Smith, Norman R.

Content Description

Collection includes copies of Smith's publication, Etches of Ebony Louisiana, a historical calendar, from 1983 to 1998, except for 1987, 1994, 1995, 1996, and 1997. Other materials include a 1956 certificate to Mrs. Herbert Shilstone given by Comus; the Official Treme TIPS Ticket for a 1970s election in New Orleans; correspondence, largely administrative correspondence for the State of Louisiana Department of Education; and Dutch Morial 1982 mayoral campaign ephemera.

Scope and Contents The Treme Oral History Project Collection consists of sound recordings of oral history interviews conducted by the Amistad Research Center from 1993 to 1994. It was funded by the New Orleans Jazz and Heritage Foundation. Its purpose was to document the musical heritage of the Treme neighborhood of New Orleans, a predominantly African American neighborhood since the early nineteenth century. Interviewees were residents of Treme who had experience the musical heritage of New Orleans from a...