Tulane University's
Louisiana Research Collection

In her Pecan Candy trilogy, Rhodesia Jackson narrates the life-changing experiences of young Peggy Lavizzo of Orleans Avenue, as she falls in love and marries architect Clint Johnston.    Although both native New Orleanian African-Americans, the two characters are very different in socio-economic background and circumstances, age, family, skin color, education, life experience, religion, and point of view. Pecan candy & huck-a-bucks / by Rhodesia Jackson.   2 nd ed.   New Orleans, LA : Orgena Enterprises, c1995.     PS 3560 .A24197 P4 1995 LACOLL (also in a Kindle ed. From amazon.com) Sweeter than candy / Rhodesia Jackson.   1 st ed.   New Orleans, LA : Orgena, c1997.   PS 3560 .A24197 S92 1997 LACOLL Three times sweeter, love, home & family / Rhodesia Jackson.   1 st ed.   New Orleans, LA : Orgena Enterprises Ltd., c2000. [pre-order process in LaRC]     Yes, there’s candy-ma...

New Orleans art schools' calendars (LaRC Manuscripts Collection 522) is a grouping of locally-produced calendars featuring years between 1902 and 1938.   It contains  original color or monochrome linoleum-block or wood-block prints and printed reproductions designed by various artists and published through art schools in New Orleans. These were compiled into annual calendars, mostly bound with string, and produced through the Newcomb College Art Department, and art classes of the Isidore Newman School, in New Orleans.  With art and music education being presently reduced in the primary and secondary schools, this collection is evidence of a slower-paced era when creativity and patience were valued. Many of the designs incorporate carved-in students' initials; the collection also includes designs by Mary Frances Baker and Rosalie Urquhart. Subjects depicted in the calendars include New Orleans buildings, bridges, boats, natural scenes, the Shushan Airport, a...

Tulane remembers 9/11, a joint effort, as installed on the LBC quad today photos & post by Susanna Powers

The Schiro Reading Room will be closed Saturday, August 30 - Monday, September 1, 2014, for Labor Day.    Hours of the main library building are available on the Howard-Tilton Memorial Library website.

August is Katrina Month in New Orleans.    August 29, 2014, will mark the ninth anniversary of the storm, the flood, and one of the worst disasters in American history. Creative and informative writing on Katrina continues to be published and collected by the library, and especially by the Louisiana Research Collection.    Recently-retired Tulane University president Scott Cowen has written a scholarly memoir of his presidency which strongly focuses on the disaster and continuing recovery of the university and the city.    Copies are held in the main Howard-Tilton stacks as well as in LaRC:                 Cowen, Scott S.   The inevitable city : the resurgence of New Orleans and the future of urban America / Scott Cowen, with Betsy Seifter ; foreword by Walter Isaacson.   First edition.   New York, NY : Palgrave Macmillan, 2014. Howard-Tilton Stacks ...

Samuel H. Lockett (1837-1891) was an engineer and professor of engineering, who worked in an official capacity with the United States, and during the American Civil War, with the Confederate States. He conducted a topographic survey of the state of Louisiana from 1869 to 1872.  The Samuel H. Lockett manuscripts (LaRC Manuscripts Collection 826) consists of handwritten descriptive text and illustrations of two works by Samuel H. Lockett. Included in the collection are: Louisiana as it is (1873-1874); and The coast of Louisiana (undated). The second work is also included as a bound typescript. Throughout the first manuscript are small hand-drawn sketches of Louisiana scenes, and edited clipped proofs for possible publication; photographs are grouped together in a folder. A handwritten sheet listing an 1870 population table by parish and race, derived from the federal census, is an informative addition to the description of the state's natural topography and geogra...

New furniture is being constructed today by workers from DKI Office Furniture.   The reading room is closed until they finish the installation, possibly Tuesday afternoon. UPDATE, Wed. July 16, the reading room has returned to our normal hours as posted on the LaRC website.   It is always a good idea to check there for possible exceptions. Photo and post by Susanna Powers