Collection Highlights

His party pics captured the New Orleans music scene when Cash Money Records and New Orleans rap were on the precipice of worldwide fame.

HNOC acquired an original copy of the infamous image that took Civil War-era America by storm, quickly becoming a tool of the abolitionist cause.

The Playboy founder laments the effect of Jim Crow on his budding empire.

A dramatic composite photograph depicts a prominent New Orleans family in high style.

One hot-headed young upstart in early 19th-century Louisiana found his way onto the dueling field, where the odds were not in his favor.

Three large-format poems represent some of the earliest published works of the “Black American Rimbaud.”

A collection of prints by Jacqueline Bishop and Douglas Bourgeois, donated by art publisher Zanatta Editions, probes the complex relationship between humans and the natural environment.

In 1867, Sam Fucich immigrated from Croatia to south Louisiana. His seafood business helped grow the industry. 

When New York City’s war on drugs sent incarceration rates soaring, officials commissioned a floating jail built and christened downriver from New Orleans.