This collection largely consists of photographs and glass plate negatives depicting 19th-century Louisiana scenes. Illustrated are various New Orleans buildings (e.g., St. Charles Hotel, slave market, Christ Church, New Orleans Opera House, and Charity Hospital), streets, and statues; steamboats on the Mississippi River; the Mississippi River levee; Lake Pontchartrain; Bayou Lafourche; and scenes in St. Louis, Cincinnati, Charleston, and Baton Rouge. Few of the photographs are portraits, several are bird's-eye-views of New Orleans, and some are reproductions of published engravings. The manuscript items consist of a clipping about Peggy Wood, a poem, a list of glass plate negatives, and some framed items, such as a letter by General Robert E. Lee.
