Reverend Benjamin Morgan Palmer
History
A portrait of Reverend Benjamin Morgan Palmer.
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Images
The Morganza Spillway
Architecture
An aerial view of the Morganza Spillway when it first opened in 1973. It was created to control flood waters from the Red and Mississippi rivers.
Morgan City Location
History
This widely circulated but false photograph depicts elephants crossing a bayou in Morgan City. Footage of elephants in the film was spliced from travelogue shorts.
Morganza Spillway Gate
Architecture
A view of one of the 125 bays that make up the control gate of the Morganza Spillway. The bays are equipped with steel vertical-lift gates operated by gantry cranes.
Andrew Morgan
Music
Jazz photographer Ralston Crawford made this portrait of musician Andrew Morgan in 1953 at Morgan's home, 919 St. Peter Street in New Orleans.
Sister Gertrude Morgan
Art
Sister Gertrude Morgan preached from her booth at the 1973 New Orleans Jazz and Heritage Festival, where she sold her artwork and used a makeshift megaphone to amplify her spiritual message.
Magazine Articles
How to Tarp the Past
Coastal, Magazine, Spring 2022
Hurricane Ida forces public historians to make difficult decisions
The Corps Takes the Teche
Book Excerpt, Magazine, Spring 2017
The Army Corp of Engineers, showboats, and the designing of a Louisiana waterway
Changing Course for the Tricentennial
Magazine, Spring 2019
NOMA awarded Museum Exhibition of the Year
Nutria à l’Orange
Fall 2019, Magazine
It takes a bold imagination to look at such critters and see canapés.
