Shell buttons from the excavation of a privy at 1304 Howard Street

ID: 6227 ~ Source: University of New Orleans Department of Anthropology and Sociology ~ Date: 2020

This file appears in: Archaeology of the Melpomene Neighborhood at the Turn of the Twentieth Century: Excavation of a Privy at 1304 Howard/LaSalle

Shell buttons like these are likely derived from undergarments.

This file appears in: Archaeology of the Melpomene Neighborhood at the Turn of the Twentieth Century: Excavation of a Privy at 1304 Howard/LaSalle

Archaeology of the Melpomene Neighborhood at the Turn of the Twentieth Century: Excavation of a Privy at 1304 Howard/LaSalle

By D. Ryan Gray & Kathryn O'Dwyer, Editor

In the late-nineteenth and early-twentieth centuries, many of the people who lived in the Melpomene neighborhood of Central City rented their residences with some addresses seeing rapid turnover. …