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ACQUISITIONS
The Historic New Orleans Collection encourages research in the Williams Research Center at 410 Chartres Street from 9:30 a.m. to 4:30 p.m. Tuesday through Saturday (except holidays). Cataloged materials available to researchers include books, manuscripts, paintings, prints, drawings, maps, photographs, and artifacts about the history and culture of New Orleans, Louisiana, and the Gulf South. Each year The Collection adds thousands of items to its holdings. Though only selected gifts are mentioned here, the importance of all gifts cannot be overstated. Prospective donors are invited to contact the authors of the acquisitions columns.
Curatorial
For the second quarter of 2011 (April— June), there were 22 acquisitions, totaling approximately 320 items.
H The Collection acquired a panoramic photograph of Canal Street showing the Rex parade of February 16, 1904, by John N. Teunisson and published by local bookseller and publisher F. F. Hansell’s Bros. Ltd. That year Frank B. Hayne served as Rex with Josie Hal-liday acting as queen. The theme of the parade was In the Realm of Imagination. In the photograph throngs of people fill the street and, as was typical of the time, most are dressed in their “Sunday best” with only a handful sporting more fanciful costumes. The image is composed of several photographs pieced together and retouched at the seams. Since these components were not shot simultaneously, the parade lineup is distorted.
Born in Pike County, Mississippi, in 1869, Teunisson was living in New
Orleans by 1900 and had established himself as a photographer there by 1902. In the 1950s he retired to Washington, DC, where he died in 1959. (2011.0125)
Brulatour Courtyard by P. M., ca. 1920 (2011.0122.4). gift ofDr. and Mrs. Trenton L. James
H Dr. and Mrs. Trenton L. James donated a set of six woodcuts dating from approximately 1920 by an unknown woodcutter who signed the pieces “P. M." Printed on tan paper, the series features scenes that would have been common in the French Quarter at the time. Washer Woman shows a woman carrying a large load of laundry on her head while a cat walks along at her side. The depiction of Pirates’ Alley looking from Chartres Street toward Royal Street demonstrates that very little about the passageway has changed in the last 90 years. St. Louis Cathedral portrays the iconic structure through an imaginatively tropical Jackson Square garden. The nuns in starched, wing-like headdresses featured in Sisters of the Divine Providence New Orleans were a common sight throughout the city in the early 20th century. The Chimney Sweep, also a familiar sight in that period when many households still depended on fireplaces for warmth, wears a trademark top hat
and carries the tools of the trade, including a grappling hook and brush. Brulatour Courtyard depicts the well-known courtyard at 520 Royal Street in a rather ramshackle state, suggesting that the woodcut was created before preservationist William Ratcliff Irby restored the property, which he had purchased in 1918. The Brulatour House is now owned by The Historic New Orleans Collection. (2011.0122.1-.6)
H Mr. and Mrs. Frederick Duncan Parham II donated a collection a( four linoleum block-print Christmas aids designed by New Orleanian MjUnd Parham (1896-1995) between 1910 and 1917. The cards were dincnwmj in the attic of a Garden District Inae on Seventh Street, which had been oaatd by various members of the hdun fan-ily between 1899 and 1994. RnaacJon various colors of stock, the cadi fcanwr three different scenes: medinol man peters, a woman with a child and a Idbf carriage in a snowy setting, and a kneeling before a portrait of the Viqpa Mary with the baby Jesus. The pained salutations include “Season's Gaeoi^pk* “Merry Xmas Happy New Vex* and *A Very Merry Xmas.” “X.’theim leaerin the Greek “Christ,” was cooMmdjr ad at the time to abbreviate Onion.
Parham was president of her Newcomb College art school dbs in 1914 and received a degree in an firan dKallege in 1917. (2011.0121.1.-.4)
Library
For the second quarter of 2011 (Apd-June), there were 41 acquiring—. Moling 110 items.
■	A disbound leaflet, printed an h«fc
sides, containing a report of the Committee of Claims to the United Soks Senate concerning the Planters* Bank of New Orleans was recently donated ao (Ik library by Mary and Timothy 1~irfrinprr In the Senate of the United States. Jamm-ary 29, 1822 sums up the petition of the unnamed president and directors of the Planters’ Bank of New Orleans for the
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