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2 unusual facts about New Orleans Public Library


Doc Souchon

His record collection, which included some 2,000 recordings of New Orleans jazz, was bequeathed to the New Orleans Public Library, and many other music-related materials he collected are now in the possession of the William Ransom Hogan Jazz Archive, located at Tulane University.

New Orleans Public Library

The Marigny Branch on Frenchmen & Royal at Washington Square, one of the original Carnegie Branch libraries, was severely damaged in Hurricane Betsy in 1965 and demolished.



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