The Baton Rouge Digital Archive from the East Baton Rouge Parish Library
The Baton Rouge Digital Archive from the East Baton Rouge Parish Library
The mission of the Baton Rouge Room Collection is to collect, manage, preserve and provide access to items that represent current and historical actions of local governments, businesses, residents and institutions of the City of Baton Rouge and East Baton Rouge Parish. These items include but are not limited to photographs, manuscripts, …
The Baton Rouge Digital Archive of the East Baton Rouge Parish Library is a series of collections that reflect the content of the Baton Rouge Room Archive. Here you will find materials that reflect historical actions of local governments, businesses, residents and institutions of the City of Baton Rouge and East Baton Rouge Parish. …
The Cazedessus Collection is a selection of materials from the collection of Anthony "Tony" Cazedessus, a Baton Rouge real estate agent who was piviotal in the development of some of Baton Rouge's early neighborhoods. Dating from 1911 , these images show the growth of Roseland Terrace, Steele Place and scenes from around the City of …
The Elizabeth Nichols Collection is a series of historical post cards showing scenes of Baton Rouge dating from the early Twentieth Century. Ms. Nichols maintains physical ownership of the post card collection.
The Baton Rouge Room houses over 300 maps. This small selection reflects some of the most historic maps in our collection.
The Baton Rouge Room houses a wide variety of oral histories including the Junior League Oral History Project, Remembering the Struggle and the Where Were You When....? Oral History Project. For more information, please call 225-389-4960.
John "Jack" Christian was born in Vicksburg, Mississippi on January 22, 1911. He moved to Baton Rouge in 1930 and enrolled in Louisiana State University as an engineering student. He served in the United States Naval Reserves from 1942-1945. From 1946 to 1951 he was owner and operator of Jack Christian Motor Company in Baton Rouge. …
Woodrow Wilson Dumas, "Woody" was born December 9, 1916 in Opelousas, La. and was named for then president Woodrow Wilson. In 1924 his family moved to Baton Rouge. In high school he participated in athletics, playing football and baseball. He joined the United States Navy serving in World War II (as a submariner) and in the Korean …
These images represent the activities of the Camp Fire Girls of Baton Rouge and Camp Ruth Lee in Norwood, Louisiana. The dates of these images range from the 1940's to the 1960's. The collection was donated to the Baton Rouge Room Archives upon the closing of the Camp Fire Girls' Baton Rouge office in 2009. The physical collection …
Willie Harris, a former Southern University campus police chief, was a commercial photographer when he wasn't investigating campus crime or directing traffic. Harris photographed schools, churches, social clubs and organizations, events and individuals in the neighborhoods surrounding Southern University in Baton Rouge, including …
The West Feliciana Historical Society partnered with the East Baton Rouge Parish Library in 2009 to digitize this rare collection of photographs from St. Francisville and Bayou Sara, La. The originals are housed at the West Feliciana Historical Society located at 11757 Ferdinand St., St. Francisville, La.
The Baton Rouge Digital Archive of the East Baton Rouge Parish Library is a series of collections that reflect the content of the Baton Rouge Room Archive. Here you will find materials that reflect historical actions of local governments, businesses, residents and institutions of the City of Baton Rouge and East Baton Rouge Parish. These items include but are not limited to photographs, manuscripts, periodical publications, documents, audio and video recordings and memorabilia.
The Baton Rouge Room is located in the River Center Branch Library, 120 St. Louis St. Baton Rouge, La. 225-389-4960
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