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INSIDE Major Acquisition of Manuscripts Documenting the Legacy of The Rise and Fall of John Law in n the late summer of 2010 The Collection acquired an exceptional collec- ambler, swindler, stat- King’s Bench prison in the 1690s) pre- Louis’s death left in the tion of some 232 documents concerning Scottish economist John Law’s istician, genius have all ceded him. hands of his five-year-old great-grandson, Iinfamous System, which encompassed far-reaching economic programs been used to describe The following year Law sought an whose reign would be overseen by the for the establishment of a national bank and a global trading company. Law’s one of ancien régime France’s most audience with Louis XIV in France, where regent, Philippe, duc d’Orléans, until he enterprise, first known as the Company of the West, then as the Company of Gnotable and notorious figures: John Law. a severe specie shortage, repeated military reached the age of majority at 13. The the Indies, undertook the establishment of in 1718. Compris- Born in Scotland in 1671, Law spent engagements, and a mounting state debt regent inherited a financial crisis of epic 2A—to come ing imprints, posters, and manuscripts, the John Law Collection (MSS 606) much of his early adulthood frequent- combined to put Europe’s most popu- proportions. France’s treasury was bank- allows researchers to trace, step by step, the development of Law’s financial ing the gaming tables of Amsterdam, lous nation on increasingly precarious rupt. State debt topped 2 billion livres, system and the ramifications of its collapse for Louisiana. One of the rare , Paris, and Venice, where he used financial footing. In “Mémoire touchant not including annual interest payments documents included in the acquisition is the only known surviving manu- his mathematical genius to amass a sub- les monoies et le commerce” Law pro- to its creditors of 90 million livres, and script copy of the “Lettres patentes portant privilège en faveur du Sr. Law...” stantial fortune. Personal gain was not posed the creation of a French national the treasury had borrowed against future (May 2, 1716), which permitted Law to establish the Banque Générale, Law’s only motivation, however. Time bank that would issue paper money, tax revenues through 1718. The entire France’s first national bank. The precious parchment document is signed by spent in Europe’s financial capitals also increase available credit, and promote financial system was on the verge of both six-year-old Louis XV and the regent, Philippe, duc d’Orléans. Also of afforded him access to the worlds of trade (objectives known collectively as collapse, a situation that left the regent interest is a simple, anonymous, tongue-in-cheek manuscript genealogy trac- high finance and economic theory. Law’s “System”), but he failed to get predisposed to consider Law’s proffered ing Law’s lineage to Beelzebub. Such items bear testimony to the eventual In 1714 Law took up permanent the proposal past the king’s controller- solutions. emotional and financial trauma that Law’s experiment caused in France. To residence with his common-law wife, general. In 1707 two more submissions Law’s ascent in the months and First French-language edition of Law’s Money and Trade Considered, La Haye: Jean contextualize the importance of this collection, this issue of the Quarterly Katherine (Knowles) Seigneur, in a lav- were rejected. Not until Law took up years following the death of Louis XIV Neaulme, 1720 (2010.0158.7), acquisition features essays providing overviews of John Law’s rise and fall (pages 2–5) ishly furnished house on Paris’s exclu- permanent residence in Paris were any was meteoric. Within two months his made possible in part by the Clarisse Claiborne and The Historic New Orleans Collection’s notable assemblage of materials sive Place Louis-le-Grand (now Place of his proposals entertained in earnest proposal to create a national bank was Grima Fund and the Boyd Cruise Fund documenting French Louisiana (pages 6–8). Vendôme). He likely chose the newly by the king and his ministers. But just heard before the finance council. The —Alfred E. Lemmon constructed square because the resi- as Law faced the unfamiliar prospect of following summer, the bank became dences lining it were home to some of seeing his financial plans adopted, Louis a reality. In August 1717 Law’s newly more stable alternative. In exchange, the the most influential financiers in Paris, XIV died, on September 1, 1715. formed trading company, the Company Company charged 4 percent interest on “Lettres patentes portant privilège en faveur du including Antoine Crozat, whose com- of the West (Compagnie d’Occident), the billets d’état, a lower rate than what Sr. Law et sa Compagnie pany maintained exclusive rights to took over Crozat’s Louisiana charter the Crown paid to most of its creditors. d’establir une banque trade in Louisiana. with hopes of establishing a French By the summer of 1719 Law’s com- generalle,” May 2, 1716 By the time Law settled in Paris, version of the Chesapeake in the Mis- pany had absorbed the Company of the (2010.0158.1), acquisition he was already on his way to establish- sissippi Valley. A year later the regent East Indies and the Royal China and made possible in part by the ing himself as one of the period’s most awarded Law’s company a nine-year Africa Companies. It also acquired the Clarisse Claiborne Grima Fund and the Boyd Cruise influential economic theorists. In 1705 monopoly of all tobacco trade within Senegal Company, a slave-trading entity Fund he had published Money and Trade Con- the French empire. whose resources and contacts Law hoped sidered with a Proposal for Supplying To raise capital and fund the acqui- to exploit in order to bring laborers to the Nation with Money, a treatise Law sition of smaller companies, the Com- Louisiana. The resulting conglomerate, hoped would cure the economic ills of pany issued a series of shares. Proceeds the Company of the Indies (Compag- his native Scotland. Law’s proposal cen- from each issuance were intended to cre- nie des Indes), had the most far-ranging tered on the creation of a land bank, ate greater solvency. This money-raising geographic scope in the history of Euro- which would by design alleviate the scheme was authorized by the state, pean trading companies. To finance country’s specie shortage through the which benefited from the arrangement the expansion Law released more share issuance of paper money backed by the by the elimination of some of its float- issuances and eliminated the stipula- value of land. Though Law published ing debt. The initial 1717 offering could tion that shares be purchased with billets the treatise anonymously, his author- only be purchased with billets d’état— d’état. At the same time the bank issued ship was well known by the time it was the paper notes of credit issued by the 50 million livres of banknotes to ensure considered—and rejected—by the Scot- Crown, their valuation prone to violent that there was enough cash in circula- tish Parliament in the summer of 1705. Edict establishing the Company of the West, fluctuations. The intent was to decrease tion to cover new share purchases, and Paris: Imprimerie Royale, 1717 (2010.0158.12), His reputation as a gambler and worse the number of unstable in circula- Law pledged to personally underwrite acquisition made possible in part by the Clarisse billets (sentenced to death for killing a man in Claiborne Grima Fund and the Boyd Cruise tion, while promoting the sale of shares the new share issue. Loosened subscrip- a duel, he had escaped from London’s Fund in what Law and the Crown viewed as a tion requirements, an increased money 2 Volume XXVIII, Number 4 — Fall 2011 The Historic New Orleans Collection Quarterly 3 grew; public confidence in his System collapsed, despite Law’s efforts to stabi- the nation’s economic apparatus was s; wavered. As company stock plummeted, lize the credit markets and restore public in shambles, and thousands were left For Louisiana the ramifications of shareholders rushed to cash in shares, confidence. holding worthless paper notes. Law Law’s fall from favor were mixed. Satir- and the mint printed more banknotes to Law’s fall from favor over the course spent the last years of his life in Venice, ical images and derisory texts depicting meet demand, causing widespread infla- of 1720 was as striking for its speed as his hounded by shareholders and credi- the colony as a debauched, thoroughly tion. On November 27 the bank closed rise had been some five years earlier. By tors, before dying of pneumonia on desperate place circulated throughout its doors. By December the System had late December 1720 he had fled France, March 21, 1729. Europe, causing an already anemic

100-livre banknote issued by the Banque Royale, which in December 1718 replaced the Banque Générale, August 1, 1719 (2001-47-L) supply, and Law’s personal investment bolstered public confidence. The public’s appetite for company shares in the fall of 1719 seemed insa- tiable. Between September 26 and Octo- John Law from Het Groote Tafereel ber 4, 1719, Law released four additional der Dwaasheid, Amsterdam, 1720−21 issuances. Trade along rue Quincampoix (2010.0158.9), acquisition made possible in part spilled over from the Company’s share- by the Clarisse Claiborne Grima Fund and the sales office into the street, where the fren- Boyd Cruise Fund zied throng of investors and speculators was so thick that the city had to issue a flow of immigrants to nearly dry up. Slave ban on horses and carriages to prevent the imports, too, slumped in the years imme- crowd from being trampled. Through the diately following Law’s expulsion, dropping beginning of 1720 share values continued from over 1,100 captives in 1721 to fewer to rise, peaking at over 10,000 livres per than 100 between 1722 and 1724. Yet the share just days after Law’s appointment same System that led to financial chaos in to France’s highest administrative office: France led ultimately to increased stability controller-general. in Louisiana. The collapse of the System, Rather than ensuring the success of though spectacular in its speed and magni- his System, Law’s appointment repre- tude, did not destroy the Company of the sented the beginning of its demise. Big Indies. investors, sensing an impending fall in Unlike the bank, the Company emerged stock prices, began to cash in their shares from the chaotic, three-year reorganiza- shortly before his appointment. In refus- tion period that ended in 1723 as a largely ing to accept banknotes in return for their profitable entity. This was possible because, shares, they nearly emptied the bank of prior to the collapse, company directors specie. At the same time, rumors of the had invested profits from shares sold into discouraging state of affairs in Louisi- the nuts and bolts of trade—ships, trade ana—where immigration was low and the goods, port facilities, and people. In Loui- production of investment-worthy tobacco siana, where the reorganized Company nonexistent—swirled. Distrust of Law maintained its administrative and trade monopoly until 1731, company invest- ments resulted in the largest influx of Traders and share seekers along rue Quincampoix from Het Groote Tafereel der Dwaasheid, Amsterdam, capital, goods, and slaves since the colony’s 1720−21 (2010.0158.9), acquisition made possible founding. in part by the Clarisse Claiborne Grima Fund and the —Erin Greenwald Boyd Cruise Fund 4 Volume XXVIII, Number 4 — Fall 2011 The Historic New Orleans Collection Quarterly 5 John Law Collection Bolsters The Collection’s Extensive Holdings Related to French Louisiana

he John Law Collection French Louisiana is evident in his early Williams’s 1964 correspondence makes an important addi- acquisitions, such as the ca. 1720 hand- with dealers reveals his desire to assem- tion to the impressive array colored by François Chereau ble an excellent collection of royal Tof materials related to the French in Loui- (1680–1729) entitled Le Missisipi ou la French administrative acts concerning siana available to researchers at The His- Louisiane Dans l’amerique Septentrionale Louisiana. The eventual acquisition of toric New Orleans Collection’s Williams (1959.210). Acquired in 1959, the map those materials (MSS 268) along with Research Center—an assemblage on par depicts a fortified New Orleans. While a copy of the 1720 Het Groote Tafereel with those at such distinguished institu- indicative of the European thirst for der Dwaasheid (The Great Mirror of tions as the University of Chicago, Duke knowledge about the young colony, the Folly) in 1960 (60-63-RL) clearly indi- University, Yale University, the University map is highly fanciful and imaginative. cates his strong interest in Law’s Louisi- of Minnesota, the Newberry Library, and Equally as fanciful is François-Gérard ana legacy. In his later years, Williams the New York Public Library. Jollain’s ca. 1720 Le Commerce que les did not waver in his desire to assemble THNOC founder General L. Kem- Indiens du Mexique Font avec les François materials related to French Louisiana. per Williams began amassing the materials au Port de Missisipi (1952.3), a propa- From October 19, 1965, to just a week long before the institution was estab- ganda piece distributed by Law’s repre- before his death in November 1971, he lished. His steadfast interest in acquir- sentatives to stimulate immigration to pursued the acquisition of the papers ing maps and pictorial items related to Louisiana (see image, page 9). of Hénri de Ste-Gême (1767–1842),

Le Missisipi ou la Louisiane Dans l’amerique Septentrionale by François Chereau, ca. 1720 (1959.210)

6 Volume XXVIII, Number 4 — Fall 2011 a St. Domingue refugee who went on and French officials, Caillot provides to serve in the Battle of New Orleans an eyewitness account of Louisiana at and become a successful Louisiana sugar the end of the company’s tenure. Erin planter. His papers (MSS 100) provide Greenwald, associate curator/historian, detailed information about life in and is currently preparing an annotated ver- around New Orleans in the early years sion of the manuscript for publication. of the 19th century. Williams’s persever- In the months surrounding the ance in acquiring the Ste-Gême Papers acquisition of the John Law Collection, illustrates his belief in the importance of several notable acquisitions of published primary documentation in studying the works documenting the full spectrum life, people, and events of Louisiana. of life in French colonial Louisiana Since the deaths of Kemper Williams were made, supplementing THNOC’s and his wife, Leila, and the subsequent already rich collection of 18th-century establishment of The Historic New published accounts about the region. Orleans Collection, the staff of the insti- Among these were Bernard Forest de tution has continued Williams’s pursuit Bélidor’s La science des ingénieurs dans of materials related to French Louisiana. la conduit des travaux de fortifications et One of the earliest prized acquisitions is a d’architecure civile, published in 1729 Hénri de Ste-Gême, between 1825 and 1842 prospectus by Canadian-born Pierre Le (2009.0245), and Charles-Etienne Bri- (1976.171), courtesy of Nancy La Fonta de Moyne, sieur d’Iberville (1661–1706), seux’s Architecture Moderne ou l’ de bien Saintegeme proposing the establishment of the bâtir, published in 1728 (2009.0199). French colony in Louisiana (MSS 546). Detailing construction practices then cur- Secundum Ordines Naturales Disposita, Believed to date from early 1698, the rent in France, both books were standard published in 1789 (2009.0145), shed prospectus details the colony’s natural manuals for French engineers responsi- light on scientific exploration in the resources and their potential for exploi- ble for military and urban development colony and stand as testimony to the tation by France. The papers of one of in the colony. Joseph Pitton de Tourne- exchange between early Louisiana sci- the colony’s early settlers, Jean-Charles fort’s Institutiones rei herbaria, published entists and their colleagues in France. A de Pradel (1692–1764), acquired by in 1719 (2009.0144), and Antoine- letter written by one of the colony’s first The Collection in 2003, shed light on Laurent de Jussieu’s Genera Plantarum scientists, missionary François Lemaire daily life in the young colony. Pradel (fl. ca. 1720), preserved in the Muséum arrived as a soldier in 1714 and subse- National d’Histoire Naturelle in Paris, quently became commandant of Fort reveals he had access to Tournefort’s Chartres (in present-day Randolph book during his studies in Louisiana. County, Illinois) in 1724 and Fort Rosa- Lemaire and other naturalists, such as lie (in present-day Natchez, ) Alexandre Viel (1690–1764), sent their in 1731. He eventually became a suc- plant samples to the Jussieus, a family of cessful planter, purchasing Monplaisir distinguished French botanists in Paris. plantation in 1736 near New Orleans Antoine-Laurent de Jussieu incorpo- and growing indigo and other crops. rated the findings of these early Louisi- His papers (MSS 589) are rich in per- ana botanists into his famed work. sonal correspondence with his family in The Collection has also sought to France. Another important document document the musical and artistic legacy from early colonial Louisiana, acquired of French Louisiana. The 1998 acquisi- by The Collection in 2005, is “Relation tion of the extensive library of the Ursu- du Voyage de la Louisianne…” by Marc- line Sisters of New Orleans (98-001-RL) Antoine Caillot (2005.0011), a clerk included a manuscript copy of “Nou- for the Company of the Indies. In this velles Poésies spirituelles et morales sur memoir, Caillot traces his journey from les plus beaux airs de la musique fran- Paris to Louisiana in 1729 and the two çaise et italienne.” Commonly referred years he spent in the young colony in Prospectus for the settling of Louisiana by Pierre to as the Ursuline Music Manuscript, it service of the company. Vividly describ- Le Moyne, sieur d’Iberville, approximately 1698 dates from 1736 and is the only known ing life in New Orleans, nature, Indians, (MSS 546) colonial manuscript of music surviving

The Historic New Orleans Collection Quarterly 7 Marie Madeleine Broutin de la Ronde, ca. 1760 (2009.0231.1), acquisition made possible by The Diana Helis Henry Fund of The Helis Foundation and the Laussat Society of The Historic New Orleans Collection

Title page from “Relation du Voyage de la Louisianne…” by Marc-Antoine Caillot, between 1731 and 1758 (2005.0011)

from the Mississippi Valley and one of The oil paintings by an unknown art- (2008.0238) is a collection of French a handful of such documents surviving ist, probably executed in France about and Latin poems compiled by students from all of French North America. 1760, are rare examples of portraits of of Reverend Father Dongé (1670–1705) The Diana Helis Henry Fund of Louisianians from the French colonial to commemorate his anticipated depar- The Helis Foundation and the Laussat period. Supplementing these rare works ture for the Louisiana colony in 1701. Society of The Collection made pos- are several recently acquired exam- Dongé accompanied Pierre Le Moyne, sible the 2010 acquisition of portraits of ples of the colony’s earliest literature. sieur d’Iberville, on his third voyage to sugar planter Denis de la Ronde (1726– “Vers François et latins sur le depart Louisiana, where he served as chaplain 1772) and his wife Marie Madeleine du Révérend Père Dongé pur le Mis- at Fort Louis de la Louisiane (present- Broutin de la Ronde (2009.0231.1,.2). sissipi, par les écoliers de son quartier” day Mobile) until 1704. A manuscript containing four plays by Etienne Viel, generally recognized as the first native- born playwright of the Mississippi Val- ley, was acquired in 2010 (2010.0280). In 1743 a seven-year-old Etienne was sent by his father, Alexandre Viel, one of the colony’s first physicians, to Paris to be educated. Prior to this acquisition, only one of the playwright’s dramatic creations, Evandre, was known to exist. Over the past 30 years, the origi- nal collection of General Williams has developed into an extraordinary tool for researchers studying French Louisiana. Boasting materials related to cartogra- phy, plant life, immigration, architec- ture, slavery, the fine , economics, Title page and detail depicting the and many other subjects, The Collec- acanthus plant from volume two tion’s holdings offer a wealth of detail of Institutiones rei herbaria by on French Louisiana and its inhabitants. Joseph Pitton de Tournefort, 1719 (2009.0144.2) —Alfred E. Lemmon

8 Volume XXVIII, Number 4 — Fall 2011 The Collection and the Center for Louisiana Studies Release New Online Database of Mississippi Valley Documents in French Archives Le Commerce que les Indiens du Mexique Font avec les François au Port de Missisipi by François-Gérard Jollain, ca. 1720 (1952.3)

hen he joined the depart- (Columbia University, 1916)—was gies applied to history). Charbonnier ment of historical research at selected to compile the findings into spent three months in New Orleans in Wthe Carnegie Institution of an inventory. the spring of 2011 and then continued Washington in 1905, American historian Surrey completed the monumental her work in Paris, where she profited John Franklin Jameson (1859–1937) Calendar of Manuscripts in Paris Archives from the supervision of professors Flor- brought with him a spirit of national- and Libraries Relating to the History of the ence Clavaud and Guillaume Hatt. ism and a belief that history had to rely Mississippi Valley to 1803 in 1926 and it This fall The Collection and the upon primary documentation. Jameson was published by the Carnegie Institu- Center for Louisiana Studies are proud recognized that documents in European tion of Washington with an introduc- to release “A Guide to French Louisiana archives were vital to an understanding tion by Jameson. Surrey’s Calendar soon Manuscripts: An Expanded and Revised of American history and spearheaded became an essential tool for researchers Edition of the 1926 Surrey Calendar with the Carnegie Institution of Washing- studying the history of the Mississippi Appendices.” Researchers may access this ton’s inventorying of materials housed Valley. Unfortunately, due to the small indispensable resource on The Collec- in Great Britain, France, Spain, Italy, number of copies printed, it was not tion’s website (www.hnoc.org) through Switzerland, Germany, Austria, Rus- widely available. Even today, researchers the Research Tools link under Collections sia, Canada, Mexico, and Cuba. have access to only two copies in all of & Research, and on the CLS website When the Mississippi Valley His- France—one at the Bibliothèque Natio- (cls.louisiana.edu) through the Digital torical Association (now the Organi- nale de France (Paris) and the other at Resources link under Archives and Collec- zation of American Historians) was the Archives nationales d’Outre-mer tions. The online, user-friendly database established in 1907, its members, feel- (Aix-en-Provence). contains more than 27,000 documents; ing that their interests did not receive In 2005 Dr. Carl Brasseaux, then- a bilingual introduction chronicling the the same level of attention as those of head of the Center for Louisiana Studies evolution of the project; and the appendi- their colleagues studying the history of (CLS) at the University of Louisiana– ces “French Louisiana Materials in North the Northeast, sought Jameson’s guid- Lafayette, and Dr. Alfred Lemmon, America,” “Louisiana Materials in French ance in establishing a survey of French director of the Williams Research Institutions, and “Online Resources.” archival holdings related to the Mis- Center at The Historic New Orleans The online format permits the inclusion sissippi Valley. Several scholars were Collection, realized that they shared a of additional resources as they become dispatched to France to meticulously common dream of creating an online available. comb Parisian repositories for docu- version of Surrey’s Calendar. Data entry “A Guide to French Louisiana Man- mentation covering the years 1681 to began immediately at CLS, while Gilles- uscripts” is the result of the efforts of 1803. Their efforts came to an abrupt Antoine Langlois, of the École nationale many individuals and serves as a tribute halt with the start of World War I, supérieure d’architecture de Versailles and to the pioneering efforts of the Carnegie when the researchers were recalled. the Université de Paris Est Créteil, was Institution of Washington, the Missis- Once hostilities ceased, the associa- selected to examine additional French sippi Valley Historical Association, and tion revived the project—and soon real- archives for Mississippi Valley materi- scholars who advocated for and con- ized that inconsistencies abounded and als. Through its cooperative exchange ducted the original inventorying of Mis- a tremendous amount of work would be agreement with the École nationale des sissippi Valley documents in France. required to make the findings useful to chartes in Paris, The Collection selected —Alfred E. Lemmon, Gilles-Antoine scholars. In 1922 historian Nancy Maria École student Pauline Charbonnier to Langlois, and Pauline Charbonnier Miller Surrey (1874–1951)—author design the website as part of her master’s of the definitiveCommerce of Louisiana program in technologies numériques During the French Régime, 1699–1763 appliquées à l’histoire (digital technolo-

The Historic New Orleans Collection Quarterly 9 A Concert 17th17th AnnualAnnual WilliamsWilliams RResearchesearch CCenterenter SSymposiumymposium Becoming American: The Musical Journey LouisianaLouisiana atat 200:200: InIn thethe NationalNational EyeEye Carlos Miguel Prieto, conductor Wednesday, January 25, 2012 St. Louis Cathedral FromFrom thethe DirectorDirector 7:30 p.m. Friday, January 27, 2012 1:00 p.m. Becoming American: The Musical Post-Lunch Remarks Journey is the sixth concert in The Historic New Orleans Collection John H. Lawrence he year 2012, the bicentennial of Louisi- ON THE CALENDAR the Musical Louisiana: America’s 533 Royal Street Director of Museum Programs ana’s statehood, will be filled with celebra- Cultural Heritage series. Presented 6:00 p.m. The Historic New Orleans Collection T annually by The Historic Reception and viewing of The 18th Star: Treasures from 200 Years tions in New Orleans and around the state. The New Orleans Collection and of Louisiana Statehood 1:15 p.m. Historic New Orleans Collection began its com- the Louisiana Philharmonic From “States Rights” to “Coastal Restoration”: memoration of the momentous year in the sum- Orchestra, the series is dedicated The History of Louisiana’s Claims to Offshore Oil mer with the opening of the exhibition The 18th to the study of Louisiana’s Saturday, January 28, 2012 Tyler Priest Star: Treasures from 200 Years of Louisiana State- contributions to the world of Director of Global Studies hood, which continues on view through Janu- classical music. The musical tastes Queen Anne Ballroom C. T. Bauer College of Business ary 29 at 533 Royal Street. Featuring objects of New Orleans—a city well Hotel Monteleone University of Houston from the permanent collection, the exhibition 214 Royal Street reflects the richness of our heritage throughout known for introducing French 2:00 p.m. and Italian opera to the United the past two centuries. The 17th annual Wil- 8:00 a.m. Huey Long and the American People liams Research Center Symposium on January States—knew no geographic or Registration Edward Haas stylistic boundaries. The city’s 28, 2012, Louisiana at 200: In the National Eye, Professor of History will also celebrate the anniversary by exploring love of the musical palettes of 8:45 a.m. Wright State University English, French, German, Italian, Opening Remarks some of the issues that have either separated Mexican, Portuguese, Slovakian, Dr. Alecia Long, Symposium Moderator 2:40 p.m. or unified our citizens. And on January 25 we and Spanish composers Assistant Professor of History Break will present the sixth concert with the Louisiana contributed to the development Louisiana State University Philharmonic Orchestra highlighting music that 3:00 p.m. of America’s music. The LPO’s reveals our American character, Becoming Ameri- 9:00 a.m. Reporting Katrina: A National Perspective Carlos Miguel Prieto will lead can: The Musical Journey. Becoming American: Louisiana after 1812 Speaker to be announced an exploration of New Orleans’s When Louisiana became a part of the Jason Wiese , its population was as diverse as musical heritage with works by 3:45 p.m. Assistant Director it remains today. Celebrating a shared identity Beethoven (Germany), Bellini The International Impact of Louisiana’s 20th-Century Williams Research Center while embracing the state’s varied cultural prac- (Italy), Buck (America), Gretry Music and Musicians The Historic New Orleans Collection tices is a fascinating challenge. Presenting our (France), Martin y Soler (Spain), Nick Spitzer history so that it can be appreciated, studied fur- Mendelssohn (Germany), Rosas 9:40 a.m. Producer and Host, American Routes (public radio program) ther, and understood is a major objective of The (Mexico), and New Orleans’s own Break Professor of Anthropology and American Studies Collection’s mission. Jelly Roll Morton. Tulane University 10:00 a.m. We will also celebrate the opening of the “Le Dérangement des affaires commerciales” (The Derangement of 4:45 p.m. restored Perrilliat House, at the corner of Conti Commercial Affairs): New Orleans and Panic in 1837 Williams Research Center and Chartres Streets, in the new year. Slated for Jessica M. Lepler 410 Chartres Street completion at the beginning of 2012, the 1820s Assistant Professor of History Reception: Meet the speakers and tour the research center structure will provide additional exhibition gal- University of New Hampshire leries and administrative offices, permitting The Register Now Collection to better fulfill its mission. 10:45 a.m. Seating is limited. Registration includes Friday night and Saturday We hope that you will join us as we revel in Battleground State: How Louisiana Drew the Color Line for afternoon receptions and refreshment breaks. Register online at the uniqueness of our diversity and honor the Post–Civil War Americans www.hnoc.org. The cost is $75 for THNOC members and early people whose lives have contributed to this great Justin Nystrom registrants (on or before January 13); $85 for late registrants (after state of Louisiana! 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12 Volume XXVIII, Number 4 — Fall 2011 Donor Profile Rick Blount

orn in New Orleans, Rick Blount restaurant in 1840 on St. Louis Street was raised in Lakeview with his across from the present-day Omni Royal Bfive siblings.H e attended St. Orleans Hotel (621 St. Louis Street). Dominic School in Lakeview, St. Paul’s When that building burned down, the School in Covington, the University of couple purchased a small, four-story New Orleans, and Loyola University boarding house with a large dining room New Orleans, where he received a bach- on the first floor—the main building of elor’s degree in finance. Although his today’s restaurant—and operated a busi- grandfather Roy Alciatore, his mother’s ness there for many years. children: daughter Casey, 21, and son father, was the proprietor of the world- Their son Jules, whom Rick Blount Ricky, 14. renowned New Orleans restaurant describes as a “larger than life character,” Just six months after Blount Antoine’s, Blount recalls that visits to was chosen as the successor in the busi- assumed leadership of Antoine’s, the res- the restaurant were special occasions ness. He was sent to study cooking in taurant suffered severe structural dam- rather than regular occurrences during France and, upon his return, married age as a result of Hurricane Katrina. As his childhood. In 1973 a young Blount the daughter of a plantation owner just he oversaw the reconstruction, Blount began working behind the restaurant’s outside of Lafayette, Louisiana. With the made saving memorabilia from the res- reservations desk, but at that time, he large dowry from their marriage, Jules taurant’s 160 years of operation a top had no idea that someday he would bought up the property around his par- priority. The walls filled with photo- carry family stewardship of the historic ents’ boarding house, making Antoine’s graphs of famous patrons and the cases establishment into its fifth generation. the large complex that it is today. By the containing antique glassware, old bottles In 2005 Blount accepted the 1890s, when Jules was taking over the of wine and liquor, and other artifacts position of chief executive officer of business, large-scale luxury hotels being contribute to the unique atmosphere Antoine’s. The restaurant’s proximity to built around the city surpassed the Alci- of Antoine’s. As the proprietor of a The Historic New Orleans Collection— atores’ small lodge. Jules chose to close restaurant rooted in tradition, Blount it is located at 713 St. Louis Street, just this component of the business, turning considers “the art, job, and duty of pres- around the corner from THNOC—has the rooms into entertainment suites and ervation” an integral part of his daily fostered collaboration between the two creating large party rooms in the newly routine. And he sees collaboration with institutions. And Blount has made it a purchased properties. Antoine’s quickly The Historic New Orleans Collection priority in his leadership of Antoine’s to became the place to entertain and be as essential to fulfilling this aspect of support The Collection both financially entertained. his job. Long affiliated with the city’s and through collaborative ventures. Upon Jules’s death, his son Roy, prominent Mardi Gras organizations, “I consider The Historic New Orleans Blount’s grandfather, took over the busi- the restaurant is filled with mementos Collection to be one of the greatest ness. According to Blount, Roy was from Carnivals past. The materials in resources of New Orleans,” says Blount. quite different from his father: “He was the restaurant’s Rex Room and newly “Without The Collection, I believe that detail-oriented and shy and did not like constructed Hermes Bar are drawn from many parts of the history of Louisiana the party aspect of his father’s Antoine’s.” The Collection, which maintains their would be lost.” Under Roy’s direction, Antoine’s became display. With a family history so rich and the fine dining establishment that it is Blount’s commitment to historic rooted in New Orleans, it is no wonder today. Although Blount did not frequent preservation extends beyond Antoine’s. that Blount is a history buff himself, a the restaurant as a child, he spent plenty He is dedicated to protecting the archi- character trait on display as he traces of time with his grandfather at the fam- tecture and character of the French his family legacy. His great-great-grand- ily’s home in Lakeview and hunting and Quarter, serving on the board of the father Antoine Alciatore, an immigrant fishing camp on Bayou Sauvage in New Friends of the Vieux Carré Commis- from Marseilles, France, landed in New Orleans East. He remembers Roy Alcia- sion. And as a supporter of The Historic Orleans in the mid-19th century. With tore as “humble, soft-spoken, and the New Orleans Collection, Blount knows his wife, Julie, a German immigrant consummate gentleman.” Blount credits that he is “involved with an organization whom he met aboard the steamship his grandfather with teaching him to be dedicated to preserving the rich history from Europe, Antoine opened a small a loving and devoted father to his two of my beloved city.” The Historic New Orleans Collection Quarterly 13 Donors The Historic New Orleans Collection is honored to recognize and thank the following individuals April–June 2011 and organizations for their financial and material donations.

Gail W. Adams J. Scott Chotin Jr. Mr. and Mrs. Donald U. Frutiger Jr. Leslie Kroeger and Joseph Hennessy Jenna Addis Paul Christiansen Dr. Phillip F. Fuselier Mr. and Mrs. Charles Janvier Labouisse Frederick Adinolfi Mr. and Mrs. William K. Christovich Barbara B. Gaiennie Barry LaCour Paul L. Albares Sarah Churney Betsie Gambel James M. LaCour Mr. and Mrs. Roy Alberts Carolyn and Merlin Clausing Marleen and Tim Garitty Rosemary Lamousin Antoine’s Restaurant Mr. and Mrs. J. Kenneth Clay Mrs. Lawrence D. Garvey Martha and John Landrum Colonel Frank B. Arnemann Jr. Lindsay and Keith Clendaniel Hubert J. Gauthier Mr. and Mrs. W. Elliott Laudeman III Alexander T. Asprodites Jr. Charlene Coco and Ragan Kimbrell Raye Claire Gendron Jodie Lawdermilk Lauren Averill and Chris Ayres Allan B. Colley Dr. and Mrs. Charles F. Genre Mr. and Mrs. John H. Lawrence Dr. and Mrs. Arthur J. Axelrod Majorie M. Colomb Carol and Ed Gernon Mr. and Mrs. Clyde H. LeBlanc The Azby Fund Linda and Martin Colvill Ellen Goodell Lorraine LeBlanc Beryl C. Babin Lana A. Corll Abbye and Steve Gorin Dr. and Mrs. Louis A. LeBlanc Clinton Bagley Dr. Joel Courtney Nicole Greene Virginia Swan Lefevre Charles L. Bahlinger Sr. Courtney-Anne Sarpy Fund Russell B. Guerin Justice Harry T. Lemmon and Judge Laurie and Ed Baker Gustavo Coutin Becky and Gerard Guillot Mary Ann Vial Lemmon Robert J. Barham Fr. Stephen F. Craft Siegfried B. Guillot Joan L. Lennox Björn Bärnheim Mr. and Mrs. Mark A. Cusimano Mr. and Mrs. James O. Gundlach David Leopold Lawrence E. Batiste Johnny Danna Koggie Hakenjos Dr. and Mrs. Alfredo Lopez Earl E. Beelman Joe Darby Carol V. and John W. Hall Norah and Charles Lovell Jack Belsom Jan E. Davis Dr. and Mrs. Frank A. Hall Jr. Dr. J. Bruce Lowe Mr. and Mrs. E. V. Benjamin III Suzette Day and Michael Mathes Ronald Harrell and Christian Mr. and Mrs. E. B. Ludwig III Myrna B. Bergeron Linda Laborde Deane and Robert B. Mounger Irene B. Lutkewitte Henry Bernstein and Jerry W. Zachary Deane Mr. and Mrs. W. Patrick Harrington Jerry L. Lyons Mr. and Mrs. Ernest Beyer Carol J. DeGraw Drs. Henrietta A. and Walter Harris Jr. John T. Magill Shera Haight Bie Patricia C. Denechaud Capt. Clarke C. Hawley Ann Maier Frances and Edwin Bielski Department of the Army, New Orleans Mr. and Mrs. Paul M. Haygood Dr. Raga Malaty Winnie L. Biggio District, Corps of Engineers Dr. Michael Hayman Honorable Gary Mannina Anne and Christopher G. Bird The Derbes Family Foundation Inc. Charles Hebert Nora Marsh and Julian Doerr Mutter Mr. and Mrs. Tom Bissell Joseph M. Dicharry Jr. Earl J. Higgins Mr. and Mrs. Charles F. Marten Edwin Foster Blair II Mr. and Mrs. Jeffrey R. Doussan Priscilla Hildum and Warren McCabe Elsie B. Martinez R. H. Blanchet Elizabeth A. Drescher Mr. and Mrs. William Henry Hood Ann M. Masson C. Ward Bond Nancy Dunnick Joan von Kurnatowski Hooper and Jane Dart Maunsell Dr. and Mrs. Thomas Bonner Jr. Janet Daley Duval and Stanwood Julian Feibelman Lt. Col. Jeff S. Mayne Elaine C. Boos Duval James Edward Horn Sandie McCarthy-Brown and Becky Michele Bordenave Braden Karen Mayer Dwyer and Juan Carlos Susan K. Hoskins Stallard Mary Jane Brandon Valdatta Hotel Management of New Orleans / Drs. Georgia McDonald and Andrew Kristine and Keith Bravo Bernard E. Eble Jr. Michael Valentino Mayer Drs. Elizabeth and Robert Bray Jennifer Edwards Hotel Monteleone Kathleen I. McGoey Dr. Harvey M. Bricker and Victoria E. Mary and Timothy Erkinger Brian Huff Adrian McGrath Bricker Louise N. Ewin Julie D. Hunt-Juneau John McInerney Joey Broussard Mr. and Mrs. C. Allen Favrot Mr. and Mrs. Merl Huntsinger Carol Verges McPherson Nancy and David Broussard Laura Feller and John Fleckner Rita Lynn Jackson Mrs. William Menge Stephen B. Browne Firemen’s Charitable & Benevolent Dr. and Mrs. Trenton L. James Ken Mentel Dr. and Mrs. Robert N. Bruce Jr. Association Dorothy C. Johnson John H. Miller Mr. and Mrs. Victor H. Bruno Julie Fishelson Margaret Jones Brenda B. and Michael D. Moffitt Marianne Marsh Burke Randolph Tucker Fitz-Hugh Jr. Madeline Jorgensen Nadia St. Paul Moïse Mary and Robert Burris Mr. and Mrs. Michael Fitzpatrick Dr. Mignon W. Jumel Sally and Dick Molpus Lilian Cadet Mr. and Mrs. Harold Jude Flanagan Dr. Florence M. Jumonville Marjorie L. Moran Cahn Family Foundation Inc. Winifred Flanagan Dr. Margie Kahn Mr. and Mrs. Richard Frotscher Kathleen Calongne and Stephen St. Dr. R. Fortier-Bensen and Sylvia Beth and Henry Keith Muller III Germain Bensen William G. Kenney Janice L. Mulvihill Michael Carloss Cynthia Fransen and Craig Kraemer Mr. and Mrs. Robert J. Killeen Katherine B. Nachod Nell Carmichael Deborah Freedman and Ben Ledbetter Carol and Ray King Jane Hanemann Nalty Mr. and Mrs. Robert J. Carr Gregg J. Frelinger Dr. Joseph Kirn and Linda Kirn Neal Auction Company Inc. Dr. Ronald Cassidy Lee and Kenneth Friar Mr. and Mrs. Thomas C. Klekamp NOLA Brewing Company Celebration Distillation Corporation Mrs. Miles Friedlander on behalf of Walter E. Klippert Marilynn Oelsner Mary Chapman French Antique Shop Inc. Jamie Koch and Eric Vogel Betty S. and Eugene L. Osmondson Stephen Chesnut Lorraine Friedrichs Katherine and John Kosta Mary Cleland deLaureal Owen

14 Volume XXVIII, Number 4 — Fall 2011 Becky Schexnayder Owens E. Alexandra Stafford and Raymond Mona H. Hollier in memory of John Brennan with Gene Bourg (New John Paige M. Rathlé Jr. Bodemuller Hollier Orleans: Vissi d’Arte Books, Karen B. Palermo Mrs. Frederick M. Stafford Jenny L. Jackson in honor of Mr. and 2007) Marjorie and Wallace Paletou Howard Stanley Mrs. Robert T. Rand Mr. and Mrs. William K. Christovich Mr. and Mrs. Frederick Duncan Dr. Barry Starr and Kelly McLaughlin The Moss Family in memory of Jim in memory of Bruce Witherspoon Parham II Douglas Perret Starr Friar Rafferty Mrs. Charles Parker Mr. and Mrs. Richard B. Stephens Sociedad Espanola in honor of John The Ursuline Achievement: A Peter W. Patout Lynne R. Stern Lawrence Philosophy of Education for Women George N. Patterson Kay and Payne Stiles by Peter Maurice Waters (North Mr. and Mrs. Jason Patterson Effie M. Stockton Bookplates Carlton, Victoria, Australia: Randy R. Pausina Margot Stouse Colonna, 1994) June B. Peay Alexandra Stroud Donations are used to purchase Mr. and Mrs. William K. Christovich Judith Peck Dr. Martha H. Sullivan books that will be marked with a in memory of Dr. William Myles Judy and Sidney Pellissier Walter Suthon III commemorative bookplate listing your Roeling Allison H. Peña Mary Lee Sweat name or that of another individual or A History of the Charity Hospitals Miki Pfeffer Melody Tally family member. of Louisiana: A Study of Poverty, Mr. and Mrs. Robert Phelps Tangipahoa Parish Library– Politics, Public Health, and the Bonney Philbin Genealogy Department Rowena Elaine LaCoste Adamson in Public Interest by Jonathan Gary Phillips Stella C. Tanos memory of Rowena Nick LaCoste Roberts and Thomas J. Durant Mr. and Mrs. David D. Plater Anthony L. Terranova Jr. Pennock Jr. (Lewiston, NY: Edwin Mellen Mary Jane and Carlton Polk Suzanne C. and Robert E. Thomas Mary Chestnut’s Civil War Epic Press, 2010) Ann Pope Nicki Thorne-Thomsen by Julia A. Stern (Chicago: Mr. and Mrs. William K. Christovich Nita Putnam Carol D. and James W. Thornton University of Chicago Press, in memory of Lloyd Lester Shirley Quement Dr. Hilton Marx Title 2010) Sensat Jr. Barbara Rahne Fred W. Todd The Board of Directors and Staff A Pattern Book of New Orleans Sheila and Drew Ranier Timothy Trapolin on behalf of the of The Historic New Orleans Architecture by Roulhac B. Dale V. and John Shelton Reed Trapolin family Collection in memory of Toledano (Gretna, LA: Pelican Elizabeth M. Reed Charles H. Traub Lawrence Daniel Garvey Publishing, 2010) Dr. Richard L. Reinhardt Dr. and Mrs. Peter M. Tufton Historic Photos of Steamboats on Mr. and Mrs. William K. Christovich Gene F. Reyes III Gail Tumulty and Sonny Faggart the Mississippi, text and captions in memory of Charles Aubrey Dr. Frederick Rhodes and Suzanne Mr. and Mrs. Dominic G. Tusa by Dean M. Shapiro (Nashville: Snyder Rhodes Mary Ann Valentino University of Tennessee Press, The Papers of Thomas Jefferson, Melanie D. Rieger Ramon J. Vallejo 2007) vol. 33, 17 February to 30 April Susan and Whitaker F. Riggs IV Dr. and Mrs. Alfonso Vargas The Board of Directors and Staff 1801, edited by Barbara B. Ann T. Roberts Dolores J. Walker of The Historic New Orleans Oberg (Princeton, NJ: Princeton Anne and Myles Robichaux Dr. James Warner Collection in memory of John University Press, 2006) Pamela A. and James T. Rogers Jr. Sandra Warren Alton McIver III The Papers of Thomas Jefferson, Charles Rome Helen C. Weaver Louisiana Fiddlers by Ron Yule vol. 34, 1 May to 31 July 1801, Mr. and Mrs. Douglas J. Roome Nancy and Chris Wells (Jackson: University Press of edited by Barbara B. Oberg Dr. and Mrs. Irving L. Rosen Lisa Marie White Mississippi, 2009) (Princeton, NJ: Princeton Bill Ross Martha Vidos White The Board of Directors and Staff University Press, 2007) Royal Antiques Ltd. Walter H. White III of The Historic New Orleans The Papers of Thomas Jefferson, Eva Augustin Rumpf Dr. C. Mark Whitehead Jr. and Collection in memory of Jessie J. vol. 35, 1 August to 30 November Marilyn S. Rusovich Katherine C. Whitehead Poesch, PhD 1801, edited by Barbara B. Dr. Adelaide M. Russo Curtis Wilkie Professional Pursuits: Women and Oberg (Princeton, NJ: Princeton Barbara and Harold J. Ryan Pam and Ron Williams the American Arts and Crafts University Press, 2008) Dr. Shirley J. Sands Trudy Williamson Movement by Catherine W. The Papers of Thomas Jefferson, Linda J. and John R. Sarpy Elizabeth Wilson Zipf (Knoxville: University of vol. 36, 1 December 1801 to 3 Rita and Jerry Satawa Mr. and Mrs. Andre V. Wogan Tennessee Press, 2007) March 1802, edited by Barbara B. Craig J. Schexnayder James H. Wolfe The Board of Directors and Staff Oberg (Princeton, NJ: Princeton Dr. and Mrs. Coleman S. Schneider Rob Wyman of The Historic New Orleans University Press, 2009) School of Design Sally S. Zarinski Collection in memory of Lloyd The Papers of Thomas Jefferson, Mr. and Mrs. Richard Schornstein Lester Sensat, Jr. vol. 37, 4 March to 30 June Marie Louise Schramel Tribute Gifts Town House: Architectural and 1802, edited by Barbara B. Christine Schultz Material Life in the Early American Oberg Princeton, NJ: Princeton Nancy J. Sherman Tribute gifts, given in honor of or in City, 1780-1830 by Bernard L. University Press, 2010) Kate Simister memory of a loved one, are unique Herman (Chapel Hill: University Samara Bowes Whitesides in memory Edward M. Simmons expressions of thoughtfulness. of North Carolina Press for the of Elvin Whitesides Norma and Bob Simms Omohundro Institute of Early Drawn to the Stage: A Collection of Nancy and Jules Simoneaux Jr. Lo-An Flettrich in honor of the American History and Culture, Drawings by Elemore Morgan, Jr., Mr. and Mrs. Reginald H. Smith Jr. Cahn, Flettrich, Paglin, Pulitzer, Williamsburg, VA, 2005) introduction by James Edmunds Charles A. Snyder Rohe, and Theobald families Mr. and Mrs. William K. Christovich (Lafayette, LA: Performing Arts Jane L. and David V. Snyder German-American Cultural Center in memory of Eugenie Jones Society of Acadiana, 2009) Jane S. Soslow in honor of Daniel Hammer Huger Patricia and Edwin Soulier Mrs. Daniel R. Henderson in honor Ralph Brennan’s New Orleans Susan Spector and Ted Dick of Alfred Lemmon Seafood Cookbook by Ralph The Historic New Orleans Collection Quarterly 15 Orleans by 1900 and had established and carries the tools of the trade, includ- himself as a photographer there by ing a grappling hook and brush. Brula- 1902. In the 1950s he retired to Wash- tour Courtyard depicts the well-known ington, DC, where he died in 1959. courtyard at 520 Royal Street in a rather (2011.0125) ramshackle state, suggesting that the woodcut was created before preserva- acquisitions tionist William Ratcliff Irby restored The Historic New Orleans Collec- the property, which he had purchased tion encourages research in the Wil- in 1918. The Brulatour House is now liams Research Center at 410 Chartres owned by The Historic New Orleans Street from 9:30 a.m. to 4:30 p.m. Collection. (2011.0122.1–.6) Tuesday through Saturday (except hol- ■ Mr. and Mrs. Frederick Duncan idays). Cataloged materials available to Parham II donated a collection of four researchers include books, manuscripts, linoleum block-print Christmas cards paintings, prints, drawings, maps, pho- designed by New Orleanian Mildred tographs, and artifacts about the history Parham (1896–1995) between 1910 and culture of New Orleans, Louisiana, and 1917. The cards were discovered in and the Gulf South. Each year The Col- the attic of a Garden District house on lection adds thousands of items to its Seventh Street, which had been owned holdings. Though only selected gifts are by various members of the Parham fam- mentioned here, the importance of all ily between 1899 and 1994. Printed on gifts cannot be overstated. Prospective various colors of stock, the cards feature donors are invited to contact the authors three different scenes: medieval trum- peters, a woman with a child and a baby of the acquisitions columns. Brulatour Courtyard by P. M., ca. 1920 (2011.0122.4), gift of Dr. and Mrs. Trenton L. carriage in a snowy setting, and a woman James kneeling before a portrait of the Virgin Mary with the baby Jesus. The printed ■ Dr. and Mrs. Trenton L. James salutations include “Season’s Greetings,” Curatorial donated a set of six woodcuts dat- “Merry Xmas Happy New Year,” and “A For the second quarter of 2011 (April– ing from approximately 1920 by an Very Merry Xmas.” “X,”the first letter in June), there were 22 acquisitions, total- unknown woodcutter who signed the the Greek “Christ,” was commonly used ing approximately 320 items. pieces “P. M.” Printed on tan paper, the at the time to abbreviate Christmas. ■ The Collection acquired a pan- series features scenes that would have Parham was president of her New- oramic photograph of Canal Street been common in the comb College art school class in 1914 showing the Rex parade of February 16, at the time. Washer Woman shows a and received a degree in art from the col- 1904, by John N. Teunisson and pub- woman carrying a large load of laundry lege in 1917. (2011.0121.1.–.4) lished by local bookseller and publisher on her head while a cat walks along at —John Magill F. F. Hansell’s Bros. Ltd. That year Frank her side. The depiction of Pirates’ Alley B. Hayne served as Rex with Josie Hal- looking from Chartres Street toward Library liday acting as queen. The theme of the Royal Street demonstrates that very little For the second quarter of 2011 (April– parade was In the Realm of Imagination. about the passageway has changed in the June), there were 41 acquisitions, total- In the photograph throngs of people fill last 90 years. St. Louis Cathedral portrays ing 110 items. the street and, as was typical of the time, the iconic structure through an imagi- ■ A disbound leaflet, printed on both most are dressed in their “Sunday best” natively tropical Jackson Square garden. sides, containing a report of the Com- with only a handful sporting more fan- The nuns in starched, wing-like head- mittee of Claims to the United States ciful costumes. The image is composed dresses featured in Sisters of the Divine Senate concerning the Planters’ Bank of of several photographs pieced together Providence New Orleans were a common New Orleans was recently donated to the and retouched at the seams. Since these sight throughout the city in the early library by Mary and Timothy Erkinger. components were not shot simultane- 20th century. The Chimney Sweep, also a In the Senate of the United States, Janu- ously, the parade lineup is distorted. familiar sight in that period when many ary 29, 1822 sums up the petition of the Born in Pike County, Mississippi, households still depended on fireplaces unnamed president and directors of the in 1869, Teunisson was living in New for warmth, wears a trademark top hat Planters’ Bank of New Orleans for the

16 Volume XXVIII, Number 4 — Fall 2011 reimbursement of funds paid to United The library received a donation of Ninth States troops stationed in New Orleans Annual Report of the Conference of Chari- in the autumn of 1815, months after the ties of New Orleans, La…. (1892) from Battle of New Orleans. As the govern- Ellen Goodell. (2011.0102) ment had not provided then-paymaster —Pamela D. Arceneaux of the troops J. T. Pemberton with the funds, the bank advanced the payroll at the request of deputy paymaster Manuscripts Ambrose D. Smith in good faith with For the second quarter of 2011 (April– assurances that the bank would be reim- June), there were 21 acquisitions, total- bursed by the government. ing approximately 11.5 linear feet. Several petitions to the Treasury ■ The Historic New Orleans Collec- Department had been denied for lack tion recently acquired 114 letters, dated of the proper documentation—most between 1829 and 1842, that Jean- importantly because the pay and receipt Baptiste Longpré, a former resident rolls showing the pay due each soldier of New Orleans who was then resid- had not accompanied the request. The Major Joseph Warren Paine from Final ing in Nantes and Montpellier, France, January 3, 1822, letter of Third Auditor Memorials of Major Joseph Warren Paine…, received from business associates and Peter Hagner of the Treasury Depart- compiled by William S. Studley, 1865 family members. Written in French and (2011.0155.1) ment reproduced in this report also posted from New Orleans, Havana, notes that other documentation from describing action during the Red River Santiago de Cuba, New York, and vari- the commanding officer—specifying Campaign and several poems and essays ous cities in France, the letters are an each man’s period of enlistment, pay by the officer. excellent source of information on daily due, and the soldier’s discharge—is Paine entered the service in 1863 as a life in New Orleans. They address a vari- lacking. first lieutenant with the Thirteenth New ety of topics, including the local impact Regardless, the Committee of Claims York Cavalry. He received a commission of Great Britain’s Emancipation Act of supported the Planters’ Bank petition, early in 1864 as major of the Fourth 1833, the abolitionist movement, the stating that the committee members were United States Colored Cavalry (Corps American economic crisis, the construc- of the “opinion that the conduct of the d’Afrique), proceeding to New Orleans tion of two unnamed hotels on St. Louis petitioners was generous and patriotic; to take command. Described in the vol- Street, flooding, and and that the liberal advance of funds… ume as “the Colored Man’s friend,” he New Orleans bankruptcies. (2011.0145) entitles them to the gratitude of their was tireless in providing all he could for This group of letters complements country, and a liberal and equitable settle- his men. Paine died of what physicians the recently acquired Jean-Baptiste ment of their accounts.” Unfortunately, at the time termed “congestive chills” Longpré Archive (2011.0082), contain- the amount in question is not disclosed (malaria) on November 25, 1864, at a ing more than 590 letters and business in the document. The Planters’ Bank was house on Rampart Street occupied by records covering the years 1798–1841. incorporated in 1811; planter and mer- fellow officers. (2011.0155.1) ■ Nicki Thorne-Thomsen donated chant Laurent Millaudon is listed as its ■ The Conference of Charities of the Nunn and Gragnon Families Papers, president in the 1822 New Orleans city New Orleans was organized on May which document the families of coal directory. (2011.0151) 16, 1883, for the purpose of regulating merchant Frederick B. Nunn (1852– ■ The library acquired a small vol- assistance to the poor to prevent dupli- 1908) and his son-in-law Dr. Domi- ume, published in for private cate and indiscriminate giving; elevating nique J. Gragnon (1880–1928) between circulation, honoring the life of a fed- the home life and health of the poor; 1880 and 1973. Focused on the Nunn eral officer who died in his country’s and preventing children from “grow- family, the three-linear-foot collection service in New Orleans. Final Memorials ing up as paupers.” It was administered includes family photographs and mem- of Major Joseph Warren Paine… (1865), by the Ladies’ Unsectarian Aid Society, orabilia relating to family members’ compiled by William S. Studley, pastor whose offices were located on St. Joseph education, such as notebooks kept by of Boston’s Tremont Street Method- Street between Baronne and Caronde- Nunn’s oldest daughter, Mary “Mamie” ist Episcopal Church, goes beyond the let. In 1889 the society opened the New Nunn (b. 1872), during her time as a usual laudatory remarks from friends Orleans Training School for Nurses there student at St. Joseph’s Catholic School and colleagues, presenting letters writ- and, later, a hospital for women and chil- on Tulane Avenue at Marais Street. The ten by Paine (1832–1864) to his father dren named for H. Sophie Newcomb. notebooks provide a personal glimpse

The Historic New Orleans Collection Quarterly 17 newlyweds relocated to Breaux Bridge, Editor Louisiana, where Gragnon died, unex- Mary Mees Garsaud Director of Publications pectedly, at the age of 48. (2011.0112) Jessica Dorman The J. S. W. Harmanson Collec- Head of Photography ■ Keely Merritt tion, donated by Paul Christiansen, Design includes correspondence and receipts Theresa Norris relating to the bookstore and art gallery The Historic New Orleans Collection Quarterly is published by The Historic Nunn family residence on Canal Street at the at 333 Royal Street that Joseph Shield New Orleans Collection, which is oper- corner of South Tonti Street (2011.0112.2), Wilson Harmanson (1886–1958) and ated by the Kemper and Leila Williams Foundation, a Louisiana nonprofit cor- gift of Nicki Thorne-Thomsen his wife, Agnes (1890–1971), operated. poration. Housed in a complex of his- toric buildings in the French Quarter, Specializing in rare books and art work, facilities are open to the public, Tuesday

into parochial education for girls in the the store provided gallery space to the RLY through Saturday, from 9:30 a.m. until 4:30 p.m., and Sunday, from 10:30 a.m. last decades of the 19th century. New Orleans Art League. until 4:30 p.m. Tours of the History Gal- The 1880 census lists Frederick B. Established in December 1927, the E leries, Williams Residence, and Court- yards and Architecture are available for a Nunn, a native of England, living in his New Orleans Art League maintained nominal fee. mother-in-law’s residence at 45 South local studios, mounted traveling exhibi- Board of Directors Johnson Street, near Palmyra Street tions, and operated an art library, which Mrs. William K. Christovich, Chair Fred M. Smith, President in Mid-City. The 13-member house- was open to visiting artists. The organi- Drew Jardine, Vice President hold included Nunn’s widowed Irish zation exhibited works at its own gallery John E. Walker, Past President John Kallenborn mother-in-law, Margaret Heffron, and at 630 Toulouse Street as well as at Har- E. Alexandra Stafford her grown children Margaret, Kitty, manson’s bookstore. Hilton S. Bell Rosa, and John, as well as Nunn and The J. S. W. Harmanson Collec- Executive Director Priscilla Lawrence his wife, Mary Louise, and their five tion contains correspondence between children, Mary, John, Frederick, Rosa, the Harmansons and clients and artists, The Historic New Orleans Collection

and Genevieve, who ranged in age from including Eugene E. Loving (1908– QUART 533 Royal Street New Orleans, Louisiana 70130 eight months to eight years. Also resid- 1971), Hans Kleiber (1887–1967), (504) 523-4662 ing with the family was a servant, Julia Max Pollack (1886–1970), Philip Kap- [email protected]

The www.hnoc.org Benn, a first-generation Irish-American pel (1901–1981), and Charles Oglesby ISSN 0886-2109 teenager. Longabaugh (1885–1944). (2011.0113) © 2011 The Historic New Orleans By 1886 the family had moved to a —Mary Lou Eichhorn Collection palatial two-story residence at 468 Canal Street (later 2338 Canal) at the corner of South Tonti Street. The mansion was later home to James Putnam O’Brien, New Staff DD, a native of Nova Scotia who was Staff Robert Gates, assistant preparator; president of Straight College, a histori- Lindsay Williams, Williams Research cally black school in New Orleans, from In the Community Center receptionist. 1922 until his death in 1931. By 1938 Pamela D. Arceneaux presented a variety of New Orleans–themed the house had been replaced by a used Changes car lot. lectures to passengers aboard Royal Marguerite Frentz left The Dr. Dominique J. Gragnon was Caribbean’s Voyager of the Seas. Collection to pursue a career in early the son of French baker Domi- childhood education. She will be a nique Gragnon and his wife, Amelie Publications kindergarten teacher at Langston Ursule Landrieux, a first-generation Mark Cave, “Something Wild in Hughes Academy. French-American. Born in Hancock the Country: The Fugitive Life of ,” The Southern County, Mississippi, the younger Volunteers Gragnon was raised on the Mississippi Quarterly (summer 2011), a special Catherine Schembre and Chris Gulf Coast as well as in New Orleans. issue devoted to the legacy of Baldwin, docent department; Aubrey In 1901 he received a medical degree Tennessee Williams. Edwards, systems department. from Tulane University, and the follow- ing year he married Frederick B. Nunn’s daughter Genevieve (1879–1982). The 18 Volume XXVIII, Number 4 — Fall 2011 HOLIDAY SPECIALS The Shop at The Collection hhh Holiday Shopping Online Sale In addition to the wonderful items featured below, The Shop offers gift certificates and Shop online November 28–December 10 provides wrapping and shipping services. Please stop by for all of your shopping needs, and receive a 20% discount. or visit The Shop online at www.hnoc.org. Use the promotional code HOLIDAY. Nutcracker Necklace Extra Hours This sterling silver–plated pewter necklace is sure to delight nutcracker In addition to its regular Tuesday–Saturday fans everywhere. The nutcracker comes on an 18-inch sterling-silver hours, The Shop will be open from noon chain and is packaged in a velvet pouch and gift box. $22.95 to 4:00 p.m. on the following Mondays: December 5 Glass Mardi Gras Ornaments December 12 Made in Poland, these hand-blown and -painted December 19 ornaments are approximately four inches tall and Member Appreciation Day are packaged in special red gift boxes. $70 20% discount December 10 Mignon Faget Trunk Show December 10 9:30 a.m.– 4:00 p.m.

Selected Items from Mignon Faget’s Louisiana Bicentennial Collection The Shop is carrying several items from Mignon Faget’s Louisiana Bicentennial collection, Limited Edition Copies of Charting proceeds of which benefit the Louisiana Bicentennial Commission. The palladium-plated Louisiana Now Available and Reprint of “adornament” of the pelican was inspired by a relief on the state capitol building and sells Regular Edition to Arrive in New Year for $35. The sterling-silver stud pin with a garnet sells for $175. The Shop is releasing limited edition copies of the popular Charting Louisiana: Five Hundred Years of Maps, which was published in 2003 and has Pre-order Form been out of print Reprint of Charting Louisiana: Five Hundred Years of Louisiana Maps since December $105 plus tax, $15 shipping and handling 2010. The limited editions, printed in Order online at www.hnoc.org for $10 shipping. a quantity of 100, have been previously unavailable for Name: ______purchase. Each features gilt-edged pages, a vellum sheet Address: ______before the title page, two ribbon markers, and City:______State: ______ZIP:______a cloth-covered slipcase. They sell for $145. A reprint of the regular edition, which Phone:______Email: ______sells for $105, will be available in early 2012. The Shop is now accepting orders, which Credit Card #:______Expiration Date: ______will be filled as soon as the shipment arrives. Order online (www.hnoc.org) to receive the Signature:______Number of copies: ______discounted shipping rate of $10 or send in the order form provided. Credit cards will not be Visa MasterCard American Express Discover charged until the book has shipped. Return form to The Shop at The Collection, 533 Royal Street, New Orleans, LA 70130

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The New Orleans Antiques Forum 2011 The four-day August forum examined how French styles influenced the Gulf South’s decorative arts. In addition to presentations by a distinguished panel of speakers, the forum included a tour of three early French residences in Pointe Coupee Parish (Maison Chenal, LaCour House, and LeJeune French consul general Jean-Claude Brunet, Richard Gibbs and Randy Glenn and Bridget Green

ON THE SCENE House); an evening reception at The Nanette Shapiro of Royal Antiques, and Jack Harrelson Collection; and a brunch at Antoine’s. Pruitt

Tom Savage (moderator), Janine Skerry (speaker), Kell and Dorian Bennett of Ron Pincus of the Hotel Monteleone, Madeleine Deschamps and Jason Wiese (speaker) Dorian Bennett/Sotheby’s (speaker), Priscilla Lawrence, and Paul Leaman of New Orleans International Realty Silversmiths Forum Sponsors