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ON VIEW
OFF-SITE
Cypress Swamp Memories
This new feature highlights holdings that have appeared outside The Collection, either on loan to other institutions or reproduced in noteworthy media projects.
Still from company footage from the F. B. Williams Cypress Co.
ca. 1926; 16-millimeter film by L. Kemper Williams
1978.24.71.7
Footage from the 1920s company films of F. B. Williams Cypress captures a rare sight: workers balancing on pirogues, using a two-man crosscut saw to fell virgin cypress trees. Selections from the company footage were reproduced for the US Forestry Service, for inclusion in the Forest Products Laboratory Library (Madison, Wisconsin). Serving as videographer was THNOC founder L. Kemper Williams, whose father, Frank B. Williams, started the company and turned it into one of the biggest timber operations in the country.
Up Bourbon at Bienville St., 300 Block
1952; photoprint
by Charles L. Franck, photographer
The Charles L. Franck Studio Collection. 1979.325.4873
Geographer Richard Campanella used this image, taker t. commercial photographer Charles L. Franck, on the cover of his most recent book. Bourbon Street: A History
(LSU Press, 2014).
Still from footage of Mardi Gras 1970
1970; 16-millimeter film by Jules L. Cahn
The Jules Cahn Collection, 2000.78.4.17
Approximately 100 seconds of film footage, much of it depicting Carnival 1970, was licensed by filmmaker Lily Keber for her documentary about pianist James Booker, Bayou Maharajah (2013). The project received the 2014 Documentary Film of the Year award from the Louisiana Endowment for the Humanities.
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gift of Lou'- S' ■ V	.0026.77
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4 The Historic New Orleans Collection Quarterly


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