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,...
Sadie Connor Keel and a student in 1964. Keel (October 20, 1914-February 6, 2010) was a long time educator with the East Baton Rouge Parish Schools serving as a teacher and principal at the Reddy Street Elementary School for 29 years, retiring in...
Baton Rouge (La.), Mayors, National Association of Counties, Long, Russell
Mayor Woody Dumas, left with Louisiana Senator Russell B. Long at the National Association of Counties (NACo) Legislative Conference. Photograph by Paul Serber. 1980
This is the Indian Camp Plantation, also known as the Gillis W. Long Hansen's Disease Center Museum. These grounds were first used for hunting and fishing by Houmas Indians. The actual plantation was established in the 1850's, and then abandoned in...
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
Ms. Carnes was a nurse on duty at Our Lady of the Lake Hospital the night Huey Long was shot. This is a brief summary of that night and days to follow. Interviewer is Cammie Norwood.
Executive Committee of the Louisiana Medical society auxiliary at their annual conference, 1944. L to r: Mrs. Arthur David Long, Mrs. George Taquino, Mrs. Richard H. Clark, Mrs. Clarence Ericson and Mrs. Felix Boizelle. Original located in East...