The 200 Block of Exchange Alley

ID: 5965 ~ Source: Courtesy of The Historic New Orleans Collection, Negative Number N-572, original photograph collection Sam Wilson, Jr. ~ Date: ca. 1900

This file appears in: Local No. 35: The New Orleans Bakers' Union

Exchange Alley ca. 1900? The first location of Bakers’ Union offices. Exchange Alley was home to several labor organizations in New Orleans

This file appears in: Local No. 35: The New Orleans Bakers' Union

Local No. 35: The New Orleans Bakers' Union

By Dana Logsdon

Bread-baking is a hard, physically demanding job. Before the Civil War, most bakery owners relied on apprenticeships and enslaved laborers to handle the workload. Postbellum bakery workers inherited a…