A Brief History of Bullfighting in New Orleans For decades, bullfighting drew blood and protest in the Crescent City BY J.S. MAKKOS CHIEF CURATOR, NOLA DNA WITH JULIEN GORBACH MASS COMMUNICATION, NICHOLLS STATE UNIVERSITY NEW ORLEANS—It’s a little-known fact that matadors once waved their red capes at…
The American Antiquarian Society supports our efforts and have given NOLA DNA permission to reprint these pages out of Davy Crockett's 1849 Almanac. While the original illustration here is very small, our archival print will be on a 20 X 14 paper and will come with an actaul size replica…
Here is our newest product, a 2 color limited edition t-shirt, out this week for the 8th annual San Fermín in Nueva Orleans, Saturday July 12th, 2014. The design is inspired by an 1896 Daily Picayune article titled: "GIRL BULL KILLERS" about lady bullfighters from Barcelona, España. White,…
From Typecast New Orleans’ printers have been getting the word out for 250 years. CAROLYN KOLB Joseph Makkos’s background comes from “the creative writing side of things.” However, he likes the hands-on feel of old printing presses, and has four of his own (along with some 30,000 or…
BY MICHAEL PATRICK WELCH SPECIAL TO THE ADVOCATE It took Joseph Makkos and a friend six trips in a 17-foot U-Haul truck to transport 30,000 sections of antique Times-Picayune newspapers to his printing studio in the Upper Ninth Ward. Makkos found the collection, which spans 1888 to 1929, being…
While we were slacking: A holiday recap We were tickled upon our return to duty to find an excellent feature in the Columbia Journalism Review, written by local journalist Michael Patrick Welch, about Bywater denizen Joseph Makkos and his treasure trove of old Times-Picayune copies that he acquired last year…
30 THOUSAND ORIGINAL COPIES, AND LIVE HAPPILY EVER AFTER The story of Joseph Makkos is amazing, and beautiful, and crowds recovered through Craiglist an incredible amount of original copies of the newspaper in New Orleans, the one from 1915 is known as the Times-Picayune. It is a collection that ranges…
Hoard of antique Times-Picayune newspapers ends up in Ninth Ward By Doug MacCash, NOLA.com | The Times-Picayune "Joseph Makkos, an antique newspaper enthusiast who lives in the Ninth Ward, has a collection of hundreds of Times-Picayunes that date from 1888 to 1929. The story, reported by New Orleans writer…
12:00 AM - January 2, 2014 Remaking history A rare trove of Victorian-era Times-Picayunes survived Nazi bombs and trans-Atlantic voyages, before landing in the lap of a Crescent City character with a passion for antique printing presses and big plans for his treasure By Michael Patrick Welch Joseph Makkos…