Steele Burden oral history interview, 1994.

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Steele Burden oral history interview, 1994.

http://www.worldcat.org/oclc/262478452

Includes discussion of Burden's family background, original interest in gardening and extensive work at City Park in Baton Rouge. He comments on his gardening style, landscaping LSU, his contributions to LSU and Baton Rouge, and the origins of the Rural Life Museum.

1 sound cassette (1 hour, 30 minutes);Transcript (70 p.)

Louisiana State University, LSU Libraries

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SNAC Resource ID: 7158318

Louisiana State University, LSU Libraries

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Louisiana State University (Baton Rouge, La.). Rural Life Museum.

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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...

Grigsby, Kathy.

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Louisiana State University (Baton Rouge, La.)

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Steele family.

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Burden, Steele, 1900-1995,

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Steele Burden worked for the city of Baton Rouge and LSU initially as a gardener and later as a landscape architect. He played a pivotal role in the founding and development of the LSU Rural Life History Museum at Louisiana State University, Baton Rouge, La., by donating the museum's site, Windrush Plantation, his family's home. From the description of Steele Burden oral history interview, 1994. (Louisiana State University). WorldCat record id: 262478452 Steele Burden worked...