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The Louisiana Digital Library (LDL) is an online library showcasing over 500,000 items contributed by over 30 cultural heritage institutions in the state.
Let's Discover Louisiana Together! ⚜️ The Louisiana Digital Library (LDL) is an online library containing photographs, maps, manuscript materials, books, oral histories, and more that document Louisiana's history and culture. Libraries, museums, archives, historical groups, and other institutions across the State contribute materials to the LDL. This state-wide digital library is used by anyone with access to the internet and an interest in the materials.
12/25/2025
Merry Christmas from the LDL! Here's an image from The Historic New Orleans Collection's LDL library. It's a night view of an illuminated holiday greeting sign strung on wires across Canal Street in the Central Business District. The building with a cupola seen at the lower left is the Godchaux Building, located at 527-543 Canal Street, corner of Chartres.
https://louisianadigitallibrary.org/islandora/object/hnoc-p15140coll1%3A782
12/17/2025
Enjoy some holiday cheer from The Historic New Orleans Collection's LDL image library. It's a holiday card from The Jazz Man Record Shop, featuring Jelly Roll Morton and his Red Hot Peppers.
https://louisianadigitallibrary.org/islandora/object/hnoc-russell520%3A4625
12/03/2025
Congratulations to the winners of the 1945 Book Character Costume Contest!
Pictured on the left are the 7th and 8th-grade winners, Bobbie Poland as Huck Finn and Mary Alice McCray as a character from Roaming in Hawaii. On the right are High School winners John Coussins as Charles Damay from “A Tale of Two Cities” and Herman Baldwin as Pecos Bill.
You can find these and other trips down memory lane in the Webster Parish Libraries collection in the Louisiana Digital Library linked here: https://louisianadigitallibrary.org/webster
12/03/2025
The Amistad Research Center's images on the LDL include this black and white photo collage of the New Orleans College from the book 'The Crescent City Pictorial: A Souvenir, Dedicated to the Progress of the Colored Citizens of New Orleans, Louisiana, "America's Most Interesting City."' Published by O.C.W. Taylor, copyright 1925.
You can read the rest of this book and more from the Amistad Research Center collection on the Louisiana Digital Library link below.
06 - The Crescent City Pictorial: New Orleans College Black and white photo collage- New Orleans College N.O. L.A. From the book 'The Crescent City Pictorial: A Souvenir, Dedicated to the Progress of the Colored Citizens of New Orleans, Louisiana "America's Most Interesting City."' Published by O.C.W. Taylor, 2803 Aubry St. New Orleans, LA, copyright 1...
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