Louisiana Cultural Vistas - Summer 2008 - (Page 65) THE HILL COLLECTION, HOLDINGS OF THE LSU LIBRARIES Mississippi River. As yet without a levee, the river could be seen from the windows of his second-story studio, as could the busy street below with the popular Harney House Hotel across the street. There was no better location than this well-traveled block close to the river landing, with its wandering travelers, shopping townspeople, and plantation owners visiting town for business and social events. The Lytles began taking part in the social life of the community as well. Andrew and Mary joined St. James Episcopal Church. Andrew used his experience with the Rover Cadets and the Red Artillery of Cincinnati to lead drill exercises of Baton Rouge militia units, and extant photographic portraits indicate that at least Andrew came into contact with the area’s elite families through the portrait studio. Summer 2008/LOUISIANA ENDOWMENT FOR THE HUMANITIES 65 Surviving materials show that Andrew remained current with photographic developments. While an itinerant photographer during the late 1850s, he had shifted from the one-of-a-kind daguerreotype to the new wet-plate collodion process. Depending on how he developed the wet-plate negative, it could either be used to create a unique positivenegative image (ambrotype) or as a negative to generate countless positive prints. Using this negative-positive process, Lytle could create albumenized-paper prints to be mounted on heavy card stock in the popular carte de visite format priced at fifty cents. As the nation moved toward war and the political situation destabilized in Louisiana, Andrew advertised more frequently and farther afield. To attract business from both East and West Baton Rouge Parishes, for example, he placed ads in the Baton Rouge
Table of Contents Feed for the Digital Edition of Louisiana Cultural Vistas - Summer 2008 Louisiana Cultural Vistas - Summer 2008 Contents Friends Editor’s Column Louisiana Endowment for the Humanities George Rodrigue’s Louisiana: Cajuns, Blue Dogs & Beyond Katrina The Historic New Orleans Collection After The Flood Faubourg Marigny: The Creole “Suburb” Preserving New Orleans Jazz, One Generation at a Time: Conversation & Music with Tom Sancton Louisiana Foodways Louisiana Architecture Baton Rouge Photographs, 1863-1910 Jazz Notes The Ogden Museum of Southern Art Louisiana Association of Museums Nature of the “Beast” Louisiana State Museum Bookstand Sound Advice Forum Louisiana Cultural Vistas - Summer 2008 Louisiana Cultural Vistas - Summer 2008 - Louisiana Cultural Vistas - Summer 2008 (Page Cover1) Louisiana Cultural Vistas - Summer 2008 - Louisiana Cultural Vistas - Summer 2008 (Page Cover2) Louisiana Cultural Vistas - Summer 2008 - Contents (Page 1) Louisiana Cultural Vistas - Summer 2008 - Friends (Page 2) Louisiana Cultural Vistas - Summer 2008 - Editor’s Column (Page 3) Louisiana Cultural Vistas - Summer 2008 - Louisiana Endowment for the Humanities (Page 4) Louisiana Cultural Vistas - Summer 2008 - Louisiana Endowment for the Humanities (Page 5) Louisiana Cultural Vistas - Summer 2008 - Louisiana Endowment for the Humanities (Page 6) Louisiana Cultural Vistas - Summer 2008 - Louisiana Endowment for the Humanities (Page 7) Louisiana Cultural Vistas - Summer 2008 - George Rodrigue’s Louisiana: Cajuns, Blue Dogs & Beyond Katrina (Page 8) Louisiana Cultural Vistas - Summer 2008 - George Rodrigue’s Louisiana: Cajuns, Blue Dogs & Beyond Katrina (Page 9) Louisiana Cultural Vistas - Summer 2008 - George Rodrigue’s Louisiana: Cajuns, Blue Dogs & Beyond Katrina (Page 10) Louisiana Cultural Vistas - Summer 2008 - George Rodrigue’s Louisiana: Cajuns, Blue Dogs & Beyond Katrina (Page 11) Louisiana Cultural Vistas - Summer 2008 - George Rodrigue’s Louisiana: Cajuns, Blue Dogs & Beyond Katrina (Page 12) Louisiana Cultural Vistas - 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Summer 2008 - After The Flood (Page 37) Louisiana Cultural Vistas - Summer 2008 - After The Flood (Page 38) Louisiana Cultural Vistas - Summer 2008 - After The Flood (Page 39) Louisiana Cultural Vistas - Summer 2008 - Faubourg Marigny: The Creole “Suburb” (Page 40) Louisiana Cultural Vistas - Summer 2008 - Faubourg Marigny: The Creole “Suburb” (Page 41) Louisiana Cultural Vistas - Summer 2008 - Faubourg Marigny: The Creole “Suburb” (Page 42) Louisiana Cultural Vistas - Summer 2008 - Faubourg Marigny: The Creole “Suburb” (Page 43) Louisiana Cultural Vistas - Summer 2008 - Faubourg Marigny: The Creole “Suburb” (Page 44) Louisiana Cultural Vistas - Summer 2008 - Faubourg Marigny: The Creole “Suburb” (Page 45) Louisiana Cultural Vistas - Summer 2008 - Faubourg Marigny: The Creole “Suburb” (Page 46) Louisiana Cultural Vistas - Summer 2008 - Faubourg Marigny: The Creole “Suburb” (Page 47) Louisiana Cultural Vistas - Summer 2008 - Preserving New Orleans Jazz, One Generation at a Time: Conversation & Music with Tom Sancton (Page 48) Louisiana Cultural Vistas - 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Summer 2008 - Preserving New Orleans Jazz, One Generation at a Time: Conversation & Music with Tom Sancton (Page 56) Louisiana Cultural Vistas - Summer 2008 - Preserving New Orleans Jazz, One Generation at a Time: Conversation & Music with Tom Sancton (Page 57) Louisiana Cultural Vistas - Summer 2008 - Louisiana Foodways (Page 58) Louisiana Cultural Vistas - Summer 2008 - Louisiana Foodways (Page 59) Louisiana Cultural Vistas - Summer 2008 - Louisiana Architecture (Page 60) Louisiana Cultural Vistas - Summer 2008 - Louisiana Architecture (Page 61) Louisiana Cultural Vistas - Summer 2008 - Baton Rouge Photographs, 1863-1910 (Page 62) Louisiana Cultural Vistas - Summer 2008 - Baton Rouge Photographs, 1863-1910 (Page 63) Louisiana Cultural Vistas - Summer 2008 - Baton Rouge Photographs, 1863-1910 (Page 64) Louisiana Cultural Vistas - Summer 2008 - Baton Rouge Photographs, 1863-1910 (Page 65) Louisiana Cultural Vistas - Summer 2008 - Baton Rouge Photographs, 1863-1910 (Page 66) Louisiana Cultural Vistas - 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