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Photographs & Digital Galleries Photograph Collections The Louisiana Division/City Archives Photograph Collection includes over 40,000 individual photographic prints, negatives and slides. The images are only partially represented online, but more are being added each year. Louisiana Division/City Archives Photograph Collections Monthly Galleries Images of the Month Gallery, 1996-2007 The Images of the Month Gallery was one of the NOPL website's earliest features, begun soon after our web page's debut on April Fool's Day, 1995. Each month, the Gallery presented a series of thematically linked images from the Louisiana Division collections or from the City Archives. The Gallery was discontinued at the end of 2007. Image of the Month Gallery, 2008 - 2012 The Image of the Month Gallery featured a single image chosen from our collections each month. This gallery was discontinued in September 2012. Pamphlet of the Month Gallery, 2008 - 2011 From January 2008 to December 2011, the Pamphlet of the Month Gallery featured a digitized version of one of the many historical pamphlets in our collections. Letter of the Month Gallery, 2012 The Letter of the Month Gallery (2012) highlighted one of the many thousands of written communications housed in the collections.

Online Exhibits Below are the digital versions of exhibits that have been on view on the third floor of the Main Library since 1995. These exhibits were drawn from the Louisiana Division collections and from the City Archives. Most represent the exhibit in full, as it was displayed, but a few or the earlier versions are excerpts or text-only. Current Exhibit A Place to Play: The First Years of NORD, 1947-1948 (2012) Past Exhibits Alexander Allison's New Orleans: Selected Photographs from the Alexander Allison Collection (2010) Hidden From History: Unknown New Orleaninans (2008) Get Back to Where We Once Belonged (2006) New Orleans Incorporated: 200 Years of the City Charter (2005) Keeping Memories: The Louisiana Division's College Yearbook Collection (2004) "A Great and Growing City": New Orleans in the Era of the Louisiana Purchase (2003) Crescent City Choo Choo: A Short History of Railroads in New Orleans (2002) The World of Francois Lacroix (2002) Proteus 1909 Float Designs: Romances of Wales by Bror Anders Wikstrom (2002) Children of the WPA (2001) Designing Woman:The Carnival Art of Léda Plauché (2001) African Americans in New Orleans: City Government Employees (2001) Algiers: The Right Bank (2000) New Orleans: Gateway to the Americas (2000) A Century Old: Carnival Memorabilia from 1900 & 1901 (2000) African Americans in New Orleans: Learning (2000) Rosa Keller Branch Dedication Exhibit (1999) Que la fête commence! The French Influence on the Good Life in New Orleans (1999) African Americans in New Orleans: Les Gens de Couleur Libres (1999) 1999 Carnival Exhibit (1999) 219 Loyola: Building a Library for New Orleans (1998) The River Runs Through It: New Orleans and the Mississippi (1998) African Americans in New Orleans: Family History Sources (1998) Crescent City Memory (1997) African Americans in New Orleans: The Music (1997) A Tribute to Chief Warren E. McDaniels and the New Orleans Fire Department (Excerpts; 1997) 1997 Budget Presentation: Exhibit at Gallier Hall (1997) Let the Record Speak: Celebrating 100 Years of Service at New Orleans Public Library (Text only; 1996) African Americans in New Orleans: Making a Living (Text only; 1996) Rosa Freeman Keller: A Legacy of Southern Activism (Text only; 1995) The Evil Wind: Hurricanes in South Louisiana (Text only; 1995)

Updated 12/17/2012