This guide highlights items and collections related to the state’s highway systems and other state infrastructure.
To use this guide, please follow the links to browse and research collections. For some collections we have provided links to filtered search results and specific items to help you get started.
Early Road and Highway Construction
Search results from the State Library of Louisiana Works Progress Administration Collection highlighting photos documenting the early road and highway construction in Louisiana during the 1930s and 1940s, as well as historical Federal Writers Project articles from the 1800s. See for example this 1827 letter to the editor recommending government officials hire an engineer for infrastructure development, and this photo of workmen laying a sub-surface drainage system.
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Topics: roads, highways, bridges, streets
Louisiana Interstate Construction
Search results from the State Library of Louisiana Historic Photographs Collection highlighting photos that document the Louisiana Interstate Construction Projects of the 1960s and 1970s.
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Topics: roads, highways, bridges, interstates, streets