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New Orleans Historical, Michael Mizell-Nelson
New Orleans Historical, Michael Mizell-Nelson
Michael Mizell-Nelson
New Orleans Historical is a web and mobile platform for telling stories about New Orleans and the surrounding area. A project of the History Department of the University of New Orleans and the Communication Department of Tulane University, New Orleans Historical is a free app available on your Android or iPhone smart phone or tablet as well as on the web.
Streetcar Stories Dvd, Michael Mizell-Nelson
Streetcar Stories Dvd, Michael Mizell-Nelson
Michael Mizell-Nelson
This broadcast documentary explores the cultural history of New Orleans streetcars and the US streetcar industry. Having premiered in 1995 to commemorate the 160th anniversary of New Orleans’ St. Charles Avenue streetcar, Streetcar Stories looks beneath the nostalgic veneer of New Orleans’ “moving monuments” to reveal a dynamic series of stories about the past through the experiences of the men and women who worked on the city’s street railway system from the 1910s-1970s. Interviews recorded in the early 1990s afford insight into the world of conductors and “conductorettes,” motormen and “motorettes” as well as the passengers during some of the …