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Sculpture named "The Welfare Rock" in Baton Rouge Louisiana in 1956
title
Sculpture named "The Welfare Rock" in Baton Rouge Louisiana in 1956
Subject
Sculpture, Assistance, Welfare facilities
Date created ms
1956-07
Abstract
B&W photo, July 1956. "The Welfare Rock" sculpture in front of the Department of Public Welfare building in Baton Rouge, Louisiana. Sculpture by Alfonso Iannelli. Sculpture reads "Aid to Needy".
View of boats doing relief work during the Louisiana Great Flood of 1927
title
View of boats doing relief work during the Louisiana Great Flood of 1927
Subject
Floods, Louisiana Great Flood of 1927, Boats, Gunboats, Ships, Assistance, Red Cross and Red Crescent, Disaster relief
Date created ms
1927
Abstract
B&W photo, 1927. Relief work during the Louisiana Great Flood of 1927. Location within Louisiana unknown, but probably Baton Rouge Louisiana. Written on photo: Coast guards anchored at city docks ready to go when called. They fly the Red Cross flag. Coast guards with flat boats chained and ready to go.
View from a boat doing flood control work during the Louisiana Great Flood of 1927
title
View from a boat doing flood control work during the Louisiana Great Flood of 1927
Subject
Floods, Louisiana Great Flood of 1927, Boats, Gunboats, Ships, Assistance
Date created ms
1927
Abstract
B&W photo, 1927. Relief work during the Louisiana Great Flood of 1927. Location within Louisiana unknown, but probably Baton Rouge Louisiana. Written on photo: Taken from gun boat anchored at city docks. Sea plane that patrols the levee to watch for weak places.
Loading flat boats as part of relief work in Baton Rouge Louisiana during the Great Flood of 1927
title
Loading flat boats as part of relief work in Baton Rouge Louisiana during the Great Flood of 1927
Subject
Floods, Louisiana Great Flood of 1927, Assistance, Boats, Red Cross and Red Crescent, Disaster relief
Date created ms
1927
Abstract
B&W photo, 1927. Relief work in Baton Rouge Louisiana during the Great Flood of 1927. Written on photo: Loading Red Cross flat boats at Baton Rouge. Flat boats loaded another way - Coast Guards along the dock.
Louisiana's only Indian School opens near Eden Louisiana in 1935.
title
Louisiana's only Indian School opens near Eden Louisiana in 1935.
Subject
Indians of North America, Choctaw Indians, Schools, Education, Assistance, School children, Free schools, Teachers, United States. Works Progress Administration of Louisiana
Date Issued
1935-09-25
Abstract
Text, September 26, 1935. Indian School Opens Monday in the Parish. Mrs. Penick says Nine Full Months Guaranteed the Choctaws. Louisiana's only Indian School opens near Eden, Louisiana in 1935. The school is under the supervision of Mrs. Charles Penick.
Hope Haven Industrial Training Society in Gretna Louisiana of 1936.
title
Hope Haven Industrial Training Society in Gretna Louisiana of 1936.
Subject
United States. Works Progress Administration of Louisiana, Assistance, Asylums, Orphanages, Orphans, Charitable organizations, Catholicism, Schools, Vocational education, School children, Welfare facilities
Date Issued
1936-04-29
Abstract
Text, April 29th, 1936. Hope Haven Plantation. Description of Hope Haven Industrial Training Society in Gretna Louisiana. Primarily a home for dependent and orphan boys, but also an educational plant where boys receive industrial training "that will make them self-supporting men and good citizens." Printing, book-binding, wood-working, farming and dairying are taught. The staff are trained social workers of the Associated Catholic Charities. Also discussed is the Madonna Manor, an asylum for girls, and boys under 12, headed by the sisters of Notre Dame. The institutions were founded by the Reverend Father M.H. Wynhoven in 1927.
Portrait of the first superintendent of the Louisiana Training Institute Dallas Matthews in Baton Rouge Louisiana approximately 1960s
title
Portrait of the first superintendent of the Louisiana Training Institute Dallas Matthews in Baton Rouge Louisiana approximately 1960s
Subject
Portraits, Assistance, Youth, African Americans, Jails, Matthews, Dallas, Juvenile delinquents
Date created ms
[196-]
Abstract
B&W photo, approximately 1960s. Dallas Matthews. First Superintendent of Louisiana Training Institute in Baton Rouge. Written on photo: State Judicial School for Colored Young.
Loading flat boats as part of relief work in Baton Rouge Louisiana during the Great Flood of 1927
title
Loading flat boats as part of relief work in Baton Rouge Louisiana during the Great Flood of 1927
Subject
Floods, Louisiana Great Flood of 1927, Assistance, Boats, Red Cross and Red Crescent, Disaster relief
Date created ms
1927
Abstract
B&W photo, 1927. Relief work in Baton Rouge Louisiana during the Great Flood of 1927. Written on photo: Loading Red Cross flat boats at city docks - Baton Rouge, La. Gun boat loaded with flat boats and other relief at City Docks.
Red cross boat on a crane during the Louisiana Great Flood of 1927
title
Red cross boat on a crane during the Louisiana Great Flood of 1927
Subject
Floods, Louisiana Great Flood of 1927, Boats, Gunboats, Ships, Assistance, Red Cross and Red Crescent, Disaster relief
Date created ms
1927
Abstract
B&W photo, 1927. Red Cross boat on crane during the Louisiana Great Flood of 1927. Location within Louisiana unknown, but probably Baton Rouge Louisiana.
Sculpture named "The Welfare Rock" in Baton Rouge Louisiana in the 1960s
title
Sculpture named "The Welfare Rock" in Baton Rouge Louisiana in the 1960s
Subject
Sculpture, Assistance, Welfare facilities
Date created ms
1960, 1969
Abstract
B&W photo, 1960s. Welfare Rock. Sculpture by Iannelli, 1956. This sculpture was located at the Department of Public Welfare building, Third St., Baton Rouge, La. Division of Family Services, Louisiana Health and Human Resources Administration, now Social Services. Sculpture reads "Aid to Needy." The Social Services building was torn down in 2007.
Description of the activities surrounding the Maison Hospitaliere in the French Quarter of New Orleans circa 1888, from the 1930s.
title
Description of the activities surrounding the Maison Hospitaliere in the French Quarter of New Orleans circa 1888, from the 1930s.
Subject
French Quarter (New Orleans, La.), African Americans, Cookery, Baking, Fund raising, Aged persons, Charitable organizations, Charity, Assistance
Date Issued
[193-]
Abstract
Text, circa 1930s. Le Maison Hospitaliere. Description of the activities surrounding the Maison Hospitaliere in the French Quarter of New Orleans circa 1888, as described by the author, from the 1930s. Le Maison Hospitaliere was created by Ernestine Wiltz-Bouny, Carolie Carrejolles and Mrs. Stephen Chalaron in 1879. The short article describes the culinary interests of Mrs. Bouny and her servant Celestin. Celestin cooked small foods and them peddled them in the French Quarter to raise money. Le Maison Hospitaliere was a haven for destitute aged women of aristocratic lineage.
Thrift Day established in St. Mary Parish to be followed by their establishment in Terrebonne Parish in 1918.
title
Thrift Day established in St. Mary Parish to be followed by their establishment in Terrebonne Parish in 1918.
Subject
United States. Works Progress Administration of Louisiana, Assistance, Economic aspects of war, War bonds & funds, Consumer rationing
Date Issued
1918-01-06
Abstract
Text, January 6, 1918. Thrift day in St. Mary Parish. Thrift Meals, Meetings and Speeches the Plan: Terrebonne to do Likewise Two Days Later: Colored People will do Bit, Too. Thrift meals established in St. Mary Parish to be followed by their establishment in Terrebonne Parish.The names and addresses of committee personnel are included. Also includes planned programs for war rationing programs thoughout Louisiana. Published in the Daily States.
Description of the Koasati Indian School and Church at Indian Village near Elton Louisiana in the 1930s.
title
Description of the Koasati Indian School and Church at Indian Village near Elton Louisiana in the 1930s.
Subject
United States. Works Progress Administration of Louisiana, Indians of North America, Koasati Indians, Alabami Indians, Government facilities, Education, Language, Churches, Schools, School children, Classrooms, Assistance, Racism
Date Issued
1930, 1939
Abstract
Text, date unknown, circa 1930s. Koasati Indian School and Church at Indian Village. Description of the Koasati Indian School and Church at Indian Village near Elton, Louisiana. The school children's teacher and the village minister are discussed as well.
History and description of the New Orleans Lighthouse for the Blind
title
History and description of the New Orleans Lighthouse for the Blind
Subject
United States. Works Progress Administration of Louisiana, Blind persons, Blindness, People with disabilities, Charity, Assistance, Philanthropy
Date Issued
[193-]
Abstract
Text, date unknown. The New Orleans Lighthouse for the Blind. History and description of the New Orleans Lighthouse for the Blind, chiefly established by S.J. Shwartz of New Orleans, to give the blind of New Orleans practical training in self-support. The management, means of support and industry are also discussed.
Chaining boats as part of relief work in Baton Rouge Louisiana during the Great Flood of 1927
title
Chaining boats as part of relief work in Baton Rouge Louisiana during the Great Flood of 1927
Subject
Floods, Louisiana Great Flood of 1927, Assistance, Boats, Red Cross and Red Crescent, Disaster relief
Date created ms
1927
Abstract
B&W photo, 1927. Relief work in Baton Rouge Louisiana during the Great Flood of 1927. Written on photo: Red Cross boats being chained together. These are fastened to Coast Guard. At Baton Rouge Docks.
View of a boat doing relief work during the Louisiana Great Flood of 1927
title
View of a boat doing relief work during the Louisiana Great Flood of 1927
Subject
Floods, Louisiana Great Flood of 1927, Boats, Gunboats, Ships, Assistance
Date created ms
1927
Abstract
B&W photo, 1927. Relief work during the Louisiana Great Flood of 1927. Location within Louisiana unknown, but probably Baton Rouge Louisiana. Written on photo: Another view of gun boat.
Red Cross flat boats on the Mississippi River in Louisiana in the 1910s
title
Red Cross flat boats on the Mississippi River in Louisiana in the 1910s
Subject
Boats, Mississippi River, Floods, Louisiana Great Flood of 1927, Assistance, Disaster relief, Red Cross and Red Crescent
Date created ms
1910, 1919
Abstract
B&W photo, 1927. Red Cross flat boats used for relief work in Baton Rouge Louisiana during the Great Flood of 1927. Written on photo: There are hundreds of these in the river.
Sculpture named "The Welfare Rock" in Baton Rouge Louisiana in 1956
title
Sculpture named "The Welfare Rock" in Baton Rouge Louisiana in 1956
Subject
Sculpture, Assistance, Welfare facilities
Date created ms
1956-07
Abstract
B&W photo, July 1956. "The Welfare Rock" sculpture in front of the Department of Public Welfare building in Baton Rouge, Louisiana. Sculpture by Alfonso Iannelli. Sculpture reads "Aid to Needy".
AZ Young Welfare Building on Third Street in Baton Rouge Louisiana in 1971
title
AZ Young Welfare Building on Third Street in Baton Rouge Louisiana in 1971
Subject
Buildings, Government facilities, Welfare facilities, Assistance
Date created ms
1971-12-12
Abstract
B&W photo, December 12, 1971. AZ Young Welfare Building, Third St., Baton Rouge, La. This building housed the Department of Social Services. It was demolished in 2007.
Ceremonies and dedication of new annex on the Fink Asylum for orphans and widows in New Orleans, Louisiana in 1887.
title
Ceremonies and dedication of new annex on the Fink Asylum for orphans and widows in New Orleans, Louisiana in 1887.
Subject
United States. Works Progress Administration of Louisiana, Asylums, Welfare facilities, Assistance, Philanthropists, Orphans, Orphanages, Widows, Fink, John David
Date Issued
1887-01-10
Abstract
Text, January 10, 1887. The Fink Asylum. Dedication of a New Building. The History of a Noble Benefactor. Ceremonies and dedication of new annex on the Fink Asylum in New Orleans in 1887. The asylum supports Protestant widows and orphans and was founded by John David Fink in 1885. The board of commissioners and head matron are listed as well. Published in the Daily Picayune.

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