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he worked to educate the public about potential threats to the environment both in New Orleans and along the Gulf Coast.
In the 1970s the proposed construction of Interstate 410, which would have stretched from Interstate 10 in St. Charles Parish to New Orleans East, inspired concerns over the project’s threat to undeveloped wetlands. Materials found within the Bradburn papers, including environmental impact studies, correspondence, and oppositional fliers and handbills, reflect his involvement in challenging the proposed “Dixie Freeway,” which ultimately was not constructed.
The papers reflect Bradburn’s deep commitment to his community, from letters and research concerning his opposition to the use of the insecticide DDT to the detailed files he kept on his public speaking engagements. Slides used in his talks—“Ecology and Conservation,” “Gulf Islands Wilderness,” and “Mississippi Gulf Coast Islands” among them—supplement ephemera from a wide array of organizations, such as the Round Table Club and the Women’s Auxiliary of the Orleans Parish Medical Society. The Donald M. Bradburn Papers are complemented by the Donald M. Bradburn Collection, his photographic archive, and both are gifts of his wile, Anne S. Bradburn. They join existing holdings related to environmental protection efforts in Louisiana and the Gulf South, including the Luke Fontana Working Papers (85-104-L) and the All Things Both Great and Small Oral History Project (MSS 622). —AIMEE EVERRETT
Harry Brunswick Loeb and Enrico Caruso Collection
2014.0418
Consisting of correspondence written between 1913 and 1921, this collection documents a growing friendship between Harrv Brunswick Loeb (1884—1957), impresario of the French Opera House, and Italian tenor singer Enrico Caruso (1873-1921). Much of the collection dates from late in Caruso s life and career. Although the letters do not explain when
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or how the men first established a correspondence, Loeb’s duties as imprciirv-which included publicity and book-! guest artists, could have put him in luus... with the singer.
Caruso, an international scar of ih-world, visited New Orleans only o*h< Returning from a trip to Havana. C -stopped in New Orleans to play a single concert engagement at the Athenaeum located on St. Charles Avenue at Ci*» Street, on the evening of June 2b. I'J.
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ing at the Vanderbilt Hotel ir X*n» York City, he vows to do h:i b^ti :o pcrwiade the Metropolitan Opera t	to
perform in New Orleans tiiat. “Don’t forget that my powef il affair is very weak a*. I Lriir	«o
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