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The Historic New Orleans Quarterly Vol. XXXIII Number 4 VOLUME XXXIII The Historic New Orleans NUMBER 4 Collection FALL 2016 Quarterly Shop online at www.hnoc.org/shop PURCHASE POWER: New Orleans, Shopping Destination EVENT CALENDAR EXHIBITIONS & TOURS All exhibitions are free unless noted otherwise. CURRENT CONCERTS IN THE COURTYARD Money, Money, Money! Currency Holdings The fall concert series features Walter “Wolfman” from The Historic New Orleans Collection Washington and the Roadmasters (September), the Through October 29, 2016 Tumbling Wheels (October), and Colin Lake Band Williams Research Center, 410 Chartres Street (November). Admission includes three complimentary drinks. The Seignouret-Brulatour House: Fridays, September 16, October 21, A New Chapter and November 18, 5:30–8 p.m. Through June 2018 533 Royal Street 533 Royal Street $10; free for THNOC members Themed tours of the Louisiana History DIANE GENRE BOOK SIGNING Galleries Diane Genre, a contributor to the new release Re-envisioning Japan: Meiji Fine Art Textiles First Friday of every month, through 2016 (5 Continents Editions, 2016), will talk about her collection of antique Japanese textiles and 10 and 11 a.m., 2 and 3 p.m. sign copies of the book. 50¢ Saturday, October 8, 2–4 p.m. PERMANENT 533 Royal Street Free Louisiana History Galleries 533 Royal Street CURRENCY COLLECTING IN THE 21ST CENTURY Tuesday–Saturday, 9:30 a.m.–4:30 p.m. Join THNOC Curator/Historian Erin M. Greenwald for a discussion about the history of Sunday, 10:30 a.m.–4:30 p.m. currency and currency collecting in Louisiana. Greenwald will speak with collector Randy Haynie, who has spent more than 50 years amassing one of the largest currency collections The Williams Residence Tour in the state, and longtime dealer Stephen Cohen, of the venerable French Quarter antiques Architecture and Courtyard Tour shop James H. Cohen and Sons. This event is presented in conjunction with the exhibition 533 Royal Street Money, Money, Money! Currency Holdings from The Historic New Orleans Collection. Tuesday–Saturday, 10 and 11 a.m., 2 and 3 p.m. Saturday, October 15, 10 a.m.–noon Sunday, 11 a.m., 2 and 3 p.m. $5 admission; free for THNOC members Williams Research Center, 410 Chartres Street Groups of eight or more should call Free; for reservations, email [email protected]. (504) 598-7145 or visit www.hnoc.org to make reservations. PEGGY SCOTT LABORDE BOOK SIGNING Educational tours for school groups are Join us for an afternoon with WYES-TV personality Peggy Scott Laborde as she signs her available free of charge; please contact new book, The Fair Grounds through the Lens: Photographs and Memories of Horse Racing Daphne L. Derven, curator of education, at in New Orleans (Pelican, 2016). (504) 598-7154 or [email protected]. Saturday, November 5, 2–4 p.m. 533 Royal Street UPCOMING Free Goods of Every Description: Shopping in New Orleans, 1825–1925 MIGNON FAGET TRUNK SHOW AND THNOC MEMBER September 23, 2016–April 9, 2017 APPRECIATION DAY Williams Gallery, 533 Royal Street Just in time for the holiday season, members can take 20 percent off all items available in The Shop at The Collection, while enjoying a look at special selections from jewelry Clarence John Laughlin and His designer Mignon Faget. Not a member? You can sign up in the shop. Contemporaries: A Picture and a Thousand Words Saturday, December 10, 9:30 a.m.–4 p.m. November 15, 2016–March 25, 2017 533 Royal Street Williams Research Center, 410 Chartres Street Holiday Home and Courtyard Tour GENERAL HOURS December 1–30; closed December 24–25 533 Royal Street 400 and 410 Chartres Street Tuesday–Saturday, 10 and 11 a.m., 2 and 3 p.m. Williams Gallery, Louisiana History Galleries, Williams Research Center, Boyd Cruise Sunday, 11 a.m., 2 and 3 p.m. Shop, and Tours Gallery, and Laura Simon Nelson $5 admission; free for THNOC members Tuesday–Saturday, 9:30 a.m.–4:30 p.m. Galleries Sunday, 10:30 a.m.–4:30 p.m. Tuesday–Saturday, 9:30 a.m.–4:30 p.m. ON THE COVER A. B. Griswold & Co. advertisement from Jewell’s Crescent City Illustrated New Orleans, 1874 1951.41.23 CONTENTS ON VIEW/ 2 A new exhibition traces the evolution of retail in New Orleans. Off-Site PROGRAMS/ 5 Study tours take THNOC members around the world. FROM THE DIRECTOR RESEARCH/ 6 A 2015 Woest Fellow focuses on the legal In mid-June The Collection was honored to acquire the photographic archive of and financial systems underpinning slavery. Harold F. Baquet, who documented African American life and New Orleans politics and culture for decades. We are grateful to his widow, Cheron Brylski, for making THNOC AT 50/ 8 possible this landmark accession; Baquet’s large archive, consisting of thousands of Themed tours of the Louisiana History negatives, slides, and photographs, marks our first major collection by an African Galleries put old artifacts in a new light. American photographer. A preview of the Baquet archive can be found on pages 20–21, and we look forward to processing the collection and making it available to researchers COMMUNITY/ 12 as soon as possible. On the Job The summer also provided us with another successful New Orleans Antiques Forum, Staff News which seems to grow in popularity and enthusiasm among participants every year. In Memoriam In celebration of our golden anniversary, docents continued their series of monthly Become a Member themed tours of the Louisiana History Galleries—admission: 50 cents, for 50 years— On the Scene and I look forward to seeing what spotlights they shine on our artifacts this fall. Despite our gains and celebrations over the summer, The Collection suffered a Focus on Philanthropy tremendous loss with the death of Mimi Calhoun, our longtime friend and colleague. Donors Facilities manager for many years, Mimi saw her work expand as we did, growing from our first location on Royal Street to include the research center and galleries on ACQUISITIONS/ 20 Chartres Street and additional properties in the French Quarter. She was always up to Acquisition Spotlight: The Harold F. the challenge, and she served The Collection as steadfastly as she did her many friends Baquet Archive here. —PRISCILLA LAWRENCE Recent Additions ON VIEW Retail on the Rise In Goods of Every Description, THNOC explores the history of shopping in New Orleans. A As a major metropolis from the late 18th century to today, New Orleans has always had a strong tradition of retail activity fueled by international goods and wares. At the center of a crisscrossing network of global trade routes, the city was a cosmopolitan shopping destination in the 19th and early 20th centuries, with shopwindows displaying treasures from around the world. Swaths of textiles, crates of ceramics, parlor suites, elaborate silver services, and dressed mannequins all provided the burgeoning consumer class with models B of style. New Orleans’s retail activity was complemented by related industries. In the early 19th century, several silversmiths and goldsmiths, or orfèvres, practiced in the French Quarter. Some of these craftsmen made regular trips across the Atlantic to acquire merchandise and EXHIBITION study the latest trends to reproduce for their local customers. European styles and wares Goods of Every Description: Shopping in also came to the city through china importers on Chartres and Canal Streets, who filled New Orleans, 1825–1925 their windows with colorful transfer-printed earthenware and sleek porcelain dishes that September 23, 2016–April 9, 2017 had just arrived on ships from New York; Staffordshire, England; and Le Havre, France. Williams Gallery, 533 Royal Street By the mid-19th century, the first blocks of Royal Street were designated “Furniture Free Row.” Store after store offered parlor suites, beds, dining sets, carpets, curtains, mirrors, and miscellaneous “fancy goods” in the latest Victorian styles, which were largely revivals of A. Postcard depicting interior of E. Offner’s earlier rococo, Gothic, and Elizabethan styles. ca. 1910 Retailers such as Prudent Mallard, William gift of Charles L. Mackie, 1981.317 McCracken, and Henry Siebrecht received B. M. Waldhorn trade card constant shipments of furniture from manufactur- ca. 1895 ers in New York, Boston, Cincinnati, and France 56-12-L to fill their warehouses. They employed craftsmen C. Baby cup to assemble, upholster, and install new furniture, between 1853 and 1861; coin silver curtains, and wallpaper for their customers in the by Adolphe Himmel (New Orleans) Hyde & Goodrich, retailer (New Orleans) city and up the river, but very few of their goods 1978.175.17 were actually made in New Orleans. C 2 The Historic New Orleans Collection Quarterly After the Civil War, large plate-glass shopwindows along Canal Street were dedicated to glittering luxuries. Local newspapers reported on the diamond jewelry, marble statues, regulated clocks, patented pistols, and specialty china and silver services that filled the best windows. Retailers competed with each other to have the most impressive objects on view: when one jeweler displayed a miniature fire engine as a prize for a local fair, another made a true-to-life silver and gold model of the mule-drawn streetcars that traveled up and down Canal Street. Silver retailers, including Hyde & Goodrich and their succes- sors A. B. Griswold & Co., E. A. Tyler, and M. Schooler, employed craftsmen to handle custom orders, which they sold alongside the popular silver patterns produced by northern manufacturers. China emporiums up the street were filled with all types of fancy and plain ceramics, available to shoppers at any price point. At the turn of the 20th century, department stores became the anchors of the shop- ping district on Canal Street. Many of these large stores—with departments dedicated to women’s clothing, men’s furnishings, toys, stationery, and “bric-a-brac”—got their start as dry goods stores.
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