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Barr, Mr. J. J., is having two breakwaters built in Waveland, one at the old Shopshire place and the post office place. (SCE 12-2-1893)
Favre, Mr. Jules, Messrs. J. J. Barr and Richard Attaway are serving as the committee of arrangement for a grand soiree which will be given at the Waveland hall, on Coleman Avenue, Saturday, January, 1894, for the benefit of the Waveland public school. Floor managers are Messrs. Wm. Ruhr, Etienne Carver and Charles Chadwick. (SCE 1-61894)
Barr, Mr. John J., and family, spent Saturday and Sunday at their summer home in Waveland. Mr. Barr is acting Mayor for the town of Waveland. (SCE 1-13-1894)
Barr, J. P. - On Monday Waveland held her municipal election and all went off very quiet. Hon. A. A. Ulman was reelected mayor, Messrs. Paul Conrad and J. P. Barr were elected aldermen and Mr. Geo Sears was elected treasurer. The people of Waveland are to be congratulated upon such a wise selection. (SCE 8/6/1892)
Barr, Thomas - "LADY LUCKETT", the pleasure sloop from Waveland, with Capt. E. Helwege, and Messrs. Preston Herndon, King, Lagan, Joseph Elliot, Thomas Barr, and Arthur Shepard aboard, arrived at Pascagoula on the 17th, inst., to take part in the regatta. The young gentlemen are on a cruise along the coast and will visit the several islands of the Sound.-Pascagoula Magnet. (SCE 8/27/1892)
Barr, T. T., See mention in article "Waveland - The Lovely Village On The Mississippi Sound"
Barrager, Harry, 401 Main (Ph 48-49)
Barrager, Harry, Breath's Lane (Ph 50)
Barrere, Miss Emma, of New Orleans, spent Wednesday with relatives. (SCE 7/15/1893)
Barret, Harvey P. Mrs. r 136 Sobral Waveland (Ph 55)
Barron, Eliza P., 72, St. Francisville, La. 25 Jul. 1923 (CEC)
Barrosse, Bertin O. r 141 Oak Blvd. Waveland (Ph 55)
Barry, E. T., 1517 Dunbar Av. (Ph 48-49)
Barry, Thos. - On Friday morning, December 1, 1870, the prisoners confined in the Hancock County Jail escaped by knocking over Thomas Barry, who had been employed by the jailer and deputy sheriff, who were absent on official duties, when he had opened the jail door to give them their breakfast. They took to the woods. (Bay St. Louis Gazette, 12/3/1870 reprinted in Picayune 12/8/1870 - MJS VI 00428)
Barstad, Odd Vice-Consul Res., 410 Beach Blvd., Waveland (Ph 48-49)
Barthe, Richmond - Richmond Barthe of Bay St. Louis, a noted sculptor, has works on permanent display in the Metropolitan Museum and the Whitney Museum of New York. His great Americn eagle dominates the entrance of the Social Security Building in Washington. His works are in private colection of France, England, Germany, India and other countries. Taken out of school at 7th grade level in Bay St. Louis by his widowed seamstress mother to help support his family, Barthe went on to merit two Julius Rosenwald fellowships, two Gugenheim fellowships and numerous citations and awards. His first attempt at sculpture in 1928 exhibited in Chicago and named “The Negro in Art” started him on his road to fame. One of Barthe’s works is a prized possession of the City-County Public Library.
Barthe, Richmond. Black sculptor. Worked for Harry S. Pond family (712 S. Beach - before 1917 when Barthe went to N.O. as butler to the Pond family) Lyle Saxon encouraged him. (BSL 100 Yrs pg. 59 - 61) Lived in Jamaica in 1958.
Barthe, Richmond - (A special feature of the City-County Public Library dedication will be the display of the works of Richmond Barthe, a former resident of Bay St. Louis.)
SCULPTOR'S WORKS TO BE DISPLAYED AT DEDICATION
Mr. Barthe, a sculptor since 1928, has exhibited his works in most leading museums and in private collections all over the world.
In 1945, he received a citation from the American Academy of Arts and Letters and the National Academy of Arts and Letters.
The key to the city of Bay St. Louis was awarded Mr. Barthe in 1964 and in 1976 he created a bust of George Washington Carver for the Hall of Fame for Great Americans.
Mr. Barthe is also listed among Who's Who in Mississippi,Who's Who in American Art and many others (Coast Buyers Guide - June 23, 1976)
Barthe, Richmond Bay sculptor's work at Smithsonian (SH 2-1-93)
Monday, Feb. 1, 1993
Visitors to the Smithsonian Institution's Anacostia Museum are discovering the late Richmond Barthe and his graceful bronze sculptures.
But Barthe was no stranger to residents of Bay St. Louis, where the public library has housed one of his sculptures, a woman's head, since he donated it in 1964.
The works of the sculptor, a native of Bay St. Louis, are featured in a special exhibit at the Smithsonian, "Two Sculptors, Two Eras." It presents 37 works by Barthe and modern sculptor Richard Hunt.
The exhibit, produced by Landau Traveling Exhibitions in Los Angeles, will remain at the Smithsonian until Feb. 28.
Giving one of his works to the Bay St. Louis library was more than an act of kindness for Barthe, whose mother and sister stayed in the area long after he left: The artist may have been remembering a local storekeeper who had been kind to him.
The storekeeper, according to Barthe's biographer, Samella Lewis, gave the young boy books and helped develop his interest in African culture and history. It was in Bay St. Louis, Lewis said, that Barthe first began to take pride in his ancestry.
This pride is evident in the exhibit. "Birth of the Spirituals" shows the torso of a young African American man, his chest full as he sings. A determined face is sculptured in "The Negro Looks Ahead" and the weary, muscular limbs of a slave taking a momentary rest are found in "Stevedore". And Barthe loved dance, a passion also evident in his work.
Hunt, the other sculptor featured in the exhibit, began working many years after Barthe and greatly admired his work. Hunt's work, featuring winged shapes and contorted circles, is more abstract than Barthe's.
A Mississippi county fair was the site of Barthe's first show, given when he was 12.
After he was denied admission into southern art schools because he was black, Barthe went north to study at the Art Institute of Chicago.
Originally a painter, he became involved with sculpture after casting two heads to improve three-dimensional aspects in his paintings. The work led to his first commissioned work.
"What I'm interested in is the spiritual quality," Barthe told Lewis, an art history professor at Scripps College in Claremont, California, who served as curator for the exhibit.
A videotape of some of her interviews with him is part of the display. "If I can feel what I want this figure to express, my hands will take care of themselves."
Barthe's work can be found in collections in the United States, Jamaica, England and India. His public works and commissions included "Green Pastures: The Walls of Jericho," created for the Harlem River Housing Project, and the "Toussaint L'Overture" monument for Haiti.
The exhibit has drawn a lot of visitors on weekends, said Valerie Smith-Madden, a spokeswoman for Anacostia Museum, the branch of the Smithsonian devoted to African American history and culture.
"This is an African American museum, but these works transcend on ethnic group", Smith-Madden said.
Barthe died in Pasadena, California, in 1989. Lewis said she was trying to "keep a promise to him" by staging the exhibit.