Tulane University's
Louisiana Research Collection

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Our library has a growing number of records and papers related to Louisiana's LGBT community, history, and culture. Most of these records can be found in the Manuscripts department , and in the Louisiana Collection vertical files . You can help us contribute to the holdings of both in two ways. If you have flyers, tickets, brochures, posters, or other ephemera passed out by local LGBT groups, please collect them for us, and we will integrate them into our Louisiana Collection vertical files. If you are involved in a particular LGBT organization, club, church, krewe, outreach, or activism, and have records documenting the history of your organization, we may be interested in acquiring these as part of a collection of records for the Manuscripts department. Highlights of our LGBT Manuscripts holdings include the Otto Stierle Gay Carnival collection, and the Knights d'Orleans records. For more information on donating items to our holdings, please contact Leon Miller . For assista...

Longue Vue House and Gardens , a local National Historic Landmark, was originally the home of Edgar and Edith Stern, prominent philanthropists during the twentieth century. Although damaged by Hurricane Katrina, the grounds and building have been restored and the estate continues to serve as an educational and cultural resource for the community and visitors. As part of an NHPRC grant for archival processing, Lisa Lewis, archivist at Longue Vue, was required to submit a MARC record to OCLC representing their historical collection. As they are not members, she requested a partnership with Tulane’s Special Collections for this purpose. We collaborated with her to create and contribute the record to the WorldCat database, entitled Longue Vue House and Gardens historic collection . Within Tulane’s manuscript holdings, we have related material in the Edgar B. Stern collection (Manuscripts Collection 235), which includes further Stern family documents, as well business records of Lehman, ...

The Manuscripts department at Tulane University's Special Collections Library is pleased to announce the opening of Art Silverman's papers for public research use. As noted in our previous posts , we announced the arrival of Silverman's papers in January . The collection consists of plans, sketches, drawings, photographs, correspondence, and videotapes, and covers Silverman's art career from 1975-2007. Processing has been completed, and we invite interested researchers to come to our archives to view the papers. For a copy of the finding aid, please contact us . (Sketch, 1995. Collection 992, Arthur Silverman papers, Manuscripts department, Special Collections, Tulane University Libraries. Image may not be reproduced without permission.) Posted by Eira Tansey.

We are excited to announce that a selected group of our Manuscripts finding aids are now online. The finding aids are currently in a PDF format, and users will need a PDF reader to download and use them. Patrons can also search for keywords in most of the finding aids. This is just a small sample of the more than 1,000 manuscripts collections we hold, and we are planning to add more. If you wish to see a finding aid that isn't on the page, please contact us , and we will be happy to make it available if resources allow. Many of our noted collections now have their finding aids available online for the first time, including the papers of John Kennedy Toole , Rudolph Matas , Charles Colcock Jones , and Natalie Scott . We also have organizational records from the Christian Women's Exchange , First German Lutheran Church , Council of Social Agencies , and the Orleans Parish Medical Society . Many thanks to Neal Schexnider for his assistance with getting these online. Posted by Ei...