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....
"Everybody's Dream Girl". Baton Rouge High Senior Henson Moore contemplates fellow students and Horizon Girls (l. to r.) Della Hayes, Mary Alice Fogleman, and Carole Ball. Date: August 13, 1958
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...
Announcement of Allen Edgerton winning "Prettiest Girl" at Baton Rouge High School. Published in "The Buzzer". Taken from the 1925 scrapbook of Gladys Brechtel. Date: April 1, 1926
Baton Rouge High Hurdlers. (L. to r.) Sam Lambert, Charles Reddy and Redus Day, members of the Baton Rouge High school Track team. Taken from the 1925 scrapbook of Gladys Brechtel.
Fire Department Captain W.T. Miller speaks to several hundred students at St. Anthony Catholic School, 2405 Choctaw Drive, as part of Fire Prevention Week, 1957
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Integration at Istrouma High School. Two unidentified African American girls get their lunch at Istrouma High School in Baton Rouge. Three African American students integrated the school in September 1963 without incident.