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Visit to Historic New Orleans Collection Yields 43 Uncataloged Posters!

10/8/2014

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PictureArtist: Al Doria
During a recent trip to the Big Easy, Ennis Carter and her husband Phil unearthed an astounding collection of WPA posters within the resources of the Historic New Orleans Collection.

By getting a first-hand look at more than 60 posters in pristine condition, they documented 43 posters that haven’t been catalogued by the federal government! We are excited to add these new gems to the ever-growing Living Archive.

We’d like to thank Mary Lou Eichhorn for assisting us at the Collection. She spent the extra effort to help surface these and joined in our delight when we told her the news. What they thought was a “handful” of posters, turned out to be a real treasure of predominantly War & Defense subject pieces – mostly related to the New Orleans area. Thanks, Mary Lou, we couldn’t have done it without you!

We hope to drum up the resources to have these posters scanned so we can share their images with the American public through the Archive. In the meantime, we’ll be inputting the data so their existence will be on record.

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Ennis Carter
10/18/2014 11:59:06 am

Next up: we'll be launching a small fundraising campaign to be able to pay for the photography of this great collection. Look for info about our online campaign soon.

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