1913 Southern Pacific Railroad illustrated promotional travel guide to New Orleans— “The Winter capital of America.” The guidebook describes the city’s public attractions and buildings..... Read More about Winter in New Orleans, Season 1913-1914
Published for the first time, the autobiography of this remarkable man born into slavery on a Louisiana plantation. Lynch rose to become Speaker of the..... Read More about Reminiscences of an Active Life: The Autobiography of John Roy Lynch
Civil War-time speech of U.S. Senator Jacob M. Howard of Michigan concerning the re-admission to the Union of the former Confederate State of Louisiana, then..... Read More about Speech of Hon. Jacob M. Howard, of Michigan, on the Joint Resolution for the Recognition and...
Subtitle: “King of the Twelve-String Guitar Players of the World, Long-Time Convict in the Penitentiaries of Texas and Louisiana.” The oral autobiography of Huddie Ledbetter..... Read More about Negro Folk Songs as Sung by Lead Belly
Three related documents signed by wardens of the Port of New Orleans including two partly printed forms, similarly titled, likely printed in New Orleans before..... Read More about Port-Wardens’ Office, New-Orleans… [two partly printed documents likely printed in New...
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1925 Book of technical specifications for grading, cutting, and fabricating Southern pine lumber for construction and architectural use. The illustrated booklet was prepared by the..... Read More about New Orleans] 1925 Standard Specifications for Grades of Southern Pine Lumber
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“The octoroon despised, spurned, penned up in scornful coolness, liable to public sale and scourge—the colored woman you see yonder, kept a white man for..... Read More about New Orleans, Octoroons, Interracial Relations, Slavery:] L’Article 47, or Breaking the Ban
Subtitle: “King of the Twelve-String Guitar Players of the World, Long-Time Convict in the Penitentiaries of Texas and Louisiana.” The oral autobiography of Huddie Ledbetter..... Read More about Negro Folk Songs as Sung by Lead Belly
Writ of execution issued by New Orleans judge Charles Watts in the case of Citizens Bank of Louisiana vs. Hagan, Niven & Co., & Buchanan..... Read More about First Judicial District Court. The State of Louisiana .... [Citizens Bank of Louisiana vs. Hagan,...
Legal instrument protest signed by John Neilson, Jr., Notary Public, at the request of Messrs. Corning & Co. This latter firm presented a bill of..... Read More about United States of America, State of New York. SS. On the eighth day of May in the year of our Lord...
Legal writ of execution in the case of W.A. Gasquet v. McQueen & Atkins. Judge Charles Bushnell of the District Court of the Parish of..... Read More about The State of Louisiana, To the Sheriff of the Parish of West Feliciana—-Greeting: We Command...
Membership Certificate blank for a duly elected “Active Member of Independent Perseverance Fire Company, No. 2, of the town of Natchitoches” in Louisiana. Fittingly, the..... Read More about Natchitoches, Louisiana Fire Company Membership Certificate
