Hogan Archive in the Community – Small Center, IAMLA, and Dew Drop Inn

Materials from Hogan Archive collections are on view throughout the community, both in New Orleans and beyond.  

Small Center for Collaborative Design
“Don’t Stand Alone”: Black Labor Organizing in New Orleans is a collaborative exhibition, including Hogan materials from the American Federation of Musicians Local 174-496 records (HJA-001) and Hogan Archive Photography Collection. Items on view are scans of Louis Armstrong’s membership application and membership record with the New Orleans Musicians Union, lists of local clubs and musicians; and a 1967 photograph of the union hall of AFM Local 496, which served Black musicians, before it was integrated with Local 174.

The exhibition is produced by the New Orleans Workers’ Center for Racial Justice; the Center for Public Service, Department of History, and the Albert and Tina Small Center for Collaborative Design at Tulane University; the Ethel & Herman L. Midlo Center for New Orleans Studies and the Justice Studies Program at the University of New Orleans. It is on view at the Small Center, 1725 Baronne St. in New Orleans, from March 14 through May 10, 2024.

Italian American Museum of Los Angeles (IAMLA)
Materials from the Louis Prima papers (HJA-041) are included in the IAMLA exhibition, Louis Prima: Rediscovering a Musical Icon, on view November 4, 2023, through October 13, 2024. The exhibition is produced in collaboration with the Gia Maione Prima Foundation, Inc., which also donated the Prima papers collection to Tulane University Special Collections.

Dew Drop Inn
The redeveloped and reopened Dew Drop Inn, 2836 Lasalle St. in New Orleans, features a collaborative exhibit including photographs and audio from two digitized Hogan collections, The Legend of the Dew Drop Inn documentary interviews by Julia Dorn (HJA-093) and the Ralston Crawford collection of New Orleans jazz photographs (HJA-098). During its grand reopening weekend, Jillian Cuellar, director of Tulane University Special Collections, and Hogan Archive curator Melissa A. Weber spoke at the Dew Drop Inn about archives and the TUSC collaboration.

The materials are on display throughout the legendary music venue and hotel, and in the publicly accessible Frank’s Barbershop, transformed from the original, former barbershop into a gallery space.

To learn more about the Hogan Archive of New Orleans Music and New Orleans Jazz at Tulane University Special Collections, email Hogan Archive curator Melissa A. Weber at mweber3@tulane.edu, visit the TUSC website at library.tulane.edu/tusc, or follow TUSC on Facebook and Instagram.

 

A monitor display at the “Don’t Stand Alone” exhibition at Small Center in 2024 shows scans from New Orleans music clubs, part of the American Federation of Musicians Local 174-496 records (HJA-001), housed at the Hogan Archive at Tulane University Special Collections. Photo by Melissa A. Weber, March 14, 2024, Small Center for Collaborative Design, New Orleans.


One section of “Louis Prima: Rediscovering a Musical Icon,” an exhibition on view at the Italian American Museum of Los Angeles, 2023-2024. Photo courtesy of the IAMLA via iamla.org.

An exhibit wall in the Frank’s Barbershop space of the Dew Drop Inn tells the story of the famed venue, featuring photographs from the Ralston Crawford collection of New Orleans jazz photographs (HJA-098, Hogan Archive, Tulane University Special Collections) and other sources. Photo by Melissa A. Weber, March 2, 2024, Dew Drop Inn, New Orleans.

Published April 4, 2024

 

An exhibit wall in the Frank’s Barbershop space of the Dew Drop Inn tells the story of the famed venue, featuring photographs from the Ralston Crawford collection of New Orleans jazz photographs (HJA-098, Hogan Archive, Tulane University Special Collections) and other sources.