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on the property where the photograph was taken. Hurst Street is unpaved but has a rough plank sidewalk on the lake side. Beyond it is a large, unkempt property extending toward St. Charles, and its only structures appear to be an unpainted house with an attached cistern and a tiny, broken-down outbuilding—perhaps a privy. In the distance is a Victorian house built in 1867 that still stands at 5824 St. Charles Avenue. The image shows a large, nearly leafless tree and some treetops in the distance, but the overall impression has little of the dense greenery associated with Uptown today. When this photograph was taken, the area still boasted many large, undeveloped tracts of land, but they were being rapidly absorbed in the urban expansion of what was then among the fastest-growing parts of New Orleans. (2012.0317.1)
—John T. Magill
Library
For the fourth quarter of 2012 (October— December), 69 library acquisitions consist-ing of 113 items were accessioned.
■	A copy of a speech delivered by Theodore Gaillard Hunt (1805—1893) in 1855 captures the tenor of xenophobia and unrest that fueled southern politics in the years leading up to the Civil War. Hunt was born in Charleston, South Carolina. He graduated from New York’s Columbia College (now Columbia University) and, after a few years as a lawyer in Charleston, moved to New Orleans about 1830. He became district attorney for New Orleans and was a member of the state house of representatives from 1837 until his election to the 33rd US Congress (March 4, 1853-March 3, 1855). Early during the Civil War he was colonel of the Fifth Louisiana Regiment but was soon appointed adjutant general of Louisiana by Governor Henry Watkins Allen (1820-1866). Hunt remained in active service until the close of hostilities. He died in New Orleans on November 15, 1893, and was buried in Metairie Cemetery.
In Speech of Col. T. G. Hunt, at the Flouma Barbecue, Parish of Terrebonne on the 15th of September, which Hunt delivered in 1855 while representing Louisiana in the 33rd Congress, he first defends the Missouri Compromise, enacted in 1820, and attacks the Kansas-Nebraska Act of 1854. In an effort to preserve the balance of power in Congress between slave and free states, the Missouri Compromise admitted Missouri as a slave state and Maine as a free state. While excluding Missouri, the law prohibited slavery in the Louisiana Territory north of what would later become the northern boundary of Arkansas, thereby preserving (for the time being) slavery in the rest of the south. The Kansas-Nebraska Act, in addition to creating the territories of Kansas and Nebraska and opening new lands for settlement, had the effect of repealing the Missouri Compromise by allowing settlers to determine by vote whether they would allow slavery within their respective territories. The second part of Hunt’s speech emphasizes his position against immigration, which coincided with that of the Know-Nothings, an anti-Catholic, anti-Jewish, nativist political organization also known as the American Party. The speech was published in English and French editions in New Orleans by the executive committee of the American Party of Louisiana. THNOC has only this English edition. (2012.0331)
■	The library recently acquired an early English translation of Jean-Jacques Rousseau’s pastoral operetta Le Devin du Village (The Village Soothsayer). Popular from its initial performance at the French court in 1752 through the end of the 18th century, the piece was often presented in the French Caribbean and was probably first staged in New Orleans by the late 1790s. This translation, by composer and music historian Charles Burney (1726—1814) was published in London in 1766 under the title The Cunning-Man, A Musical Entertainment in Two Acts (see image above). (2012.0369)
■	Dissertations and theses on topics related to the history and culture of the Gulf region are ordered regularly from UMI Dissertation Publishing, a division of ProQuest. The authors of these works conducted some, if not ail. of their research at the Williams Research Center. A few recently acquired titles indude “The Cajun Ideology:	Negotiating
Identity in Southern Louisiana.- by Michelle Y. Fiedler. Washington State University; “Doing Time; The Work of Music in Louisiana Prisons,- by Benjamin Jason Harben. University of California, Los Angeles; ~S>.ion in the South: Restoring Humanity to Irish Famine Immigrants in New Orleans, 1847-1880,” by Mercy Jen. University of Texas at Arlington; 'Dramatizing Whoredom: Prostitution in the Work of Tennessee Williams,' by Denys T. Landry, University of Montreal; ‘‘The Influence of Creoles in New Orleans During Reconstruction, 1865-1877,” by Shelia Simon-McKansay, Southern University; and “Company Towns and Tropical Baptisms: From Lorient to Louisiana on a French Atlantic Circuit,” by Erin M. Greenwald (now a curator and historian for The Collection), Ohio State University. (2012.0262.9, .11, .13, .16, .19, 2012.0358)
—Pamela D. Arceneaux
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