Bourbon Street, 1944-1952 - A Digital Collection


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Description

Promotional video for Bourbon Street, 1944-1952, a Tulane University Libraries digital collection. View the collection here: https://digitallibrary.tulane.edu/islandora/object/tulane%3Ap16313coll13 Tulane University Special Collections is home to the Walter Cook Keenan New Orleans Photographs Collection numbering over 3,000 images. Walter Cook Keenan (1881-1970), the first architect of the Vieux Carré Commission (VCC) and a lifelong member of the Audubon Park Commission, took the photographs in order to document changes to the built environment. In 2013, the Tulane Digital Library undertook to digitize the portion of the collection focused on historic Bourbon Street. See the Walter Cook Keenan New Orleans Architecture Photograph Collection finding aid here: https://archives.tulane.edu/repositories/3/resources/3459 Video produced by Digital Scholarship & Initiatives at Tulane University Libraries. Edited by Alan Velasquez.

Details
Title

Bourbon Street, 1944-1952 - A Digital Collection

Creator

Tulane University Libraries

Editor

Velasquez, Alan

Transcriber

Jernigan, Peyton

Date Issued

2022-10-03

Description

Promotional video for Bourbon Street, 1944-1952, a Tulane University Libraries digital collection. View the collection here: https://digitallibrary.tulane.edu/islandora/object/tulane%3Ap16313coll13 Tulane University Special Collections is home to the Walter Cook Keenan New Orleans Photographs Collection numbering over 3,000 images. Walter Cook Keenan (1881-1970), the first architect of the Vieux Carré Commission (VCC) and a lifelong member of the Audubon Park Commission, took the photographs in order to document changes to the built environment. In 2013, the Tulane Digital Library undertook to digitize the portion of the collection focused on historic Bourbon Street. See the Walter Cook Keenan New Orleans Architecture Photograph Collection finding aid here: https://archives.tulane.edu/repositories/3/resources/3459 Video produced by Digital Scholarship & Initiatives at Tulane University Libraries. Edited by Alan Velasquez.

Extent

1 min., 10 sec.

Type of Resource

moving image

Genre

Promotional films

Name Subject(s)

Bourbon Street
Keenan, Walter Cook

Topical Subject(s)

Architecture
Photography

Geographic Subject(s)

New Orleans (La.)

Publisher

Tulane University Digital Library

Language

eng

Identifier (Local)

BourbonStreet_access.mp4

Rights

In Copyright - http://rightsstatements.org/vocab/InC/1.0/