Quarterly 1984 06 Winter.Pdf

[ffi"""""'- THE HISTORIC ~It!! I NEW ORLEANS Louisiana Documents, p. 3 The Rites of Rex, p. 5 ~~~~ COLLECTION Focus: Louisiana Limoges, p. 6 ~~I NEWSLETTER Corporate Cup Redux, p. 10 Volume II, Number 1 Winter 1984 Evidence of a family and its history-letters, hundred-year-old letter "repaired" with adhe photographs, portraits, diaries, a worn family Bi sive tape, the acid in which actually "eats" words ble, financial records, or valuable mementos from the paper, and the color photograph are among many people's most treasured pos proudly displayed in a sunny spot, so that ultra sessions. The proper care of old or fragile items, violet rays leach out the color. however, is difficult. Horror stories of "pres Many people choose to donate their heirlooms ervation" techniques which damage or even de to an appropriate museum or research center so stroy a valued possession are common-the that they will receive professional care and pres- John Lawrence and Susan Cole ervation. Since many others, how sleeves of the same material. Pro ever, prefer to care for their be tective enclosures are made of acid longings at home, the Collection is free materials. No pens are allowed publishing a series of Preservation in study areas. Guides, which give guidelines for Procedures for handling and use proper care of a variety of valued of materials are designed for the possessions. The first two pam greatest possible protection. An ad phlets, one on family papers by cu ditional precaution has been insti rator of manuscripts Susan Cole and tuted recently in the Curatorial Di the other on photographs by cura vision. Patrons, as well as staff, are tor John H. Lawrence, were issued now required to wear white cotton Curatorial staff members Michele Wyck in December 1983. gloves while examining original ma off and Richard Marvin wear white cot Abbreviated versions of these terials. This is a particularly valu ton gloves to handle historic photo guides were originally published in able safeguard for the very few col graphs. early issues of this newsletter. Fa lections which are not yet protected to the piece and extending its useful vorable public reaction and calls for by a secondary support and are thus research life. more detail indicated that many susceptible to damage by skin oils. The Preservation Guides include people wanted additional informa Gloves also keep the secondary sup sources for special supplies and bib tion about preserving their family's ports used in the collections from liographies for further reading. past. becoming soiled or fingerprinted. They are available from the Shop at Both authors did further re Gloves require that each piece is the Collection for $2.50 each. Mail search, but they relied primarily on handled in a careful manner, mini orders must include tax and han their experience as staff members at mizing physical damage and stress dling. the Collection; the pamphlets re flect the careful preservation prac tices followed at THNOC. Orien tation for new staff members and ongoing conferences, seminars, and visiting professional consultants help staff maintain an awareness of proper procedures and new devel opments. Staff members and researchers follow strict guidelines when using research materials, because the rare and valuable items would be irre TRANSCRIPTION: placeable if they were lost or dam - he (Marbois) then took occasion to mention his sorrow, that any cause aged. State-of-the-art environmen of difference should exist between our countries-the Consul told him in tal control systems regulate reply-"will you have the charge of the treasury let them give you humidity and temperature. Win 1239.53.738 (one hundred million)-& pay their own claims, & take the dows in research areas, galleries, whole country- and the Williams residence are pro tected by UF3 Plexiglas™, which fil ters out harmful ultraviolet rays, and fluorescent bulbs are covered with 2 THN OC Documents Enliven History Classes The Historic New Orleans Col lection has instituted a pilot project in Louisiana history for junior high and high school students. During the 1984 spring semester 1,000 public and private school students will re ceive packets containing reprints of original Louisiana documents, maps, and letters, copied from the hold ings of the Collection. Intended as supplementary material for Louisi ana history classes, each packet will The African House include facsimiles of documents, at Melrose Plantation (1945) by Elmore M. verbatim transcriptions, English Morgan, Jr. translations (when necessary), study (1974.25.26.84) questions, a glossary of unfamiliar terms, and a bibliography for fur ther study. This project is an outgrowth of a the New Orleans public schools and the early 19th century. Background series of workshops for public school the State of Louisiana since 1981. information describes the Cane teachers, conducted at the Collec Mrs. Schneider's work with New River colony-its history, economy, tion by Elsa Schneider, curator of Orleans teachers emphasized the and lifestyle. The examples cho education. The workshops were part benefits that students could receive sen-a marriage contract, defama of the Professional Incentive Pro from being exposed to primary doc tion proceeding, family assembly, gram for teachers, sponsored jointly uments, the raw material from slave sale, and manumission-illu by the Social Studies Department of which history is written; it encour minate important areas of these aged her to begin this project. people's lives. Suggested questions Through the detective work nec bring out further information, such essary to interpret and to under as the legal steps necessary to ob stand primary sources, Mrs. Schnei tain a slave's freedom or that first der hopes that students will become cousin marriages were very com "sensitive to the human experience mon. The certificate of manumis in history, more critical of the his sion and record of a slave sale reveal tory they read, and knowledgeable a dramatic situation: 10 years after about what has gone into the writ one slave was freed, he purchased ing of history." the freedom of another slave-his Editors: Patricia Brady Schmit, Gail Larsen Peterkin Many THNOC staff members as mother. The related study material will also help students to interpret Photography: Jan White sisted Mrs. Schneider in preparing the contents of these Louisiana his the documents and to relate them The Historic New Orleans Collection Newsletter is published quarterly by tory packets. In particular, docents to their history textbooks. the Historic New Or-leans Collection, which is operated by the Kemper and Pat Cromiller, Joan Lennox, and Mrs. Schneider plans further his Leila Williams Foundation, a Louisiana Naomi Lowrey were involved in re tory packets. One will concern 1884 non-profit corporation. Housed in a complex of historic buildings in the search and writing, and reference commercial establishments in the French Quarter, facilities are open to librarian Judith McMillan trans French Quarter and the 1984 Lou the public, Tuesday through Saturday, from 10:00 a.m. until 4:45 p.m. Tours lated French documents. Consul isiana World Exposition site. Doc of the history galleries and the residence tation with John A. Jones, Super uments will include 19th-century are available for a nominal fee. visor of Social Studies for the insurance maps and city directories. Board of Directors: Benjamin W. Yancex, President Orleans Parish Public School Sys From these, students can discover Ernest C. Villere tem, an enthusiastic supporter of the the variety, number, and distribu Mrs. William K. Christovich G. Henry Pierson, Jr. project, clarified curriculum re tion of business establishments in John A. Rodgers III quirements and needs of public the city. Another packet will be Stanton Frazar, Director school teachers. drawn from the Collection's large The Historic New Orleans Collection The Cane River colony near number of family papers; it will re 533 Royal Street New Orleans, Louisiana 70130 Natchitoches is the subject of the produce letters written to and from (504) 523-4662 first Louisiana history packet. From people in Louisiana from the colo Cable: THNOC the more than 1,400 items included nial period through the 20th cen <C> 1984, in the Collection's holdings of Cane tury, dramatizing the human ele The Historic New Orleans Collection River notarial documents, five were ment in history. The overall impact chosen to represent various aspects of these packets should be to en of life experienced by the "free hance students' appreciation of persons of color" of Cane River in Louisiana's heritage. 3 HISTORIC - ~ - - - Le Commerce que les Indiens du Mexique ~ New - Orleans -- -~ -' -- font avec les FranQois au Port de Missisipi there were no laws guaranteeing truth in advertising. Such posters were distributed throughout Eu rope, influencing several thousand Germans and Swiss to emigrate, in addition to hundreds of French. Unfortunately for John Law, the Company of the Indies made no im mediate profits. The American en terprise could not generate a quick return. Most of Louisiana was wil derness, and the settlers had prob lems clearing the land and protect ing their crops from flooding. No gold or silver mines were found. From 1719 until 1721, frenzied speculation in the stock of the Com pany of the Indies was common place, with share prices reaching 8,000 livres. Inflation began, and some sellers refused to accept pa per money. More and more people In the history galleries of the His lished a private central bank, Law wanted to redeem their notes for toric New Orleans Collection, a started a stock company, the Com gold or silver so that investors be poster engraved in Paris in the early pany of the West, to take over the gan to lose confidence. Suddenly in 1720s by F. Gerard Jollain is on dis proprietorship of Louisiana.

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