Barbara Edisen
Barbara Ann Schreier Edisen (1926-2000) was a generous donor to the visual and performing arts in New Orleans. In 1997, along with her daughter, Brenda Pumphrey, Barbara Edisen also very generously donated to Tulane University her extended family papers, dating back to 1861. This large collection, LaRC Manuscripts Collection 945, is rich with family photographs and social ephemera, particularly of the early twentieth century. The Schreier family in southern Louisiana descended from Yetta Feld (1875-1959) of Austria and Samuel Schreier (d. 1943) of Hungary, immigrants to the United States during the nineteenth century. They lived in St. Mary Parish. Their granddaughter Barbara Schreier (1926-2000) married Clayton B. Edisen in the mid-twentieth century; they were business people and philanthropists in New Orleans. This archival collection, formally titled the Schreier and Edisen Families Papers , emphasizes the Schreier side of the family, (that is, Barbara Edisen's own ancest...