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Ellis Marsalis, Jr. papers

 Collection — Container: OV Items 2 and 3
Identifier: 723
Scope and Contents This collection from New Orleans pianist and composer Ellis Marsalis Jr. contains correspondence, certificates, contracts, sheet music, sound recordings, photographs, and ephemera that encompass Mr. Marsalis’s six-decade career as a musician and music instructor. Correspondence dating from 1959 to 2013, is related to Marsalis' teaching and lecturing, performance dates, and letters of recommendation on behalf of his students at the New Orleans Center for Creative Arts (NOCCA). It...
Dates: Created: 1946-2016; Other: Majority of material found in 1980-2010; Other: Date acquired: 09/28/2008

Charles B. Roussève papers

 Collection
Identifier: 320
Scope and Contents The papers of Charles B. Rousseve consist predominantly of collected items, both from his historical research and contemporary materials reflecting his varied interests. Primary subjects include publications from the 1890s from the Citizens' Committee (Comite des Citoyens), which brought the Plessy v. Ferguson case to the United States Supreme Court; poetry and other literature written in Reconstruction-era New Orleans; the desegregation of public and...
Dates: Created: 1842-1994; Other: Date acquired: 01/01/1984