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

Tulane University Special Collections (TUSC) recently opened research access to the Jules J. Paglin collection of OK Group records, a newly processed collection of the Hogan Archive of New Orleans Music and New Orleans Jazz.

Tulane University Special Collections (TUSC) is pleased to announce that The Legend of the Dew Drop Inn documentary interviews by Julia Dorn, a collection at the Hogan Archive of New Orleans Music and New Orleans Jazz, is open to researchers.

The video for “Jivin' with Dr. Daddy-O: Race, Radio and Representing Black in Jim Crow New Orleans" is now available to view at this link, via the Tulane University Libraries YouTube page.

The online presentation was given on October 2, 2023, during American Archives Month, and by Melissa A. Weber, curator of the Hogan Archive of New Orleans Music and New Orleans Jazz, a unit of Tulane University Special Collections.

On Monday, October 2, from 12:00 to 1:00 p.m. Central Time, Melissa A. Weber, curator of Tulane University Special Collections’ Hogan Archive of New Orleans Music and New Orleans Jazz, will give an online presentation, “Jivin' with Dr. Daddy-O: Race, Radio and Representing Black in Jim Crow New Orleans.” The talk, presented as part of American Archives Month in October, is free and open to the public.

The Hogan Archive of New Orleans Music and New Orleans Jazz, a unit of Tulane University Special Collections (TUSC), has recently acquired an archival collection of audio cassette and micro-cassette recordings of interviews, circa 1993-2008, with New Orleans and Louisiana musicians and other public figures and celebrities. The interviews were conducted by writer Scott Jordan, whose work in journalism covered Louisiana music, arts, and culture for nearly three decades.

The Hogan Archive of New Orleans Music and New Orleans Jazz, a unit of Tulane University Special Collections (TUSC), is pleased to announce that the Louis Prima collection is fully processed and open to researchers.

Last year, filmmaker Julia Dorn donated 43 mini DV tapes of video interviews she conducted for her unfinished documentary, The Legend of The Dew Drop Inn, to the Hogan Archive of New Orleans Music and New Orleans Jazz. The unfinished film intended to incorporate oral histories to detail the historical, social, and cultural impact of the Dew Drop Inn, one of the foremost Black entertainment venues of pre-integration New Orleans during the 1940s, 1950s, and 1960s.

Tulane University Special Collections (TUSC) has completed the processing of the Don Ewell collection, both improving its research discoverability and ensuring long-term preservation. The collection contains materials both related to and amassed by pianist Don Ewell, including correspondence, photographs, clippings, audiovisual media, sheet music, posters, books, and ephemera ranging 1894 – 2004, with the bulk pertaining to the 1950s through the 1970s.

Tulane University Special Collections (TUSC) presents “Music IS the Scene”: Jazz Fest’s First Decade, 1970-1979, on display from Friday, March 4, through Friday, May 27, in the TUSC gallery on Tulane University’s uptown campus. The exhibition features archival materials and audio recordings related to the first 10 years of the New Orleans Jazz & Heritage Festival, also known as Jazz Fest.