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Captain John Handy
Captain John Handy was an early New Orleans traditional jazz, blues, and rhythm and blues alto saxophone player.
Captain John Handy was an early New Orleans traditional jazz, blues, and rhythm and blues alto saxophone player.
Captain William Lindsey Challoner worked for the Machecca line of fruit trade ships and sailed through many international ports. These busy ports inspired Challoner's paintings of ships and harbor scenes.
Members of the Cercle Harmonique held séances and received messages from the spirit world in support of Black rights and social equality.
Charity Hospital is a twenty-story Art Deco skyscraper in New Orleans that was built by the Public Works Administration (PWA) between 1936 and 1940.
Charles Bukowski came to New Orleans in 1942 on his first cross-country trips and returned to the city many times over the years.
New Orleans native Charles Gayarré wrote the first complete history of Louisiana: a four-volume series entitled Louisiana History (1866).
Charles Aubry was the last French governor of Louisiana before it reverted to Spanish control.
DeLesseps "Chep" Morrison was best known for his opposition to the powerful Long family in Louisiana.
For six decades straddling the turn of the 20th century, one of the very few Chinatowns in the South anchored members of New Orleans's Chinese-ancestry community.
Christopher Mason Haile became a journalist and local color writer after he moved to Louisiana.
Louisiana singer and pianist Clarence "Frogman" Henry Jr., will forever be identified with the 1956 novelty rhythm & blues classic "Ain't Got No Home."
Clarence Millet, one of most important and prolific painters working in twentieth-century New Orleans, was one of the few Southerners elected as an associate to the National Academy of Design in 1943.
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