African Americans, Bicentennial Commission, Port Hudson (La.) History Siege, 1863
The Black Man in the Civil War. Taken from Charles H. Wesley and Patricia W. Romero, International Library of Negro Life and History; Negro Americans in the Civil War. Published in Baton Rouge as part of the American Bicentennial celebration. Ca....
April 30th at LSU 1926-1976. Program presenting the LSU A Capellea Choir in a concert of Marcha de Galvez by Dinos Constantinides in observance of the fiftieth anniversary of the Baton Rouge Campus of Louisiana State University and the...
Bicentennial Music Show. "I Believe in Music" LSU Union Theatre June 4 & 5, 1976. Directed by Carole Bond, Choral Direction by Marjorie Blocker, and Special Assistan Terry Byars.28 cm x 21 cm 5 pages.
Zachary Taylor: A Baton Rougean by Mrs. Florence B. Huguet. Published by the Bicentennial Commission ca. 1976. A brief biography of Zachary Taylor and his time spent in Baton Rouge. 21 cm x 14 cm 7 pages.
Broom and brush industry, Automobiles, Blind persons, Amite City (La.)
Deck and Lily Schlaudecker of Amite, La. Blind broom maker and his wife discuss their broom and mop making business, life in Amite, La. overcoming Deck's disability. Views of Amite as Lily drives Vernon Roget around in her 1936 Coup. (8:56)...
Capital Punishment, Petitions, Education Political aspects, Taxation, Automobile Accidents
(00:01-02:28) Protesters present petitions to Governor Edwards to free Gary Tyler who is on death row for the murder of 13 year old Timothy Weber during a 1974 racial disturbance at Destrahan High School when someone shot a gun out of a school bus....
Norman Watson of Watson Aeronautics, Napoleonville, La. discusses the history of his crop dusting business (11:55). Original format is 16 mm with audio. Digitized file is mp4.
Edwards, Edwin W., Mayors, Christmas, Solar energy, Minority engineers, Ambulatory medical care
(00:01-00:25) Christmas greeting from Edwin Edwards (00:26-01:09) Children put on a Christmas play (01:09-01:25) Christmas greeting from Woody Dumas (01:26-02:45) Solar energy project for the Housing Authority of East Baton Rouge Parish by the...
Statue of Atlantis from the Paramount Theatre, Baton rouge, La. The Paramount theatre built in 1920 by W.A. Prather was demolished by members of the Hart family in 1979 against huge public out cry. It was replaced by a parking lot.
Film footage taken on January 13, 1976 by WAFB television in Baton Rouge. This file has three segments: Overturned tanker on approach to Mississippi River Bridge, I-10 west bound (00:00-00:48), Steamboat Natchez on the Mississippi River in Baton...
A tribute to Oliver Pollock by Frank Hayden. Plaque on sculpture. Created for the Baton Rouge Bicentennial celebration in 1976 Oliver Pollock was Representative of the Continental Congress ion Spanish Louisiana. He financed the Army of George...