Lavender Legacies Guide: United States: Louisiana

Tulane University
Address: Tulane Manuscripts Department
Special Collections
Tulane Libraries
Tulane University
New Orleans, LA 70118
Contact: Leon C. Miller, Manuscripts Librarian
Email: lmiller@tulane.edu
Internet Address: http://specialcollections.tulane.edu
Collecting areas: The Tulane Manuscripts Department supports Tulane University's mission by acquiring, preserving, and making available records and papers pertaining primarily to the social and cultural development of New Orleans, and secondarily to the state of Louisiana as a whole. The department acquires records and papers in most subject areas pertaining to New orleans and Louisiana, with a special emphasis given to the social, cultural, political, literary, and military development of the region. Most prominent among its collecting interests are Jewish studies, women's studies, GLBT studies, Louisiana politics, the Civil War, waterways, medicine, social welfare, Carnival, and Southern literature.

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