Resources

Online Resources for Researching our Local Heritage
These websites are among many sited in the New Orleans History~~Lake Pontchartrain site. For some mood music, click here for 'New Orleans Shuffle' recorded in 1924 by The Halfway House Orchestra (The Halway House was located in what is now the Orkin building near the cemetaries at Canal Blvd. & City Park Ave.)

New Orleans Public Library Photograph Collection
http://nutrias.org/~nopl/photos/photolist.htm

New Orleans Public Library Crescent City Memory Collection
http://nutrias.org/~nopl/exhibits/ccmem.htm

New Orleans Public Library Images of the Month Archive
http://www.gnofn.org/~nopl/monthly/allimg.htm

New Orleans Public Library George Francois Mugnier Photograph Collection
Spanish Fort ca. 1880-1910
http://nutrias.org/~nopl/photos/mugnier/gfm.htm

Historic New Orleans Collection
http://www.systemsplanning.com/hnoc/

New Orleans Regional Transit Authority

http://www.regionaltransit.org/mainpage.html

The Lake Pontchartrain Basin Maritime Museum
http://www.selu.edu/orgs/LPBMM/

New Orleans Preservation Resource Center Architectural Guide
http://www.prcno.org/noArchGuide.html

The Preservation Resource Center's News resource:
Preservation in Print
http://www.prcno.org/flatboat.html

National Maritime Initiative
Inventory of Historic Light Stations
(National Park Service)

http://www.cr.nps.gov/maritime/lt_index.htm

Universtity of North Carolina at Chapel Hill Academic Affairs Library
Documenting the American South
http://docsouth.dsi.internet2.edu/

Louisiana State Museum Paintings Collection

http://lsm.crt.state.la.us/painting/painting.htm

New Orleans Jazz National Historic Park (National Parks Service)http://www.nps.gov/neor/index.htm

The Red Hot Jazz Archive
A History of Jazz Before 1930 - a wonderful website

http://www.redhotjazz.com/index.htm

Blues World--The Blues of Richard 'Rabbit' Brown
by Kevin S. Fontenot

http://www.bluesworld.com/

Smithsonian Folways Anthology of American Folk Music

http://www.si.edu/folkways/AnthVol3.html

Gambit Weekly's Best of New Orleans

http://www.bestofneworleans.com/index-wFrames.html

The Higgins Boat Project in Association with The National D-Day Museum

http://www.higginsboat.org/index.html

Louisiana National Register of Historic Places
The Division of Historic Preservation

http://www.crt.state.la.us/nhl2/search_results.asp?search_type=parish&value=Orleans

Lake Pontchartrain Basin Foundation

http://www.saveourlake.org/index.html

Virtually New Orleans

http://yatcom.com/neworl/vno.html

La. Department of Wildlife & Fisheries

http://www.gov.state.la.us/enved/

Louisiana Hurricane History - National Weather Service

http://www.srh.noaa.gov/FTPROOT/LCH/lahur.htm

National Endowment for the Humanities

Popular Songs in American History

Contact Catherine Campanella

The Book:

A pictorial history of Lake Pontchartrain

If you would like to order a print of any image in this website, please visit The Nostalgic New Orleans Collection Shop or contact the webmaster via the 'contact us' link (above) to request images that may not appear in the shop.

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