Metal lipstick case from 1222 Howard/LaSalle privy

ID: 6190 ~ Source: University of New Orleans Department of Anthropology and Sociology ~ Date: 2020

This file appears in: The Puckett Household: 1930s Archaeology of the Melpomene Neighborhood

Metal lipstick case from 1222 Howard/LaSalle privy

This recovered Richard Hudnutt brand lipstick case, with traces of a deep red lipstick inside, hints at the style for which later generations remembered the Puckett women.

This file appears in: The Puckett Household: 1930s Archaeology of the Melpomene Neighborhood

The Puckett Household: 1930s Archaeology of the Melpomene Neighborhood

By D. Ryan Gray, edited by Kathryn A. O’Dwyer & Lauren Smith

In 2013, archaeological consulting firm Earth Search, Inc., excavated a block of the Melpomene neighborhood originally bounded by South Liberty, Erato, Clio, and Howard/LaSalle Streets. Earth Search identified brick foundations and artifacts from a…