Aerial view of construction of the Horace J. Wilkinson Bridge. Cantilever bridge spanning the Mississippi River in Baton Rouge. View of Intracostal waterway in the foreground. Opened April 10, 1968.
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...
African Americans--History, United States. Army. Reserve Officers' Training Corps
Junior ROTC Rifle Team at Capitol Senior High School. Won first place in the over all Fourth Annual East Baton Rouge Parish Invitational Air Rifle match March 10, 1979, held at Glen Oaks High School. Front row left to right C/MAJ Lindacolar,...
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...
American Legion Nicholson Post 38 Baseball Team. First Louisiana State Champions. Kneeling (l. to r.) Jimmy Achord; bat boy, Craig Clement, Maurice Loup, Herbert Cowart, Eddie Schmitt, Irwing Felps, and Melvin Jones. Second Row: Earl Barron,...
"Some Prominent Citizens of Baton Rouge" R.J. Hummel, Solon Farrenbacher, Joe Ramires, H. Payne Breazeale, Frank Kean, Eugene Cazedessus, L. Paul Amiss, G.A. Waterman, Alex Grouchy, Jr.; I.H. Rubenstein, W.P. Barnes and J.T. Rucker. Taken from the...
View of Baton Rouge river front looking southwest from the River Center Library. Centroplex, USS Kidd, and Horace J. Wilkinson (I-10) Bridge are visible.
Baton Rouge (La.), Jemison, T. J. (Theodore Judson), Church buildings
Reverend Dr. T.J. Jemison standing on the steps of Mount Zion Baptist Church, 356 East Boulevard. The church was established in 1858 by Reverends Isaac Palmer and John Brady. The structure shown here was completed in 1954
Baton Rouge (La.), Jemison, T. J. (Theodore Judson), Church buildings
Reverend Dr. T.J. Jemison at Mount Zion Baptist Church, 356 East Boulevard. The church was established in 1858 by Reverends Isaac Palmer and John Brady. The structure shown here was completed in 1954.
1922 Map of Baton Rouge and Suburbs compiled by A.G. Mundinger and J.J. Mundinger. Baton Rouge, La. February 1, 1922 "Courtesy of the State Times--Corrected to October 1, 1922". Includes real estate advertisements. 45 cm x 45 cm
Mayor Woody Dumas and the 1969-1972 City Parish Council of Baton Rouge and East Baton Rouge Parish. Seated left to right: William S. Day, Jr., Ken Osterberger, Mayor W.W. Dumas, Calvin Gaynell "Gus" Kinchen, V.M. "Lank" Corsentino. Standing left to...