Collection Highlights

A flock of over 300 bird carvings reveals how generations of regional craftsmen transformed a hunting tradition into fine art.

Memories of the lost art of window dressing

Artist Jennifer Shaw evokes the specter of climate disaster in this photographic series.

A South Louisiana small press success story, Tales from the Atchafalaya reimagined Cajun country as a zany children’s fantasy world.

His party pics captured the New Orleans music scene when Cash Money Records and New Orleans rap were on the precipice of worldwide fame.

HNOC acquired an original copy of the infamous image that took Civil War-era America by storm, quickly becoming a tool of the abolitionist cause.

The Playboy founder laments the effect of Jim Crow on his budding empire.

This stylish menu from a restaurant in a former plantation home belies the site’s dark history of human enslavement.

An unusual periodical, written and produced by residents of the state mental hospital in the mid-20th century