New Orleans: A Pictorial History - Hardcover

Leonard V. Huber

Hardcover

ISBN 10: 0517318954 ISBN 13: 9780517318959

Publisher: American Legacy Press, 1983

Synopsis

The most comprehensive collection of photos, paintings, and drawings documenting the history, development, and customs of the city of New Orleans ever produced.

About this title

About the Author:

Leonard V. Huber (1903-1984) was one of Louisiana's leading historians and experienced a lifetime's worth of Carnival and Mardi Gras celebrations in New Orleans and Mobile, Alabama. A businessman and an author, he was active in many local historical organizations around New Orleans and wrote many books and articles based on his experiences with Crescent City culture. He acted as president of the Louisiana Landmarks Society, Orleans Parish Landmarks Commission, and Keyes Foundation. He was also a founding member and a president of the Friends of Tulane Library, and the library holds this and other titles of Huber's.

Charles L. Dufour (1903-1996) was a newspaper journalist, historian, and author. He served as a columnist for the New Orleans States-Item newspaper and wrote thousands of installments of his column, called "Pie Dufour's A La Mode." Dufour also wrote for the Sunday edition of the New Orleans Times-Picayune. He lived in New Orleans for the duration of his life. For twenty-five years, he taught a New Orleans history course at Tulane University with his colleague John Churchill Chase.

Review:

New Orleans: A Pictorial History packs in over a thousand rare photos, prints, sketches and maps of the city gathered from public and private libraries in the U.S. and abroad, and provides an invaluable survey highly recommended for any interested in the city's evolution. Paired with these images are stories of notable residents, tales of scandals and even duels, and accounts that place the progress of the City's people and places squarely in the hands of its colorful characters. The result is a pictorial and cultural observation that will delight any with a special interest in the evolution and background that makes up New Orleans.

(California Bookwatch 2014-12-01)

About this edition

• Publisher: American Legacy Press
• Publication date: 1983
• ISBN 10: 0517318954
• ISBN 13: 9780517318959
• Binding: Hardcover
• Number of pages: 370