The Orleans Collection was a very important collection of over 500 paintings formed by Philippe II, Duke of Orléans, mostly acquired between about 1700...
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New Orleans (commonly known as NOLA or The Big Easy among other nicknames) is a consolidated city-parish located along the Mississippi River in the southeastern...
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The Historic New Orleans Collection (THNOC) is a museum, research center, and publisher dedicated to the study and preservation of the history and culture...
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The Battle of New Orleans was fought on January 8, 1815, between the British Army under Major General Sir Edward Pakenham and the United States Army under...
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Very famous collections that are now dispersed include the Borghese Collection and Farnese collection in Rome, and the Orleans Collection in Paris, mostly...
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Tennessee Williams (category Writers from New Orleans)
Fred W. Todd Tennessee Williams Collection and Tennessee Williams Pathfinder at the Historic New Orleans Collection Tennessee Williams manuscripts, 1972–1974...
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Philippe II, Duke of Orléans (Philippe Charles; 2 August 1674 – 2 December 1723), was a French prince, soldier, and statesman who served as Regent of...
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In New Orleans, a gallery is a wide platform projecting from the wall of a building supported by posts or columns. Galleries are typically constructed...
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Monsieur Philippe I, Duke of Orléans (21 September 1640 – 9 June 1701) was the younger son of King Louis XIII of France and Anne of Austria, and the younger...
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red-light district of New Orleans, Louisiana, from 1897 to 1917. It was established by municipal ordinance under the New Orleans City Council, to regulate...
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ISBN 978-94-010-8436-9. "German Settlers in Louisiana and New Orleans". The Historic New Orleans Collection. Retrieved November 8, 2022. National Genealogical Society...
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of New Orleans, Louisiana, United States. A subdistrict of the Central City/Garden District Area, its boundaries as defined by the New Orleans City Planning...
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French Quarter (redirect from French Quarter (New Orleans))
Carré, is the oldest neighborhood in the city of New Orleans. After New Orleans (French: Nouvelle-Orléans) was founded in 1718 by Jean-Baptiste Le Moyne de...
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“Orléans Cathedral.” (albumen print from 1857), A. D. White Architectural Photographs Collection, Cornell University Rare and Manuscript Collections (15/5/3090...
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The Historic Cemeteries of New Orleans, New Orleans, United States, are a group of forty-two cemeteries that are historically and culturally significant...
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The Rape of Europa (Titian) (category Paintings formerly in the Orleans Collection)
Philippe II, Duke of Orléans, Regent of France from 1715 to 1723. For most of the 18th century it was in the Orleans Collection in Paris. It was purchased...
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The Orléans Madonna is a c.1506-1507 painting of the Madonna and Child by Raphael. It was acquired by Philippe II, Duke of Orléans for the Orléans collection...
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construction flooded. New Orleans#History Timeline of New Orleans List of mayors of New Orleans The Historic New Orleans Collection History of Louisiana Jacques...
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Originally a separate museum, the collection is now affiliated with the Louisiana State Museum. The New Orleans Jazz Museum is located in the Old U...
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Danaë (Correggio) (category Paintings formerly in the Orleans Collection)
Bracciano, then by the French regent Philippe II of Orléans. Together with most of the Orléans family collection, in 1792 it was sold to England, where it was...
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Diana and Callisto (category Paintings formerly in the Orleans Collection)
minority of Louis XV, for his collection, one of the finest ever assembled. After the French Revolution, the Orleans collection was sold to a Brussels banker...
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Conti Wax Museum, closed in 2016 New Orleans Jazz Museum, since 2015, the collection is now on display at the New Orleans Mint List of museums in Louisiana...
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"New Orleans Museum of Art, permanent collection". Archived from the original on 2006-02-22. "New Orleans Museum of Art, European art". "New Orleans Museum...
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New Orleans. Lane S. Hart. Speth, Kenneth R. (2018). 1884-New Orleans-1885 The Great World's Fair: Rare Photographic Images from the Collection of Kenneth...
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com. Sayre, Katherine. "The Outlet Collection at Riverwalk, set to open Thursday, builds on downtown New Orleans momentum". NOLA.com. Anthony McAuley...
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The Origin of the Milky Way (category Paintings formerly in the Orleans Collection)
Jacopo Tintoretto, in the National Gallery, London, formerly in the Orleans Collection. It is an oil painting on canvas, and dates from ca.1575–1580. According...
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Orleans is an American pop rock band formed in 1972 in Woodstock, New York by John Hall, Larry Hoppen and Wells Kelly. Larry's younger brother, bassist...
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Marie Laveau (category People from New Orleans)
yellow fever epidemics forced New Orleans to confront its sanitation problem | The Historic New Orleans Collection". www.hnoc.org. Retrieved July 22,...
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Harold Battiste (category Jazz musicians from New Orleans)
In 1998, the City of New Orleans proclaimed his birthday as Harold Battiste Day. In 2010 the Historic New Orleans Collection published his autobiography...
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as the core of the Orleans Collection – many remain together in the National Gallery of Scotland. 1700 drawings from her collection (among them works by...
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