Description
The Friends of the Cabildo, Published 1982. Paperback, 122 pp.; 24 cm; First Edition; illustrated throughout with black-and-white photographs, prints, plans, and reproduced documents.
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Condition & notes
In Good condition. Glossy illustrated covers (color view of the Square in an ornamental cast-iron border on front, Clark Mills's equestrian statue of Jackson on rear) with a one-inch square patch at upper corner of front cover where the top layer of paper pulled away with a removed price sticker; mild shelf and edge wear. Binding tight. Small tear and creasing at fore edge of pp. 49-50, pages otherwise clean and unmarked. A chapter-per-episode history of the most historic spot in New Orleans, from the Place d'Armes laid out under Adrien de Pauger in 1721 to the renamed Jackson Square of the 1980s, by the city's leading popular historian (New Orleans: A Pictorial History; Louisiana: A Pictorial History) with an introduction by the architectural historian of the Vieux Carre. Huber works from the Historic New Orleans Collection, the Louisiana State Museum, and the newspapers to cover the Natchez executions of 1730, O'Reilly's arrival with the Spanish fleet in 1769, the 1803 transfer ceremonies, the 1815 victory celebration, the cholera year of 1832, the Jackson Monument Association and Clark Mills, the 1856 inauguration of the statue (with the printed order of procession and a brandy bill for the committee), the Pontalba years, the 1903 Louisiana Transfer centennial, the 1969 renovation, and the Christmas caroling tradition. Reproduces Latrobe's fence-and-fountain design, Pilie's unexecuted park plan, and views by Boqueto de Woiserie, Schwartz, and others. Bibliography. Published by the Louisiana State Museum's support society and never trade distributed.