George Blair Pickett oral history interview, 1974.

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George Blair Pickett oral history interview, 1974.

http://www.worldcat.org/oclc/122505681

The interview discusses the early history of the New Llano Colony, the education of children and religious practice in the colony, details of daily colony life, the manufacturing ventures of the colony, and the colony's eventual collapse in 1935. Reflections on the background and personality of George T. Pickett are included.

2 sound cassettes (2 hours).Transcript: (48 pages).

Louisiana State University, LSU Libraries

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SNAC Resource ID: 6739890

Louisiana State University, LSU Libraries

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Pickett, George Blair, 1930-

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George Blair Pickett was the son of George T. Pickett, a socialist, a member, and later president of the Llano Colony, a socialist cooperative society organized in California in 1914. In 1918, part of the colony migrated to Newllano (sometimes called New Llano), near Leesville in Vernon Parish, Louisiana. From the description of George Blair Pickett oral history interview, 1974. (Unknown). WorldCat record id: 122505681 ...

Pickett, George T., 1876-1959.

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George T. Pickett was a socialist, a member, and later a leader of the Llano Colony, a cooperative society which was organized in California in 1914. In 1918, part of the colony migrated to Newllano (sometimes called New Llano), Louisiana, near Leesville in Vernon Parish. From the description of Papers, 1883-1960. (Unknown). WorldCat record id: 122505666 ...

Dalrymple, Margaret Fisher

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Louisiana State University (Baton Rouge, La.). T. Harry Williams Center for Oral History

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The T. Harry Williams Center for Oral History was established in August 1991 to document the history of Louisiana State University. A department of LSU Libraries Special Collections, the Center conducts, collects, preserves, and makes available to scholars oral history interviews on Louisiana's social, political, cultural, and economic history. From the description of T. Harry Williams Center for Oral History records, 1990-1998. (Louisiana State University). WorldCat record id: 22696...

Llano Colony (Secular community)

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Utopian socialist community formed in 1914 in Southern Calif.; moved to La. in 1917; declared bankruptcy in 1936; attempt to recover assets begun in 1959. From the description of Llano del Rio records, 1911-1969. (California Historical Society). WorldCat record id: 122642341 The Llano del Rio Co-operative Colony was incorporated in 1914 by Los Angeles attorney Job Harriman, the socialist nominee for mayor of Los Angeles in 1911. The settlement was located in California's Ant...