Quite a lot of research goes into the making of each event. Approximately 80% is primary source material. Usually is is from libraries, archives, special collections, and transcribed interviews. Sometimes, the material is from filing cabinets, business records, and personal collections in attics and cedar chests. Felicity Redevelopment is an example of the former. Examples of the latter are Stewart Butler and Blanchard “Skip” Ward.
Research is usually performed in real, brick-and-mortar locations. Such as The Historic New Orleans Collection-Williams Research Center, Loyola University New Orleans Special Collections & Archives Archival & Manuscript Collections, The Louisiana Research Collection (LaRC), The New York Public Library, and the Faerie Playhouse. During COVID-19, some research and preparatory work was done virtually. For instance, digital newspaper archives are a wealth of primary source information.
Working backward from our seventh consecutive season, 2023, here is an edited list of resources that helped frame the project narratives.
- A few articles about the history of HIV|AIDS
- The Letters of Josephine Louise Newcomb
- Newcomb College Institute
- The Origins and History of Widow’s Weeds
- CLAIBORNE AVENUE ALLIANCE DESIGN STUDIO
- A few articles on the medical history of “female hysteria”
- Why the Saltwater Wedge Climbed up the Mississippi River
- Claiborne Expressway, remove ramps
- One Historic Black Neighborhood’s Stake in the Infrastructure Bill
- The Arterial Plan for New Orleans. Published by Louisiana Department of Highways, 1946. Robert Moses, director. Andrews and Clark, consulting engineers
- The Power Broker by Robert Caro
- The Second Battle of New Orleans by Richard Baumbach and William Borah
- Robert Moses and the Modern City, edited by Hilary Ballon
- All That Is Solid Melts Into Air: The Experience of Modernity by Marshall Berman
- Tunnel Vision. 1966 Tunnel Beneath Downtown Is a Relic of Riverfront Expressway by Richard Campanella
- Geographies of New Orleans: Urban Fabrics Before the Storm by Richard Campanella
- Robert Moses and the Modern City: The Transformation of New York. Hilary Ballon Ph.D. (Editor), Kenneth T. Jackson (Editor)
- Robert Moses: The Master Builder of New York City by Pierre Christin and Olivier Balez
- Americans with Disabilities Act, ADA website, EEOC compliance fact sheet
- Graphic design in South Louisiana project and the 1962 slideshow about that, see links below
- Resources about lady Louisiana artists, feminism, and women’s equal rights:
A brief history of feminism, Women Louisiana Artists by Judith Bonner. Nancy Penrose, co-author of A Dream and a Chisel - Curious history of Jean-Baptiste Le Moyne de Bienville, the father of New Orleans:
Bienville’s Tattoos by Sally Asher, Wait, Bienville had tattoos? by Doug McCash - Resources pertaining to JFK’s assignation, important figures, investigator/researchers/journalists, core theories, witnesses:
- Louisiana State Legislature; RS 14.26 SUBPART E. INCHOATE OFFENSES§26.
Criminal conspiracy - Out History. FBI and Homosexuality Chronology. FBI and Homosexuality: 1950-1959
- JFK Assassination Resources Online by David A. Reitzes. Cast of characters, transcripts, and other resources
- 2007 Entrepreneurship Panel Discussion
- Organization for Economic Cooperation and Development
- History of Graphic Design in South Louisiana project
- 1962 Art Directors and Designers Association of New Orleans slideshow
- Yellow Fever, Race, and Ecology in Nineteenth-Century New Orleans
by Urmi Engineer Willoughby - History of Tulane School of Public Health and Tropical Medicine: A Timeline
- The Yellow Fever Epidemic of 1905 in New Orleans. An Illustrated Address by Dr. Quitman Kohnke, Health Officer of New Orleans, 1906
- The Great Fever Epidemic in New Orleans, American Experience, PBS
- Bananas, quarantines, and the octopus: United Fruit Company’s PR stunt in Central America by Emily Perkins
- United Fruit Company Timeline
- Louisiana Office of Public Health – Infectious Disease Epidemiology Section – Annual Report 1934
- Yellow Fever Prophylaxis In New Orleans 1905 by Rubert Boyce, M.B., F.R.S.
- The Letters of Edgar Degas. Edited by Theodore Reff
- Degas and the Business of Art. “A Cotton Office in New Orleans” by Marilyn R. Brown
- “Miss La La’s” Teeth: Reflections on Degas and “Race” by Marilyn R. Brown
- Degas’s Miss Lala at the Morgan by Marilyn Brown and James Smalls
- A Painterly Eye Capturing a High-Flying Muse. Karen Rosenberg for The New York Times
- Degas in New Orleans: Encounters in the Creole World of Kate Chopin and George Washington Cable by Christopher Benfey
- Degas and New Orleans: A French Impressionist in America. New Orleans Museum of Art, New Orleans, 1999 edited by Gail Feigenbaum.
- 1986 SECLGM Program
- 1950 Employment of Homosexuals and Other Sex Perverts in Government
- Matchine Society, Washington, DC chapter
- Blanchard “Skip” Ward Collection finding aid, LaRC, Tulane University
- “Returning Forest Darlings” Gay Liberationist Sanctuary in the Southeastern Network, 1973–80
- Stewart Butler
- Charlene Schneider and Rich Magill
- LGBT+ Archives Project of Louisiana and their Bibliography
- Library of Congress Subject Headings for Lesbian, Gay, Bisexual, Transgender, Queer and Intersex (LGBTQI) Topics, Indiana University
- The Legal Status of Women in Nineteenth-Century France France by H. D. Lewis
- Baroness de Pontalba
- A Spectacular Mess of a Marriage by Angeline Goreau
- Micaela Leonarda Almonester de Pontalba, the Baroness