Audubon Park Drawings Collection

Collection

Identifier: SEAA-046

Staff Only

Scope and Contents

This collection includes drawings featuring improvements to Audubon Park in New Orleans, Louisiana, including a design by the Olmsted Brothers (from Boston, Massachusetts) for a park pavilion; blueprints for the aviary at the Audubon Park Zoo by Walter Cook Keenan (from New Orleans, La.); and an 1894 map showing Horticultural Hall (built for the 1884 Cotton Centennial Exposition, destroyed in 1915 by a hurricane), and the race track.

Dates

1894-1948

Creator

Keenan, Walter Cook, 1881-1970 (Person)

Conditions Governing Access

Collection is open for research.

Conditions Governing Use

This collection is the physical property of Tulane University Special Collections. Copyright belongs to the creators or their legal heirs and assigns. It is the responsibility of the researcher to determine who holds the copyright and pursue the copyright owner or owner’s heir for permission to publish where Tulane University Special Collections does not hold the copyright. For further information, please contact Research Services at specialcollections@tulane.edu.

Extent

3.33 Linear Feet (1 folder)

Language of Materials

English

Additional Description

Arrangement

This collection is arranged by project.

Immediate Source of Acquisition

Drawings were given to Tulane in 1986.

Subjects

City planning -- Louisiana -- New Orleans Subject Source: Library of Congress Subject Headings
Landscape architecture -- Designs and plans Subject Source: Fast
Urban parks Subject Source: Library of Congress Subject Headings