Frederick Cable Oechsner papers, 1883-1968.

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Frederick Cable Oechsner papers, 1883-1968.

http://www.worldcat.org/oclc/761012878

This collection consists of personal and professional papers of Frederick Cable Oechsner. Included are manuscripts and typescripts of writings by F. C. Oechsner and others, drawings, photographs, dispatches, diplomas, newspaper clippings and other printed items. The photographs primarily concern F. C. Oechsner's foreign assignments during the 1940s and 1950s, but family photographs include several of earlier New Orleans Carnival scenes, such as the Court of Rex in 1924. Manuscripts are included by other individuals, namely James Boardman Cable, Kinne Cable Williamson, and Gertrude Duby Blom. An original sketch of F. C. Oechsner, by William Sprating, is included in the collection.

2 linear feet (2 boxes and 3 v.)

Tulane University, Howard-Tilton Memorial Library

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SNAC Resource ID: 8149297

Tulane University, Howard-Tilton Memorial Library

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Cable family.

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Spratling, William, 1900-1967

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Spratling studied architecture at Alabama Polytechnic Institute (now Auburn University), 1917-1921. He designed the university seal that, with minor changes, is still in use; he also taught drafting at API. Spratling moved to New Orleans where he taught at Tulane University and shared an apartment with novelist William Faulkner. Soon after, Spratling moved to Taxco, Mexico, reviving that town's silver industry. He authored many articles about architecture as well as a critically-acclaimed book, ...

Blom, Gertrude Duby

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B. 1901 in Bern, Switzerland;d. Dec. 23, 1993. From the description of Gertrude Duby Blom : Artist File. (International Center of Photography). WorldCat record id: 637094217 ...

Oechsner, John Frederick.

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Oechsner, Frederick Cable 1902-

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Frederick Cable Oechsner (1902-1992), born in New Orleans, was educated at Tulane University as a lawyer, but instead became a journalist, consul, intelligence official, and author. He was the son of prominent New Orleans physician John Frederick Oechsner (1868-1926) and Caroline Kinne Cable Oechsner (d. 1963). His mother was a niece of Louisiana writer, George Washington Cable. During World War II, F. C. Oechsner and other journalists were held by the Germans for six months until they were rele...

Oechsner family.

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