Now is the time to begin considering your end-of-year charitable donations. When you do, we hope you will include Tulane University Special Collections. TUSC’s special projects are made possibl...
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Tulane University Special Collections is delighted to welcome CATE PEEBLES as TUSC’s first Archival Processing Manager. Cate will lead an effort to establish an archival processing program that...
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Tulane University Libraries is producing an ongoing video series, COLLECTION CONNECTION , on the library’s YouTube channel . Each episode focuses on a different TUSC collection available online...
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Jillian Cuellar has been selected as a member of the latest cohort of the Association of Research Libraries Leadership Fellows . The Fellows program was launched in 2004 to prepare future senio...
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Bill Monroe (left), interviewing President Jimmy Carter for the NBC News program “Meet the Press,” 1977. Tulane University Special Collections (TUSC) has acquired the correspondence, speeche...
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The personal stories of famous musicians, politicians, industry executives, and community leaders regarding renowned “Queen of Gospel” Mahalia Jackson are now available online thanks to fundi...
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William Brumfield, November 1979, Andronikov Monastery, Moscow, at work on photography for Gold in Azure. Ten years ago, the Louisiana Research Collection at Tulane University launched an...
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Special Collections is honored to have been selected by Parkway Partners as the permanent home for its records. In response to massive budget cuts to the City of New Orleans Department of Par...
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The Association of Southeastern Research Libraries (ASERL) is pleased to share our first-ever collaborative online exhibit, “ENSLAVED PEOPLE IN THE SOUTHEAS T .” The exhibit commemorates the...
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Arthur Hardy, a premiere authority on Mardi Gras in New Orleans, has donated to Tulane University Special Collections (TUSC) Carnival ball invitations and programs for more than eighty krewes. ...
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In honor of the 150th anniversary of Lafcadio Hearn’s arrival in the United States, Special Collections is hosting a screening of “Kwaidan,” the critically acclaimed horror film directed b...
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On October 11, 1886, Josephine Louise Newcomb wrote to the Administrators of the Tulane Educational Fund donating $100,000 for use in establishing the H. Sophie Newcomb Memorial College. In c...
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Tulane University Special Collections announces a new exhibit: CAPTIVE VOICES: HEARING, SEEING AND IMAGINING ANGOLA PRISON September 17, 2019 – November 29, 2019. In coordination with the T...
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Photograph of Monte M. Lemann inscribed "to Edgar B. Stern, outstanding citizen and my dear friend." LaRC preserves Stern's papers. Thomas B. Lemann of New Orleans has donated the papers of ...
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Ward Reception Room, Military Hospital, Havana Cuba George Alfred Hero, III, of Belle Chasse, Louisiana, has donated a scrapbook of Roger Post Ames. Ames (1870- 1914) was a New Orleans phy...
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LaRC has recently placed online the diary of Simon M. Bott, private in the 120th infantry regiment of Ohio (E Company). Bott was a Union soldier whose regiment was in Louisiana from 1863-1...
http://manuscriptstulane.blogspot.com/2019/01/union-soldier-diary-online.html
L-R, Althea Topek, Lori Schexnayder, Andrew Mullins ANDREW MULLINS, formerly with the Louisiana Research Collection (LaRC), is now coordinating archival processing and supervising student wo...
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Please remember LaRC in your end-of-year giving. When the Louisiana Research Collection agrees to preserve something, we make a commitment to preserve it permanently. "Permanently" means "forev...
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Mardi Gras in the French Quarter, c. 1980 by Murph Douwis LaRC's more recent acquisitions document a wide range of New Orleans issues, including Carnival, yellow fever, the French Quarter, ...
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Riddell's plan for refrigeration, 1846. The Louisiana Research Collection’s newest online collection is THE PAPERS OF JOHN LEONARD RIDDELL . Riddell (February 20, 1807 – October 7, 1865)...
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THIS IS THE ONLY KNOWN COPY OF THE LEGAL ANALYSIS THAT WAS USED TO JUSTIFY THE DESEGREGATION OF TULANE UNIVERSITY. The Louisiana Research Collection has digitized it and PLACED IT ONLINE . As...
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Map, "Battle of New Orleans For Freedom September 14, 1874." Compiled by T.S. Hardee, C.E. / Lith. and Pub. by H. Lewis, 22 St. Charles St. New Orleans: H. Lewis, 1874. Lithograph, 18 ¼”h ...
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Charles-Pierre Lambert baptismal certificate, 1798 August 18. A certificate verifying that Charles-Pierre Lambert was baptized at age two by Jean Baptiste-Joseph Lemaire and that Madame de ...
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At the June meeting of the American Library Association in New Orleans, ANDREW MULLINS and COURTNEY KEARNEY presented on how historical archives can support scientific research. Andrew is LaRC'...
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On September 14, LaRC's compatriot institution, Tulane University’s Southeastern Architectural Archive, will hold the opening reception for its newest exhibit, "The Laurel Valley Plantation P...
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