Collection Highlights

An unusual periodical, written and produced by residents of the state mental hospital in the mid-20th century

After the Civil War, a one-man publisher aimed to reeducate the Southern gentry with a magazine devoted to both practical skills and the arts.

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

A post-segregation sibling to the Green Book, this directory compiled information on Black-owned businesses across the country.

When séances were all the rage, New Orleans produced the nation’s first and only French-language publication devoted to Spiritualism.

John James Audubon’s masterpiece of naturalist art is on display in a double-elephant folio as part of HNOC’s ongoing exhibition A Vanishing Bounty.

A bound volume of eight pieces for piano and voice sheds light on the role of women in New Orleans’s 19th-century music scene.

William Faulkner’s second novel was inspired by a trip across Lake Pontchartrain.