Stoneware bottles from “W. Massey, New Orleans”, ca. 1840s.
This file appears in: Madame John’s Legacy: 1971 Excavations by Richard Shenkel and UNO
Hundreds of fragments of stoneware bottles from the Massey firm were found in a layer in the courtyard, where they had apparently been reused as fill to raise the yard level.
This file appears in: Madame John’s Legacy: 1971 Excavations by Richard Shenkel and UNO
Madame John’s Legacy: 1971 Excavations by Richard Shenkel and UNO
In 1971, Madame John’s Legacy was one of the first historic period sites in urban New Orleans to be systematically investigated, when the subdiscipline of historical archaeology was still in its…