Throwback Thursday || There Will Be Breweries (and Beards)
24/10/2012 § 3 Comments
From the family archives: an amazing group portrait — which you must click to enlarge — featuring my great, great-grandfather Peter Joseph in New Orleans, sometime after the Civil War. A veteran, a civic leader and a policeman, he somehow also had the time to serve as foreman for a brewery built on Canal Street, and here he is pictured with his crew. You can find him either by the arrow penciled in on the photo, or you could just search for a masterful beard…
Very cool photo.
Fantastic photo. If you aren’t already aware of it, Peter Joseph’s role in post-bellum New Orleans politics is prominently featured in a recent historical work by Justin A. Nystrom, “New Orleans after the Civil War, Race, Politics, and a New Birth of Freedom (JHU press, 2010).
New Orleans after the Civil War: Race, Politics, and a New Birth of Freedom
Wow, that’s great! I had no idea about the book. Thanks very much!