Mayors--Baton Rouge (La.)--1950-1960, Santa Anita Park (Arcadia, Calif.)
"Robert Strub, Assistant General Manager of Los Angeles Turf Club, greets Mayor-President Jack Christian of Baton Rouge on the latter's recent visit to Santa Anita Park while on New Year's Holiday in California to attend Tournament of Roses. Mayor...
Alvin Davis and men from the Public Works Department moving furniture and shelving to the North Baton Rouge Branch Library. Located at the corner of Plank Rd. and Winbourne St., at the time of its opening, this library was the largest in the...
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,...
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
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...
Carlos G. Spaht's (August 2, 1906 - April 29, 2001) Class at the Provost Marshal General's School in Fort Custer, Michigan. Spaht is remembered for having lost the Democratic gubernatorial runoff election in January 1952 to fellow Judge Robert F....
Citizen's Bank & Trust Co. 1600 Main Street, Baton Rouge, La. Organized January 3, 1930, 1604 Main St., Baton Rouge, La. Approximate cost of construction was $50,000. Gift of Ed Reed.
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,...
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...
Garfield Housing Project in East Baton Rouge Parish. The article "Projects Can Be Heaven or Hell" examines the disparity between low income housing in white and black sections of the parish. Original taken from the Baton Rouge Community Leader Vol....