Collection. 1937-1957.

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Collection. 1937-1957.

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Writer on Louisiana folklore and Afro-American history. Mostly includes correspondence, scrapbooks, and press clippings. Of particular interest is the collection of clippings containing reviews of Gumbo Ya-Ya. Names in the collection include Marie Laveau. Subjects include Voodoo in New Orleans, folklore, Mardi Gras, spiritualism, and New Orleans blacks.

9 reels micro (positive)

Tulane University, Amistad Research Center

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Tulane University, Amistad Research Center

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Tallant, Robert, 1909-1957

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Author. Born in New Orleans, April 20, 1909. Educated in local public schools. Worked as an advertising copywriter, bank teller, and clerk before "drifting" into writing. His friendship with Lyle Saxon led to a position as editor on the Louisiana Writers' Project of the WPA. In this position he completed the writing of Gumbo Ya Ya, the Project's compilation of Louisiana folklore. By 1946 his career was fully launched and over the next eleven years he produced eight novels and six full-length wor...

Laveau, Marie, 1801-1881

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Marie Laveau (b. Sept. 10, 1801, New Orleans, LA–d. June 15, 1881, New Orleans, LA) was a New Orleans Voodoo Queen in the 19th Century. Her parents were Marguerite Henry, a free woman of color of Native American, African, and French descent, and Charles Laveau Trudeau. She was married to Jacques Paris for a year before he died; they had two daughters. After Jacques's death, Marie worked as a hair dresser to the New Orleans elite and lived with Christopher Dominick de Glapion. During h...

Gumbo Ya-Ya.

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