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
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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
Inventory of Historic Light Stations
(National Park Service)
Universtity of North Carolina at Chapel Hill Academic Affairs Library
Documenting the American South
http://docsouth.dsi.internet2.edu/
New Orleans Jazz National Historic Park (National Parks Service)http://www.nps.gov/neor/index.htm
The Red Hot Jazz ArchiveA History of Jazz Before 1930 - a wonderful website
by Kevin S. Fontenot
The Division of Historic Preservation