Tulane University's
Louisiana Research Collection

August 29, 2012, is the seventh anniversary of Hurricane Katrina in southern Louisiana and the Gulf Coast, a time for remembering, paying respects, and learning. The Louisiana Research Collection holds a variety of scientific, historical, visual, and literary publications about the disaster and its effects on the land and people of the region, especially New Orleans.    Hundreds of Katrina books have also been added to the Howard-Tilton Memorial Library main stacks.     Excerpts from three of these literary works published since 2010 appear below. *** from A howling in the wires : an anthology of writing from postdiluvian New Orleans / edited by Sam Jasper and Mark Folse.   New Orleans, LA : Gallatin and Toulouse Press, c2010.  F 379 .N553 A235 2010 cop.3 LACOLL, p. 98-99. Still-traumatic stress Ray “Moose” Jackson here we are again back at the bar, my friend or walking down the jazzclubs who remembers? those first days co...

Editor's note: The Louisiana Research Collection is one of the campus partners with Tulane University's Center for Public Service. Tulane students are required to perform public service through CPS in order to graduate. LaRC hosted two CPS interns this summer. Our first report comes from intern Jane Ball. Our second report from Lauren Kwiatkowski will be posted in a couple weeks. -- Eira Tansey The Louisiana Research Collection at Tulane University houses culturally significant materials from Louisiana. Here at LaRC, researchers delve into collections that contain evidence to answer current questions and inspire new research. As an intern here, I worked on making collection descriptions available to everyone online. It is important to put collection descriptions online because scholars from around the world can see what materials to access for their research. The online descriptions describe the people involved in the collections and exactly what LaRC has in the stacks. The L...

Paul Conrad (b. 1840) was a New Orleans businessman who served as a Confederate soldier. He had been shot in the left shoulder in battle during the Civil War, but remained active in the Louisiana Field Artillery into the 1870s.   As a rule, in the post-war South, Confederate veterans were held in especially high regard, and Louisiana Governor S. B. Packard commissioned Conrad as Captain in his "Governor's Life Guard." Paul Conrad became an employee of the Louisiana State Lottery Company in 1870, becoming its president in 1890. Subsequently, the United States Congress banned the interstate transportation of lottery tickets and lottery advertisements. As a result, the company remained in Louisiana until its charter expired; Conrad moved its operations to Honduras where it was shut down in 1907. LaRC Manuscripts Collection 463 consists of personal and business papers of Paul Conrad, with numerous artifacts of the 19 th century Louisiana lottery. Included are handwr...

Frances Bryson Moore (1895-1977) was a newspaper columnist, journalist, editor, and political activist, working for the New Orleans Tribune and New Orleans Item . Her interests included local and national politics, women's issues, arts, antiques, genealogy, and local architectural preservation, especially of buildings in the Vieux Carre.   She was a self-described "ardent pro-liberal and pro-Kennedy Democrat."  She was married to, and then separated from, Col. J. W. F. Moore (d. 1948). Frances Moore, sometimes called “Fannie”, used her maiden name or her married name on her writings, and usually used her married name on personal and financial papers. Her mother was Sarah Anette "Nettie" Denaux Bryson (d. 1949). The Frances Bryson Moore papers, 1911-1976 (LaRC Manuscripts Collection 450) contains personal, professional, and collected papers of Frances B. Moore of New Orleans.  It includes typed and handwritten correspondence, financial documents, real e...

Kevin Fontenot has begun work as LaRC’s first “Thelma Ducoing Toole Intern.” Kevin is a scholar of the American South with a special interest in country and Cajun music. He holds degrees from Louisiana College and Tulane University and he has received the John Dyer Award for Excellence in Teaching from Tulane’s School of Continuing Studies. Initially, Kevin will work primarily with our Louisiana Historical Association Collection. The Thelma Ducoing Toole Endowed Fund was created by an anonymous donor to honor the mother of author John Kennedy Toole. Born in New Orleans in 1901, as a child she developed talents for speech and music which she later taught as an exacting, vigorous, and inspired teacher, instilling in her students the enthusiasm she felt herself. The success of “A Confederacy of Dunces” made Mrs. Toole a celebrity in her own right. She used her fame to pursue her lifelong interest in education and in nurturing the intellectual and artistic talents of young people. Sh...

LaRC's digital Carnival Collection was given a highly favorable review in the August 2012 issue of Choice Reviews Online.   D. M. Braquet, University of Tennessee, Knoxville, writes that the resource is "highly recommended, all users."   49-6769   Humanities \ Performing Arts \ General The Carnival Collection .  Internet Resource. Reviewed in 2012aug CHOICE.  http://larc.tulane.edu/exhibits/carnival [Visited May'12] The Louisiana Research Collection (LaRC) at Tulane University preserves one of the most spectacular collections of New Orleans carnival-related materials and has now made a good portion accessible to the world.  The Carnival Collection  boasts more than 5,000 digital images of the original watercolor float and costume designs from artists of the golden age of carnival in New Orleans, which spanned the years from the late 1800s to the early 20th century. Designers represented include Jennie Wilde, B. A. Wikstrom, and Charles Bri...

Orleans Parish Landmarks Commission 2012 Joseph Merrick Jones Hall Dedicated in 1941 as Howard-Tilton Memorial Library The second library on Tulane University’s uptown campus Moise H. Goldstein and Associates, Architects Newcomb and Tulane alumna Angela Gregory (1903-1990) Designed the twelve Printers’ devices in the door jambs Paul Manship (1885-1966) Designed the entrance medallion With the inscription Libertas ex Sapientia And the personification of Alma Mater Xavier Gonzalez (1898-1993) Designed the personification of Aspiration In the central hall The building was rededicated in 1971 in honor of Tulane alumnus and Board President Joseph Merrick Jones (1902-1963) *** For more information about all of the individuals named in this marker, see the Howard-Tilton Memorial Library catalog and the LaRC archival database, both of which are accessible fro...