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billed ?to add zest and life to your convention?; Zonia Dill and numerous other female accordion players from the 1950s; and the ?Wild, Wicked, and Wonderful? burlesque performer Ineda Mann.
Including promotional photographs and other press materials, contracts, records of performances, and notes from Mrs. Wolfe?s conversations with entertainers, MCA?s files provide a valuable source for researchers seeking information on the New Orleans music industry. Of particular interest are the records related to jazz festivals held in 1968 and ?69, which include programs and brochures, as well as correspondence regarding special recognition for Thomas ?Noon? Johnson, a client of Mrs. Wolfe?s. According to Mrs. Wolfe, Johnson was the oldest living, active jazz musician and the inventor of an instrument he called the bazooka. Later correspondence in the files refers to Johnson receiving a special citation at the Municipal Auditorium on May 18, 1968, as part of the festival celebration.
?Mark Cave
LIBRARY
For the second quarter of 2004 (April-June), there were 40 library acquisitions, totaling 99 items.
The Sherbin Sisters (2004.0135)
? With the cool fall weather comes the enjoyment of salty raw oysters, savory gumbos, and holiday fare. It is a fitting season for the library to highlight the acquisition of several culinary/housekeeping publications. Le Tresor des Menages, published in Paris in 1828, is a rare collection of household advice and recipes. A later edition of the work was published in New Orleans in 1840. According to the Online Computer Library Center (OCLC), the only extant copy of the New Orleans edition is located in the holdings of the Harry Ransom
Lloyd Washingtons Fabulous Ink Spots (2004.0135)
Humanities Research Center at the University of Texas, Austin.
I The 1880s were banner years for the publication of cookbooks featuring Creole recipes. The Unrivalled Cook-Book and Housekeeper?s Guide (1886), generously donated by Priscilla and John Lawrence, supplements other Collection holdings
Zonia Dill (2004.0135)
from the period, including The Creole Cookery Book, published in 1885 by the Christian Woman?s Exchange, and Lafcadio Hearn?s 1885 La Cuisine Creole. Published by Harper & Brothers in New York, The Unrivalled Cook-Book features ?two hundred Creole receipts? that the book?s editor, ?Mrs. Washington,? attributes to her ?kind
friend, Madame ________________, of New
Orleans.? In the preface, Mrs. Washington asserts that no other ?American cook-book has yet contained so complete a list of Creole receipts.? The unnamed madame? Four recipes are directly attributed to Madame Eugene, who owned and operated both Pelerin Restaurant and Moreau?s Restaurant in the 1870s and ?80s; perhaps she is Mrs. Washington?s kind friend.
M Shifting from the traditional to the unconventional, the library welcomes Dr. Ernest Liner?s donation of A Herpetological Cookbook: How to Cook Amphibians and Reptiles. Compiled and published by the donor, the work presents an interesting array of recipes featuring Louisiana?s wildlife?salamanders, frogs, alligators, turtles, and snakes.
?Gerald Patout