Theodore E. and Lou Bird Landry papers, 1931-1984 (bulk 1951-1976).

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Theodore E. and Lou Bird Landry papers, 1931-1984 (bulk 1951-1976).

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Personal and professional papers include correspondence, printed material, lectures, scrapbooks, and client files. Client files are comprised of correspondence, drawings, plans, photographs and color slides relating to landscape architecture work done for Louisiana, especially Baton Rouge area, plantations, churches, residences, schools, and businesses. Reports of damage to trees and gardens caused by hurricanes and tornadoes are also present. Projects of note include the plantations Afton Villa, Madewood, Magnolia Vale (Natchez, Miss.), Poplar Grove, San Francisco, and Valcour Aime; the Baton Rouge Esso (Exxon) refinery; and several churches in the Baton Rouge diocese. Printed materials are primarily programs and rosters from garden clubs and garden shows, especially the West Baton Rouge Garden and Civic Club, and newspaper clippings about the couple's work. Additional slides illustrate agriculture and transportation in Louisiana, Mardi Gras, Louisiana towns, Natchez plantation homes and costumes, and African-American baptisms. Two scrapbooks are also present. One records Theodore Landry's service in the Louisiana State Guard, 1942-1946, and the second, Lou Bird Landry's participation in garden clubs.

ca. 15,000 items.

Louisiana State University, LSU Libraries

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Louisiana State University, LSU Libraries

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Esso Standard Oil Company

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West Baton Rouge Garden and Civic Club.

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Landry, Lou Bird, 1897-1983.

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Landry, Theodore E., 1899-1980.

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Theodore E. and Lou Bird Landry were landscape architects of Port Allen, La. Theodore E. Landry was born in Mark, La., in 1899, and in 1914, he began working at the Esso Refinery in Baton Rouge. In 1920, he married Julia Louisa Bird, called "Lou Bird," also of Mark, and a graduate of St. Joseph's Academy in Baton Rouge. In 1925, the couple moved to Cinclare plantation in West Baton Rouge Parish where they opened a nursery, Cottage Gardens. In 1934, they moved to Port All...