The Roumain Building. A six story terra cotta building with a Beaux Arts façade. Built by Joseph K. Roumain in 1913, architects Favort and Livaudais. Located at 343 Third Street Baton Rouge, La. Photo taken by Frank C. Read in 1914
Mayor Woody Dumas receives checks from the Local Lion's Club for Camp Dan Read (a crippled children's camp in Leesville, Louisiana). Date: May 20, 1965
East Baton Rouge Parish Library Pamphlet 1940-1941 marking two years of service. 12,996 Registered borrowers read 297,399 books, 89,406 people read books and magazines in the library reading room and 8,664 questions were answered by the reference...
Charles J. Wise, retired accountant is one of the library's "most faithful borrowers". Wise visited the library almost daily for 10 years in the 1940's to read books magazines and newspapers. Taken from 1948-1949 scrapbook. Date: September, 1949
Louisiana State University (Baton Rouge, La.)--History
The children of Professor Coates of the LSU Chemistry Department on the University (now Capitol) Lakes in Baton Rouge, La. December 1914. Photo taken by Frank C. Read.