New Orleans
Good Links Outside of Our Walls

• Arthur Hardy's Mardi Gras Guide

  All you need to know about Mardi Gras from one of New Orleans' most respected sources.

• Audubon Institute
  

  Explore the Audubon Zoo, the Aquarium of the Americas, the Louisiana Nature Center, and other Audubon Institute facilities and learn about the programs and activities sponsored by the Institute.

• Bob Walker's Original New Orleans Radio Shrine

  Pictures and memorabilia about by-gone New Orleans (not just radio memories).

• The Bright Field Riverwalk New Orleans Accident Web Site:
  

  Facts, names, photos, and even a movie of the city's big disaster story of 1996!

• Canal Street: A Street Railway Spectacular
  

  A truly spectacular site, with images of Canal Street and its streetcars from the earliest days to the present.

• Charles W. Cushman Photograph Collection
  

  This online collection from Indiana University (funded by the Institute of Museum and Library Services) includes 174 photos of New Orleans from 1941-1959. Search on their page for "New Orleans" to find them.

• City Park, New Orleans
  

  Discover all there is to do at Louisiana's family playground.

• Dr. Nut

  The history of New Orleans' long gone soda pop (and links to all kinds of information about other soda pop brands).

• Gambit Weekly
  

  The full text of the Crescent City's weekly newspaper, plus guides to dining, entertainment, events and festivals, tourism information, and "The Best of New Orleans Marketplace."

• The Gumbo Pages
  

  New Orleans through the mind of a Southern California Yat!

• Historical Maps and Panoramas of New Orleans
  

  Links to maps from 1815 to 1908, panoramas from 1851 to 1885, and links to other map sites.

• Index to Eliza Ripley's Social Life in Old New Orleans
  

  An index to the 1912 work. Thanks to Rita Curry-Pittman for sharing this with us. Read the full text of the Ripley work HERE.

• The Lake Pontchartrain Basin Foundation

  

  The home page of this environmental watchdog group offers information on its efforts to preserve and protect Lake Pontchartrain.

• Louisiana Philharmonic Orchestra
  

  The LPO's home page provides the orchestras's performance schedule, ticket information, features on individual musicians, the orchestra's newsletter and more.

• Louisiana SPCA
  

  All kinds of information for pet lovers and advocates.

• Louisiana World Exposition, 1984
  

  A good collection of information on the Crescent City's most recent Worlds' Fair from Earth Station 9.

• MardiGras krewes online
  

  A list of home pages for Carnival organizations, courtesy of Yahoo

  

• Minnie Maddern Fiske
  

  A page for the great actress and a native of the Crescent City.

• Neighborhood Link™ New Orleans
  

  Neighborhood Link™ is a community network providing New Orleans metro neighborhoods with their own free, interactive web sites featuring information, communication, and commerce.

• The New Orleans Architecture Database
  

  "The extensive image archive of New Orleans and Regional Architecture held by the Tulane School of Architecture and the Southeastern Architectural Archive has now been digitized .... The searchable database contains more than 2500 images and continues to expand in both size and breadth."

• New Orleans Charities
  

  Link here to Guidestar: The Donor's Guide to the Nonprofit Universe, a database of more than 600,000 nonprofit organizations. A search for "New Orleans" will produce a list of more that 1400 nonprofits in the Crescent City.

• New Orleans CityBusiness
  

  New Orleans' weekly business newspaper.

• New Orleans.Com
  

  A huge site, including links to articles in a number of regional newspapers and magazine, tourist and leisure information, classifieds, shopping, dining, history, architecture,

  and more.

• New Orleans History--Lake Pontchartrain
  

  Photographs and historical information on the New Orleans lakefront and its neighborhoods. From St. Philip Neri School in Metairie.

• New Orleans Jazz and Heritage Festival

  The Festival schedule, ticket information, photographs from the Fairgrounds, and more.

• New Orleans Jazz National Historical Park

  This National Park Service site includes all kinds of useful information about jazz in New Orleans.

• New Orleans Magazine
  

  The online version of this monthly magazine, with archives back to February 1997

• New Orleans Metropolitan Convention & Visitors Bureau, Inc.
  

  Formerly known as the Greater New Orleans Tourist and Convention Commission. Includes information on upcoming conventions, a visitor's guide, and "N'Awlins Celebrities Online."

• New Orleans Online

  The web site of The New Orleans Tourism Marketing Commission

• New Orleans Opera
  

  Find out about the Opera's current season, the history of opera in New Orleans, ticket and seating information

• Pontchartrain Beach

  Historical photographs of New Orleans' fabled amusement park

• The Preservation Resource Center
  

  A private non-profit membership organization dedicated to promoting the preservation of New Orleans' historic architecture.

• Regional Transit Authority
  

  History, transit maps, etc. Schedules to come.

• St. Louis 1 Cemetery Dead Space
• An online presentation by the University of Pennsylvania on their study of the above-ground cemeteries of New Orleans.

  

• The Times-Picayune/Nola.com

  "NOLA.com launched in January, 1998, in affiliation with The Times-Picayune, the largest circulation daily newspaper in Louisiana. Through a content sharing agreement, NOLA.com receives daily, automated feeds from the paper for local news, sports, weather and classifieds." And more!

• Uptown Neighborhood Improvement, Inc.
  

  New, events, and issues relevant to the area, along with an online tour of the neighborhood.

• Via Link
  

  The online version of the VIA community services guide.

• Virtual St. Joseph's Altar
  

  Add your own offerings to the online altar!

• WDSU-TV
  

  New Orleans' NBC news affiliate

• WWL-TV.COM
  

  New Orleans' CBS news affiliate

• World's Industrial and Cotton Centennial Exposition, 1884
  

  A good collection of information on the Crescent City's first Worlds' Fair. From Earth Station 9.

• Yahoo's list of New Orleans links
  

  Surf from here--chances are you'll find what you're looking for!

The images above are all from the Louisiana Division's Alexander Allison Collection.