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The Lee Circle Main Library around the time of its opening in 1908. The system began in 1895 in the Fisk Free and Public Library in a building on Lafayette Square. [1] Abijah Fisk was a merchant who, over fifty years earlier, had left his house—at the corner of Iberville and Bourbon Streets—to the city for use as a library.
By 1989, there were approximately 15,300 Vietnamese refugees resettled in Louisiana. [4] Catholic dioceses of Louisiana were active in this process, with the Archdiocese of New Orleans sponsoring resettlement in Orleans and Jefferson Parishes and the Roman Catholic Diocese of Houma–Thibodaux sponsoring resettlement in St. Mary Parish ...
Both New Orleans East and the Westbank were settled by the Vietnamese at the same time. [3] In later periods, Vietnamese settlements spread to other parts of the metropolitan New Orleans area including other sections of New Orleans East, Avondale, [2] and the City of Gretna. [4] The New Orleans East section was flooded by Hurricane Katrina in 2005
After the Viet Mercury ceased publication, two other newspapers replaced it in Northern California: Việt Tribune và VTimes. [19] [20] Early newspapers focused on local news for Vietnamese Americans; later they expanded to serving other readers. Người Việt has an English edition for Vietnamese Americans born in the US. Besides these ...
The current state library was not the first. The Louisiana State Library was created in 1838. It was originally located in New Orleans, which was the state capital at the time. In 1849 the capital was moved to Baton Rouge, and the library also moved. [2] During the Civil War the library was moved back to New Orleans to protect the collection ...
The Howard-Tilton Memorial Library was founded in 1938, when the collections of three pre-existing, smaller libraries were merged. [1] The most significant of these early library collections was that of the F.W. Tilton Memorial Library, dedicated in 1902 in honor of New Orleans businessman and philanthropist Frederick William Tilton.
It was originally founded in 1909, called the Louisiana State Library Association, after a call for a statewide library group from the New Orleans Library Club. [3] [4] An initial meeting of thirty people was held at Tulane University in 1909 with the goal of increasing the number of trained librarians in the state and drafting library legislation.
In 1938, General Lewis Kemper Williams [4] (1887-1971), a World War I veteran, Brigadier General in World War II, [5] [6] businessman, and honorary Consul General of Monaco in New Orleans, [7] and his wife, Leila Hardie Moore Williams [8] (1901-1966) bought two properties in the French Quarter, the Spanish Colonial Merieult House on Royal Street and a late 19th-century residence next to the ...