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Boyd Cruise
1950s; photoprint bequest of Boyd Cruise and Harold Schilke, 1989.79.336
1949
Kemper Williams hires Boyd Cruise, a New Orleans artist, to catalog his collection of historical materials. Cruise later became THNOC’s first executive director.
1966
With the December 13 death of Leila Williams, the Kemper and Leila Williams Foundation, which will come to operate as The Historic New Orleans Collection, is born. The official name was first used and trademarked in 1969.
Leila Moore Williams
1960s; photoprint
gift of Mr. and Mrs. Edgar Bright Jr., 2009.0292
First Skyscraper (638 Royal Street, north corner)
1935; by David Geier, delineator
courtesy of the Historic American Buildings Survey: Survey No. LA-21, image number 2-042-055
Collins C. Diboll Vieux Carre Digital Survey at The Historic New Orleans Collection
Phase One work is completed on the Vieux Carre Survey, a comprehensive photographic inventory and study of the French Quarter’s land-use history. Kemper Williams and Boyd Cruise served on the project’s advisory board, and the physical survey was housed in the French Quarter with the Williams Collection, where it was made available to researchers. THNOC continues to refine and add to the survey, now digitized and online thanks in part to a grant from the Collins C. Diboll Foundation.
>1970
In May, The Collection’s museum space opens to the public, at 533
Royal Street.
Former staff members John Mah£ and Maria Ybor join John H. Lawrence (right) at an exhibition opening in the Williams Gallery.
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