Betty McCurdy, Librarian Assistant in Circulation Department helping patrons Rodney Roth and Larry Fisher at the former Main Library. 700 Laurel Street, Baton Rouge, La. Date: January, 1963
Claudia Arceneaux, Patron; Karen Willis, Patron; Mary de Vane Scearce, Librarian in Circulation Department; and Walter Brown, Page; look at a collection of old Valentines at the former Main Library, 700 Laurel St., Baton Rouge, La. Date: January,...
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...
Ida Rice and Gladys Brown, Library Assistants in the Circulation Department at the former Main Library, 700 Laurel St., Baton Rouge, La. Date: November, 1958
Mildred Ramsey with a group of young readers in the Children's Department at the former Main Library, 700 Laurel St., Baton Rouge, La. Date: November, 1958
Mrs. Ed Dalton, patron doing genealogy research and Dan Zuelke studying at the former Main Library. 700 Laurel St., Baton Rouge, La. Date: January, 1963
Staff at the former Main Library 700 Laurel St. Baton Rouge, La. (front row l. to r.) Patricia Love, Betsy St. Julien, Mildred Ramsey, Viola Tuke. (second row, seated): Frances Sibley, unknown, Edith Abott, Winnie Dean Smith, Alyce Lyons Bennett,...
Stella Smith, Library Assistant in the Circulation Department with Jimmy Smith, Library Page at the former Main Library. 700 Laurel St. Baton Rouge, La. Date: November, 1958
The Heidelberg Hotel, 201 Lafayette St. Baton Rouge, 1947. Opened in October of 1927, with 11 stories. Former names include The Jack Tar Capitol House Hotel and the Chateau Capitol. Written on back of the photo "Mother and M.E. and Ruthie Goldberg).