Collection Highlights

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

Ephemera from the HNOC Restaurant Menu Collection highlights the historic role of corner stores in New Orleans history.

After the Civil War, a one-man publisher aimed to reeducate the Southern gentry with a magazine devoted to both practical skills and the arts.

This nearly-300-year-old songbook is the oldest known music manuscript in Louisiana history.