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African American Photograph Album
Collection
Identifier: SC2525
Content Description
This collection contains 26 photographs and clippings from newspapers and other publications. of African American men, women, and children, most likely from New Orleans, Louisiana. The majority of the individuals are unidentified, but those identified include: Albert Cambre Sr. and Albert Cambre Jr., Dr. F.C. Butler, Mrs. Theodore R. Albert (nee Carrie E. Gayler), J.C. Calvin, T.R. Wallace, W.G. Alston, J.W.E. Bowen, Rev. G.W. Carter, Rev. E.J. Wise, Rev. W.C. Haywood, Rev. L.A. Francis,...
Dates:
Other: circa 1918-1951
Found in:
Amistad Research Center
Orissa Arend typescript
Collection — Container: Small Collections
Identifier: 2490
Scope and Contents
This collection consists of a draft typescript of Orissa Arend's book Showdown in Desire: The Black Panthers Take a Stand in New Orleans, which was published by The University of Arkansas Press in 2009. This draft, comprised of 268 leaves, includes revised chapters of the book dating from July-August 2005 prior to substantial revision leading to publication. The typescript includes a timeline of events described in the book, as well as a list of individuals...
Dates:
Created: 2005; Other: Date acquired: 01/17/2006
Found in:
Amistad Research Center
Henry E. Braden III papers
Collection
Identifier: 549
Scope and Contents
Dr. Henry E. Braden III's papers center on New Orleans' political, professional, and social circles of the latter half of the twentieth century. The papers include personal and political correspondence, military records, awards and honors, programs, invitations, newspaper clippings on the Braden and Haydel families, photographs, and other collected materials. Of particular note is Dr. Braden's sizable collection of political correspondence and campaign materials for politicians...
Dates:
Created: 1936-2000; Other: Majority of material found in 1950-1990; Other: Date acquired: 12/13/1997
Found in:
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Claiborne Avenue North Project collection
Collection
Identifier: 091
Content Description
This collection includes correspondence, collected items, notes, and worksheets on noted New Orleans personalities and institutions. These materials were compiled in relation to the major exhibit on African American New Orleans history planned by the city of New Orleans. The exhibit was funded by the United States Department of Housing and Urban Development. Of particular significance are the brief historical and biographical sketches on Black institutions and prominent New Orleanians of...
Dates:
Other: 1980-1981
Found in:
Amistad Research Center
Celestine Strode Cook papers
Collection
Identifier: 100
Acknowledgement
This project was made possible in part by the Institute of Museum and Library Services award MH-245560-OMS-20. Scope and Contents The papers of Celestine Cook primarily document her business, social, and civic activities in both Galveston, Texas and New Orleans, Louisiana.Personal materials include correspondence, awards, family Bibles, programs, invitations, and newspaper clippings. This collection also contains organizational...
Dates:
Other: 1932-1985, undated
Found in:
Amistad Research Center
Alma Cottles papers
Collection
Identifier: 105
Content Description
Correspondence, family materials, photographs, and writings, some of which reflects Cottles' anti-poverty advocacy in the Central City neighborhood of New Orleans.
Dates:
Other: 1956-1971
Found in:
Amistad Research Center
Economic Opportunity Corporation records
Collection — Container: 1 box
Identifier: 140
Scope and Contents
This collection contains minutes, correspondence, election materials, lists, maps, reports, and by-laws of the Central City Economic Opportunity Corporation (EOC) of New Orleans, Louisiana. Items of note include a report on the Houma people of Louisiana and the opposition to the proposed Uptown Bridge over the Mississippi River.
Dates:
Created: 1968-1973; Other: Majority of material found in 1978-1973; Other: Date acquired: 01/01/1983
Found in:
Amistad Research Center
Joseph Geddes Family papers
Collection
Identifier: 159
Scope and Contents
The Joseph Geddes Family papers pertain to several generations of an African American family with multi-generational ties to Louisiana who owned and operated several businesses, including funeral parlors and life insurance companies that date back to the early 20th century. The papers consist of professional, as well as personal, papers and contain photographs, scrapbooks, memory books, a memorial record book, correspondence, programs, and newspaper clippings relating to the family...
Dates:
Created: 1928-1957; Other: Majority of material found in 1953-1955; Other: Date acquired: 02/01/1981
Found in:
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Greater New Orleans Louis A. Martinet Legal Society records
Collection — Container: 5 Boxes
Identifier: ##6jb
Scope and Contents
The records of the Greater New Orleans Louis A. Martinet Legal Society are comprised mainly of documents generated during the presidencies of Ernestine Gray and Cheryl A. Gray, and date from 1973-2005. The records for the terms of these two presidents are not complete, but consist of correspondence, articles of incorporation and by-laws, financial records, membership lists, committee and society agendas and minutes, newsletters, photographs, brochures, invitations, and programs. Of note are...
Dates:
Created: 1973-2014; Other: Date acquired: 02/13/2009
Found in:
Amistad Research Center
Guardians of the Flame collection
Collection — Multiple Containers
Identifier: 2479
Scope and Contents
The Guardians of the Flame is a Mardi Gras Indian Tribe in New Orleans, Louisiana, that was formed in 1988 and made its debut on February 7, 1989. The founding Big Chief of the tribe was Donald Harrison Sr. The collection includes a booklet about the group, a poster of Donald Harrison Jr, an audiocassette by Harrison Jr. entitled "Indian Blues," and a videocassette documentary about the tribe.
Dates:
Created: 1992-1993; Other: Date acquired: 08/26/1994
Found in:
Amistad Research Center
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