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State Instrument Image Date & Citation Arkansas: Fiddle: 1985 [1] Hawaii: Ukulele (ʻauana/contemporary musical instrument) 2015 [2] Pahu (kahiko/traditional musical instrument) Kentucky: Appalachian dulcimer: 2001 [3] "Mighty Wurlitzer" organ (theater pipe organ) 2005 [4] Louisiana: Cajun accordion: 1990 [5] Missouri: Fiddle: 1987 [6] New ...
"Louisiana My Home Sweet Home" LL 155.1, 1952 Tartan: Louisiana Tartan: LL 170.6, 2001 Tree: Bald cypress [1] (Taxodium distichum) LL 160, 1963 Vegetable: Sweet potato (Pomona Batista) LL 170.11, 2003 Vegetable plant: Creole tomato: LL 170.11, 2003 Wildflower: Louisiana iris (Iris giganticaerulea) LL 154.1, 1990
[4] [5] Among the items in their collection are a souvenir program marking the centennial of the Louisiana Purchase, a Napoleon death mask made by his personal physician Francesco Antommarchi, [4] and items related to the centennial of steam service on the Mississippi River. [6] [7] Alcée Fortier served as the society's president from 1894 to ...
The 10th Louisiana fought in many engagements of the Army of the Northern Virginia from the Battle of Williamsburg to the Battle of Cold Harbor.At the Battle of Gettysburg in July 1863, the regiment was part of the brigade of Col. Jesse Williams and participated in a series of unsuccessful attacks on Union entrenchments on Culp's Hill.
In 1925, the Commission joined with the philanthropic Carnegie Corporation to create a network of libraries across the state under the direction of Essae Martha Culver. Portrait of Essae Martha Culver [3] [4] The State Library of Louisiana opened on November 1, 1925, in Baton Rouge. [5]
These scenes with the chair were filmed in the actual execution chamber at Louisiana State Penitentiary, where "Gruesome Gertie" had been used for real executions a decade earlier. "Gruesome Gertie" is the instrument of death in Ernest J. Gaines's novel A Lesson Before Dying. It's used to execute the young black man Jefferson, for a murder he ...
On September 15, 1977, the entire collection of the New Orleans Jazz Museum was donated to the people of Louisiana and became The New Orleans Jazz Club Collections of the Louisiana State Museum. [2] In the early 1980s, the Louisiana State Museum's Jazz Collection exhibit opened on the second floor of the Old U.S. Mint building under the ...
Louisiana Technical College, 42 statewide campuses, 1930–2012 — merged and are now aligned to other institutions within the Louisiana Community and Technical College System; South Central Louisiana Technical College, 4 campuses — merged 2018 into South Louisiana, Fletcher, and River Parishes Community Colleges