Williams Research Center
Historic New Orleans Collection
410 Chartres Street
New Orleans, LA 70130

Telephone number: (504) 598-7171
Fax: (504) 598-7168
Email: wrc@hnoc.org
Website: http://www.hnoc.org

Contact person: Alfred Lemmon

Access privileges: Open to the public

Hours: Tuesday - Saturday 10:00 a.m. - 4:30 p.m.

Repository Information:
The Historic New Orleans Collection was established in 1966 by General and Mrs. L. Kemper Williams, private collectors, to maintain and expand their collections and to make them available to the public through research facilities and exhibitions. The Williams Research Center offers scholars access to the extensive print and microform holdings of its three Divisions. The Manuscript collections include letters, diaries, land tenure records, financial and legal documents, records of community organizations, New Orleans newspapers (1803 - present), and annotated printed items. These papers illuminate life in New Orleans and southern social and cultural history in the surrounding areas during the nineteenth and twentieth centuries. Women are represented throughout the Division's.

Although the material listed in this guide is located within the Manuscripts Division, the other divisions also have significant holdings by and about women. The Curatorial Division has many paintings, drawings, photographs, and other three-dimensional objects by women. Information on these female artists, is contained in the division's artists' files.

Collection highlights: Significant collections include the Wilkinson-Stark papers especially for their coverage of Mary Farrar Stark Wilkinson's subversion of the invading federal army to protect her children, and the correspondence of Eliza Jane Nicholson, owner and editor of the Times-Picayune in the 1870s and 1880s.

Finding aids: Finding aids for catalogued manuscript collections usually provide an inventory or calendar with a chronological listing of each item in the collection. More detailed information on many of the manuscript collections is available online in the Manuscripts Division Updates, Vols. 1-13 issued from 1982-1994. Notices of recent acquisitions appear in `The Historic New Orleans Collection Quarterly'.

Facilities: Photocopying, microfilming and photography; power sockets available for laptops.

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