(l. to r.) Library Board Members Dr. Konikoff, Mr. Burt Turner, Mayor Jack Christian, Mr. Larry Ward, Mrs. Max Scheneker, Librarian; and Board Member Mr. Charles Manship. Date: 1958
(L. to r.) Tillie Scheneker, Mrs. Charles Morton, Director of LSU Library School, Essae M. Culver, State Librarian, and Mrs. Ella V. Aldrich Schwing at a Tea. Date: August 1962
1813 map of the Greensburg District T. 7 S.-R. 1 W. Office of the Surveyor General Charles H. Dickinson, shows United States Garrison Grounds, Spanish Road and North Street. 45 cm x 65 cm.
1884 copy "Plan of the ground depending of the Fort St. Charles at Baton-rouge State of Louisiana, until 26 arpents in the depth. with the part of the Town Baton-rouge and lands adjoining; conformably to the original deposited in the archives of...
"A Walking Tour of Historic Baton Rouge" by Charles East, 1963. B&W 30 historic sites in Baton Rouge with descriptions. Some illustrations. 8pgs. Original located in Baton Rouge Guides Collection
American Delegation being received by the President of Peru. (Left to right) Charles Ertola, Adolfo Dammert, Mayor Louis Solari; San Jose, Ca, Councilman W.H. Bernhard; Baton Rouge, La. Mayor James Kinsella; Hartford, Ct., Jack Christian,...
Baton Rouge High Hurdlers. (L. to r.) Sam Lambert, Charles Reddy and Redus Day, members of the Baton Rouge High school Track team. Taken from the 1925 scrapbook of Gladys Brechtel.
Baton Rouge High School German Band. Left to right: Larry Dawson, Jack Pierce, Gay Ikerd, Charles Madere, Pete Woodman. Taken from Baton Rouge High School Band Scrapbook 1952-1953.
Capitol Avenue High School Class of 1953 at their 31st Annual Reunion. (Front Row .l to r.) Thelma Philips Davis, Carol Smith Johnson, Iola George Nicholson, Dorothy Carter Butler, Jacqueline Hall, Lillie Banks Smith, Sarah Anderson Williams, Mary...
Charles F. Rabenhorst (1828-1880). Founded the Rabenhorst Funeral Home when he moved to Baton Rouge in 1866 after serving as a captain in the 21st Louisiana Regiment during the Civil War.
Charles J. Wise, retired accountant is one of the library's "most faithful borrowers". Wise visited the library almost daily for 10 years in the 1940's to read books magazines and newspapers. Taken from 1948-1949 scrapbook. Date: September, 1949
Dr. Alvin Batiste November 7, 1932 – May 6, 2007. Considered a founder of modern New Orleans jazz, Batiste was a long time instructor at Southern University where he created the Batiste Jazz Institute and taught the likes of Branford Marsalis,...
Dr. Curtis "C.J." Gilliam [1922-1995] was a longtime Civil Rights activist and the first black optometrist in Baton Rouge. A former president of the Baton Rouge chapter of the NAACP, he was the first black Louisianan to enlist in the U.S. Marine...
Ground breaking ceremonies for Plank Road Plaza (at Hooper Road). (From left) Charles Carter, contractor; Bilwood Smith, co-owner of Plank Road Plaza with Theo Cangelosi; Mayor-President Dumas, and Bodo Claus AIA of Claus and Claus, architects for...