Tulane University's
Louisiana Research Collection

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...

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.

Today's edition of the Tulane New Wave noted our recent acquisition of the papers of sculptor Dr. Arthur Silverman. If you're not subscribed to the New Wave email list, you can read the story here. The papers are currently being processed, and we expect to make the collection available to researchers very soon. (Image of Geo Law Revue, 1995, Tulane University Law School. Collection 992, Arthur Silverman papers, Manuscripts department, Special Collections, Tulane University Libraries. Image may not be reproduced without permission.) Posted by Eira Tansey.

The Manuscripts department at Tulane University's Special Collections Library is pleased to announce the recent acquisition of Art Silverman's papers. Arthur "Art" Silverman is a retired New Orleans area sculptor whose works are primarily large public sculptures, cast in metal, based on forms such as tetrahedrons. His works can be seen in New Orleans, Baton Rouge, Massachusetts, Florida, Iowa, and California. In New Orleans, his sculptures have been installed at Tulane University's Law School and A.B. Freeman School of Business, the Entergy Centre on Poydras, East Jefferson Hospital in Metairie, and Temple Sinai on St. Charles. Born in New York City in 1923, Silverman attended Tulane University for his B.S. (1944) and his M.D. (1947). He practiced urology for thirty years before shifting paths to become a sculptor. Silverman's gift to Manuscripts includes videos, sketches, gallery show invitations, newspaper and magazine articles, photographs, and other papers...