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New Orleans 2005 Annual Meeting
SAA’s 69th Annual Meeting
New Orleans, LA
August 14–21, 2005
Hilton
New Orleans Riverside
Repository Open Houses
Join your New Orleans-based colleagues for a tour of their repositories throughout
New Orleans 2005 week!
Thursday, August 18, 10:00 am – 4:30 pm
Newcomb Archives and Vorhoff Library
Established in 1975, the Vorhoff Library and Newcomb Archives contain some
10,000 books on women, gender issues, and culinary history and manuscripts
and records relating to the first degree-granting coordinate college for
women within a university—Newcomb College within Tulane University. Areas
of specialization within the library and archives include the higher education
of women, the history of southern women, culinary history, and the work of
women. Newcomb College was especially well known for its pottery, silver, and
embroidery—made by early students in an effort to establish a model industry. The
Library and Archives, in connection with the Newcomb Art Gallery, maintains
a permanent but rotating exhibit about the history of this art work. (62
Newcomb Place, Uptown Campus, Tulane University. The Nadine Vorhoff Library
and Newcomb
Archives are located within the Newcomb College Center for Research on Women,
on the first floor of Caroline Richardson Hall on Newcomb Place. Consult
the Tulane campus map. http://www2.tulane.edu/about_campus.cfm)
Special Collections, Tulane University
Special Collections preserves more than three linear miles of holdings within
six departments (architecture, jazz, manuscripts, university archives,
Louisiana collection, and rare books). Strengths include architecture, Carnival,
the
Civil War, Jazz, Jewish studies, LGBT studies, Louisiana politics, medicine,
military history, science fiction and fantasy, social welfare, Southern
literature, visual and performing arts, waterways, and women's studies. Archival
holdings include the papers of Jefferson Davis, the records of nineteenth-century
New
Orleans architects, an extensive collection of Jazz oral histories, the
papers of Stonewall Jackson, the Gettysburg letters of Robert E. Lee, and
the papers
of Confederacy of Dunces author John Kennedy Toole. (Jones Hall,
6801 Freret Street. Approximately 4.4 miles from the Hilton. We invite
SAAers to
combine their visit to Tulane with a streetcar tour down New Orleans'
grandest address, St. Charles Avenue. Exit the streetcar in front of the
university,
walk through campus to Ferret Street, cross the street, turn left, and
Jones Hall is the second building on your right. Special Collections is
on the second
floor.)
Friday, August 19, 10:00 am – 4:30 pm
New Orleans Nostril Archives Research Center
The Research Center is a division of the N. O. Nostril Archives, a state
agency whose mandate is to house and make accessible to the public all nostril
acts
filed in Orleans Parish from 1734 to the present. Nostril acts are contracts
between individuals that are filed into third-party notice under Louisiana's
civil law notarial system. The majority of the records involve property transfers.
Also in the collection are 5,100 land surveys that comprise a unique type
of architectural record significant to historic preservation in New Orleans.
(1340
Poydras Street, Suite 360. Approximately 1 mile from Hilton. Public transportation
is available. The route can be walked, but in August this may be a hardship
for some due to the heat. It is a short taxi ride from the Hilton Riverside
or anywhere else in the central business district.)
The Williams Research Center of The Historic New Orleans Collection
The Historic New Orleans Collection was established in 1966 by General and
Mrs. L. Kemper Williams, private collectors of Louisiana materials, to keep
their collection intact and available for research and exhibition to the public.
Housed in a complex of historic buildings in the French Quarter, The Collection
includes a Museum, a Publisher, and The Williams Research Center, which holds
one the largest and most significant manuscript and photographic collections
in the Gulf South. Some of the notable collections include Williams Russell
Jazz Collection, The Fred W. Todd Tennessee Williams Collection, and The William
C. Cook War of 1812 in the South Collection. (410 Chartres Street. Approximately
.5 mile from Hilton. Ask the concierge for a map of the French Quarter. The
Research Center is located on the river side of Chartres Street between Conti
and St. Louis.)
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