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Oak Street merchants offer up Christmas well-wishes in this ad, published by the Town of Carrollton News on December 11, 1974

This photograph of a snowy Carrollton street, snapped February 15, 1895, was published in the 1895 Carrollton Centennial booklet.

Advertisement for florists published in the December 20, 1961 Times-Picayune

Advertisement for florists published in the December 17, 1943 Times-Picayune

Advertisement for florists published in the December 17, 1943 Times-Picayune

I created this project as part of the class requirements for Dr. Michael Mizell-Nelson's Introduction to Public History in the fall of 2009 at the University of New Orleans. I first conducted interviews with More Fun Comic Shop owner, Steve H Thomas…

Trumpeter Dutch Andrus and Dorothy "Dimples" Bernard making a key at Dutch's workbench. Circa 1954.

The following notes are excerpted from an informal interview in 2008 regarding race relations in Carrollton during the Jim Crow era. A white Carrollton native whose family owned an Oak Street business discusses her memories of segregation and…

Dutch Andrus led his own band and performed with many area musicians. He and his wife owned and operated Oak Electric, an appliance repair shop located at 8116 Oak Street.