The Baton Rouge Digital Archive from the East Baton Rouge Parish Library

Captain W.T. Miller Speaks to St. Anthony Catholic School Students
Fire departments, School children
Fire Department Captain W.T. Miller speaks to several hundred students at St. Anthony Catholic School, 2405 Choctaw Drive, as part of Fire Prevention Week, 1957 .
The Robert E. Bogan Fire Museum Collection

Albert Murray Receives Fire Prevention Week Posters
Fire departments, Fire Prevention, Boy Scouts
The Boy Scouts of America are shown as they hand a fire safety poster to local businessman Albert A. Murray, owner of Murray's Sporting Goods, located at 317 North Boulevard. 1957
The Robert E. Bogan Fire Museum Collection

Mrs. E.O. Bauer, Jr. and W.A. LeBlanc With Prizes for Fire Prevention Week Banquet
Fire departments, Fire prevention
Mrs. E.O. Bauer Jr. chairman of the Fire Prevention Week Banquet Committee and general chairman W.A. LeBlanc, examine some of the thousands of prizes that were donated by Baton Rouge industries to be given to guests as favors at the annual banquet....
The Robert E. Bogan Fire Museum Collection

Dr. Curtis "C.J." Gilliam
African Americans--History
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...
Louisiana Black History Hall of Fame Collection

Interior of the Lincoln Theater
African Americans--History,Theaters
The Historic Lincoln Theatre, 1305 Myrtle Walk, Baton Rouge, La. was opened in 1951. The theater served Baton Rouge's African American community during Segregation. Performers such as Otis Redding, the Four Tops and Louis Armstrong performed here....
Louisiana Black History Hall of Fame Collection

Lincoln Theater Box Office
African Americans--History,Theaters
The Historic Lincoln Theatre, 1305 Myrtle Walk, Baton Rouge, La. was opened in 1951. The theater served Baton Rouge's African American community during Segregation. Performers such as Otis Redding, the Four Tops and Louis Armstrong performed here....
Louisiana Black History Hall of Fame Collection

Interior of the Lincoln Theater
African Americans--History,Theaters
The Historic Lincoln Theatre, 1305 Myrtle Walk, Baton Rouge, La. was opened in 1951. The theater served Baton Rouge's African American community during Segregation. Performers such as Otis Redding, the Four Tops and Louis Armstrong performed here....
Louisiana Black History Hall of Fame Collection

McKinley Senior High School Basketball Players
African Americans--History, McKinley High School (Baton Rouge, La.), Basketball
McKinley Senior High School Basketball players State Champions and National Runners up, 1957
Louisiana Black History Hall of Fame Collection

Exterior of the Lincoln Theater
African Americans--History,Theaters
The Historic Lincoln Theatre, 1305 Myrtle Walk, Baton Rouge, La. was opened in 1951. The theater served Baton Rouge's African American community during Segregation. Performers such as Otis Redding, the Four Tops and Louis Armstrong performed here....
Louisiana Black History Hall of Fame Collection

Interior of the Lincoln Theater
African Americans--History,Theaters
The Historic Lincoln Theatre, 1305 Myrtle Walk, Baton Rouge, La. was opened in 1951. The theater served Baton Rouge's African American community during Segregation. Performers such as Otis Redding, the Four Tops and Louis Armstrong performed here....
Louisiana Black History Hall of Fame Collection

Exterior of the Lincoln Theater
African Americans--History,Theaters
The Historic Lincoln Theatre, 1305 Myrtle Walk, Baton Rouge, La. was opened in 1951. The theater served Baton Rouge's African American community during Segregation. Performers such as Otis Redding, the Four Tops and Louis Armstrong performed here....
Louisiana Black History Hall of Fame Collection

Exterior of the Lincoln Theater
African Americans--History,Theaters
The Historic Lincoln Theatre, 1305 Myrtle Walk, Baton Rouge, La. was opened in 1951. The theater served Baton Rouge's African American community during Segregation. Performers such as Otis Redding, the Four Tops and Louis Armstrong performed here....
Louisiana Black History Hall of Fame Collection

Exterior of the Lincoln Theater
African Americans--History,Theaters
The Historic Lincoln Theatre, 1305 Myrtle Walk, Baton Rouge, La. was opened in 1951. The theater served Baton Rouge's African American community during Segregation. Performers such as Otis Redding, the Four Tops and Louis Armstrong performed here....
Louisiana Black History Hall of Fame Collection

Exterior of the Lincoln Theater
African Americans--History,Theaters
The Historic Lincoln Theatre, 1305 Myrtle Walk, Baton Rouge, La. was opened in 1951. The theater served Baton Rouge's African American community during Segregation. Performers such as Otis Redding, the Four Tops and Louis Armstrong performed here....
Louisiana Black History Hall of Fame Collection

January 13, 1976: Steamboat Natchez, Accident on I-10, Denham Springs Junior High School
Natchez (Steamboat), Traffic accidents, Denham Springs (La.)--schools.
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...
WAFB Newsreel Films

August 27, 1976: The History of Crop Dusting in Louisiana
Crop dusting, Airplanes
Norman Watson of Watson Aeronautics, Napoleonville, La. discusses the history of his crop dusting business (11:55). Original format is 16 mm with audio. Digitized file is mp4.
WAFB Newsreel Films

August 30, 1976: Stop Rape Crisis Center, A Baton Rouge Midwife, Conserving Energy in the Schools
Rape--Prevention, East Baton Rouge Parish Public Schools (East Baton Rouge Parish, La.), Energy conservation, Midwives, African Americans,
Beauregard Town rape , serial rapists, controversy at the District Attorney's Federally funded Stop Rape Crisis Center(00:00-04:10), Baton Rouge midwife (04:11-11:16), conserving energy in Baton Rouge schools (11:17-13:00). Original format is 16 mm...
WAFB Newsreel Films

November 18, 1976: Big Foot in Louisiana
Sasquatch
Bryant Conway of Baker, La. discusses his ongoing search for Big Foot in Louisiana. He displays plaster casts of foot prints, artist renderings of the creature, plays audio recordings and recounts encounters with the mythical beast.
WAFB Newsreel Films

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