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...
Earl K. Long Hospital 5825 Airline Highway Baton Rouge, La. taken from "A Report to the People from the Baton Rouge Goals Congress". Original located in the Baton Rouge Room vertical file History--1960-1969
Directory of Businesses in the Baton Rouge area. Includes advertisements, topical and alphabetical listing of service providers. 95 pages, 22 cm x 14 cm.
"A monthly publication of Catfish Town Properties". Newsletter advertising events in the Catfish Town Development. Volume 1 Number 7. August, 1984. 4 pages; 27 cm x 21 cm.
"It is the purpose of this summary to provide the interested individual with essential facts in the background of Baton Rouge as a market for commodities..." 8 pages; 27 cm x 21 cm.
Program for the 1972 Greater Baton Rouge State Fair. Includes advertisements, list of exhibitors, special attractions and performances. 25 pages; 27 cm x 21 cm.
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...
Broom and brush industry, Automobiles, Blind persons, Amite City (La.)
Deck and Lily Schlaudecker of Amite, La. Blind broom maker and his wife discuss their broom and mop making business, life in Amite, La. overcoming Deck's disability. Views of Amite as Lily drives Vernon Roget around in her 1936 Coup. (8:56)...
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.
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...