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New Orleans, LA - June 1, 1942
Photograph from New Orleans Public Library
Works Projects Administration Photograph Collection

According to the Works Projects Administration Photograph Collection records this siren was called a "Victory Siren" and was both owned an operated by the City of New Orleans.  It has every appearance of being Bell Telephone Laboratories original prototype siren, "Big Bertha."