to January, 1936. However it looks more likely that both photos were taken within minutes of each other, one either side of the arrival or departure of the delivery truck. Note the ladder in the same space and same writing on the chalk board.

Per Soards City Directory 1935 and R.L. Polk Guide 1938 (confirming same information), Norman E. Sauls, grocery, 1101 Prytania Street. This was the uptown lake corner of Prytania and Caliope Street. Building no longer exists; location is as of 2007 under the elevated highway of the Pontchartrain Expressway ramp to the Crescent City Connection Bridge. I think the high-rise building visible at the top right is the Bienville Hotel. -- Infrogmation
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Source Walker Evans photograph via [1]; NOPL copy at [2]
Author Walker Evans, for the Farm Security Administration / Office of War Information / Office of Emergency Management / Resettlement Administration
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Public domain This image is a work of an employee of the United States Farm Security Administration or Office of War Information domestic photographic units, taken as part of that person's official duties. As a work of the U.S. federal government, the image is in the public domain in the United States. See Copyright.
"Most photographs in this collection were taken by photographers working for the U.S. Government. Work by the U.S. Government is not eligible for copyright protection…"[3]

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current16:10, 17 February 2016Thumbnail for version as of 16:10, 17 February 20161,183 × 700 (660 KB)Infrogmation (talk | contribs)Via better copy at New York Public Library website at http://digitalcollections.nypl.org/items/e73b08a0-baca-0132-b7f7-58d385a7b928 LOC still doesn't have full high-res version online at this date.
10:57, 7 August 2008Thumbnail for version as of 10:57, 7 August 2008535 × 418 (90 KB)Infrogmation (talk | contribs)from LOC TIFF version, border cropped
16:45, 28 December 2007Thumbnail for version as of 16:45, 28 December 2007640 × 512 (41 KB)Infrogmation (talk | contribs)== Summary == {{Information |Description= "New Orleans sandwich shop, Louisiana." Mid 1930s<br> "N.E.Sauls Grocery & Sandwich Shop" <br> : Per Soards City Directory 1935 and R.L. Polk Guide 1938 (confirming same information), Norman E. Sauls, grocery, 110

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