Art
Andrew Lytle
Based in Baton Rouge, early photographer Andrew Lytle spent a half-century chronicling the quotidian and exceptional events and faces of the city.
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Art
Antoine Simon Le Page du Pratz
An engineer by training, Antoine Simon Le Page du Pratz published a richly illustrated, three-volume, 1,300 page observation of life in early Louisiana, "Historie de La Louisiane."
Architecture
Barthélémy Lafon
Barthélémy Lafon enjoyed a long and diverse career in Louisiana as an architect, builder, engineer, surveyor, cartographer, town planner, land speculator, publisher, and pirate.
History
Ben Lilly
Louisiana hunter Ben Lilly was President Teddy Roosevelt's chief guide during his noted black bear hunt in 1907.
Architecture
Benjamin Latrobe
American architect Benjamin Latrobe designed plans for the US Capitol and other buildings. He came to New Orleans to develop waterworks and wrote about the city in his journal.
Art
C.C. Lockwood
Wildlife and nature photographer C.C. Lockwood works prolifically through exhibitions, books, lectures, films, and organizations to draw attention to the "fragile ecosystems whose preservation shapes his artistry."
Art
Clarence John Laughlin
Clarence John Laughlin was one of New Orleans' most renowned twentieth-century photographers and, at the same time, among the least understood.
History
Clay Latimer
Attorney and feminist activist Clayton, or Clay, Latimer was instrumental in many of the reforms achieved by the modern women's rights movement in Louisiana.
Art
Deborah Luster
Photographer Deborah Luster eloquently focuses her lens on ugly realities of life in Louisiana: crime and violence.
History
Delphine Lalaurie
Delphine Macarty Lalaurie, of antebellum New Orleans, was notorious for the cruel treatment the people she enslaved.
Art
Dona Lief
Painter Dona Lief was part of the regional school of artists known as "visionary imagists" that emerged from the Faubourg Marigny gallery of George Febres in the 1990s.
Government & Politics
Earl Long
Earl Kemp Long served three nonconsecutive terms as Louisiana governor.
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