Peoples of Louisiana
Filipinos
Louisiana is home to the earliest Filipino American community in the United States.
Greater New Orleans
Greater New Orleans Index
History
Filles à la Cassette
The filles à la cassette (translated in English as “casket girls”) is the name given to French girls brought to Louisiana beginning in 1721 to marry colonists already living in the colony.
Business & Industry
Flint-Goodridge Hospital
Flint-Goodridge Hospital opened in 1896 to serve New Orleans’s Black community and provide medical training for Black nurses and physicians at a time when other hospitals denied services to Black people.
Art
Florestine Perrault Collins
Florestine Perrault Collins, who began her career at age fourteen, was one of the first professional African American female photographers in the country.
Art
Florville Foy
Florville Foy, a free man of color, was a marble cutter, sculptor, and proprietor of one of the most successful marble yards in nineteenth-century New Orleans.
Art
France Folse
France Folse was the most successful folk painter to emerge from the Bayou Lafourche region in the twentieth century. Her painting chronicle the rapid changes that took place in the region with the discovery of oil and gas and the mechanization of the sugar industry.
Art
Frances Benjamin Johnston
Frances Benjamin Johnston's seven-decade career as a photographer began in Washington, D.C. during the presidency of Benjamin Harrison, and concluded in New Orleans, months before Dwight Eisenhower's election to the same office.
Literature
Frances Parkinson Keyes
Francis Parkinson Keyes first visited New Orleans during Mardi Gras in 1940 when she was 55 years old. Enthralled with the city, Keyes rented a grand home in the French Quarter and set many novels there, including "Dinner at Antoine's," published in 1948. Keyes died in her home in New Orleans on July 3, 1970.
Government, Politics & Law
Francis T. Nicholls
Francis Nicholls served two nonconsecutive terms as governor of Louisiana from 1877 to 1880, and again from 1888 to 1892.
Art
Francisco Bernard
Like many painters of his time, Francisco Bernard spent the winters in New Orleans and traveled as an itinerant portrait painter during the summer.
Government, Politics & Law
Francisco Luis Hector, baron de Carondelet
Francisco Luis Hector, baron de Carondelet served as governor of the Spanish colonies of Louisiana and West Florida between 1791 and 1797.
Art
Francois Jacques Fleischbein
Though he painted a variety of subjects, German-born painter François Jacques Fleischbein is best known as portraitist who worked in New Orleans between 1834 and 1868.
