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New Orleans (La.) Recreation Dept. Scrapbook photographs, 1947-1948 151 prints The New Orleans Recreation Department (NORD) created seven scrapbook of photographs documenting the work of its first two years, 1947 and 1948. The scrapbooks originally had the following titles:
By the time the scrapbooks were transferred to the City Archives, however, they had largely lost their identity due to detached covers and loose pages. Archives staff chose to inventory the photographs individually, arranged more or less in the order in which they were received from NORD. The photographs were numbered consecutively and inventoried using captions on the scrapbook pages when available. They remain attached to the original scrapbook pages and are filed in two large boxes. Digital copies of the photographs are available; click on the links in the "Number" section of the inventory to see jpeg versions online (use your browser's Back button to return to this inventory).
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| Caption/Description | Number | Comments |
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| Baseball clinic at Pelican Stadium with instructions given by the New Orleans Creoles team members, 1947. | NORDSB_001 | Damaged photograph |
| Baseball clinic at Pelican Stadium with instructions given by the New Orleans Creoles team members, 1947. | NORDSB_002 | |
| Baseball clinic at Pelican Stadium with instructions given by the New Orleans Creoles team members, 1947. | NORDSB_003 | |
| Baseball team posing with family members in front of a backstop. | NORDSB_004 | |
| Baseball player sliding into home plate with umpire signalling "safe." | NORDSB_005 | |
| Group of men and one woman in a living room setting. | NORDSB_006 | |
| Children receiving Easter baskets and other gifts. | NORDSB_007 | |
| Children receiving Easter baskets and other gifts. | NORDSB_008 | |
| Children receiving Easter baskets and other gifts. | NORDSB_009 | |
| Children with their Easter gifts. | NORDSB_010 | |
| Audience listening to the New Orleans Symphony in the Booker T. Washington auditorium. | NORDSB_011 | |
| Women and children after receiving their Easter gifts. | NORDSB_012 | |
| Group of children and adults at Lincoln Playground. One young boy has a horse. | NORDSB_013 | |
| Young boy on horseback at Lincoln Playground. | NORDSB_014 | |
| Children playing horseshoes in a housing development courtyard. | NORDSB_015 | |
| Boys and men playing and watching ping pong game in a tree-filled area. | NORDSB_016 | |
| Girls at a track event at Lincoln Playground. | NORDSB_017 | |
| Children playing in a circle in front of a building. | NORDSB_018 | |
| The NORD "Choristers," organized in December, 1947. | NORDSB_019 | |
| Boys at a track event. | NORDSB_020 | |
| Boys at the start of the city-wide swimming meet at the Lafon Playground pool, July 19, 1947. | NORDSB_021 | |
| Crowd at a nighttime event. | NORDSB_022 | |
| Recreational workers at a business session, 1947. Morris F.X. Jeff, head of the "Negro Division" of NORD, is fourth from left, front row. | NORDSB_023 | |
| Scene from Colored Play Day at the Macarty School Playground, July 10, 1947. | NORDSB_024 | |
| Clinton Coleman getting a swimming lesson from Life Guard Instructor Robert P. Meteye at Lafon Playground pool. | NORDSB_025 | |
| Little girls getting swimming lessons from Life Guard Instructors at Lafon Playground pool. | NORDSB_026 | |
| Rittiner Playground--before. | NORDSB_027 | |
| Interior view of an unidentified building showing desks and chairs. | NORDSB_028 | |
| Exterior view of an unidentified open space. | NORDSB_029 | |
| Lakeview-Delgado Playground--before. | NORDSB_030 | |
| Delgado Barn--before. | NORDSB_031 | |
| Exterior view of an unidentified open space. | NORDSB_032 | |
| Shakspeare Park--before. | NORDSB_033 | |
| Boys and men playing/watching football game at Lincoln Playground. | NORDSB_034 | |
| Children on playground equipment at Lincoln Playground. | NORDSB_035 | |
| Landry Playground--before. | NORDSB_036 | |
| Rittiner Playground--after, with children and families. | NORDSB_037 | |
| Exterior view of the rear of an unidentified building. | NORDSB_038 | |
| Mandeville Center, second floor--after. | NORDSB_039 | |
| Mandeville Center--scenic artist. | NORDSB_040 | |
| Mandeville Center, second floor--after. | NORDSB_041 | |
| Interior view, Mandeville Center. | NORDSB_042 | |
| Interior view of a fire station (probably at 718 Mandeville Street). | NORDSB_043 | |
| Exterior view of the fire station at 718 Mandeville Street. | NORDSB_044 | |
| Keller Playground. | NORDSB_045 | |
| Exterior view of an unidentified playground with a round bandstand. | NORDSB_046 | |
| Workers removing concrete-base posts from an unidentified playground. | NORDSB_047 | |
| NORD baseball clinic at Pelican Stadium, 1948. | NORDSB_048 | |
| Moon Landrieu, Pelican Manager Jimmy Brown, and Larry Lassalle. | NORDSB_049a | |
| Marbles finalists. | NORDSB_049b | |
| NORD baseball clinic at Pelican Stadium, 1948. | NORDSB_050 | |
| Finale of the Municipal Players in "Sunbonnet Girl" at the Municipal Auditorium. | NORDSB_051 | NORD sponsored and directed the play. |
| Stage set of NORD's first dramatic presentation, "Cry Havoc," at the Behrman Memorial Center. | NORDSB_052 | John C. Pacquette directed the play. |
| Team portrait, the New Orleans Fleas football team. | NORDSB_053 | |
| Bill Elliot interviews track champions on WNOE. | NORDSB_054 | |
| Toy Bowl banquet, Tutweiler Hotel in Birmingham, Alabama. | NORDSB_055 | |
| Team portrait, the New Orleans Flies football team. | NORDSB_056 | |
| The Toy Bowl Special leaves for Birmingham. | NORDSB_057 | |
| At the Toy Bowl game: Mayor Morrison autographs a football. | NORDSB_058 | Bishop Toolen and Mayor Cooper Green look on. |
| Bantam football exhibition at Tulane Stadium. | NORDSB_059 | |
| Before departing for the Birmingham Toy Bowl, Mayor Morrison presents the colors to the NORD band. | NORDSB_060 | |
| Annual baseball banquet at the St. Charles Hotel. | NORDSB_061 | |
| Bantam football action, 1947. | NORDSB_062 | |
| Fortier Tarps, "C" champs, 1948. | NORDSB_063 | |
| Volleyball at the Reynes Housing Project. | NORDSB_064 | |
| Basketball for supervisors at Newcomb College. | NORDSB_065 | |
| Boys in a tug-of-war at Cabrini Playground. | NORDSB_066 | |
| Paddle tennis at Cabrini Playground. | NORDSB_067 | |
| William Green of the American Red Cross demonstrating one of the things that junior lifeguards must prevent--ducking of little children by others. | NORDSB_068 | |
| Basketball action at the Algiers gym. | NORDSB_069 | |
| Coach Emmet Pare of Tulane explains finer tennis points at a NORD clinic. | NORDSB_070 | |
| Tennis champs, 1948. | NORDSB_071 | |
| Fishing was part of the program. | NORDSB_072 | |
| NORD chairman Henry Thomas explains a sand trap shot. | NORDSB_073 | |
| NORD high jumpers compete at Loyola. | NORDSB_074 | |
| Young marbles contender takes aim. | NORDSB_075 | |
| Uptown elementary track meet at Loyola. | NORDSB_076 | |
| Girls struggle to "break tap" at Behrman Memorial track meet. | NORDSB_077 | |
| Team photo of the St. Roch Playground baseball team, champions in the City Recreation Playground League. Henry "Dunk" Beter of NORD is presenting a trophy to Coach Herb Retif of the championship team. | NORDSB_078 | The team is wearing "Dr. Nut" uniforms. |
| Softball game between the police and fire departments at Taylor Playground, July 31, 1947. | NORDSB_079 | The firemen won the game, 9-2. |
| Fire Chief Howard Dey receives a trophy from Ruth Blust, Miss New Orleans of 1947 after the firemen defeated the police team 9-2 in a baseball game at Taylor Playground, July 31, 1947 for the championship in the City Department Recreation Softball League. | NORDSB_080 | Henry "Dunk" Beter of NORD and Commissioner of Public Safety Bernard McCloskey look on. |
| Winners of NORD's bowling tournament receive trophies at the Parisian Room, August 2, 1947. Ernie Gould of NORD presents trophy to Charles Adams and Joe Gemelli, chairman of the bowling committee, presents trophy to Irene Short. | NORDSB_081 | |
| Winners of bowling awards for their outstanding achievements: Richard Trotter, Roy Short, Sherwood Kiser, Irene Short, Genevieve Powell, Jean Price, Corinne Ciravalo, and Charles Adams. | NORDSB_082 | |
| Bowling awards party at the Parisian Room. Mayor Morrison donated the ice cream and soft drinks (including the bottles of Dr. Nut shown on several tables). | NORDSB_083 | |
| Boys and girls at swimming lessons at the Stallings Playground pool. | NORDSB_084 | |
| Girls softball team at an unidentified playground. | NORDSB_085 | |
| NORD's inaugural Play Day at City Park stadium. The Eucharistic Congress altar is shown in the photograph. | NORDSB_086 | |
| Boys playing checkers at NORD's inaugural Play Day. | NORDSB_087 | |
| Mayor Morrison speaks to boys and girls at the inaugural NORD Play Day. The NORD Traveling Theater is visible in the background. | NORDSB_088 | |
| View of boys and girls after the opening event at NORD's inaugural Play Day, August 5, 1947. | NORDSB_089 | |
| Exterior view from the Cabrini Recreation Center showing children playing and a ball game in progress. | NORDSB_090 | |
| A new theater appears at the Dorgenois Center. | NORDSB_091 | |
| Old jail cells are demolished at the Dorgenois Center. | NORDSB_092 | |
| Prison bars give way to a play center at the Dorgenois Center. | NORDSB_093 | |
| Dorgenois Center was converted from a jail house to a recreation center. | NORDSB_094 | |
| Dorgenois Center--before | NORDSB_095 | |
| Interior view, Arthur Scott Teen Center. | NORDSB_096 | |
| Interior view, Arthur Scott Teen Center. | NORDSB_097 | |
| The Arthur Scott Teen Center.received extensive interior and exterior repairs. | NORDSB_098 | |
| The Arts and Crafts room in another section of the Arthur Scott Teen Center. | NORDSB_099 | |
| Charles Rappold, NORD Superintendent of Maintenance. | NORDSB_100 | |
| NORD players take a curtain call. | NORDSB_101 | |
| Stage setting, Behrman Memorial. | NORDSB_102 | |
| NORD Travelling Theater visits Cabrini Center. | NORDSB_103 | |
| NORD Travelling Theater visits an unidentified playground. | NORDSB_104 | |
| NORD Travelling Theater visits Stallings Playground. Ellen Fernandez, NORD's singing comedienne from Cabrini Center, leads the crowd in community singing. | NORDSB_105 | |
| NORD Travelling Theater on Canal Street in a benefit performance for the European Children's Fund, May, 1948. | NORDSB_105a | |
| Mrs. Joseph Friend speaks from the Travelling Theater at the dedication of new lights at the Bunny Friend Playground. | NORDSB_106 | |
| NORD Travelling Theater visits Clay Playground. The photo shows the largest crowd ever to witness a Travelling Theater performance, July 2, 1947. | NORDSB_107 | |
| NORD Travelling Theater visits Dublin Playground. | NORDSB_108 | |
| View of a typical audience of children viewing a performance, probably at the Dorgenois Center. | NORDSB_109 | |
| NORD band holds a sidewalk serenade outside the Dorgenois Center. | NORDSB_110 | |
| Opening night at the Dorgenois Center. | NORDSB_111 | |
| NORD Travelling Theater at Dublic Playground for the lighting system dedication. | NORDSB_112 | |
| NORD Travelling Theater at Coliseum Playground, July 23, 1947. | NORDSB_113 | |
| WSMB broadcasts Play Day activities from City Park stadium. | NORDSB_114 | |
| Minstrel show at the opening of the Mandeville Center. | NORDSB_115 | |
| Stage set from the opening night at Behrman Memorial. | NORDSB_116 | |
| May Festival at Behrman Memorial. | NORDSB_117 | |
| New Orleans Symphony concert for children at the Municipal Auditorium. Sponsored by NORD. | NORDSB_118 | |
| Exterior view of building (probably the Scott Teen Center). | NORDSB_119 | |
| View of children and adults at Delcazal Playground in Algiers. | NORDSB_120 | |
| City map showing the locations of NORD facilities. | NORDSB_121 | |
| City of New Orleans Recreation (seal or emblem). | NORDSB_122 | |
| View of an unidentified small, triangular playground. | NORDSB_123 | |
| Puppet show at an unidentified NORD center. | NORDSB_124 | |
| Arts and crafts program at the Dorgenois Center. | NORDSB_125 | |
| Arts and crafts exhibit at the Cabrini Center. | NORDSB_126 | |
| Arts and crafts class at St. Roch Playground. | NORDSB_127 | |
| Children working on an arts and crafts project at an unidentified NORD facility. | NORDSB_128 | |
| Arts and crafts at Desmare Playground. Mrs. G. W. Jones, playground supervisor, demonstrates weaving to little girls. | NORDSB_129 | |
| Legion B baseball parade on Canal Street begins the 1947 program, May 31, 1947. | NORDSB_130 | |
| Ping pong tournament, 1947. | NORDSB_131 | |
| Paddle tennis at the City-wide Miscellaneous Sports Meet. | NORDSB_132 | |
| Dodge ball at the City-wide Miscellaneous Sports Meet. | NORDSB_133 | |
| Clay McGrath teaching a tennis clinic, sponsored by NORD, at City Park. | NORDSB_134 | |
| City-wide Tennis Tournament at City Park, under the direction of Clay McGrath, June 30, 1947. | NORDSB_135 | |
| City-wide Marbles Tournament at Pelican Stadium, May 7, 1947, with Junior Champion Alfred Coogan (Jefferson Davis Playground) and Senior Champion Donald Mara (Lusher Playground) receiving awards from Ken Pritchett of MGM. | NORDSB_136 | |
| Swimmers in the pool at an unidentified NORD center, 1947. | NORDSB_137 | |
| Bowlers at the clinic taught by NORD at the Avenue Bowling Center. | NORDSB_138 | |
| On the job training at the YMCA for women supervisors. | NORDSB_139 | |
| Dancing lesson at an unidentified NORD center. | NORDSB_140 | |
| Winners of an archery tournament sponsored by NORD: Gerald Wagener (junior boys), Carol Lynn Joanen (junior girls), Harold Goertz (senior boys), and Marie Domhofer (senior girls). | NORDSB_141 | |
| Archery tournament finals at Desmare Playground, July 14, 1947. | NORDSB_142 | |
| Exterior view of Public Baths, 461 St. Mary Street. | NORDSB_143 | |
| Empty swimming pool, probably at the Public Baths. | NORDSB_144 | |
| Bulldozer working at Annunciation Playground. | NORDSB_145 | |
| Lawrence Square--before. | NORDSB_146 | |
| Lawrence Square--after. | NORDSB_147 |
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