Audubon Park Drawings Collection
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
Arrangement
This collection is arranged by project.
Immediate Source of Acquisition
Drawings were given to Tulane in 1986.
- 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
Creator
- Keenan, Walter Cook, 1881-1970 (Person)
- Language of description
- English
- Script of description
- Latin
Repository Details
Part of the Tulane University Special Collections Repository