By Fred Kasten
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New Orleans – He lived modestly - kept to himself - had few relatives and no close friends - yet when New Orleans native John T. Mendes died in 1965 - he left behind a rich legacy of over 600 remarkable photographs of the people and places of the Crescent City in the early years of the 20th century. Those photographs are now spotlighted in a new book from UNO Press - and exhibition at the Historic New Orleans Collection. WWNO's Fred Kasten has more...
To find out more about the new volume of photographs by John T. Mendes from UNO Press - "Dogs in My Life: The New Orleans Photographs of John Tibule Mendes" - click here.
For more information about the exhibition of photographs by John T. Mendes at the Historic New Orleans Collection - click here.