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Dis sculptcha is cawled

"Set in the fountain at the New Orleans Lakefront Airport--formerly named 'Shushan Airport. Sculpted during the 1930's under the WPA program

The Artist: Enrique Alfarez
Source: New Orleans Public Library"
From http://www.stphilipneri.org/teacher/pontchartrain/content.php?type=1&id=261

My uncle, Walter Soube, posed as the guy on the right.

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    • Franck Schneider painted this portrait c. 1920s based on an earlier painting by George Catlin.
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