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Award-Winning Publications
Four of The Collection’s publications have recently received awards. For excellence in scholarship, the Literary Awards Committee of the Black Caucus of the American Library Association presented Unfinished Blues: Memories of a New Orleans Music Man with the Outstanding Contribution to Publishing Citation. The Southeastern Library Association’s Southern Books Competition recognized A Closer Look: The Antebellum Photographs of Jay Dearborn Edwards, 1858-1861 with the 2008 Overall Excellence Award and In the Spirit: The Photography of Michael P. Smith from The Historic New Orleans Collectio?i with the 2009 Award of Excellence. The southeast chapter of the Art Libraries Society of North America presented Josephine Crawford: An Artist’s Vision with an honorable mention in the 26th annual Mary Ellen LoPresti Awards.
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It will come as no surprise to most of you that our publishing initiatives include not only this Quarterly, but exhibition catalogues, the Tennessee Williams Annual Review, a Louisiana Artists Biography series (the newest addition, In Search ofjulien Hudson: Free Artist of Color in Pre— Civil War New Orleans, was released in January), a Louisiana Musicians Biography series (established last spring with the release of Harold Battiste’s memoir, Unfinished Blues), and a range of large- and small-scale works on subjects from Louisiana history. In addition to all this, our publications and marketing department produces all of the print material distributed to visitors and patrons—exhibition brochures, rack cards, invitations, postcards, and flyers.
The December 2010 release of Furnishing Louisiana: Creole and Acadian Furniture, 1735-1835 was the culmination of a seven-year effort on the part of many individuals and organizations: generous sponsors, five authors, dozens of private collectors and public institutions, and numerous THNOC staff members. Thank you to all involved in this monumental undertaking! As I write this column, barely a month after the publication’s release, more than 20 percent of the initial 5,000-copy print run has been sold to local, national, and international readers and libraries.
Charting Louisiana: Five Hundred Years of Maps, published to commemorate the bicentennial of the Louisiana Purchase in 2003, is another success story. We are proud to announce that this landmark work is now out of print, and a second printing is planned for this year to fill the demand for the book.
We are indebted to the A1 Hirschfeld Foundation for collaborating with us on the recently published catalogue for the current exhibition at the Williams Research Center, Drawn to Life: Al Hirschfeld and the Theater of Tennessee Williams.
Many more exciting projects are in the pipeline! Louisiana’s rich and varied history offers no shortage of subjects to examine in print, and with your support, the outlook is bright for future publications.
—Priscilla Lawrence
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