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Volume XVII, Number 4 Fall 1999

F rom November 2 through April 8, 2000, an exhibition about the golden age of New Orleans history will be on view in the Williams Gallery. The new exhibition takes its inspiration from the Collection’s latest publication, Queen of the South: New Orleans, 1853-1862, The Journal of Thomas K. Wharton.

Top, Canal Street view of Custom House, detail, by Marie Adrien Persac (1958.78.1.3); above, St. Charles Hotel in Flames, detail, by J. R. P. (1992.156)

QUEEN OF THE SOUTH:NEW ORLEANS IN THE 1850S FILM Queen of the South: New Orleans in the QUEEN OF THE SOUTH: 1850s, a documentary film on New Orleans at the height of its prosperity, will EW RLEANS IN THE S air on WYES-TV 12 on Sunday, N O 1850 November 14, 1999, at 7:00 p.m. The film NOVEMBER 2, 1999 - APRIL 8, 2000 will explore life in antebellum New Orleans. The video will also be on sale in Thomas Kelah Wharton was an accom- Visitors to the Queen of the South the Collection Shop. plished architect who served as superinten- exhibition will see the artifacts and images dent of construction for the New Orleans that reflect the complexity of the period, WHARTON TOUR IN THE Custom House on Canal Street at mid-cen- providing an instructive look backward LOWER GARDEN DISTRICT tury until his death in 1862. He lived at before one looks ahead to the year 2000. The Coliseum Square Association, in Coliseum Square in the neighborhood now “New Orleans in the 1850s,” one of the collaboration with the Historic New called the Lower Garden District, walked introductory essays to Wharton’s edited Orleans Collection will present “At to work down Camp Street, and sketched journal, gives an overview of the South’s Home on Coliseum Place,” a tour on and wrote about what he saw. Samuel most prosperous city in the decade ended by Sunday, December 5, featuring Lower Wilson, Jr., F.A.I.A., edited THNOC’s the Civil War. Selections from the essay are Garden District houses and churches publication Queen of the South and printed below. dating from the period of architect Thomas K. Wharton. Ticket sales begin wrote a biographical introduction on During the decade that Thomas in Coliseum Square at 10:30 a.m. and Thomas K. Wharton. The following two Wharton kept his journal, the city was will end at 3:30 p.m. An actor portraying excerpts are from his essay: indisputably queen of the South. It was Wharton will meet visitors there and On October 23, 1848, the day work- an age of fortunes made and multiplied, familiarize them with Coliseum Place as men began digging trenches for the huge of doubling population, of civic beautifi- it was in the 1850s. Tours of the building’s foundation Wharton resumed his cation, of dizzying technological buildings Wharton passed every day will duties at the Custom House. On November advances — while the future smilingly run from 11:00 a.m. to 5:00 p.m. 1, he was named clerk and draftsman at a promised more good times ahead. Tickets: $15.00; seniors and students: salary of $90 a month. When the corner- International rather than provincial, this $12.00. The Historic New Orleans stone of the building was laid on least southern of southern cities out- Collection publication Queen of the Washington’s birthday, February 22, 1849, shone its urban rivals in the South, chal- South: New Orleans, 1853-1862, The among mementos placed in the stone were lenging New York as the nation’s greatest Journal of Thomas K. Wharton will be on sale in the square. A rain date is documents, medals, coins, newspapers, and port. A sharp-eyed observer walking the scheduled for December 12. Don’t miss a roll of parchment with a long list of names streets of the city in the 1850s found this chance to step back in time to the beginning with President James K. Polk and much to set down in his journal. 1850s to retrace Wharton’s steps through descending through state, city, and local
his neighborhood. officials to “T. K. Wharton, draftsman.” Down the river and its tributaries
poured uncountable shiploads of cotton, GALLERY TALKS In addition to his position at the sugar, wheat, corn, lumber, lead, liquor, Gallery talks on New Orleans Custom House, Wharton maintained an building materials, and all the other in the 1850s active architectural practice. A good deal commodities of a burgeoning nation. January 5, 12, 18 and March 15, 22, 29 of his work was done for the Episcopal East-west roads were nonexistent or hor- at 12:30 Church, beginning with his design for the rible: it was cheaper and faster to ship original Christ Church. He designed a downriver. At the port of New Orleans, LECTURES SCHEDULED New Orleans As It Was: The 1850s college in Austin, Texas, for his brother-in- goods were loaded onto sailing ships, at 12:30 in the Counting House law Charles Gillette, an Episcopal priest. their deep holds crammed with cargo for January 26: “The Growth of the City,” Other notable architectural projects the markets of the Northeast or Europe. John Magill include the Methodist Steele Chapel, the
February 2: “Architecture,” Seamen’s Home, a Baptist church, several The river was the true main street of Henry Krotzer warehouses, a cotton press, and the splen- New Orleans: the city hugged the banks February 9: “Garden District Lifestyle,” did residences of A. W. Bosworth and Paul of the Mississippi’s sweeping crescent, Speaker to be announced Cook. The Cook residence on St. Charles lined with the smokestacks of steam- February 16: “Yellow Fever Epidemics,” Avenue between Joseph and Arabella, boats and the masts of ships, as thick as Patricia Brady completed in December 1861, was his last floating forests. All the important busi- February 23: “Gardens,” Lake Douglas project and his most impressive. nesses, attorneys offices, warehouses, March 1: “African Americans in the — Samuel Wilson, Jr., F.A.I.A. cotton presses, and retail stores were City,” Donald Devore

2 within a few blocks of the river. There cottage without further ado; wedding clustered the factors, brokers, and trips were only for the wealthy. Emily wholesalers, the middlemen for the Wharton’s mother and little sister flood of trade, as well as the bankers moved in with them, a common who provided loans, currency, letters arrangement for extended families. of credit, and all the intricate financial Within a year, the Whartons’ only son apparatus of trade. was born. By today’s standards the home
was quite small for so many inhabitants, In the past, people who didn’t but to the family it was snugly filled own horses or carriages had to hire with every comfort and quite a few them from a livery stable or walk. luxuries. Now horse-drawn coaches called
omnibuses (picture a stage coach with The nineteenth century was mal- a door at the rear) followed regular odorous. After all, vehicles were horse- routes through the city, and the age of or mule-drawn, regular bathing was the railroad had arrived. Street rail- uncommon, open gutters clogged with roads with passenger cars, pulled first sewage lined the streets, and garbage by mules and then by small steam was frequently left to fester. No wonder engines, reached out to the shores of sweet-smelling plants — sweet olives, Lake Pontchartrain. Wharton grum- jasmine, gardenias, roses — were plant- bled at their popularity: “an intensi- ed at the entrances to homes, not just fied nuisance rather than a conve- for their beauty, but to counteract the Illustration from one of Thomas K. Wharton’s notebooks showing nience, for at the cheap rate of 5 Cents a view from the top of the Custom House. Courtesy, Manuscripts pungent smells of the street. they are overwhelmed with all the ‘Oi and Archives Division, New York Public Library
polloi’ of the City and environs.” In The custom on New Year’s Eve, the 1850s railroads also began to run Wharton noted, was “to keep up a con- from New Orleans to Louisiana and marble — had to be shipped in and that tinual firing of guns, pistols and crackers Mississippi cities not accessible by the the city’s soil was very unstable, shifting all night long on the demise of the old river, a great convenience for travelers. and subsiding, causing buildings much year.” The observance of New Year’s Day
smaller than this to settle unevenly and itself was much more to his taste. It was The federal government recognized crack. But the challenges were successfully a day of formal calls ruled by fixed con- the importance of New Orleans to the met, and the massive granite structure is ventions, their exactly graded levels of nation’s economy in the usual manner of today a feature of Canal Street. civility worthy of Chinese mandarins. the day — a grandiose building pro-
He was immensely proud of his young gram. A branch of the U.S. Mint on When Wharton married in 1851, wife receiving callers at home while he Esplanade Avenue supplied the South’s he brought his wife home to a small bustled about the city calling on hunger for currency, and a new marine acquaintances at homes and hotels, hospital was begun in 1857 to care for exchanging greetings with other men the thousands of sailors who landed at bent on the same errand, and preening the port in the course of a year. himself on the number of calls he made. But the most ambitious of the gov-
ernment’s projects was a huge new cus- Death and despair hung over New tom house, reflecting the immense vol- Orleans like a miasma that summer ume (and value) of commerce that [1853]. Longtime residents had acquired passed through the port. The New some degrees of immunity from the Orleans Custom House, which provided fever, but the sword of pestilence cut Wharton employment for the last four- down unsuspecting natives and attacked teen years of his life, was the largest fed- areas of the countryside formerly eral building in the nation at the time, believed safe from infection. larger even than the U.S. Capitol. Unacclimated newcomers contracted the Overseeing its construction was certain- disease and died by the thousands. ly no sinecure, given that all the essential Children carrying coffins during the yellow fever epidemic of Apparently perfectly well one day, vic- building materials — iron, bricks, granite, 1853, from History of the Yellow Fever (Philadelphia, 1854) tims would suddenly be struck with

3 U.S.S. Pensacola at Anchor in the Mississippi River at New Orleans, detail, by Edward Everard Arnold, 1864 (1983.1). The Pensacola was one of the Union ships that arrived at the city April 25, 1862, after running the gauntlet of Forts Jackson and St. Philip. fever, jaundice, black vomit, and deliri- quantities of water quickly and consider-
um, dying the following day. Others ably improved firefighters’ efficiency. New Orleans remained under would linger for several days, unexplain-
Union control throughout the remain- ably dying or surviving. Whole families Most New Orleanians, including der of the war. The Queen had been died here, children there, and parents Wharton, trusted the strength of the swept from the board, and although no elsewhere. So many children lost parents city’s defenses. More seriously, the new one knew it yet, the war would play out in 1853 that orphanages were opened to Confederate government disastrously slowly to checkmate at Appomattox. care for them. underestimated the danger of a Union Without the port of New Orleans, the
attack. The compass of the Confederacy South could not prevail. And during New Orleans was plagued by fires in had swung far to the east, and the long years of wartime and the 1850s because of its many large Louisiana’s best troops were routinely Reconstruction, national and world warehouses and cotton presses filled with ordered to the Virginia theater of war, trade patterns definitively altered. combustible goods. Once one of these depleting the city’s defenses. Mistake New Orleans would never regain the buildings caught fire, the combination compounded miscalculation as ancient commanding position of the 1850s. of open spaces (speeding the flames) and or bumbling officers were given The capture of the city marked the end party walls (spreading them to adjoining command; army, navy, and civilian offi- of its golden era. buildings) made fires practically impossi- cials labored under divided authority; ble to control. Volunteer fire companies and the government stubbornly main- —Patricia Brady — 24 engines, four hook and ladder, and tained that any attack on the city would several hose companies — did their best, come from upriver. Queen of the South: New Orleans, 1853-1862, not least because of the rewards offered by A year into the war, the fleet of The Journal of Thomas K. Wharton is a selection of Wharton’s journal entries that tell the story of insurance companies tired of expensive Flag Officer David G. Farragut moved daily life in antebellum New Orleans. The book, losses. The hand-operated pumps which into the river to mount an attack. edited by Samuel Wilson, Jr., F.A.I.A., Patricia drew water for the hoses were simply too Mortar boats bombarded the defending Brady, and Lynn D. Adams, includes introductory slow to quench large fires. The arrival in forts for days, and then in the very essays: “Remembering Sam Wilson” by Mary Louise 1855 of Young America, a fire engine with early morning of April 24, 1862, Union Christovich; “The Life of Thomas Kelah Wharton” a large steam-powered pump, was cause ships broke the chain barrier, ran the by Samuel Wilson, Jr.; and “New Orleans in the 1850s” by Patricia Brady. Queen of the South is a for rejoicing, but it proved too heavy and gauntlet of the forts in the darkness, and joint publication of the Historic New Orleans hard to maneuver in narrow streets. It was disabled Confederate ships upriver. It Collection and the New York Public Library. For soon replaced by an engine built in New was a short, fierce encounter, but once ordering information, see page 15. Orleans that continued in service for sev- past the forts, there were no further eral years; its steam pump delivered great defenses of importance.

4 View of Jackson Square, J. Dürler, delineator, 1855 (1948.3). In 1849-1850, St. Louis Cathedral had been rebuilt and the Pontalba buildings flanking the Square erected, giving the square its appearance at the time of Wharton’s journal entries selected for publication in Queen of the South.

REMEMBERING SAM WILSON The following excerpts are from the foreword identified him with the city. His laughter to Queen of the South: New Orleans, matched the tenor of his voice, polite 1853-1862, the Journal of Thomas K. rather than exuberant, while a smile often Wharton. The foreword is an appreciation accompanied a natural detachment. of the architect Samuel Wilson, Jr., F.A.I.A., Years later, Sam’s mannerism of who edited Wharton’s journal and wrote the combing his fingers down his thick, gray introduction to the book. mustache would call attention to his In 1980 Sam mentioned three wish- large, graceful hands. He always walked es: to go to Uxmal in the Yucatan (as a stu- quickly with a slight forward, almost dent, he had won an award for his Mayan anxious tilt, as if he wanted very much design in Frans Blom’s class at Tulane), to to move on, and then would hesitate publish the New Orleans section of the sometimes to look around and back, Wharton diary, and to restore the always keen and observant. Napoleon House (originally known as the —Mary Louise Christovich Girod House, built in 1814, probably by ©1979 PHOTOGRAPHER, JOHN H. LAWRENCE, Hyacinthe Laclotte, and considered the Photographs of a young Sam show a Mrs. Christovich and Mr. Wilson worked together in finest example of the continuing French tall, thin man whose dark hair contrasted the preservation movement in New Orleans for near- ly 40 years, beginning in 1952 as founding members architectural influence). It was only the with his large light-blue eyes. These of the Friends of the Cabildo. They were fellow mem- latter wish that Sam, realist above all, images do not suggest the gravelly texture bers of the Louisiana State Museum Board, crusaded knew to be an impossible dream. He final- of his strong voice, rarely raised, but to bring the National Register of Historic Places to ly did see Uxmal, and the edited Wharton always heard to the last auditorium seat. A Louisiana, and served together on the board of Save diary — with copious illustrations that far New Orleans pronunciation, neither Our Cemeteries, Inc. Mrs. Christovich is president of exceed his ambitions — is now in hand. southern nor inappropriately colloquial, the Kemper and Leila Williams Foundation.

5 THOMASCRIPPS A N D THE SCIENCE O F THE SOUL

n the spring of 1843 a comet lit Number 7 became extremely rigid up the sky above New Orleans. and could not speak, while Number 9 ISome made ready for the end of could speak, but only in monosylla- the world, while others simply bles. Some of the subjects complained blamed the comet for unusually of headaches and nausea as a result of warm weather. A traveling lecturer the experimentation, and Cripps was ridiculed for his belief in the pos- wrote that one young girl became sibility of an “aerial carriage” as a “somewhat deranged at times.” means of transportation, and an Cripps notes how long it took to exhibit of Louis Daguerre’s put the subject into a mesmeric sleep “Chemical Pictures” enchanted large and how long the sleep lasted. Only crowds. Within this cultural milieu, two of the 20 subjects were men, and a young music teacher named Cripps noted that he had difficulty in Thomas Cripps developed a fascina- putting them into a mesmeric sleep. tion with “the science of the soul,” He induced sleep “through” one of a practice more commonly known the female subjects who, while in a as Mesmerism. mesmeric state, would hold the Cripps, a recent immigrant from thumbs of the male subject while England, was first exposed to Cripps would stare into his eyes. He Mesmerism in June 1843 at a lecture mentioned making one of these sub- at the American Theater on Camp jects, number 16, sing and dance Street. He had lost his job as chorus while in a sleep state. master at the St. Charles Theater Portrait of Thomas Cripps, ca. 1869 (1993.76.1 a) Views on Mesmerism tended to when it burned in 1842 and may be extreme. Some believed the secrets have had some extra time to dabble in had on some “patients” – the inducement of the soul were finally being revealed, new pursuits. During the spring and of a strange, vacant, sleep-like state. while others considered the whole thing a summer of 1844 he participated in a Puységur believed that these people could sham. Much of the literature of the time series of experiments on 20 individuals, restore their proper flow of energy and portrays the mesmerist as a sinister char- mostly young women and children. could be made immune to pain. He aslo acter intent on inflicting his will on a Cripps documented each case in a journal thought the subjects would exhibit helpless victim. now in the vaults of the Williams heightened perceptions while in the sleep A year after Cripps conducted his Research Center. state. The benefits to society seemed experiments, a formal mesmerist society Mesmerism was developed in the unlimited and were particularly attractive was created in New Orleans, the Société mid-to-late 18th century by Franz Anton to the vibrant, optimistic, and unregulated du Magnétisme de la Nouvelle-Orléans. In Mesmer, a German physician. Mesmer culture of mid-19th-century America. 1848 membership included 71 individu- believed that a fine “fluid” (or energy) The Daily Picayune for June 8, 1843, als, primarily from the French-speaking permeated all creation and that human noted that a “mesmeric boarding-house” population of the city. The group, like disorders, both mental and physical, were was to be established. Room and board many interested in Mesmerism, involved caused by obstructions in the flow of this would be “ninety per cent below present itself in the spiritualist fads of the 1850s fluid through the body. Mesmer thought prices” if the boarders agreed to submit to and 1860s believing that in a mesmeric that he could store an extra supply of this experiments in Mesmerism, an incentive sleep some people became clairvoyant and energy in his body and channel it into that naturally attracted those searching at times could communicate with the another individual to restore health. for cheap housing. Cripps frequently dead. They were also interested in the use He taught his technique to a select mentioned consulting other mesmerists of Mesmerism as a form of medical treat- group of wealthy Parisians who called regarding his subjects. ment and often received referrals from themselves the Society of Harmony. One Each person was assigned a number local physicians and clergy. of its members, marquis de Puységur, and referred to by the number through- The work of this society may have became particularly interested in the out the journal. Number 2 was in made the New Orleans medical community strange effect that Mesmer’s techniques Cripps’s words “very susceptible.” slightly more receptive to the use of

6 Mesmerism. On the whole, however, the Sources: Carol O. Bartels, “Letters from Home: FROM THE ACTING DIRECTOR practice was rejected by the scientific com- The Thomas Cripps Papers,” Historic New Orleans munity until the 1870s when Jean-Martin Collection Quarterly, vol. XIV, no. 3; Thomas lthough we are all Charcot, one of the founders of modern Cripps Papers, MSS 459, folder 166; Daily A saturated with the neurology, introduced it at the Salpêtrière Picayune, April 9, May 2, 23, 27, 31, June 8, 15, idea of websites — and Hospital in Paris, under the name hypnosis. 1843; Robert C. Fuller, Mesmerism and it seems that everyone the American Cure of Souls (Philadelphia, has one — we are still 1982); Wallace K. Tomlinson, M.D., and J. John particularly proud of —Mark Cave Perret, Ph.D., “Mesmerism in New Orleans, 1845- ours, and I would 1861,” American Journal of Psychiatry 131 like to encourage everyone to click on (December 1974). www.hnoc.org. Our webmaster is also our head preparator. With the ambitious exhibi- “FRANCE AND LOUISIANA: UNE JOURNÉE D’ÉTUDE” tion program of the last several years, it is no small accomplishment for Steve Sweet to FIFTH ANNUAL WILLIAMS RESEARCH CENTER SYMPOSIUM add the design and upkeep of the website to Saturday, January 22, 2000, New Orleans, Louisiana his already full schedule. The site has already Grand Ballroom, Omni Royal Orleans Hotel, 621 St. Louis Street achieved prize-winning status when it Coffee, 8:30 Welcome, 8:45 received an award of excellence from the Speakers Public Relations Society of America, New JUDGE MORRIS S. ARNOLD, moderator Orleans Chapter, in 1998. French Colonial Historian and Author Hnoc.org can be consulted for upcom- United States Court of Appeals, Eighth Circuit, Little Rock, Arkansas ing programming, information concerning the annual Williams Prize, and views of our DR. CARL EKBERG galleries and courtyards. Soon you can read Professor Emeritus of History, Illinois State University at Normal the Quarterly online. Winner of the 1998 Williams Prize in Louisiana History Of particular note in the coming “Settlement Patterns and the Use of Land in the French Colony of Louisiana” months is our annual Williams Research DR. PATRICIA BRADY Center Symposium. Presentations this year Director of Publications, The Historic New Orleans Collection will center on historical relationships “Carnival of Liberty: Lafayette’s Visit to Louisiana, 1825” between France and Louisiana. “Une Journée ELISABETH GRIMAUDE-CAUDE d’Étude” (or “A Day of Study”) will combine Conservateur de Patrimonie, Cour d’Appel, Rouen presentations on a wide variety of topics cel- ebrating our French heritage. January 22 is “The Archive of the French Consul General in New Orleans (1818-1918)” the date to save on your calendar! Lunch break Continuing a tradition begun last year DR. DEREK CARTWRIGHT of presenting the WRC symposium a sec- Executive Director, Musée d’Art Américain, Giverny ond time in the spring in Havana, Cuba, Invitation to “France and Louisiana: Une Journée d’Étude,” this year we will present “France and Musée d’Art Américain, Giverny, France Louisiana: Une Journée d’Étude” on May 6 DR. IRA BERLIN in France. The Musée d’Art Américain in Professor of History, University of Maryland Giverny has agreed to be our partner in this presentation. The museum, situated across “The Case of the Code Noir and the Transformation of Slavery in Louisiana” the street from Monet’s garden, has splendid ANN MASSON American Impressionist collections of its Architectural Historian, New Orleans own. In addition, the museum contains a “The Architectural Career of J. N. B. de Pouilly” fine auditorium and audio-visual facilities, Reception, 4:15-6:00 making it well equipped to be the site for at the Williams Research Center the event. 410 Chartres Street For January’s symposium, we will offer a block of hotel rooms in New Orleans at a special rate for out-of-town attendees, and we will also offer an organized trip to France SPRINGTIME IN FRANCE for those traveling to the presentation in In conjunction with the presentation of “France and Louisiana: Une Journée d’ Étude” Giverny. The week-long French tour will at the Musée d’ Art Américain in Giverny on May 6, 2000, THNOC will offer a include special sites related to Louisiana his- tour to France May 3–10. Tour participants will retrace Bienville’s footsteps in Paris, tory in and around Paris. Please call us or while staying only steps away from the Place de la Concorde at the Hôtel Lotti. For “log-on” for developing information! further information, please call Peter McLean, Ltd., at (504) 833-6275 or the recep- tionist at the Williams Research Center (504) 598-7171. —Priscilla Lawrence

7 TREASURES INTHE BASEMENT BOOKSHOP

Jeanne de la Vigne signs Ghost Stories of is a record of changing times. People Old New Orleans. took literary occasions seriously and There are several dreamy portraits of dressed accordingly in those days. Rarely t’s hard to believe that the derelict building at 7221 Lyle Saxon, the dean of literary life in is a man without a jacket and tie. In Zimpel Street was once the center of literary life in New Orleans in the 1930s, including a many photographs, partygoers are New Orleans. Only a trace of its cheerful yellow wonderful picture of Saxon in Mardi turned out in full evening dress. At a exterior remains, and the sign for the Basement Gras regalia. And there are photographs literary luncheon, women wear suits and Book Shop is long gone. Its presiding spirit, Tess of Saxon’s legendary bartender, Joe hats. In one photograph, women were Crager, died in 1985; September 20 of this year marked the Gilmore, at a signing for Saxon’s book, dressed in antebellum costume for a Icentennial of her birth. The shop finally closed in1981 after The Friends of Joe Gilmore. publication party for Belle of Fortune. being in business for 50 years. But at the Historic New The Basement Book Shop was also Louisiana Cookery author Mary Land Orleans Collection, in some remarkable photographs donat- the place to spot literary visitors to the wears a lovely corsage. ed by Crager’s daughter, Gretchen Crager Sharpless, one can city. Two photographs document the But most of all, one gets a sense of still find proof of its remarkable history, traces of the energy 1935 visit of Gertrude Stein and Alice B. what fun they were all having. Many that made the Basement Book Shop the place to be in the Toklas. Gertrude signed books after a partygoers were smoking and drinking. 1930s and ’40s. lecture at Tulane University, while a In one photograph, taken in 1953 at a There’s no question that Tess Crager was good at what shadowy Alice patiently endured the publication party for Robert Tallant’s she did. In photograph after photograph, she shows the long line of well-wishers. I was put on Love and Mrs. Candy, an admirer has canny bookseller’s habit of marketing: she’s always holding notice to look for such photographs by obviously brought the author a rose, the book under her arm so that the book title is perfectly legi- Renate Stendhal’s Gertrude Stein which is lying on the table near an over- ble. The shelves are crammed with books, but one can read Above, Tess Crager, Gertrude Stein, and Erma Rosen at the Basement Book Shop, 1935 (1983.215.111); and below, Remembered, which includes a letter flowing ashtray. A black cat sniffs curi- many of the titles; photographs from shop events, hung on Walker Percy, Kay Archer, T. Harry Williams, Turner Catledge, Tess Crager, and Paul Rosseter (1983.215.28) from Alice B. Toklas to Tess Crager: ously at the promotional poster for the the walls, are visible as well. There’s always a crowd on hand. “My dear Miss Crager, book, perfectly at ease in the crowd. Pictures do tell the story, and the tale that emerges is one Miss Gertrude Stein will very will- There are always trays of food around, of an active, supportive literary community. A smiling ingly autograph books some afternoon at little meatballs or shrimp on skewers. At Harnett Kane turns up for practically everything, as one the Basement Book Shop and Library, times, the tiny two-room building seems would expect from the author of Have Pen, Will Autograph. but she must decline to meet ##### [sic] like a circus clown car — how many Photographer Clarence Laughlin looks on as Robert Tallant anyone. She finds meeting people very people crowded into it for these parties peruses Ghosts Along the Mississippi. John Chase displays a fatiguing and as she wishes to keep her- and spilled out onto the street, into the map that later appears in his classic of New Orleans history, self fresh for her lectures, Miss Stein night? The list seems endless. Frenchmen, Desire, Good Children…and Other Streets of thanks you for your invitation but is The shop closed its doors on the last New Orleans. Robert L. Crager & Co., the publishing anuable [sic] to accept it.” day of 1981. But in these marvelous company run by Crager and her husband, first published that There are a number of photographs photographs, we get a sense of just how wonderful book. of Irving Stone, including several taken much happened there in that exciting Another memorable photograph chronicles a party for at the Chalmette Battlefield. Herbert chapter in New Orleans literary history. two well-known authors. Walker Percy and Turner Catledge Asbury, Roark Bradford, and E. P. “Pat” —Susan Larson stand next to a table with their books, The Last Gentleman O’Donnell appear in these photographs. and My Life at the Times, respectively. Joining them are Kay Other well-known visitors to the shop Susan Larson is the book editor for the New Orleans Archer of Maison Blanche, Tess Crager, and Paul Rosseter, included André Maurois, T. H. White, Times-Picayune and the author of The Booklover’s Guide to New Orleans, which will be published by along with legendary historian T. Harry Williams. W. H. Auden, Stephen Spender, and Louisiana State University Press in November. A party photograph for Charles “Pie” Dufour’s Gentle Alexander Woollcott, Anya Seton, Vera ______Tiger: The Gallant Life of Roberdeau Wheat, shows the historian Brittain, Betty McDonald, and Bennett Sources: Renate Stendhal, Gertrude Stein in Words flanked by his loving family, including his daughter Marie Cerf. Many of these guests adjourned to and Pictures (Chapel Hill, N.C., 1994); Times- Dufour Goodwin, who is now an author herself. In a 1956 the shop for a reception following a Picayune, Jan. 1982. photograph, newspaperman Thomas Sancton shyly but lecture at nearby Tulane University. proudly looks at a copy of his novel, Count Roller Skates, with What we also see in the photographs friends Tommy Griffin, George Chapten, and Ed Desoby.

8 9 “A VERY DISAGREEABLE OCCUPATION”: A TENNESSEE SOLDIER AT THE BATTLE OF NEW ORLEANS

Historical Memoir of the War in West under guard with one man. He had a Florida and Louisiana in 1814-15, the revised pistol concealed under his coat which edition of the 1816 book by Arsène Lacarrière they did not observe. In going along, Latour, has recently been published by the University Press of Florida in cooperation with he turned around and observed, ‘see the Historic New Orleans Collection. Dr. Gene how the British is running,’ the fel- A. Smith of Texas Christian University served low turned to look, the cornet drew as editor. The following article provides a foot- his pistol and shot him down. He note to Latour’s account of the battle and refers then jerked off the fellow’s cartridge to a letter written by James King to an unnamed uncle shortly after King’s return to and took his gun, then tried to make Rutherford County, Tennessee, in April 1815. his escape but ran right up to the The letter is part of an unprocessed collection British force … he was the second known as the James King Papers, housed at the time taken under guard and in carry- Albert Gore Center, Middle Tennessee State ing him off there was a firing broke University in Murfreesboro. The Battle of New Orleans from Ballou’s Pictorial Drawing-Room out not far from them, which they letter has recently come to Companion (1958.98.6) turned round to look at. A thought light concerning one soldier’s struck him that he could knock the A account of the Battle of New mutton they had so nicely roasted. Our fellow down and clear himself, at which Orleans. James M. King, a 23-year-old cor- soldiers gathered and ate it while fighting.” time he pealed away and dropped him, poral, and his younger brother Henry As they refreshed themselves with their then cleared himself. When making his served in a company of Tennessee volunteer stolen supper, King and his companions escape [he] came across Captain [James] mounted gunmen in the brigade com- ran into a raking fire from their rear. The McMahon who was mortally wounded in manded by General John Coffee. This Tennesseans soon realized the fire was com- the head. The captain requested him to stay brigade held the left portion of what ing from their own troops — or was it? with him which he done, though it was not was known as Line Jackson on the fields King continues: long before they were taken again. Then he and swamps of Chalmette during the “In marching up to the enemy we stayed taken.” British siege of New Orleans. Although came to a fence that ran angling from the King managed to survive all the the encounter on January 8, 1815, has course we were going, which cut off three engagements at New Orleans, including become the Battle of New Orleans, the companies of us [which] threw us consider- the historic Sunday of January 8 — a battle engagements preceding this historic date ably to the left … then [we] advanced a he said, “the British will never forget in the were of importance to the participants, hundred yards of the main body when we latest ages. They were most shamefully especially the famed “night battle” of were fired upon in our rear … it was imme- whipped.” James recovered from one seri- December 23, 1814. diately concluded that it was part of our ous bout of sickness, but his younger broth- The encounter of the 23rd was own men … some of the men as well as er was less fortunate. Henry died on marked by uncertainty on both sides con- officers began to holler out to them and tell January 5, 1815, from an illness that origi- cerning the numbers and strength of the them they were firing at their own men.” nated with a cold but soon developed into opposing army. Adding to the difficulty As King’s company began to comply “violent pains in his head and back, which was “friendly fire” caused by the confusion with the commands coming from the dark- threw him out of his senses most of the of darkness, combined with close, savage ness, the assailants became visible enough time.” In spite of this loss, James stoically hand-to-hand combat. King’s account veri- for the Americans to discern that they were, admitted that he “was tolerably well pleased fies all these aspects. in fact, British troops. After a brief, but with a campaign life, in good weather, but He writes: severe, skirmish at close quarters, King’s in bad, most undoubtedly it is a very dis- “We made the attack on them about company retreated to safety having had one agreeable occupation.” eight o’clock in the night by moonshine … soldier killed, four wounded, and three —Tom Kanon the regiment that I was in attacked them in taken prisoner. Tom Kanon is on staff at the Tennessee State Library and the rear … we marched through the One of the prisoners, Cornet Daniel Archives (Nashville) and writes about Tennessee’s involvement in the War of 1812. Lisa Pruitt and Jim encampment, where we found that we had Treadwell, managed to escape twice before Neal of the Albert Gore Center, Middle Tennessee State deprived them of their fine supper — there the enemy was able to subdue him: University, cooperated in making this document avail- was turkeys, chickens, ducks, quarters of “The first time taken he was sent off able to the public.

10 WILLIAMS RESEARCH CENTER ACQUISITIONS

THE HISTORIC NEW ORLEANS COLLECTION encourages research in the Williams Research Center at 410 Chartres Street from 10:00 a.m. to 4:30 p.m. Tuesday through Saturday (except holidays). Cataloged materials available to researchers include books, manuscripts, paintings, prints, drawings, maps, pho- tographs, and artifacts about the history and culture of New Orleans, Louisiana, and the Gulf South. Each year the Collection adds thousands of items to its holdings by donation or purchase. Only a few recent acquisitions can be noted here. CURATORIAL A fragment of a copper frieze from the Fifteen postcard views of the Vieux old New Orleans Public Library located Carré and other New Orleans scenes, as near Lee Circle is a recent donation from well as of Baton Rouge, DeRidder, and Rosemary Deutsch. The fragment, dating Lake Charles are the gift of Dr. J. William to the construction of the building in Rosenthal. 1908, was salvaged during the late 1950s Mona A. Mailhes has donated por- demolition of the library. Now mounted traits of the Estalote, Hebert, and on wood, it was made by an unknown Mailhes family members, a 1921 oil por- craftsman. trait of a woman by W. Churchill, and an Dr. Edward Ferguson has donated a 1873 view of New Orleans delineated by collection of more than 250 drawings Alfred R. Waud and published by D. G. by his wife, the late Marjorie Clark Appleton and Company. The business Ferguson, that includes nudes, the Huey P. card of artist Colette Pope Heldner, Long Bridge, arabesques and designs, printed between 1944 and 1960, is a numerous fashion drawings for Kreeger’s donation from her daughter Paulette and Godchaux’s newspaper advertise- Holahan. ments, and designs for store bags and The Collection continues to receive store promotion. Mardi Gras-related items. Five proofs for Twenty photographs depicting New Mardi Gras doubloons for the Rex and Orleans photographic artist Clarence Zulu organizations and the Krewe of John Laughlin, were taken in 1979 in Louisianians ball in Washington, D.C., Laughlin’s studio by James Bernard are the gift of Paul Leaman. Jackson L. Byrnes, director of the New Orleans Molaison gave a 1998 ball program for Museum of Art from 1961 to 1972. The Squires and a 1967 ball proclamation for Top, Dauphine Street Interior, 1859, by Carl F. slides are the gift of James Byrnes and Schwartz (1999.39); middle, Dans le Restaurant, Rex. Ann Trufant donated nine views, Barbara C. Brynes. 1964, by Sue F. Gussow (1999.43.3); including the arrival of Rex by boat and a A circa 1923 photograph, taken by an bottom, Uncle Sam Plantation by George Gardner Rex parade, taken by an unknown pho- unknown photographer, of what is reputed Symons, ca. 1930 (1999.44.2). See page 12. tographer. Marian Solomon gave sou- to be the first swimming pool in the city of venir pins for the 1971 and 1983 Rex New Orleans comes from William Greiner. Mardi Gras balls. Mrs. William K.

11 Christovich gave a group of invitations, Thomas Pinckney, this agreement silver ball favors, and krewe favors for the allowed western settlers the “right of 1999 Rex ball. She also gave a silver tray deposit” for their exports in New Orleans designed by sculptress Angela Gregory for and to engage in commercial transactions the Quota Club of New Orleans. The tray, within the city. A French manuscript created for an occasion on April 26, 1955, copy of the treaty may be found in the was manufactured by Reed and Barton. Pierre Clément Laussat Papers in the Mrs. William Parkhurst gave three Collection’s holdings. 1880s sterling silver teaspoons having a Also acquired is Pinckney’s Treaty: A Maurice Scooler mark and a souvenir Study of America’s Advantage From Europe’s spoon made in 1953 to celebrate the 150th Distress, 1783 – 1800 by Samuel Flagg anniversary of the Louisiana Purchase. Bemis, published in 1926. Researchers Other acquisitions include an 1869 interested in the English translation of watercolor of a Dauphine Street interior (99-208-RL) Pinckney’s Treaty can consult the following by Carl Frederick Schwartz, a 1942 Most accounts of these events have website: http://earlyamerica.com. gouache painting of army trucks on been based almost exclusively on Spanish —Gerald Patout Rampart Street by Joseph Richards, and a sources. Charles Gayarré, author of the MANUSCRIPTS 1950s drawing of a girl scout by Charles four-volume History of Louisiana, pub- Richards. Also acquired are a circa 1917 lished in the mid-1800s, relied on Mary Morrison (1911-1999) was active color etching of a rainy day in the French Spanish sources but presented a point of in numerous community organizations, Quarter by Louis Oscar Griffith and a view sympathetic to the French position. but she is probably most associated with color lithograph of a young woman in a It is Dr. Carl Brasseaux’s 1987 study, her intense commitment to the preserva- restaurant by Sue Ferguson Gussow. Denis-Nicolas Foucault and the New tion of the French Quarter. Originally Additional acquisitions are a 1930s oil Orleans Rebellion of 1768 that integrates from Canton, Mississippi, Mrs. Morrison painting of Uncle Sam Plantation by both French and Spanish sources in sub- and her husband, Jacob, moved to George Gardner Symons and a 1927 oil stantiating the events of the rebellion. Ursulines Street in the Quarter in 1939 portrait of Walden Alexander Drysdale A rare pamphlet, Don Alexandre and persistently fought such potential by his father, Alexander J. Drysdale. O’Reilly, Commandeur de Benfayan dans disasters as building demolition, the —Judith H. Bonner l’Ordre de Alcantara . . . , written in riverfront expressway, and formosan French and dated November 25, 1769, termites. The deteriorating condition of LIBRARY documents the establishment of Spanish the buildings and neighborhood did not A miscellany of noteworthy printed rule. This booklet, part of the recently diminish her vision of the Vieux Carré as Spanish documents related to New acquired Ursuline Collection, served to a historic district worth preserving. The Orleans and Louisiana are certain to pro- inform the colonists about Spanish laws challenge of a proposed building alter- vide researchers with interesting glimpses and government. ation resulted in the 1941 state Supreme into the Louisiana colony under Spanish An important document, concerning Court decision that supported the Vieux rule. A 1768 decree, Real Decreto, Que Spanish Louisiana, previously acquired, is Carré Commission’s jurisdiction over Previene Las Reglas, Y Condiciones Con the 1796 publication, Real cédula de S. M. exterior changes to French Quarter build- Que Se Puede Hacer El Comercio Desde y señores del Consejo, en que se manda ings. The ruling strengthened the concept España a la Provincia de la Luisiana, pub- observar y guardar el Tratado de Amistad, that preservation is not limited to the lished in Madrid, is a recent acquisition. Límites y Navegación concluído y ratificado appearance of a single building but The eight-page folio concerns commer- entre su Real Persona y los Estados Unidos applies to the larger community. The cial regulations relating to Spain and de América. Printed in Madrid with the impact can be seen in the revitalization of Louisiana. The decree states that direct royal coat of arms on the title leaf, this the Quarter in the subsequent 58 years. trade between Louisiana and the French document is the first printed Spanish edi- Community activism is reflected in Mary colonies in the Caribbean would no tion of the 1796 Treaty of Friendship, Morrison’s membership in the longer be allowed and declared that all also known as the Treaty of San Lorenzo Independent Women’s Organization, material must be shipped through Spain. or Pinckney’s Treaty. The agreement Voters Registration League, Vieux Carré Overturning well-established patterns between Spain and the United States Commission, Patio Planters, Louisiana and trading connections, this order and defined the boundaries of Florida and Historical Society, Friends of the legislation set into motion an insurrec- Louisiana and secured common naviga- Cabildo, Jackson Square Association, tion among the French inhabitants of tion of the Mississippi River. Negotiated Lower French Quarter Crime Watch, and Louisiana in 1768. by America’s special envoy to Spain, Preservation Resource Center.

12 Jacob H. Morrison (d. 1974), broth- DONORS ON LOAN er of former Mayor deLesseps S. “Chep” APRIL–JUNE 1999 The Historic New Orleans Collection lends mate- Morrison, wrote Historic Preservation August Alfaro Bernard J. Manning rials from the permanent collection for specific Law in 1965 and also supported many Angela Moynan Bose Bernice Manning Eric J. Brock Barry Martyn periods of time only to other private or public reforms for the improvement of the entire Mr. and Mrs. Peter Michael Ginsberg Books museum, historical, or educational agencies for use New Orleans community. The Morrisons Broussard Jackson L. Molaison in temporary exhibitions. These institutions must Floy E. Brown and Bruce David Monroe received joint awards for their efforts. Edwards in memory of Estate of Mary Morrison be able to comply with the Collection’s security The bequest of approximately 16 linear Ethel Edwards Mrs. Lawrence Kent and environmental standards. Gonzalez Nelson feet of papers from Mary Morrison’s Barbara C. Byrnes New Orleans Museum of Five items from the Evangeline estate documents the community James B. Byrnes Art Cahn Family Foundation Hazel Thompson exhibition, A Celestial Brightness: involvement of both Morrisons. Mrs. William K. Parkhurst 150 Years of Evangeline, to the Arnold Christovich James M. Petersen The New Orleans Newspaper Guild was Eugene Cizek Penny Pirri LeDoux Library, Louisiana State organized in 1942 to be the collective bargain- Mrs. John M. Collier Pleasant Company University at Eunice, October 1–31, 1999. ing unit of the editorial department of the W. Page Dame III Publications Rosemary Deutsch Earl Retif Five artworks, Marriage of a Colored New Orleans Item in determining work con- Chachie Dupuy Don Richmond Soldier at Vicksburg, 1866, by Alfred R. ditions, wages, hours, job security, and other Dr. Homer J. Dupuy Dr. J. William Rosenthal Dr. Edward Ferguson St. Bernard Genealogical Waud; Hauling the Whole Week’s Picking, issues. John Marshall Collier, an investigative George A. Finola Society, Inc. ca. 1842, by William Henry Brown; The reporter for the New Orleans Item, kept Gheens Foundation, Inc. Elizabeth Wellborn Helen K. Goodwin and Schieffelin Robert Young Family of Natchez, 1844, by copies of the March-through-November John M. Goodwin II in Mrs. James L. Selman II Auguste Edouart; Natchez on the Hill, minutes, which include a contract draft, memory of Helen S. Lloyd Sensat Kammer Marian Solomon from the Old Fort, 1835, by James Tooley, schedule of fees, and membership list. A William K. Greiner Estate of Elise Soniat Jr., delineator; and Cabin Scene on Wash donation from Yvonne Collier, John Collier’s Mary Lockett Nelson Estate of Lucille Soniat Guthrie John Steiner Day, ca. 1885, by William Aiken Walker, wife, documents the emergence of newspaper Hallmark Cards, Inc. The Syntax Society to the Mississippi Museum of Art, workers as a united force in local 170 of the Harry N. Abrams, Inc. Ann Trufant Harvey Press Hugh Uhalt Jackson, Mississippi, September 4 – American Newspaper Guild. The minutes Dr. John R. Hébert University Art Museum Paulette Holahan (University of October 31, 1999. sometimes reflect a lighter side in the Guild’s Robert C. Holloway Southwestern serious quest. “No meeting was held during Dr. Thomas N. Ingersoll Louisiana) St. Louis Cathedral, 1842, by Rev. Joseph L. Kehoe V University of Florida Press Jules Lion to the Smithsonian December, as everyone was too busy spending Maxine S. Lawrence University Press of the large salaries and bonuses they had earned Paul Leaman Mississippi Institution, Anacostia Museum and Dr. Alfred E. Lemmon John E. Walker during the year (for future readers of the Edward S. Lindsey Merlyn Weilbaecher Center for African American History record, this is a joke),” wrote secretary Frances Robert K. Lindsey John G. Weinmann and Culture, January – June, 2000. Little Sisters of the Poor WYES–TV Bryson in the November 31, 1942 minutes. E. B. Ludwig III Yale University Library Earl Retif has donated a collection of E. B. Ludwig, Jr. Mona Mailhes T HE OLLECTION invitations, programs, and a scrapbook relat- A T C ed to the career of Caroline Spelman Wogan Durieux (1896-1987). Durieux, noted litho- grapher, painter, and etcher, began art studies at Newcomb College in 1913. After working with Mexican artists and developing her printmaking technique, she joined the facul- ty of Louisiana State University where she collaborated with scientists to create two new printmaking processes. She continued to work and exhibit as professor emeritus of fine arts after her retirement in 1964. The addition of New Orleans States, New Orleans Item, and New Orleans States-Item microfilm (1958-1980) expands the newspaper holdings. This completes the Collection’s run of the States-Item since it merged with the Times- Grayhawk Perkins, director, Cannes Brûlée Native Picayune in June 1980. American Center, at his demonstration, “Setting up —M. Theresa LeFevre Camp,” held in conjunction with the exhibition Durieux exhibition announcements (99-36-L) American Indians in 19th-Century New Orleans

13 STAFF

PUBLICATIONS Nicole Bernstein Patricia Brady, foreword to Literary Jan Benjamin New Orleans; Judith Bonner and Tom Bonner, “Kate Chopin’s New Orleans,” Editors: Southern Quarterly; Judith Bonner, Patricia Brady New Orleans Art Review; Jason Berry, Louise C. Hoffman review of Lost Chords: White Musicians Ann Sale Frances Salvaggio Head of Photography: Jan White Brantley and Their Contribution to Jazz, 1915- 1945, New York Times Book Review; The Historic New Orleans Collection John Lawrence, review, Louisiana Quarterly is published by the Historic New History Quarterly. Articles in the follow- Orleans Collection, which is operated ing publications: Preservation in Print, by the Kemper and Leila Williams Bettie Pendley; Deutsches Haus Scott Ratterree Jesse Thomas Foundation, a Louisiana nonprofit corpora- tion. Housed in a complex of historic build- Monatsblatt, Siva Blake. ings in the French Quarter, facilities are open to the public, Tuesday through Saturday, EDUCATION from 10:00 a.m. until 4:30 p.m. Tours of the Shop staff: Diane Plauché, Charlotte Amanda Plauché history galleries and the residence are avail- Hoggatt, Shirley Ludman, and Sue able for a nominal fee. Tom Carter Jones Laudeman, Louisiana history studies, Board of Directors: sponsored by the Louisiana Endowment Mrs. William K. Christovich, President for the Humanities and the Louisiana John E. Walker Fred M. Smith Library Association. Charles A. Snyder Meg Allan IN THE COMMUNITY Joseph Chappell Zachary Shraberg G. Henry Pierson, Jr., emeritus John Lawrence, photographs exhibited in Priscilla Lawrence, Acting Director New Orleans and in Atlanta, also radio Center, Mount Carroll, Illinois; Jan The Historic New Orleans Collection and television appearances for the exhibi- Brantley, “Digital Imaging Tools and 533 Royal Street tion on Louisiana Indians; Elsa Schneider Techniques,” Santa Fe; Nancy Ruck, elec- New Orleans, Louisiana 70130 (504) 523-4662 and John Magill, “Tidbits of History” tronic, web-based finding aids, Society of [email protected] millennium spots for television; Judith American Archivists, Pittsburgh; and www.hnoc.org Bonner, participant in retirement cere- John Lawrence, “Copyright and Fair Use ISSN 0886-2109 © 1999 monies of Brigadier General Jack M. for Archivists,” Washington, D.C. Mark The Historic New Orleans Collection Shuttleworth, U.S. Air Force Academy; Cave, workshop presenter, “Interpreting Additional photography by: John Magill, lectures, Rotary Club, New the History of Childhood at Historic Dustin Booksh and Chelsea Viles Orleans Public Library, and the Orléans Sites,” National Trust for Historic Club. Docents from the National Trust Preservation, Washington, D.C. Amanda Plauché Jones, library volun- property Shadows-on-the-Teche in New teer; Tom Carter, Williams Research Iberia, former home of Weeks Hall, toured CHANGES Center volunteer; former board members Jan Brantley’s home, previously owned by Jan Benjamin, docent and photo collec- Suzanne Mestayer and Gaye Frederic, Harriet Weeks Torian, Weeks Hall’s aunt. tions processor; Nicole Bernstein, special volunteer members of THNOC’s exhibi- projects. New faces at the Collection: Ann tion committee; David W. Adams, volun- MEETINGS Sale and Frances Salvaggio, receptionists; teer, Wharton publication project. Alfred Lemmon, Gerald Patout, Carol Scott Ratterree, preparation; Jesse Bartels, and Nancy Ruck, Society of Thomas, photo collections processor. IN MEMORIAM American Archivists, Pittsburgh; Gerald Joseph Warner is relocating to Houston. The Collection mourns Patout, Smithsonian Institution, the death of Claire de la Washington, D. C.; Louise Hoffman, INTERNS AND VOLUNTEERS Vergne, a former mem- Publishers Association of the South, Zachary Shraberg, intern, Loyola ber of the photography Greensboro. Workshops: Terry Weldon, University New Orleans, and Joseph staff, who retired from conservation of works on paper, Campbell Chappell, intern, Tulane University. Claire de la Vergne the Collection in 1986.

14 BOOKS AND MORE BOOKS

Six new books that explore various aspects of Louisiana, its land and its people, should be included on every reader’s fall list — to read and to give to family members and friends during the holiday season. These beautiful books deserve to be on the bookshelves of anyone who appreciates Louisiana’s music, architecture, history, and literary accomplishments.

Queen of the South: New Orleans, 1853-1862, The Journal of Thomas K. Wharton introduction by Samuel Wilson, Jr., F.A.I.A., foreword by Mary Louise Christovich, “New Orleans in the 1850s” by Patricia Brady; edited by Samuel Wilson, Jr., Patricia Brady, and Lynn D. Adams (Historic New Orleans Collection and New York Public Library) $39.95

The Booklover’s Guide to New Orleans by Susan Larson (LSU Press) $19.95 paperback, $34.95 hardback

Literary New Orleans introduction by Patricia Brady, edited by Judy Long (Hill Street Press). Selections by leading local writers, including Sheila Bosworth, James Lee Burke, Robert Olen Butler, Andrei Codrescu, Tony Dunbar, Ellen Gilchrist, Brenda Marie Osbey, and Christine Wiltz $16.95 paperback

The Reposed introduction by Steven Maklansky, foreword by Thomas Lynch, photographs by William Greiner (LSU Press), color photographs of cemeteries $39.95

Vestiges of Grandeur: The Plantations of Louisiana’s River Road by Richard Sexton, introduction by Eugene Cizek (Chronicle Books) $40

Zydeco! by Ben Sandmel, photographs by Rick Olivier (University Press of Mississippi) $25 paperback, $45 hardback

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15 ARCHITECT T. K. W HARTON’S NEIGHBORHOOD, NEW ORLEANS, 1850S

Coliseum Place in the 1850s by Jim Blanchard, 1999, where T. K. Wharton moved in 1851. THNOC has just published selections from Wharton’s journal.

he cross section at top shows, from left, the residences of William TGarrison and James Wray; the Christian, First Presbyterian, St. Theresa of Avila, St. Patrick’s, and Coliseum Place Baptist Churches; and the cottage of Thomas K. Wharton. At bottom left of the map is the Wharton-designed Steele Methodist Church. At right is T. K. Wharton’s sketch of Coliseum Place, dated May 24, 1855. Drawing, courtesy Manuscripts and Archives Division, New York Public Library

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