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Nunn family residence on Canal Street at the corner of South Tonti Street (2011.0112.2), gift of Nicki Thorne- Thomsen
into parochial education for girls in the last decades of the 19th century.
The 1880 census lists Frederick B. Nunn, a native of England, living in his mother-in-law’s residence at 45 South Johnson Street, near Palmyra Street in Mid-City. The 13-member household included Nunn’s widowed Irish mother-in-law, Margaret Heffron, and her grown children Margaret, Kitty, Rosa, and John, as well as Nunn and his wife, Mary Louise, and their five children, Mary, John, Frederick, Rosa, and Genevieve, who ranged in age from eight months to eight years. Also residing with the family was a servant, Julia Benn, a first-generation Irish-American teenager.
By 1886 the family had moved to a palatial two-story residence at 468 Canal Street (later 2338 Canal) at the corner of South Tonti Street. The mansion was later home to James Putnam O’Brien, DD, a native of Nova Scotia who was president of Straight College, a historically black school in New Orleans, from 1922 until his death in 1931. By 1938 the house had been replaced by a used car lot.
Dr. Dominique J. Gragnon was the son of French baker Dominique Gragnon and his wife, Amelie Ursule Landrieux, a first-generation French-American. Born in Hancock County, Mississippi, the younger Gragnon was raised on the Mississippi Gulf Coast as well as in New Orleans. In 1901 he received a medical degree from Tulane University, and the following year he married Frederick B. Nunn’s daughter Genevieve (1879-1982). The
newlyweds relocated to Breaux Bridge, Louisiana, where Gragnon died, unexpectedly, at the age of 48. (2011.0112)
I	The J. S. W. Harmanson Collection, donated by Paul Christiansen, includes correspondence and receipts relating to the bookstore and art gallery at 333 Royal Street that Joseph Shield Wilson Harmanson (1886-1958) and his wife, Agnes (1890—1971), operated. Specializing in rare books and art work, the store provided gallery space to the New Orleans Art League.
Established in December 1927, the New Orleans Art League maintained local studios, mounted traveling exhibitions, and operated an art library, which was open to visiting artists. The organization exhibited works at its own gallery at 630 Toulouse Street as well as at Har-manson’s bookstore.
The J. S. W. Harmanson Collection contains correspondence between the Harmansons and clients and artists, including Eugene E. Loving (1908— 1971), Hans Kleiber (1887-1967), Max Pollack (1886—1970), Philip Kap-pel (1901-1981), and Charles Oglesby Longabaugh (1885-1944). (2011.0113) —Mary Loti Eichhorn
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In the Community
Pamela D. Arceneaux presented a variety of New Orleans-themed lectures to passengers aboard Royal Caribbean’s Voyager of the Seas.
Publications
Mark Cave, “Something Wild in the Country: The Fugitive Life of Tennessee Williams,” The Southern Quarterly (summer 2011), a special issue devoted to the legacy of Tennessee Williams.
New Staff
Robert Gates, assistant preparator; Lindsay Williams, Williams Research Center receptionist.
Changes
Marguerite Frentz left The Collection to pursue a career in early childhood education. She will be a kindergarten teacher at Langston Hughes Academy.
Volunteers
Catherine Schembre and Chris Baldwin, docent department; Aubrey Edwards, systems department.
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