Interior, Exposition Hall

ID: 6459 ~ Source:

“Washington Artillery Hall, Interior, View toward Saint Charles Avenue,” May 29, 1952, The Charles L. Franck Studio Collection at The Historic New Orleans Collection, https://catalog.hnoc.org/web/arena/search#/entity/thnoc-archive/1979.325.408/washington-artillery-hall%2C-interior%2C-view-toward-saint-charles-avenue.

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A photo from 1952 shows the interior of Exposition Hall. The racially diverse members of the Unification Movement held meetings here in the 1870s.

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Aristide Mary

By Connie Dorsey Abdul-Salaam, edited by Lauren Smith and Jessica Dauterive

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