Acting Mayor President Frank McConnell places an identifying marker on the live oak presented to the City of Baton Rouge by Camp Fire Girls. Looking on are Camp Fire Girls Meg Holmes, Dale Davis, Deborah China, Delores McClendon, Melissa Dunn,...
Baton Rouge, La.: YMCA building, downtown Baton Rouge. "Located at 311 Fourth Street [was demolished in 1967] and the site [was] turned into a parking lot with space for 75 cars...by B.B. Taylor, Jr., a local attorney." Taken from the State Times,...
Belle Helene. Construction on the house began in 1840, and completed by 1842. It was first named "Ashland" after U.S. statesman Henry Clay's plantation in Kentucky. In March 1889, the estate sold to George B. Reuss, an Ascension Parish planter....
Bob Livingston (b. April 30, 1943), served as the first Republican since Reconstruction to represent New Orleans in Congress from 1977 until his resignation in 1999 after he revealed he had had an extra-marital affair. From 1995 through 1998,...
Camphor Memorial Wesleyan Service Guild: 1st row (l. to r.) G.M. Handy, S.W. Walker, J.M. Cox, C. Jenkins, D.E. Carter, Miss Clarence Marie Collier, T.W. McDonald, B.E. Fleder, Adelle Jackson, Ethel London, W. L Wheelock and L. Smith (Guild...
Chairman B.B. Smith of the stores exhibits committee demonstrates his automatic talking false alarm to a willing customer. Original located in the Fire Prevention Week Scrapbook, 1958.
Henson Moore (b. October 4, 1939). Republican representative of the 6th Congressional District from 1975-1987. Served as deputy secretary of the U.S. Department of Energy from 1989-1992 and Deputy Chief of Staff for President George H.W. Bush in...
Independence Park Legacy of Trees Dedication Committee. (l. to r.) Mrs. Ward Bond, Mrs. Warren Brown, Mrs. Larry P. Bacon, Mrs. William A. Bishop, Mrs. John V. Beuche, Mrs. James E. Hand, Mrs. B.F. Holmes, Mrs. C.L. "Dooley" Roberts, Mrs. Harold...
Map of East Baton Rouge Parish with the ferries and bridges on the Amite River. By A.B. De Saulles Lieutenant of Engineers on order of D. Ruggles. Ca. 1862
Mayor Dumas with the East Baton Rouge Parish Youth Council (from left) B. Michael Schneider, Veronica Mitchell, Tara "C.C." Landry, Susan LeBeau, Terri Thorney, Cyndi Pruitt, Rip Moran, and Wayne Parent. The Youth Council volunteered to work with...
Mayor President Jack Christian (rear) presides over Woody Dumas' third term on the Metro Council (Dumas resigned to run for mayor). The Council (from left) Goode Smith, Arthur F. Abadie, John Allphin, Bonnie B. Baker, Robert T. "Bobby" clag,...
Baton Rouge (La.), Mayors, National Association of Counties, Long, Russell
Mayor Woody Dumas, left with Louisiana Senator Russell B. Long at the National Association of Counties (NACo) Legislative Conference. Photograph by Paul Serber. 1980
Members of the Baton Rouge Chapter of the Round Table Club at the 1948-1949 Convention for the Louisiana Federation of Women's Clubs in Monroe, La. Photo by Earl B. Williams. Original located in the 1940-1950 Round Table Club Scrapbook