Alexis Topel | Contributing Reporter | Tulane Hullabaloo Tucked away in a warehouse near the French Quarter lies 50 years of New Orleans heritage and history rolled up among thousands of plastic tubes. Last year, Tulane School of Architecture Masters student Joseph Makkos acquired an extensive collection of New Orleans newspapers with…
Dolly Dimple learns about Witches - just in time for Halloween.…
Not exaclty newspaper history, but we uncovered a stack of these 1940's ink blotter pin-ups that we thought had great color and content. We will be digitizing them all in the next couple days.…
How 30,000 antique New Orleans newspapers listed on Craigslist found a home By J.S. MAKKOS One Thursday morning, I found a post in the “free” section of Craigslist for a sizable collection of historic New Orleans newspapers. Months earlier, the very same collection had been for sale but…
rotogravure |ˌrōtəgrəˈvyoŏr| noun a printing system using a rotary press with intaglio cylinders, typically running at high speed and used for long print runs of magazines and stamps. • a sheet or magazine printed with this system, esp. the color magazine of a Sunday newspaper. ORIGIN early 20th cent.: from German…
picayune |ˌpikiˈyoōn| adjective informal petty; worthless : the picayune squabbling of party politicians. noun a small coin of little value, esp. a 5-cent piece. • informal an insignificant person or thing. ORIGIN early 19th cent.: from French picaillon, denoting a Piedmontese copper coin, also used to mean ‘cash,’ from Provençal picaioun, of…
chromolithograph |ˌkrōmōˈliθəˌgraf| a colored picture printed by lithography, esp. in the late 19th and early 20th centuries.…
A Short History of The Louisiana Cycling Club By LACAR MUSGROVE The Louisiana Cycling Club, formed in New Orleans on July 7, 1887, under the aegis of a young, sharp-witted scribe named Richie Betts. The LCC was the second bicycle club in New Orleans (not counting the short-lived Crescent Wheelmen,…
"Heroism and Desperate Ferocity Marked Capture of Prison and Launched French Revolution" from Times-Picayune Sunday Magazine, July 11, 1926. "The fall of the Bastille, a drawing in "La Revolution Francaise," published in Paris and edited by Earnest Flammarion."…