Date of Award
Spring 5-2021
Degree Type
Thesis
Degree Name
M.A.
Degree Program
History
Department
History
Major Professor
Mary Niall Mitchell
Second Advisor
Andrea Mosterman
Third Advisor
Karen Leathem
Abstract
The cultural, social, and economic development of New Orleans—from a colonial port to an American city—can be traced through its history of bread baking. The public history thesis project, Trail of Crumbs: Tracing the Lore, Labor, and History of Bread-Making in New Orleans, is a tour on the Midlo Center’s digital site New Orleans Historical, mapping the spaces, events, and human stories behind one of the city’s oldest professions. Rooted in a French and Spanish colonial foundation, the bread-making traditions of New Orleans reveal the influence of forces such as the port, immigration, location, and labor. The tour applies primary sources --the “crumbs” (newspaper listings, photographs, census rolls, business records, notarial records) --to trace and reconnect New Orleans bread-making to its history. Trail of Crumbs highlights six locations in the French Quarter open between 1789 and 1970: Cadet’s, D’Aquin’s, Chretien’s/Francingues’, Bakers Union Hall, Lombardo’s, and Garic’s.
Recommended Citation
Logsdon, Dana, "Trail of Crumbs: Tracing the Lore, Labor, and History of Bread-Making in New Orleans" (2021). University of New Orleans Theses and Dissertations. 2907.
https://scholarworks.uno.edu/td/2907
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