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Caption: "Causeway Crossing Lake Pontchartrain -- New Orleans -- June 19, 34." The concrete deck of the Maestri Bridge (also called the Pontchartrain Bridge, the Five Mile Bridge, or the Watson-Williams Pontchartrain Bridge) stretches into the distance over Lake Pontchartrain in this photograph. Built in 1928 as the first permanent crossing of Lake Pontchartrain, it was also the longest concrete bridge in the world at the time of its construction. The bridge, almost five miles long, spans the lake between New Orleans and Slidell, Louisiana.
Date: 6/17/1934
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No Caption: Palace of Fine Arts at the Panama-Pacific International Exposition. See also 96-07-08-alb01-024.
Date: 1915
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No caption, c. 1920. River scene with a boat, possibly a paddle steamer, traveling close to the riverbank at the left side of the photograph.
Date: 1920
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Caption: "12" Gun, At the Command Fire." A view of several unidentified men working on a large gun in a coastal defense battery at an unidentified location.
Date: Undated
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Caption: "75m/m gun," c. 1906. William McCarthy is seen posing next to a large gun at an unidentified location.
Date: 1906