Historic New Orleans Collection
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[edit] Address and Contact Info
Address: 533 Royal St., New Orleans, LA 70130-2179
Phone: (504) 523-4662
Fax: (504) 598-7108
Address: Williams Research Center, 410 Chartres St.
Phone:(504) 598-7171
Fax: (504) 598-7168
E-mail: wrc@hnoc.org.
Web page: http://www.hnoc.org.
Executive Director: Priscilla O’Reilly Lawrence
[edit] Hours and usage restrictions
Hours: Tuesday–Saturday, 9:30 a.m.–4:30 p.m.; Sunday, 10:30 a.m.–4:30 p.m. (except holidays)
Williams Research Center Hours: Tuesday–Saturday, 9:30 a.m.–4:30 p.m. (except holidays).
[edit] Collection Summary
The Historic New Orleans Collection is a museum, research center, and publisher dedicated to the study and preservation of the history and culture of New Orleans and the Gulf South region. In a complex of historic French Quarter buildings at 533 Royal Street, the collection operates a museum, which includes the Williams Gallery for changing exhibitions; the Louisiana History Galleries tracing the history of the city from its founding to the present day; the Williams Residence, a house museum; and a museum shop. The Williams Research Center at 410 Chartres Street makes available to researchers the collection’s holdings that comprise some 35,000 library items, more than two miles of documents and manuscripts, and approximately 350,000 photographs, prints, drawings, paintings, and other artifacts.
Notable collections include the Butler Family papers, the William C. Cook War of 1812 in the South Collection, the Pierre Clément Laussat papers, the Frederic Ramsey Jr. papers on American music, the William Russell Jazz Collection, the Fred W. Todd Tennessee Williams Collection, and the Vieux Carré Survey, as well as land tenure, architectural, and cemetery records. Examples of outstanding pictorial materials include maps from the 16th through the 20th centuries; photographs by J. D. Edwards, Charles L. Franck, Richard Koch, Clarence John Laughlin, Daniel S. Leyrer, Stuart M. Lynn, Michael P. Smith, Sam R. Sutton, and Doris Ulmann; drawings and paintings by Josephine Crawford, Boyd Cruise, Charles Reinike, Alfred R. Waud, Ellsworth Woodward, and William Woodward; architectural drawings by James Gallier Sr. and Jr.; and prints by Morris Henry Hobbs and Jules Lion. Each year the collection acquires and catalogs thousands of additional items by donation or purchase. Published guides to the photographic collections and the Vieux Carré Survey are available, and new acquisitions are regularly described in The Historic New Orleans Collection Quarterly. A general Guide to Research at the Williams Research Center is available upon request, as are back issues of the Quarterly.
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