And They WereWined and DinedTop to bottom, Menu for a

banquet in honor of President-

elect William Howard Taft on

February 12, 1909, at the

Grunewald Hotel (1970.34.1);

Menu for a banquet in honor of

President William McKinley on May 1,

1901 (1950.41); Menu for a banquet in

honor of Teddy Roosevelt on March 11,

1911, at the Grunewald Hotel

(1981.322.8)

Volume XXII, Number 3 Summer 2004

HAIL TOTHE CHIEFNew Orleans Salutesa Parade of Presidents

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Prudence and decorumdefine the office of thepresidency. But try tell-

ing that to George Washington.The Father of Our

Country, coated head to toein sugar, once climbed ontoa table during revels at theSt. Charles Hotel. ThomasJefferson, not to be outdone,went skydiving over LakePontchartrain. And Ulysses S.Grant swigged from a jumbo bottle ofbeer while weaving his way downCanal Street.

Impeachable behavior? Scandaloushijinks? Hardly. Simply business asusual in New Orleans.

Whenever elections draw nigh andcoffers run low, presidents—andaspirants—hit the road. The long, hotsummer of 2004 has spawned thicker-than-usual swarms of campaigners.Louisiana has been designated a “battle-ground state,” its venues booked forfundraisers and rallies, its airwaves satu-rated with political advertisements.Come November, the campaign willdraw to an end. But not the parade of

visitors. Rest assured that the victor inthe presidential stakes will return toNew Orleans, post-election—if not toraise cash, then to raise Cain. States-men, no less than college kids andconventioneers, appreciate the allure ofthe Big Easy.

The Historic New Orleans Collec-tion houses numerous politicalartifacts—broadsides, bills, editorials,proclamations—of serious import. Lessweighty, but equally illuminating, arethe menus, postcards, badges, and otherephemera that illustrate the lighter sideof politics. Among the liveliest arethose documenting presidential visits toNew Orleans.

Consider the stashfrom William McKinley’sMay 1901 swing throughLouisiana—photographs,banquet programs, sou-ven i r r i bbons , andmouth-watering descrip-tions of 11-course feasts.The first president to visitNew Orleans during histerm in office, McKinleyspent three days being

fed and feted. The president venturedsome formal remarks on trade (and thebenefits, for the port of New Orleans,of an “open door policy” with China),but festivity was the real business of theday. One man-on-the-street, quoted inthe States, summed up the situation:“E is de g-g-g-r-r-r-eat President ofthose Etats Unis what come to NooOrleans for eat those fine crayfeeshbisque, yes!”

McKinley and his entourage touredthe Cabildo, met with a “colored” dele-gation from Southern University, andparaded through the flag-draped streetsof the city. “As far as the eye could see,”observed the Times-Democrat, “NewOrleans was a shimmering, fluttering,floating bouquet of beauty…by the sideof which the glories of Mardi Graspaled into insignificance.” Only oneminor mishap—a mix-up over harborjurisdiction—marred the visit, forcing abrief delay in the “River Parade” andexposing Mrs. McKinley to the middayheat. Nautical misadventures notwith-standing, the president told the press“My Visit Has Been Delightful” andvowed to return soon. Four monthslater, he was dead, the victim of anassassin’s bullet in Buffalo.

Nearly every president sinceMcKinley has fit a New Orleans junketinto his schedule. Teddy Rooseveltcame for a banquet—and returned for abear hunt. Dwight Eisenhower came

President William McKinley saluting passing boats in river parade, stereograph, 1901(1989.9i,ii)

New Orleans welcomes President-elect Taft, photograph by Ernest P. Carriere, February 11, 1909 (1977.10)

HAIL TO THE CHIEF: New Orleans Salutes a Parade of Presidents

was so enamored of Brennan’s BananasFoster that he requisitioned 11,000servings for his 1984 inaugural.George H. W. Bush popped intoArnaud’s, during the 1988 convention,for a quiet dinner en famille. And BillClinton feasted on crawfish gazpachoand catfish pecan meuniere, courtesy ofthe Palace Café, in 1996.

�New Orleans, beloved of tourists,freely dispenses love in return. Forinaugurating the tradition of presiden-tial visits, William McKinley willalways hold a special spot in the city’sheart. But two other, earlier presi-dents—each with Louisiana ties, andeach well-represented in The Collec-tion’s holdings—can also claimpride of place.

Andrew Jackson, “Defender ofNew Orleans,” returned to the city onthe occasion of the 25th anniversaryof his great military triumph. Arriv-ing on January 8, 1840, the72-year-old stepped off a steamboatand continued, by barouche, to thePlace d’Armes, where he was saluted byboth veterans and civilians. Too frailto visit the battlefield at Chalmette,Jackson spent most of his five-day stayresting in a hotel suite at the St. LouisExchange. He ventured out to lay thecornerstone for his equestrian statue;and he sat, in his chambers, for JacquesGuillaume Lucien Amans, whose

portrait of the general now hangs inThe Collection’s galleries.

Another military hero, ZacharyTaylor, although born in Virginia,adopted Louisiana as his home. InDecember 1847, fresh off his triumphsin the Mexican campaign, Taylor wastoasted at a “corporation dinner” at theSt. Charles Hotel. A year later, Taylorwas tabbed as president—and NewOrleans bustled to arrange a fittingsend-off. An invitation, on file at TheCollection, announces a Grand Civicand Military Ball to be held January 8,1849, at Armory Hall. To the dismayof all, a cholera epidemic forced theevent’s postponement to January 25.By then, Taylor was already en route toWashington, for his inaugural.

And what of Washington, Jeffer-son, and Grant? Truth be told,their visits owe more to artifice thanto actuality.

On December 14, 1799, Washing-ton passed away at his Mount Vernonestate. On December 26, 1855, theKeystone Association of New Orleansheld a banquet at the St. Charles Hotel.A menu card identifies Washington—or a sugary facsimile thereof—as one ofthe “ornamental pieces of confec-tionary” decorating the dinner tables.

Though dead, and granulated, Washing-ton still had style; a reporter for the DailyPicayune enthused over the “exquisite”execution of the centerpieces.

If Washington was miniaturized forhis visit to New Orleans, Jefferson wasblown up—literally. A fireworks dis-play during the sesquicentennialcelebrations of 1953 featured “fieryportraits” of Louisiana Purchase deal-brokers Jefferson and Napoleon.(Dwight Eisenhower, who spoke at theCabildo but skipped town beforenightfall, made an unlikely third in thepyrotechnic trio.)

And Grant? He really did visitNew Orleans during his presidentialterm—in the guise of a bug. The MistickKrewe of Comus scored a Mardi Grastriumph in 1873 with a torchlit proces-sion titled “The Missing Links toDarwin’s Origin of Species.” For theoccasion, Grant’s visage was graftedonto the body of a tobacco grub. As ifthat weren’t indignity enough, Rexresuscitated the design in 1997,installing Grant-the-grub on a float andplopping a big bottle of beer in hispaws. And there, on his float, we willleave him, bringing up the tail end ofour parade of presidents.

—Jessica Dorman

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Invitation to a ball in honor of President-elect Zachary Taylor scheduled forJanuary 8, 1849, at Armory Hall(1956.29)

Andrew Jackson by Jacques Guillaume Lucien Amans,1840 (1982.11)

Design for a float in the 1997 Rex parade entitled “MayGrant return all the presents he got” (1997.39.12)

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Formally established in 1805, the Episco-pal Church in Louisiana will celebrate itsliturgical bicentennial with an exhibitionat The Collection. Featuring documents,pictorial materials, and artifacts fromChrist Church Cathedral in New Orleansand other sources, A Heritage of Faith:Christ Church Cathedral and EpiscopalLouisiana, 1805-2005 will trace the his-tory of the church and relate the stories ofthose who created it and were affected byit. Appropriate programming, to beannounced, will be presented during thecourse of the exhibition.

The hegemony of France and Spain inshaping the history and culture of theLouisiana Territory is well documented.But the British imprint on Louisiana isless often recognized. Great Britain tookactive measures—exploration, immigra-tion, military incursion, trade—to shapeLouisiana’s fate, while the Bourbonmonarchs and the French Republicworked to oppose British designs forNorth America. A day-long symposiumwill feature scholarly presentations onLouisiana history as filtered through thedesires of Great Britain. Dr. Light T.Cummins, professor of history at AustinCollege, will moderate. Final programdetails will be announced in the fall.

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The board of directors announces the appointment of JessicaDorman as director of publications effective the beginning ofApril. Originally from Connecticut, Dr. Dorman holds amaster’s degree in English and a Ph.D. in the history of Ameri-can civilization from Harvard University. She has served as aprofessor of American Studies at Trinity College and Penn State University. As anundergraduate, she was an editor and president of The Harvard Crimson, the dailynewspaper of Harvard University. Dr. Dorman’s experience also includes serving asassistant editor at Beacham Publishing, an educational publisher in Washington, D.C.,and as a manuscripts assistant at the Schlesinger Library at Radcliffe College in Cam-bridge, Massachusetts. Her publications include Harrisburg’s Old Eighth Ward, withMichael Barton (Charleston: Arcadia, 2002), “Muckrakers” in Encyclopedia of theUnited States in the Nineteenth Century (New York: Scribner’s, 2001), and “The Arts”in American Eras: 1878-1899 (Detroit: Gale Research, 1996).

Third Christ Episcopal Church building, built in 1847at the corner of Canal and Dauphine Streets and demol-ished in the mid-1880s, in Marie Adrien Persac’s 1873drawing of the 900 block of Canal Street, north side(1958.78.1.8)

In early May, The Collection

and other area museums

hosted the annual meeting of

the American Association of

Museums, the most compre-

hensive conference and

exposition for museum profes-

sionals. More than 5,000 national and international

attendees met at the Ernest N. Morial Convention

Center and attended functions at sites throughout

the city. Collection staff served as volunteers, man-

aged hospitality, and entertained visitors at a

wonderfully successful “French Quarter Frolic.”

Accreditation by the AAM, the foremost asso-

ciation for establishing industry standards, is a

primary goal of most museums. The Historic New

Orleans Collection first received AAM accreditation

in 1978 and had this status renewed in 1988 and

1999. The AAM offers museum professionals

opportunities for training, growth, and networking,

thereby keeping our institutions viable and respon-

sive to our communities. Our participation in the

AAM conference brought us many new ideas and

resources that we hope will make The Collection

even more valuable to each of you.

We are gearing up for a season of investigating

the influence of Great Britain on Louisiana. Begin-

ning with the annual genealogy workshop on

August 14, continuing with the tenth annual

Williams Research Center symposium on January 8,

2005, and concluding with a study trip to London

and Bath in the spring, we will be learning about

Britain’s significant but often overlooked contribu-

tions to the colonization and development of

our region.

As we approach another milestone in history,

the 2004 presidential election, I know you will find

Dr. Jessica Dorman’s cover article particularly inter-

esting. We are proud to announce that Dr. Dorman

has recently joined our staff as director of publica-

tions. Established by Dr. Patricia Brady in 1982, the

department has been responsible for a wonderful

array of publications over the years. Our latest

books, Charting Louisiana: Five Hundred Years of

Maps, George L. Viavant: Artist of the Hunt, and

From Louis XIV to Louis Armstrong: A Cultural Tapes-

try, are proud recent accomplishments. Thanks goes

once again to Lou Hoffman and Lynn Adams for

serving, sequentially, in the position of acting direc-

tor and to Mary Mees for her part in the creative

research and editing that go into all of our projects.

With Dr. Dorman on board, we look forward to

continued success!

—Priscilla Lawrence

FROM THE DIRECTOR

Jessica Dorman

Director of Publications Appointed

The Historic New Orleans Collec-tion

Tenth AnnualWilliams Research Center Sympo-

sium

English Spoken Here Great Britain and Louisiana

Saturday, January 8, 2005

MARK YOURCALENDAR

A Heritage of FaithChrist Church Cathedral and Episcopal Louisiana

1805-2005

October 19, 2004-March 26,2005

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In early 2004 The Collection formed apartnership with Dr. Robert Bray to pro-duce the Tennessee Williams Scholars’Conference and the Tennessee WilliamsAnnual Review. Held each year inconjunction with the Tennessee Williams/New Orleans Literary Festival, thescholars’ conference was established in1996 with Dr. Bray as its director. TheAnnual Review, founded in 1998 as anoutgrowth of the scholars’ conference,remains the only major journal devotedexclusively to the works of Tennessee

Williams. Published in the fall of eachyear, the journal includes scholarship onWilliams’s plays, fiction, and poems andon the film adaptations of his works.Each issue also showcases at least one pre-viously unpublished work by Williams.In 2002 the Annual Review was convertedto an electronic format available atwww.tennesseewilliamsstudies.org. Thepartnership between Dr. Bray and TheCollection will provide for both print andelectronic versions of the journal.

Professor of English at Middle Ten-

nessee State University, Robert Brayreceived a master’s degree from the Uni-versity of Southwestern Louisiana and aPh.D. from the University of Mississippi.In addition to his current project, a majorcritical study written with R. BartonPalmer on the film adaptations of Ten-nessee Williams’s plays, Dr. Bray haspublished over two dozen articles, mostlyon Williams. He contributed severalentries to The Tennessee Williams Encyclo-pedia and has written articles for theQuarterly on The Collection’s Fred W.Todd Tennessee Williams Collection—the world’s largest private holding ofWilliams materials. As the editor of theAnnual Review, Dr. Bray works withan editorial board of internationallyrespected Williams scholars to selectarticles for publication; the same editorialboard also judges the merit of submis-sions for presentation at the scholars’conference.

The publications staff of The Collec-tion and Dr. Bray will work together tocontinue to publish the highest qualityWilliams scholarship, to publicize theFred W. Todd Tennessee Williams Collec-tion, to expand the journal’s content, andto reach the broadest audience possible.For more information and to subscribe,e-mail Dr. Robert Bray at rbray@mtsu.edu.

The Center for Louisiana Studies at theUniversity of Louisiana at Lafayette, withthe support of the Louisiana Endowmentfor the Humanities, has published thepapers from the Louisiana PurchaseBicentennial Conference—a symposiumpresented by The Collection and theLouisiana Historical Association in Janu-ary 2003. Edited by Paul E. Hoffman,The Louisiana Purchase and Its Peoples:Perspectives from the New Orleans Confer-ence explores the political, economic, andsocial consequences of the Purchase in

works by scholars Hans W. Baade, JohnB. Boles, the late Glenn R. Conrad,Joseph Ellis, Patricia Galloway, DanielH. Usner, Jr., Peter H. Wood, and oth-ers. One of the most comprehensiveexaminations of the Louisiana Purchaseavailable in a single volume, TheLouisiana Purchase and Its Peoples isavailable for $29.95 from the Shop atThe Collection, (504) 598-7147,diane@hnoc.org, and from the Centerfor Louisiana Studies, (337) 482-6027,www.cls.louisiana.edu.

PUBLISHED PAPERS FROMTHE LOUISIANA PURCHASE BICENTENNIAL

CONFERENCE AVAILABLE

Jessica Dorman, Lynn Adams,Mary Mees, and Robert Brayat the entrance to the attic of722 Toulouse Street, whereTennessee Williams had anapartment in the late 1930s

A PARTNERSHIP for TENNESSEE WILLIAMS SCHOLARSHIP

From Louis XIV to Louis Armstrong:A Cultural Tapestry, an exhibitionfeaturing artistic and historical trea-sures from The Collection on view at533 Royal Street and the WilliamsResearch Center at 410 Chartres Street,examines four themes in the develop-ment of Louisiana—colonial history,the growth of 19th-century NewOrleans, the visual arts from 1870 to1940, and jazz.

EXHIBITION ON VIEW

THROUGH OCTOBER 9

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In 1892 at a meeting of community leaders at the Dryades StreetMethodist Church, the Reverend Alfred E. Clay initiated a campaign of“unceasing warfare against all the enemies of little children.” This broadmission statement launched the Louisiana Society for the Prevention ofCruelty to Children, a nonsectarian society dedicated to assisting chil-dren regardless of race or gender. The organization, which was renamedthe Children’s Bureau of New Orleans in 1926, has changed itsapproach to dealing with children’s issues over time, but its mission hasremained the same for well over a century—to improve the quality oflife for children and their families.

Industrialization and technological advances in the last decades ofthe 19th century brought about tremendous social and demographicchange. Large numbers of the rural poor moved into New Orleans insearch of opportunity; scores of European immigrants poured into thecity’s port. These newcomers often clustered in overcrowded, unsani-tary, and dangerous tenements—an environment particularly stressfulfor families. The strain of such living conditions led, in some cases, todomestic abuse, drug addiction, alcoholism, and child neglect.

Saving Wednesday’s Child, an exhibition on view at the WilliamsResearch Center from June 23 through October 1, examines the socialproblems that led to the creation of the Children’s Bureau and charts theorganization’s response to the complex issue of child welfare over thepast century.

—Mark Cave

The Historic New Orleans Collectionand the Louisiana Historical Associationawarded the 2003 Williams Prize inLouisiana History to Dr. John M. Sacherfor his work A Perfect War of Politics:Parties, Politicians, and Democracy inLouisiana, 1824-1861, published byLouisiana State University Press. Dr.Sacher received the prize, which includesa cash award and a plaque, at the LHA’sannual meeting in Hammond, Louisiana,on Friday, March 12, 2004. TheWilliams Prize, offered annually since1974, recognizes excellence in researchand writing on Louisiana history.

Dr. Sacher is interim chair of socialsciences and assistant professor of historyat Emporia State University in Emporia,Kansas. In A Perfect War of Politics, heexamines the growth of the distinct two-party system in Louisiana from theJacksonian era until the outbreak of the

Civil War. The publishernotes that “Sacher’swelcome study providesa fresh, grassroots per-spective on the causes ofthe Civil War and con-firms the dominant roleregional politics played inantebellum Louisiana.”

A native of Miami,Florida, John Sacherreceived a bachelor’s degreein history from the Uni-versity of Notre Dame in1992 and went on to earn both a master’sdegree (1994) and Ph.D. (1999) in his-tory from Louisiana State University. Histeaching interests are varied, ranging inperiod from the American Revolutionthrough Reconstruction, and in themefrom African American history to partypolitics to the history of Mexico.

A Perfect War ofPolitics was selectedfrom 18 entries, allpublished in 2003. Apanel of three histori-ans evaluated theentries for Louisianacontent, scholarlymerit, and overall his-torical significance.

A list of pastWilliams Prize recipi-ents and applicationinformation for next

year’s prize are available at www.hnoc.org.Works published in the 2004 calendaryear exploring any aspect of Louisianahistory and culture, or placing Louisianasubjects in a regional, national, or inter-national context, are eligible. Thedeadline for all 2004 Williams Prize sub-missions is January 15, 2005.

Children fighting in front of the Beauregard House on Chartres Street, ca. 1907(1981.261.3)

KEMPER AND LEILA WILLIAMS PRIZE

AWARDED TO JOHN M. SACHER

Monday’s child is fair of face,

Tuesday’s child is full of grace,

Wednesday’s child is full of woe ...

SAVING WEDNESDAY’S CHILD

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Historical study is facilitatedthrough the use of visual materi-als as well as the written record.

Within the pictorial holdings of TheHistoric New Orleans Collection, photo-graphs far outnumber images of othertypes. This aspect of THNOC’s holdingscontinues to grow, now covering virtuallythe entire period of photography’s exis-tence—from 1839 to the present. Tworecent donations of photographic materi-als serve as windows into different periodsof the century just concluded.

John T. Mendes and Dr. Abbye A.Gorin each created compelling bodies ofwork, Mendes during the 1920s andGorin from the 1950s through the 1980s.Their witnessing of those eras is intelli-gent and literate; their pictures not onlyunderscore familiar truths, but also gener-

ate surprise. These collections quietly andcarefully preserve the character of an ear-lier time—a precious gift for us, today,when homogenization rules in so manyaspects of life.

The photographs of amateur photog-rapher John T. Mendes (1888-1965) werea gift to The Collection from WaldemarNelson. The 609 glass negatives, mostly4x5 in size, date from the end of WorldWar I to the late 1920s. Mendes turnedhis camera toward a number of newswor-thy events—Bill Strother, the “humanspider,” scaling the Hibernia Bank build-ing; the smoldering shell of the FrenchOpera House; the fire-devastated ruins ofthe Fair Grounds grandstand; LibertyBond parades; and the appearance of avi-atrix Ruth Law in New Orleans—as wellas more quotidian subjects. His collec-

Pioneer aviatrix Ruth Law landing at theNational Farm and Live Stock Show at theNew Orleans Fair Grounds, photograph byJohn T. Mendes, November 1917(2003.182.146). Law set three records on aflight from Chicago to New York in 1916, wasthe first woman authorized to wear a militaryuniform, and broke the world record for succes-sive loops at the New Orleans Fair Grounds.

Above, Bill Strother, the “human spider,”addressing a crowd before scaling the HiberniaBank building, photograph by John T. Mendes,1919 (2003.182.193). Strother, a Hollywoodstuntman, gained notoriety by climbing build-ings around the country; left, wading pool inAudubon Park, photograph by John T. Mendes,July 24, 1924 (2003.182.399). The tempera-ture reached 100 degrees on the day thisphotograph was taken.

History IN PHOTOGRAPHS:

Demolition of the St. Louis Hotel, photograph by JohnT. Mendes, 1916 (2003.182.11)

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t ion of fers a v iv id impress ion ofNew Orleans during the roaring ’20s.

Dr. Abbye A. Gorin’s archive of over700 items dates from 1954. With analmost clairvoyant approach, Gorinrecorded people, places, and events, manynow gone or changed. Gorin’s imagesstand as icons of their time, a reminderthat the commonplace of one era is thespecter of another. The archive containsnot only hundreds of photographic printsand negatives made in and around NewOrleans, but videotape footage from sev-eral projects produced with BarbaraColeman—interviews with sculptorAngela Gregory and architect and histo-rian Samuel Wilson, Jr., and documen-tation of the demolition of the NewOrleans Rivergate, one of the city’s mostdistinctive modern architectural land-

marks. The videotapes include the editedworks, a number of which were broadcaston New Orleans television stations, aswell as the outtake footage.

Dr. Gorin’s donation also includesthe maquette for a pictorial study ofNew Orleans; factors extraneous to thebook’s content prevented its printing inthe 1960s. Another aspect of Gorin’s workshowcased in the collection is herinnovative and award-winning use ofphotographs in advertising. And herlongstanding documentation of the Span-ish colonial architecture of North andSouth America and the PhilippineIslands, well represented in the archive,provides a strong basis for understandingSpanish influence on Louisiana’sarchitecture.

Both the Mendes and Gorin photo-

graphs complement numerous otherphotographic collections housed in theWilliams Research Center. The CharlesL. Franck Collection and Eugene Del-croix Collection serve as counterpoints toMendes’s images, both in the use of glassnegatives and in certain areas of content,such as architecture, public events andspectacles, and scenic views. Gorin’sattention to architecture and landscapemirrors aspects of the Clarence JohnLaughlin Collection, the Jules CahnCollection, and the Franck-Bertacci Col-lection. Inventories of both the Mendesand Gorin archives are available topatrons of the Williams Research Center.As The Collection’s new databasebecomes operational, these collectionsand others will be available on the Internet.

—John H. Lawrence

Above, Zerlin’s, 139 Chartres Street, ca. 1964,photograph by Abbye A. Gorin (2004.140); right, Mama Brocato and Boys at Brocato’s IceCream and Confectionary Parlor, 617 UrsulinesStreet, ca. 1964, photograph by Abbye A. Gorin(2004.140)

Selling fish in the French Market, ca. 1964,photograph by Abbye A. Gorin (2004.140)

THE COLLECTIONS OF JOHN T. MENDES

AND DR. ABBYE A. GORIN

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“Once you visit here,you have to come back,”says Larry Garvey in ref-erence to The HistoricNew Orleans Collection.Indeed, Larry and hiswife Marla have contin-ued to “come back” toTHNOC since their ini-tial introduction to theinstitution on a trip toSpain organized by TheCollection. They’ve cometo enjoy exhibitions, todelve into collections atthe Williams ResearchCenter, and to attendLaussat Society events.And because they havebeen so impressed withthe institution and the manner in which it “uses its fundswisely and in the public interest,” the Garveys have chosento support The Collection.

A native New Orleanian, Larry Garvey grew up in theGentilly area, where he developed a love for fishing andhunting. The Collection’s publication of the biography ofGeorge L. Viavant, an artist of the hunt who resided in Gen-tilly, was an obvious addition to the couple’s library. Formany years Larry was involved in the operation of the fam-ily business, The Doctors Exchange, a doctors’ messagingservice established by his father in 1921. In 1958 Larry andhis brother Don founded Radiofone—the second selectivecalling/paging system in the United States and the first in thecity. The cellular system was added in 1985. Marla Garvey,also a New Orleans native, comes from a family of bar pilots.The Garveys’ strong ties to New Orleans have inspired themto give back to the community and in turn to support TheCollection. According to Marla, “Larry and I have lived hereall of our lives, and our business was here. We love the cityand want to see our history preserved.”

Impressed by the “extent and depth of the resources thatthe institution has amassed and preserved over the years,”Marla and Larry Garvey have formed a close relationshipwith the staff of The Historic New Orleans Collection. Intheir words, “We know from the interactions we’ve had withthe staff that they understand the mission of the institutionand do their very best to support it.”

GIVING BACK

to theCOMMUNITY

Algiers Historical Society

Mercedes González de Amezúa

Mr. and Mrs. Robert D. Armstrong

The Bayon Family: Mrs. Frances Howard

Bayon, Mrs. Suzanne Bayon de Neufville

Mr. and Mrs. John D’Arcy Becker

Robert M. Becnel and Diane K. Zink

BellSouth

Edwin J. Blair

Sarah V. Bohlen

Judith H. Bonner

Barbara V. Broadwell

Bethany Ewald Bultman

Ellis Johann Bultman

Philip D. Burden

Judith Fos Burrus

Mimi C. Calhoun

Canadian Consulate General

Mrs. William K. Christovich

Robert B. DeBlieux

John D. Dupy

Marlive E. Fitzpatrick

Mr. and Mrs. Lawrence D. Garvey

Shelley Herman Gillon

Shirley Ann Grau

Mary Ann Grigsby

Charlotte Hayes

Hermann-Grima/Gallier Historic Houses

Jerome S. Glazer Foundation, Inc.

Dr. Florence M. Jumonville

K-Paul’s Louisiana Kitchen

Estate of Iris Kelso

Maria G. Kron

Henry W. Krotzer, Jr.

Daniel de Lamaze

Mrs. Alfred Smith Landry

Mr. and Mrs. G. Charles Lapeyre

Mrs. J. M. Lapeyre

Richard Lebherz

Justice Harry T. Lemmon in memory of

Anne Brittain

Dr. and Mrs. William Leon

Woodward Logan

John Magill

Rose Milling Monroe

New Orleans Public Library

New Orleans Television

Dr. Celeste Newbrough

Edward Newsome

Errol J. Olivier

Parkside Foundation on behalf of Mr. and

Mrs. Linton L. Young

Angele M. Parlange in honor of Mimi

Calhoun

Patrick F. Taylor Foundation

Brenda K. Perkins

Estate of Earl J. Peyroux

Diane W. Plauché

Phyllis J. Ponder

Purveyor of Fine Wines, Ltd.

Rault Resources Group

Alice N. Rayer

Dr. and Mrs. James L. Reynolds

Mary Ringwald

The Ritz-Carlton

Mr. and Mrs. John Robert Sarpy

Lynn D. Segraves

Violet N. Sicard

Anne Smith

Marti and David Speights

Statewide Bank

Irma Stiegler

Audrey Moulin Stier

Stonehaven CCS Canada Corporation

Hugh Ramsay Straub

Stan Strembicki

Mary Stutts

Marian Sylvester

Marianna Flowers Tomeny

Amelie Goodwin Urbanczyk

Dr. Javier Morales Vallejo

Robert J. Villars

WDSU–TV

Mr. and Mrs. Stanly B. Whitney in memory

of Paul Leo Bacas and his wife, Loretta

Regis Macken

Wichita-Sedgwick County Historical Museum

Mrs. Routh Trowbridge Wilby in honor of

John E. Walker

Mr. and Mrs. Robert John Axtell Williams

WLAE–TV

Estate of Dianne A. Woest

Dalton L. Woolverton

WWL–TV

D O N O R S January - March

Larry and Marla Garvey

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Private Viewing of Exhibition for Laussat Society

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Alternatively, the Benefactors could establish a CRTdesigned to pay 5 percent, or $50,000, annually. In additionto more income, the Benefactors receive an immediate chari-table deduction on their federal income tax equal to theactuarial value of the charity’s remainder interest (subject togeneral conditions and limitations on charitable deductions).The CRT may sell the shares free of capital gains tax and theassets will pass to charity free of estate tax.

Custom Designing Your Charitable Remainder TrustThere are various ways to structure a CRT to help meet yourneeds and objectives. For more information about CRTs orother forms of planned giving, please call Jack Pruitt, Jr.,director of development, (504) 598-7173. The followingmaterials are provided free of charge:

• Giving Through Charitable Remainder Trusts• Giving Through Life Insurance• Giving Through Your Will• Giving Securities• Giving Real Estate• Giving Through Retirement Plans• Giving Through Gift AnnuitiesAll inquiries are held in strictest confidence and without

obligation.The Charitable Remainder Trust is a creation of thetax laws and as such must meet various technical requirements.Potential donors should consult with a tax advisor in connectionwith establishing a CRT.

The Benefits of CHARITABLE REMAINDER TRUSTS

On Thursday, May 20, members of the Laussat Society gathered at The Collection for a private viewing of From Louis XIV to Louis Armstrong: A Cultural Tapestry, followed by a reception. Pictured are, left to right, Frederick Guess, Marda Burton, David Speights, and Marti Speights;Michael Valentino, Darleen Carlisle, Peggy Armstrong, and Robert Armstrong; Diane Zink and Robert Becnel

Second in a series on planned giving. Next: Giving Through Life Insurance

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For the first quarter of 2004 (January-March), there were 18 manuscriptsdonations, totaling approximately 139linear feet.n Fred W. Todd continues to add to theextensive Tennessee Williams collectionthat bears his name. Significant additionsinclude theatrical posters from manynotable productions of Williams’s playsand a scrapbook devoted to the issuance ofthe Tennessee Williams postage stamp,both purchased by Mr. Todd from theJohn Buonomo Tennessee Williams Col-lection, then donated to The Collection.Mr. Todd also acquired the PanchoRodriguez y Gonzales Collection forTHNOC. Gonzales, a lifelong friend ofTennessee Williams, is considered by someto be the inspiration for the character ofPablo Gonzales in A Streetcar NamedDesire. Noteworthy items in the collectioninclude photographs documenting Gonza-les’s friendship with Williams from the1940s through the 1970s and a diary keptby Gonzales during one of Williams’s visitsto New Orleans in 1973. In the diary,Gonzales describes a dinner party atWilliams’s French Quarter home, afundraiser that Williams attended in sup-

port of the preservation of the St. CharlesAvenue streetcar, and Williams’s reactionto the news of actress Anna Magnani’sdeath.n The Collection’s holdings includeabundant materials related to the Ten-nessee Williams/New Orleans LiteraryFestival. Founded in 1986, the festival fea-tures theatrical performances, masterclasses, interviews, panel discussions, and ascholars’ conference, most of which takeplace in the French Quarter. The Collec-tion has recently received additionalmemorabilia for inclusion in the festivalarchive, which includes correspondence,brochures, news clippings, photographs,minutes, and press materials that docu-ment the festival from its inception.

—Mark Cave

For the first quarter of 2004 (January-March), there were 16 library donations,totaling 92 items.n In Message of His Excellency GovernorMurphy J. Foster to the General Assembly ofthe State of Louisiana (1898), a rare pam-phlet donated by Rose Milling Monroe,the governor reports on the operations ofvarious public institutions and gives anaccount of the financial condition of thestate. The biennial report includes sections

on Charity Hospital, Louisiana State Uni-versity, Southern University, LouisianaState Penitentiary, the insane asylum, andthe home for lepers, among others. Thereport also touches on military matters. Inwords that resonate forcefully today, inlight of continued troop deployments toIraq, Governor Foster states thatLouisiana “has promptly furnished tworegiments of National Guards, one bat-talion of Naval Reserves, and will supplyother regiments of volunteers” for servicein the Spanish-American War. “Louisianamust patriotically do its share,” Fosterobserves, “in the successful prosecution ofthe hostilities already begun.” n Dr. Javier Morales Vallejo of the Patri-monio Nacional in Madrid, Spain, hasdonated a copy of Urbanismo Español enAmerica (Madrid: Editora Nacional,1973), a major collection of maps andplans of early Spanish cities and towns inthe Americas. The volume affords anopportunity to compare Spanish colonialNew Orleans to Spanish colonies in LatinAmerica. According to OCLC’s WorldCatdatabase, no other library or historic repos-itory in Louisiana owns this title. n Claudia Queiroz’s self-publishedwork, Bound by Love, tells the story of theauthor’s quest for information about herrelative Jacques Cantrelle, Sr., known asthe benefactor of St. James, Louisiana.The narrative, which explores the historyof St. James Parish, sheds light on the chal-lenges faced by early Louisiana settlers.n To complement its holdings of DenisDiderot’s Encyclopédie, the library hasacquired a copy of L’Encyclopédie Diderot etD’Alembert: Planches et commentariesprésentés par Jacques Proust, a referencework that explains the illustrations inDiderot’s monumental encyclopedia fromthe French Enlightenment period. Ency-clopédie, published over the course of morethan 20 years (1751-77), contains 11 vol-umes of beautifully engraved platesillustrating 21 volumes of text. An addi-tional resource is a collaborative websiteestablished by the University of Michiganthat provides translations of some of the70,000 articles included in Encyclopédie(www.hti.umich.edu/d/did/intro.html).

—Gerald Patout

MANUSCRIPTS

ACQUISITIONST H E H I S T O R I C N E WORLEANS COLLECTIONencourages research in theWilliams Research Centerat 410 Chartres Streetfrom 10:00 a.m. to 4:30p.m. Tuesday through Sat-urday (except holidays).Cataloged materials avail-able to researchers includeb o o k s , m a n u s c r i p t s ,

paintings, prints, drawings, maps, photo-graphs, and artifacts about the history andculture of New Orleans, Louisiana, andthe Gulf South. While acquisitions by pur-chase have been temporarily discontinued,The Collection is pleased to report the fol-lowing notable donations. Though onlyselected gifts are mentioned here, theimportance of all gifts cannot be over-stated. Prospective donors of Louisianamaterials are invited to contact the authorsof the acquisitions columns.

LIBRARY

Lifelong friends Pancho Rodriguez y Gonzalesand Tennessee Williams at Pat O’Brien’s during MardiGras, 1962 (2003.228.1)

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For the first quarter of 2004( January-March), there were30 curatorial donations, totaling65 items.n Laura Simon Nelson’s dona-tion of works by Ellsworth andWilliam Woodward adds apprecia-bly to The Collection’s holdings bythe Massachusetts-born brotherswho strongly influenced art andart education in late 19th- andearly 20th-century Louisiana.Mrs. Nelson’s gift also includespaintings by Luis Graner andRobert M. Rucker.n In the late 1940s Richard Lebherzacquired a haunting painting from NewOrleans artist Charles Richards, which hehas recently donated to The Collection.Titled After the Accident, the paintingshows a frieze of disconsolate womenwith downcast eyes. A pair of children’sshoes in the lower, right-hand corner

serves to tie the women’s expressions tothe painting’s title.n Cashio, Cochran, L.L.C., the oldestlandscape architecture firm in the state,has donated 176 drawings for landscapeand urban-design projects in NewOrleans and elsewhere in Louisiana. Thedrawings, ranging in date from 1970 to2000, include designs for Audubon Park

and Zoo, Louisiana State Univer-sity, Alexandria Mall, andPiazza d’Italia. n St. Louis photographer StanStrembicki has photographedNew Orleans Mardi Gras for overa decade, amassing hundreds ofphotographs of its many aspects.He recently donated a print offlambeaux carriers and police offi-cers in the 1991 Hermes parade.nCourtney Anne Sarpy, H. LeonSarpy, and Mr. and Mrs. JohnSarpy have donated what may be

the state’s oldest documented piece ofneedlework. The cotton and linen sam-pler, bearing the date December 8, 1815,is the work of a 10-year-old Ursulineschool student, Pauline Fortier. Samplerswere worked by girls and young womenmastering the art of needlework andlearning numbers and the alphabet.

—John H. Lawrence

Churchyard, Europe by Ellsworth Woodward, between 1890 and 1920 (2004.29.1)

After the Accident by Charles Richards, between 1946 and 1949(2004.53)

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EditorsJessica Dorman

Lynn D. Adams, Mary C. MeesHead of PhotographyJan White Brantley

Additional photography byKeely Merritt

The Historic New Orleans CollectionQuarterly is published by The Historic NewOrleans Collection, which is operated by the Kemper and Leila Williams Founda-tion, a Louisiana nonprofit corporation.Housed in a complex of historic buildings inthe French Quarter, facilities are open to thepublic, Tuesday through Saturday, from10:00 a.m. until 4:30 p.m. Tours of the his-tory galleries and the Williams Residence areavailable for a nominal fee.

Board of DirectorsMrs. William K. Christovich, Chairman

John E. Walker, PresidentCharles Snyder Fred M. Smith

John KallenbornPriscilla Lawrence, Executive DirectorThe Historic New Orleans Collection

533 Royal StreetNew Orleans, Louisiana 70130

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On April 3, 2004, hundreds of people gathered at Washington Square for Art Jam,KID smART’s annual interactive children’s art festival. Puppet making, silk screening,parasol painting/second lining, and mask making were among the creative projectsorganized by Art Jam’s partners, sponsors, and artists. Col-lection staff members worked with an enthusiastic group ofchildren to create a mural illustrating the theme“One nation, indivisible, with liberty and justice for all.”The concept of “nation,” past and present, was also broughthome to the children through role-playing activities relatedto the Louisiana Purchase.

Art Jam is one of several programs sponsored by KIDsmART, an organization devoted to teaching at-risk childrenpositive life skills through hands-on arts activities. Established in1999 as a Saturday program serv-ing 20 children at a single school,KID smART now reaches over600 students at schools acrossUptown, Central City, and theWest Bank.

E d u c at i o n a l O u t r e a c h U p d at eS TA F F

IN THE COMMUNITYSue Laudeman was selected to be “principal fora day” at Benjamin Franklin Elementary Math& Science School. Mark Cave was namedchairman of the Acquisitions and Appraisal Sec-tion of the Society of American Archivists.Carol Bartels received the 2004 LouisianaArchives and Manuscripts Association’s Contin-uing Education Scholarship to attend theSociety of American Archivists’ encodedarchival description workshop at Tulane Univer-sity, June 10-11, 2004. John Kallenborn andAlfred Lemmon received Order of St. Louis IXmedallions in recognition of their years of serv-ice to the Archdiocese of New Orleans.

CHANGESMark Cave, manuscripts curator; Siva Blake,reference archivist; Robyn White, obituaryindex project.

VOLUNTEERS AND INTERNSBill Chauvin and Myrna Bergeron, volunteers,docent department; Angela Roberts, manu-scripts volunteer; Rachael Schultz and EdApffel, library volunteers; Donna Price, intern(Southern University); Lenora Costa, intern(University of Delaware); Andrea Faber, intern(Southeastern Louisiana University).

Art Jam 2004

The Collection is fortunate to havededicated volunteers who contributegenerously to the work of the institu-tion. But as we continue to grow, wemust increase our volunteer corps. Vol-unteers are needed in the docentdepartment, to guide tours of the His-tory Galleries and Williams Residence,and at the Williams Research Center.A total-immersion training program

encompassing Louisiana’s colonialhistory, art, and architecture gives vol-unteers an inside view of ourcollections and latest exhibitions.Please consider helping The Collectionto further its goal of preserving andinterpreting the history and culture ofNew Orleans and the Gulf South. Formore information call Bunny Hinckleyat (504) 598-7141.

W E NEED YOUR HELP!

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To complement the current exhibition,the Shop is offering From Louis XIV toLouis Armstrong: A Cultural Tapestry,an English-language edition of LaLouisiane, de la colonie francaise a l’Étataméricain, the catalogue that accompa-nied the exhibition held last winter atthe Mona Bismarck Foundation in Paris.With full-color illustrations throughout,From Louis XIV to Louis Armstrongincludes essays by Collection staff mem-bers John Lawrence, Alfred Lemmon,John Magill, and Jason Wiese.

Also available in the Shop is aselection of first-edition prints fromJohn J. Audubon’s royal octavo series

of Birds of America, originally pub-lished in New York and Philadelphiafrom 1840 to 1844. The seven-volumeseries was the first to combine the plateswith the text in a conventional book size.Audubon referred to the royal octavoseries as his “Birds in Miniature”; manyof the prints were based on his originaldrawings of birds in New Orleansand in other parts of Louisiana. Each wasprinted and meticulously hand coloredby John T. Bowen and assistants, underAudubon’s direct supervision. Visit orcall the Shop (504-598-7147) fordetails of prints available. Prices rangefrom $200 to $700.

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In the Louisiana Division at the MainBranch of the New Orleans PublicLibrary is a huge card catalog housing theNew Orleans Public Library ObituaryIndex. Originally created as part of aWPA project in the 1930s and main-tained by the library for more than 40years, the index includes citations toapproximately three million obituariesthat appeared in local newspapers fromthe early 19th century until 1972, whenthe newspapers themselves began index-ing the obituaries. Long an invaluableresource to historical researchers, the

“Obit Index” has the same problemthat all such paper-based findingaids have—it is only available duringregular library hours.

In 2000, The Historic New OrleansCollection joined with the New OrleansPublic Library to put the Obit Index intoan online database and make it availableto the public over the Internet. Workingwith powerful database software donatedby Minisis, Inc. of Vancouver, Canada, ateam of data-entry workers began the taskof creating an electronic version of theindex. In June the database went live with

the first 215,000 names, with citations to46 local publications. The Web version ofthe database allows researchers to searchfor records by first, middle, and lastnames, as well as nicknames; anadvanced-search facility allows for morerefined queries. Work will continue onthe Obit Index until the entire card cata-logue is online. With 410,000 namesremaining to be computerized, The Col-lection is seeking data-entry volunteersand donations to expedite the completionof the project. For more information callGerald Patout at (504) 598-7125.

Obituary Index Goes Live

CorrectionOn the cover of the spring issue of theQuarterly, the caption for the bottomright-hand image should read ImperialOrchestra, ca. 1905.

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Author George E. Jordan signs acopy of George L. Viavant: Artistof the Hunt for Dave Dugas atThe Collection’s book signing onMarch 30.

Susan V. Nicassio presented a lecture on Les Visitandines, the controversial opera that playedin New Orleans in 1805, at the third annual Les Comédiens Français lecture in March. Pictured are Susan Nicassio,Paule Perret,Joel Weinstock, and Yvette Rosen

On May 7, The Collection hosted a“French Quarter Frolic” for AmericanAssociation of Museums conferenceparticipants. Attendees enjoyed carriage rides between the WilliamsResearch Center and the Royal Streetcomplex, the music of Kermit Ruffins,and plenty of refreshments.

Performers directed by Jay Weigel at the fifthannual Bill Russell lecture held at St. Louis Cathedral on April 16. Mr. Weigel presented amusically illustrated lecture on New Orleans gospelmusic, focusing on the river as a prevalent symbolin traditional spirituals. Support for the event wasprovided by Statewide Bank, the St. Louis Cathe-dral, the Ogden Museum of Southern Art, theContemporary Arts Center, and the French Quarter Festival.

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