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Description Editorial cartoon in "The Mascot" newspaper, New Orleans, 21 October, 1893. "What New Orleans is and What She Might be". The top cartoon caricatures current conditions with a tram (Johnson Bobtail) drawn by an emaciated mule (only a few of the city's streetcar lines had been electrified at this date), with passengers required to help push. A muddy unpaved street is caricatured as a swamp with frogs and an alligator. The bottom cartoon shows an electric streetcar (Brill single-truck) on a well paved street; in the background new brick buildings are under construction.
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Source "The Mascot" newspaper, 21 October, 1893 issue, via microfilm in New Orleans Public Library, photographed by Infrogmation
Author Cartoon signed "Gumbo"
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