Collens Five Point Pharmacy

This building was another one that stood in the 600 block of DeSiard Street, right at the corner of 6th:

https://www.louisianadigitallibrary.org/islandora/object/lsu-sc-p16313coll52%3A1162

I am guessing that window is where African-American clientele picked up their prescriptions, since they were not allowed under Jim Crow laws to enter the whites only front entrance. I am not sure though. This is just an educated guess.

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