Capital Punishment, Petitions, Education Political aspects, Taxation, Automobile Accidents
(00:01-02:28) Protesters present petitions to Governor Edwards to free Gary Tyler who is on death row for the murder of 13 year old Timothy Weber during a 1974 racial disturbance at Destrahan High School when someone shot a gun out of a school bus....
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.
"Adopted as the official road map of the Parish of East Baton Rouge by the Parish Council of East Baton Rouge, by resolution number 2887 at the regular meeting on August 27, 1958." Includes index of roads. 61 x 61 cm.
"Monument to Education" an avant garde sculptor built ca. 1985, formerly located on the corner of Clay Cut Road and Jefferson Highway. The sculpture was dismantled and moved to storage by the Baton Rouge Department of Public Works in 2009.
Aerial view of downtown Baton Rouge showing Front St. (River Road), New State Capital and Our Lady of the Lake Hospital. Taken by Sgt. Johnston of the Baton Rouge Police Department. Date: March 10, 1961
Bayou Sara, La. During the flood of May 2, 1912. This is the levee and walk going to the L.R. & N. depot. The walk in the distance is part of the trestle. It also shows the two story house at the forks (sic) of the road.
Downtown Baton Rouge: Front Street (now River Road), looking north from Government St. I.C.R.R. Depot [Yazoo and Mississippi River Valley Depot], Old State Capitol. October 1959. Color slide.
Downtown Baton Rouge: Front Street (now River Road), looking north from Government St. I.C.R.R. Depot [Yazoo and Mississippi Valley], Old State Capitol. Demolition of (?) October 1959. Color slide.