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The 2013 Neiv Orleans Antiques Forum, held August 1—4, brought together iatrn of history and decorative arts for a weekend of lectures, special events, optional pscamfirence tours, and more. Above: Tour of Poplar Grove Plantation. Left: Julic-Brritmyr. Susie Hoskins, Courtney-Anne Sarpy, and Ina Fandrich.
Below Top: Jason Busch, Katie Hovas, and Ulysses Grant Dietz. Below Middle: Jack Pruitt, Anne Pincus, and David Monteleone. Below Bottom: John Lawrence, Graham Boettcher, Laura Wallace, and Don Woods.
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16 Volume XXX, Number 4 — Fall 2013
STAFF NEWS
New Staff
Leidy Cook, library processor. Daphne Derven. curator of education. Inga Mittendorf, publications intent. Afcot Dumas, receptionist. Ashley Arceneaux, Isma SUio. Shari Perron, Ryan Thompson, John Cadedge. WmIc Balonc, Benjamin Hatfield, Dale Budenski, Kurt Omt. hack Dupuy, and Margot Hammond, volunteers.
In the Community
Publications Director Jessica Dorman contributed jn essay
on muckraking for the recently published book ScmsaTimmalirm: Murder, Mayhem, Mudslinging, Scandals, ami Disasters n 19th-Century Reporting (Transaction Press).
Senior Curator and Oral Historian Mark Cave, terring as an advisor to the Louisiana State Penitentiary Museum Foundation, helped to create an oral history progfim documenting the history of Angola.
Marketing Associate Anne Robichaux was appointed (o the
nominating committee of Vieux Carre Property Owner*. Residents, and Associates (VCPORA).
WRC Spotlight
The WRC has been working with two French intents as pan of its ongoing exchange program. Isabelle Dease. an £cole du Louvre student sponsored by the French Heritage Society, recently finished one month at The Collection working with Alfred E. Lemmon, Jason Wiese, and Howard Margot on a variety of projects. She arranged, housed, described, and digitized the Fr. Valentin Papers (MSS 657), a collection of notes and letters from or concerning a priest in colonial Natchitoches, dated 1748—1761.
Aude Le Moullec-Rieu, a student from the Ecole nationale des chartes in Paris, completed a months woik on the Rodolphe Dobler & Co. Correspondence (MSS 674), a laige collection of early 1840s business letters and documents from a company in Lyon, France, that imported cotton from Louisiana and elsewhere.