Louisiana Cultural Vistas - Spring 2009 - (Page 42) of arts and letters. Wife Lisette Boehm was the daughter of Avenue) near where the reclusive amateur photographer art dealer Francis J. Boehm while daughter Marie wed artist John Tibule Mendes was born. Mendes’ paternal Andres Molinary. Over the years, family guests included grandmother, Laure Delpuget, came from a family of Lafcadio Hearn and Mark Twain as well as artists Richard musicians who lived in the area and appear to have been Clague, Everett B.D. Julio, Harold Rudolphe, Thomas Sully, related to internationally-renowned New Orleans composer siblings Ellsworth and William Woodward, Swedish artist Ernest Guiraud. Bror K. Wikstrom and Italian sculptor Achille Perelli. The Seebold’s artistic circle also included competitors and PRINTING TRADESMEN fellow Lower Mid-City residents Frank Wagener and Louis An astounding number of early neighborhood residents, Meyer. As the Canal Street firm of Wagener & Meyer the including members of the Eckert, Schrenk, Boehler and pair operated a firm that sold European mirrors and art Moran families were employed as engravers and while also featuring local works by artists including Everett lithographers. Employed in the stationery trade since B.D. Julio, Francois Bernard and Richard Clague. A shortboyhood, Thomas J. Moran worked for Seymour & Stevens lived venture, and F.H. Hansell & Wagener and Meyer Brother before was bankrupt by the founding his own firm early 1870s. Frank around 1880. Sons Wagener later found William, Arthur and employment with art Alfred Moran carried dealer/photographer on the family business Theodore Lilienthal. that would eventually Picture frame become the Baton manufacturers, such Rouge-based Moran as Frank Wagener and Printing. John E. Louis Meyer were not Boehler, who resided the only specialized at Gasquet and S. woodworkers to live Prieur streets in the in Lower Mid-City. In late 1880s, was a 1880, no fewer than 27 lithographer whose skilled woodworkers, family included noted the majority of whom musicians as well as were of German birth engravers. or heritage, resided in Gasquet Street the area bounded by resident Christian Claiborne, Broad, Scharpe worked for Canal and St. Louis some of the city’s In the 1950s, Tulane Avenue, also part of U.S. Highway 61, was envisioned as a modern streets. Skilled finest lithographers, commercial corridor lined with skyscrapers and accessible by eight lanes of traffic. woodworkers were including Benedict also present along the Simon, Charles W. Uptown side of Lower Mid-City. German-born cabinet Clarke and Gustave Koeckert. In 1868, the Louisiana state maker Eugene Sekinger was a long-time Palmyra Street legislature commissioned Sharpe, along with Koeckert and resident while, on Cleveland Avenue, Henry Martinez Hugh Lewis, to produce an official map of Louisiana. pursued the same trade. Peter Davis, another noted lithographer and printer who Artist Charles F. Fisher once lived on Claiborne Avenue worked with Clarke, Lewis and Koeckert, resided in Lower and had a national reputation, as did his student, Mid-City as did others affiliated with top lithographers Emmanuel Gottlieb such as Thomas Fitzwilliam, Leutze, who created Charles Kummel, Michel the iconic painting Capo and the Wehrmann Washington Crossing family. the Delaware. Possibly Robert L. Patterson resided the first local artist at several Cleveland Avenue since Jean Hyacinthe locations during the 1870s and Laclotte to execute a painting depicting the Battle of New 1880s. Patterson was a partner, with Smith W. Bennett, in Orleans, Fisher based his the work on survivors’ accounts, the firm of Bennett & Patterson, which designed the completing the work in 1852. First displayed in New masthead of the Mascot newspaper, the best-known of the Orleans, Fisher’s Battle of New Orleans was also shown in tabloids covering the New Orleans demi-monde. Cincinnati and New York. A machinist by trade, Fisher Long-time Tulane Avenue resident John Douglas was patented several devices, including a steam-driven reputed to have been one of the nation’s finest engravers. propeller. Before leaving his native Dublin, the Irish-born Douglas Eugene and Joseph Simon, well-known portrait had apprenticed to Waller & Company. He emigrated to photographers, lived on Gasquet Street (now Cleveland New Orleans in 1848 and, within five years, was identified T he early 1950s brought the promise of urban renewal as Tulane Avenue was repackaged as the “Miracle Mile.” 42 LOUISIANA ENDOWMENT FOR THE HUMANITIES\Spring 2009 THE HISTORIC NEW ORLEANS COLLECTION
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