“Leave Your Rought Clothes at Home”
Magazine, Parish Spotlight, Spring 2024
The history and legacy of the Ninth Ward’s Law and Desire corridor
The history and legacy of the Ninth Ward’s Law and Desire corridor
The Jewish Community Center on St. Charles Avenue in New Orleans. The building was designed by the architectural firm of Curtis and Davis.
This document is a contract between the Company of the Indies and Marie Louise Mariette dated 1727. Marie Louise Mariette was a “Casket Girl,” or a woman brought from France to Louisiana by the Company to marry a colonist.
Union Admiral David Farragut and Commodore Percival Drayton c. 1864.
The Compromise of 1877 refers to an unwritten deal that settled the disputed 1876 US presidential election and ended congressional Reconstruction.
This 1934 photograph of Angola prisoners, taken by folklorist Alan Lomax, features Huddie “Lead Belly” Ledbetter in the foreground. Imprisoned for attempted homicide, Lead Belly was released later that year.
An architectural rendering of Canal Bank and Trust Company, by Emile Weil.
Fats Domino's Lower 9th Ward office and home complex, post-Katrina.
This educational pamphlet, published by the authority of the Citizens' Committee in 1893, details Plessy v. Ferguson, the U.S. Supreme Court case that upheld the “separate but equal” doctrine.
An invitation to a Krewe of Comus Mardi Gras ball, circa 1900.
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