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ACQUISITIONS
RECENT ADDITIONS
K&B, Black Panthers, Smokey Mary
Surveyors’ Sketchbooks Addition 2013.0386
An addition to the Surveyors’ Sketchbooks Collection, received from an anonymous donor in December 2013, consists of three volumes of survey notes and architectural sketches dating from 1854 to 1874. The sketchbooks are primarily associated with Charles de Armas (ca. 1824-1889), though they show some markings suggesting they continued to be used as reference sources by related fellow surveyors Arthur de Armas (1850-1903) and/or George de Armas (1862-1914). The sketchbooks contain field notes of survey projects throughout Louisiana and often display rough map outlines, measurements, and mathematical calculations that later formed the basis of the survey maps still referenced in real-estate transactions today.
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The volumes’ real stunners are the occasional sketches and watercolors of houses in New Orleans and the surrounding area. These images provide historically significant architectural information and, in some cases, the only known visual record of buildings that no longer exist. These three recently added volumes fill in gaps in MSS 290, the Surveyors’ Sketchbooks Collection, which has nearly 650 volumes of similar material dating from 1830 to 1929. —MICHAEL M. REDMANN
Storyville promotional brochure
2013.0226.8
Storyville, an 87-minute feature film made locally in 1974, was written, produced, and directed by Jack Weis, who helmed Quadroon (1971), Crypt of Dark Secrets (1976), and Mardi Gras Massacre (1978).
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title: "The City that CARE Forgot" I
Mrs. Robert Nolan Bruce Jr. recently donated a glossy folder containing a synopsis, promotional art, and contaLi information for video trailers, radio spots, and production stills for Stsrpd^. Featuring New Orleans celebrities and actors—such as sportscaster Wayne Mack and Butch Benit, of the long-ni=ii::ig midcentury Bourbon Street comedy trtuc The Fudgeripple Follies; or, SdsJj l ±*-n s Smart Ass—Storyville claimed to prrsn* “the truth about the Birthplacf of Isr* *
It is a melodramatic talc about a cobTnir boy, played by Tim Rooney,	uf the
late Mickey Rooney, who brings hi: slide trombone to wicked New Orfc^'n i~ HI 3. falls in love with one of the «we*s » tSse lavish sporting house where he b nrfintd as a musician, and loses her through a cruel twist of fate. A1 Rose, whose book Storyville, New Orleans was published the same year as the film’s release, is credited as historical consultant and played the role of Councilman Sidney Story. —PAMELA D. ARCENEAUX
Huey P. Newton, Minister of Defense, Supreme Leader of the Black Panther Party
2014.0153.1
The Louisiana chapter of the Black Panther Party for Self-Defense, a militant civil rights organization active in the 1960s and ’70s, was one of the largest in the country.
22 The Historic New Orleans Collection Quarterly