Baton Rouge Area Chamber of Commerce, Printed ephemera
"Design for Action 1984-1985" Greater Baton Rouge Chamber of Commerce. Objectives and goals for the 1984-1985 year for the Baton Rouge Chamber of Commerce. Governmental Affairs, Economic and industrial development, education, communications and...
American Artists Professional League, Community arts projects, Printed ephemera
Advertisement for American Art Week Celebration at the Old Governor's Mansion. Celebrated annually in the first week of November. Sponsored by the American Artists Professional League beginning in 1930. Each year, hundreds of applicants from all 50...
Fire fighters, Muscular Dystrophy Associations of America
Fire Chief Edgar LeJeune with fire fighters posing for the Annual Muscular Dystrophy fund campaign. The Baton Rouge Fire Department partnered with the Baton Rouge Chapter of the American Muscular Dystrophy Association every year for the fund drive...
Annual Report to Citizens,for fiscal year ending December 31, 1886. includes a "Blank proposal and circular" for improvement bonds. 23 cm x 15 cm, 21 pgs.
Chapel of the Madonna in Point Pleasant, La. on Bayou Goula. This diminutive chapel stands north of the Nottoway Plantation on Bayou Goula. Signs for Madonna Chapel along River Rd. proclaim it to be the "Smallest Church in the World." It was built...
Course of the Mississippi from the Balise to Fort Chartres taken on an expedition to Illinois in the latter end of the year 1765 from the survey of that river made by the French. By Lieutenant Rolfs of the 34 th Regiment.
Invitation to a Gourmet Club dinner for/by Ernest Gueymard. February 22, 1961. The Gourmet Club of Baton Rouge was founded by Gueymard and Ralph H. Simms in 1960 "in order to enjoy the right atmosphere, and the proper quality of food and service....
Invitation to a Gourmet Club dinner for/by Ernest Gueymard. February 22, 1961. The Gourmet Club of Baton Rouge was founded by Gueymard and Ralph H. Simms in 1960 "in order to enjoy the right atmosphere, and the proper quality of food and service....
Mayors--Baton Rouge (La.)--1950-1960, Tournament of Roses
Mayor-President Jack Christian of Baton Rouge, La. And Mrs. Christian, who attended recent New Year's Day Tournament of Roses Parade, were guests at Santa Anita Park of Mayor Robert Dennis of Arcadia, Ca. and Mrs. Dennis (left to right) Mayor and...
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...
Woody Dumas receives the Baker High School blanket from the Baker High School student body president. The blanket signifies a two year letterman's award. Blanket reads "To Woody Dumas for 17 years of service to Baker High School". Date: 1965
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....