New incinerator under construction at Agriculture Street Landfill.

ID: 5235 ~ Source: Image 11.28.02, WPA Photography Collection, Louisiana Division, New Orleans Public Library. Image courtesy of the New Orleans Public Library. ~ Date: November 21, 1939.
This file appears in: Agriculture Street Landfill Opening and Operations

Description from WPA photographer's caption: "The program to triple the capacity of the Agriculture Street Incinerator, Agriculture and Eads Streets, is being rushed to completion by WPA. The expanded plant will be increased to 225 poun ds [sic] of garbage a day. A rapidly growing community in the Gentilly section overloaded the incinerator so that garbage had to be burned in the open. Exterior."

This file appears in: Agriculture Street Landfill Opening and Operations