The New Orleans Public Library Celebrates 125 Years of Service
The City Archives & Special Collections Department is happy to celebrate the 125th Anniversary of the New Orleans Public Library.
The City Archives will provide puzzles and list of materials from our collection according to a monthly theme.
The City Archives will provide puzzles and list of materials from our collection according to a monthly theme.
January: Celebrating the New Orleans Public Library
Drag the pieces to complete the puzzle. Puzzle can be completed in single player or multiplayer mode.
The image for January's puzzle was taken from a 1972 booklist pamphlet designed by Margaret Andry to highlight books about Louisiana History
Check out the full collection of booklist pamphlets HERE
The image for January's puzzle was taken from a 1972 booklist pamphlet designed by Margaret Andry to highlight books about Louisiana History
Check out the full collection of booklist pamphlets HERE
The City Archives & Special Collections Department would like to spotlight the following materials from NOPL's history.
Please visit our Research Guide for information on accessing archival material or setting up an appointment.
- 025.1975 S631m Managing Local Government Archives by John H. Slate and Kaye Lanning Minchew
- 027.0763 J94s Spreading the Gospel of Books by Florence M. Jumonville
- 070.44936 M647o Oil & Water: Media Lessons from Hurricane Katrina and the Deepwater Horizon Disaster by Andrea Miller, Shearon Roberts, and Victoria LaPoe
000: Computer Science, Information Science, and General Works
- 133.10973 M99g The Ghostly Register: Haunted Dwellings- Active Spirits A Journey to America’s Strangest Landmarks by Arthur Myers
- 133.909763 R456d Spiritualism in Nineteenth-Century New Orleans: The Life and Times of Henry Louis Rey by Melissa Daggett
100: Philosophy & Psychology
- 286 S13 A Short History of Louisiana Baptists by C. Penrose St. Amant
- 255.979 D35.Da Henriette Delille: Servant of Slaves, Witness to the Poor by Cyprian Davis, O.S.B.
- 282.092 H243a The Archbishop Wore Combat Boots by Archbishop Philip Hannan, Nancy Collins, and Peter Finney Jr.
- 299.6 D718o Orishas, Goddesses, and Voodoo Queens: The Divine Feminine in the African Religious Traditions by Lilith Dorsey
200: Religion
- 303.485 B899s The Sociology of Katrina: Perspective on a Modern Catastrophe by David L. Brunsma, David Overfelt, and J. Steven Picou
- 304.2092 F831w Women Pioneers of the Louisiana Environmental Movement by Peggy Frankland with Susan Tucker
- 323.1196073 F165r Race & Democracy: The Civil Rights Struggle in Louisiana 1915-1972 by Adam Fairclough
- 394.25 G475L Lords of Misrule: Mardi Gras and the Politics of Race in New Orleans by James Gill
300: Social Sciences
- 447.9763 R49c Cajun Alphabet by James Rice
- 447.9763 V146d Dictionary of Louisiana French: As Spoken in Cajun, Creole, and American Indiana Communities by Albert Valdman and Kevin J. Rottet
400: Language
- 551.463 G666g The Gulf of Mexico: A Treasury of Resources in the American Mediterranean by Robert H. Gore
- 557.63 S741r Roadside Geology of Louisiana by Darwin Spearing
- 595.789 M346b Butterflies of Louisiana: A Guide to Identification and Location by Craig Marks
500: Pure Sciences
- 635.09763 F683L The Louisiana Urban Gardener: A Beginner’s Guide to Growing Vegetables and Herbs by Kathryn K. Fontenot
- 639.6409 L372a The Amazing Crawfish Boat by John Laudun
- 642.5 K26r Redneck Gravy by Patrick S. Keefe
600: Technology
- 704.0396073 B255y YAYA!: Young New Orleans Artists and Their Storytelling Chairs by Claudia Baker
- 749.09763 G684c Chasing the Butterfly Man: The Search for the Lost New Orleans Cabinetmaker, 1810-1825 by Cybele Gontar
- 779.2092 F911p Playing for the Benefit of the Band by Lee Friedlander
700: Arts & Recreation
- 813.09 T671.F Ken & Thelma: The Story of Confederacy of Dunces by Joel L. Fletcher
- 813.54 D414n New Orleans Griot: The Tom Dent Reader Edited by Kalamu Ya Salaam
- 813.54 G142c Navigating the Fiction of Ernest J. Gaines: A Roadmap for Readers by Keith Clark
800: Literature
- 976.3 H176a Africans in Colonial Louisiana: The Development of Afro-Creole Culture in the Eighteenth Century by Gwendolyn Midlo Hall
- 976 D262g The Gulf: The Making of an American Sea by Jack E. Davis
- 977 M875b The Big Muddy: An Environmental History of the Mississippi and its Peoples from Hernando De Soto to Hurricane Katrina by Christopher Morris
900: History
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