Dr. Alvin Batiste November 7, 1932 – May 6, 2007. Considered a founder of modern New Orleans jazz, Batiste was a long time instructor at Southern University where he created the Batiste Jazz Institute and taught the likes of Branford Marsalis,...
Mrs. T.J. Innes, Vice President of the East Baton Rouge Camp Fire Girls Council attend church services culminating the celebration of the 47th Anniversary of the founding of the Camp Fire Girls. Shown are Mr. and Mrs. Innes, son Dick and daughters...
Warden's House, 701 Laurel St., built ca. 1840. Originally housed the prison store, the clerk and his family, later various prison officials occupied it when the Louisiana State Penitentiary was in Baton Rouge. Constructed in the Classical Revival...
Warden's House door, 701 Laurel St., built ca. 1840. Originally housed the prison store, the clerk and his family, later various prison officials occupied it when the Louisiana State Penitentiary was in Baton Rouge. Constructed in the Classical...
Statue of Atlantis from the Paramount Theatre, Baton rouge, La. The Paramount theatre built in 1920 by W.A. Prather was demolished by members of the Hart family in 1979 against huge public out cry. It was replaced by a parking lot.
John Francis Irvine[Halse] Emma Raum Irvine, John Francis Irvine Jr., unidentified man, and Theresa Irvine [Hunter] presumably in St. Francisville, La. After the 1912 flood in Bayou Sara.
L. to R. front row Maggie Westbrook, Elijah(?) Westbrook, Alice Montgomery Westbrook. Back Row Mable Westbrook Smith, holding Jewel, & Gertrude Westbrook Reed.
Margaret McDarmon "Madge" Reed and Margaret Reed [m. Gueymard] (1914-1990, the first head librarian of East Baton Rouge Parish Library system) standing on the lawn of the Reed House, 658 Spanish Town Road.