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French Quarter building, photograph by Richard Koch, between 1930 and 1959 (2004.0095)
Historical Society donated it to The Collection.
?	As the architect of buildings throughout the region, and as a chronicler of Louisiana?s historic architecture for the state?s Historic American Buildings Survey in the 1930s, Richard Koch established a richly textured legacy. Koch served as director of the HABS project and as one of its principal photographers. A recent gift from the Hermann-Grima/Gallier Historic Houses consists of 304 of Koch?s photographs, dating from his tenure with the survey and beyond. The wide-ranging group includes interiors and exteriors of structures in New Orleans, along the River Road, and elsewhere in Louisiana. The photographs complement other Koch holdings at THNOC, as well as additional bodies of photographic work by Clarence Laughlin, Stuart M. Lynn, Chet Kellogg, and Abbye Gorin.
?	Barbara V. Broadwell has donated Lieutenant Ross?s Course of the Mississippi from the Balise [sic] to Fort Chartres, an engraving with watercolor published in 1775-76. A British expedition to the Illinois Country in 1765 supplied the information contained in the map. Though Great Britain never attained full control of the Mississippi River valley, the map shows the country?s abiding interest in the continent?s greatest river system. The map is an
especially appropriate acquisition in a year dedicated to British ties to Louisiana?s history.
?John H. Lawrence
MANUSCRIPTS
For the second quarter of 2004 (April-June), there were 20 manuscripts donations, totaling approximately 23 linear feet. I Margie Brown has donated the records of the Musical Contracting Agency (MCA), an entertainment booking agency operated by her grandmother Melba Wolfe from the 1940s through the 1970s. Originally
known as the Entertainment Service and later as the Musical Booking Agency before finally becoming MCA, the agency represented or kept files on many notable New Orleans performers including Lloyd Washington?s Fabulous Ink Spots, the Eureka and Olympia Brass Bands, A1 Hirt, Pete Fountain, Clarence ?Frogman? Henry, Shep Fields and his Rippling Rhythm Orchestra, Sharkey Bonano, Paul Barbarin?s Jazz Band, and Eddie Bo (Bocage). MCA also documented the careers of such lesser known entertainers as the Sherbin Sisters,
French Quarter interior, photograph by Richard Koch,	French Quarter stairwell, photograph by Richard
between 1930 and 1959 (2004.0095)	Koch, between 1930 and 1959 (2004.0095)
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