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(1895-1980). The collection was privately printed and handsomely bound in 1938. (2012.0223.5)
—Pamela D. Arceneaux
Manuscripts
For the third quarter of 2012 (July— September), there were 32 acquisitions, totaling approximately 845 items and 97.75 linear feet of material.
M From the late 1890s into the 1940s, Christian Erhard Schrenk (ca. 1864— 1946) taught violin to generations of New Orleanians. Shortly after the turn of the 20th century, he founded and led the New Orleans Symphony Violin Quartette and Orchestra. The organization’s membership ranged between 30 and 60 musicians, primarily Schrenk’s violin students but also players of cello, viola, piano, and organ. Professor Schrenk died at the age of 82 and was laid to rest in Greenwood Cemetery.
The C. Erhard Schrenk New Orleans Symphony Violin Orchestra Collection, a gift of Beverly Katz and Lawrence A. Samuelson in memory of Mr. and Mrs. Beryl Samuelson, provides insight into classical music education and performance in New Orleans in the first half of the 20th century. The collection contains sheet music from the ensemble’s extensive and diverse repertoire, which included both classical and popular works, as well as three dozen handwritten violin arrangements Prof. Schrenk created for the orchestra. The acquisition expands THNOC’s music and performing-arts holdings, which also include the archives of the Louisiana Philharmonic Orchestra and materials related to the New Orleans Ragtime Orchestra. (2012.0382)
■	The correspondence of Rodolphe Dobler and the Company of Lyon, dated from 1840 to 1843, sheds light on the transatlantic antebellum cotton trade between Louisiana and France. Comprising 590 documents and letters mostly related to the firm’s business dealings with Louisiana companies, this recent acquisition presents an opportunity to examine the 19th-century cotton
industry from the perspective of insiders on both sides of the Atlantic.
Rodolphe Dobler, the firm’s principal, was a French cotton merchant who also represented the diplomatic interests of another prominent cotton market: Switzerland. During the 1840s and ’50s, while residing in Lyon, France, he served as consul for the Confederation Suisse. (2012.0381)
H The Helene P. Delery Collection—a scrapbook and pair of photographs of its creator—offers a glimpse into the aesthetic expression of Helene Passalaqua (1852-1941), a young single woman living in New Orleans in 1877.
When the 1870 federal census was compiled, Helene was 16 years old and living in the household of Edgar Robert and his wife, Lucie, daughter of noted architect Alexander Castaing. Living nearby were Lucie’s father, mother, and younger siblings. Several members of the Castaing family signed Helene’s 1877 scrapbook, which features poetry, mostly written in French and decorated with illustrations cut from lithographed card stock. Helene also included a three-page entry on the language of flowers, a Victorian-era literary trend concerning flowers’ allegorical meanings; the entry is
accompanied by a dried, pressed flower, identified as a souvenir from May 2,
1877.
The scrapbook also includes two photographs: one captures Helene with one of her young children (see image at left), while the other shows Helene as she appeared later in later life. Helene married Antoine Carlisle Delery (ca. 1849-1901) in April 1885—it was her first marriage and his second—and they had four children together, including Philomene Delery deLuna (1886-1974). A gift from Peggy Usner, the Helene P. Delery Collection is donated in memory of Philomene Delery deLuna and Emma M. deLuna Usner. (2012.0341)
—Mary Lou Eichhorn
STAFF NEWS
Changes
Robert Ticknor has been named reference assistant in the Williams Research Center reading room. His previous position was docent and WRC receptionist.
Eric Seiferth has left his post as Williams Research Center reference assistant to move to Brazil.
New Staff
Carolyn Noah Graetz, Vanessa Henry, and Carol Ann Roberts,
volunteers.
In the Community Jessica Dorman, director of publications, graduated from the Seminar for Historical Administration, a three-week management course for history museum professionals in Indianapolis.
On September 6 Kent Woynowski, digital assets manager, and his wife, Leslie, gave birth to their first child, a son named Julian Dennis.
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