Exchange Alley

ID: 6085 ~ Source: Courtesy of The Historic New Orleans Collection, 2_036_exc_220-222. ~ Creator: John Watson Riley, photographer ~ Date: January 8, 2011

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

220-222 Exchange Alley. First location of Bakers’ Union Offices.

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…