Louisiana State Museum, New Orleans
Author : Louisiana State Museum
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Page : pages
File Size : 50,77 MB
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Category : Family recreation
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Author : Louisiana State Museum
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Page : pages
File Size : 50,77 MB
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Category : Family recreation
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Author : Louisiana State Museum
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Page : 8 pages
File Size : 50,28 MB
Release : 2013*
Category : Franco-Americans
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Author : Louisiana State Museum
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Page : 410 pages
File Size : 48,99 MB
Release : 1934
Category : Museums
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Author : Louisiana State Museum. Board of Curators
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Page : 466 pages
File Size : 17,13 MB
Release : 1908
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Author : Louisiana State Museum (Baton Rouge, La.)
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Page : pages
File Size : 21,16 MB
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Author : Louisiana State Museum
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Page : 160 pages
File Size : 48,31 MB
Release : 1945
Category : Art museums
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Author : Greg Lambousy
Publisher : University of Louisiana
Page : 29 pages
File Size : 23,99 MB
Release : 2006
Category : History
ISBN : 9781887366700
Story of the Louisiana State Museum's Civil War-era submarine
Author : Louisiana State Museum
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Page : 464 pages
File Size : 36,85 MB
Release : 1908
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Author : Richard Anthony Lewis
Publisher : LSU Press
Page : 623 pages
File Size : 22,5 MB
Release : 2011-12-05
Category : History
ISBN : 0807142204
One of the finest architectural photographers in America, Robert W. Tebbs produced the first photographic survey of Louisiana's plantations in 1926. From those images, now housed in the Louisiana State Museum, and not widely available until now, 119 plates showcasing fifty-two homes are featured here. Richard Anthony Lewis explores Tebbs's life and career, situating his work along the line of plantation imagery from nineteenth-century woodcuts and paintings to later twentieth-century photographs by John Clarence Laughlin, among others. Providing the family lineage and construction history of each home, Lewis discusses photographic techniques Tebbs used in his alternating panoramic and detail views. A precise documentarian, Tebbs also reveals a poetic sensibility in the plantation photos. His frequent emphasis on aspects of decay, neglect, incompleteness, and loss lends a wistful aura to many of the images -- an effect compounded by the fact that many of the homes no longer exist. This noticeable vacillation between objectivity and sentiment, Lewis shows, suggests unfamiliarity and even discomfort with the legacy of slavery. Poised on the brink of social and political reforms, Louisiana in the mid-1920s had made significant strides away from the slave-based agricultural economy that the plantation house often symbolized. Tebbs's Louisiana plantation photographs capture a literal and cultural past, reflecting a burgeoning national awareness of historic preservation and presenting plantations to us anew. Select plantations included: Ashland/Belle Helene, Avery Island, Belle Chasse, Belmont, Butler-Greenwood, L'Hermitage, Oak Alley, Parlange, René Beauregard House, Rosedown, Seven Oaks, Shadows-on-the-Teche, The Shades, and Waverly.
Author : Louisiana State Museum
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Page : 28 pages
File Size : 25,23 MB
Release : 1906
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