Collection. 1978-88, and continuing.

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Collection. 1978-88, and continuing.

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Evans Casso has authored a number of historical books. This is a continuing collection containing items including a photograph, clippings, and photocopies. The photograph is of Evan Jones McCall and Henry George McCall with their nurse, Mary Hartman Landry, ca. 1888. Also included is a study of Emerson Bentley, 1866-1889, by Lel McCullough; the diary of a Donaldsonville Cannoneer - Romain Octave Landry transcribed by Casso, and a taped interview with Casso regarding his life, conducted by Dr. Clifton H. Johnson (Director of Amistad Research Center, New Orleans). Casso is a member of the Civil War Round Table of New Orleans, and included is a paper that he delivered at the Round Table on the topic of General Wade Hampton. Also included is a map showing the plan of Fort Butler, a Civil War fort near Donaldsonville, LA; a photocopied article from Scientific Monthly: "A Negro Scientist of Slavery Days" (by George P. Meade, April 1946, Vol. LXII, pp. 317-326), concerning Norbert Rillieux, inventor of sugar refining process using vacumn evaporating pans; an outline by Casso of life on the NcCall Plantation where he grew up, and a bulletin; The Negro In the Aerospace Industry, by Herbert R. Northrup, 1968.

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Tulane University, Amistad Research Center

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Tulane University, Amistad Research Center

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Casso, Evans J., 1914-

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McCall Plantation (Donaldsonville, La.)

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Johnson, Clifton H. (Clifton Herman), 1921-2008

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Civil War Round Table of New Orleans.

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Northrup, Herbert Roof, 1918-2007

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Rillieux, Norbert, 1806-1894

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1806 March 17 Born in New Orleans, Louisiana, the natural son of Vincent Rillieux and Constance Vivant 1830 Sent to Paris, France to be educated. Published some technical studies that ranked him as an engineer of highest ability. 1834 Invented the Multiple Evaporator and its application into the s...

Bentley, Emerson, 18 ̲-̲1889.

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McCullough, Lel.

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Fort Butler (Donaldsonville, La.)

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Meade, George P. (George Peterkin), 1883-1975

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Landry, Romain Octave, 1861-65.

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Landry, Mary Hartman, ca. 1888.

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