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of American Indians. Any illustrated discussion of early exploration in North America or contact with its inhabitants begins here.
The Jacques Le Moyne account and others were compiled into an anthology of early illustrated exploration narratives, edited by photojournalist Stefan Lorant and published as The New World: The First Pictures of America 'm 1946. The library has a copy of this later annotated study (76-175-RL), a fine accompaniment to the original Le Moyne volume.
—PAMELA D. ARCENEAUX
Elvira “Vera” Mischler Washington Girls’ School Scrapbook
2014.0146.2
Elvira “Vera” Mischler’s School Friendship Book documents her graduation from elementary school in 1920 and provides a glimpse into New Orleans public education for girls during the early 20th century. Graduation from seventh grade marked the completion of elementary school in those days, and research on Elvira’s life indicates that the milestone was the end of her formal education.
Elvira became an orphan at an early age. She was born in 1905, and her mother died in 1908. Her father, Frank Mischler, was murdered in 1910 bv his lover, Katie
Fetsch, after refusing to marry her upon her revelation that she was pregnant with his child. Elvira went to live with relatives at 1038 Desire Street and attended Washington Girls’ School at its original location, at 3326 Chartres Street. After completing elementary school she found employment as a clerk, or bookkeeper, for an oil company. Elvira married Foster DeWight Carpenter in the early 1940s and died in Folsom, Louisiana, in 1979.
Her scrapbook, a gift of Joan B. Bostick, includes names and comments about classmates, some poetry, sketches, and a few photographs. There are notes about a school pageant, “The Real American Girl,” in which Elvira portrayed Uncle Sam. A news clipping reports that Elvira competed on Washington’s team in a district-wide music-memory competition in 1920. The team won, bringing home as its prize a Victrola with a set of phonograph records, donated by local music-store impresario Philip Werlein. —MICHAEL M. REDMANN
Donald M. Bradburn Papers and Collection
gifts of Anne S. Bradburn, 2014.0320, 2015.0035.1
Donald M. Bradburn (1925-2012), a physician long associated with Touro Infirmary, developed in his private life a
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secondary career as an award-winning photographer, author, and conservationist. A proof copy of his 2011 book Last Barriers: Photographs of Wilderness in the Gulf Islands National Seashore, found within his recently acquired papers, demonstrates Bradburn’s commitment to the environmental protection of the Gulf Coast barrier islands, including Horn, Ship, and Petit Bois. Through frequent public speaking engagements, active membership in the Sierra Club Delta Chapter, and letters to the editor,
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