Rear view of Sellers Plantation in Norco.
A trapper dries muskrat pelts in the sun. The St. Charles marshland is a fertile area for trapping muskrats and other fur-bearing animals. (Source: St. Charles Parish Resources and Facilities publication, 1947)
Two St. Charles Parish sport fishermen are pulling in a nice catch of bream. Deep sea fishing also is close at hand in the Gulf of Mexico. (Source: St. Charles Parish Resources and Facilities publication, 1948)
Title: Unloading sugarcane from special trailer at sugar mill near Jeanerette, Louisiana Creator(s): Lee, Russell, 1903-1986, photographer Date Created/Published: 1938 Oct. Medium: 1 negative : safety ; 3 1/4 x 3 1/4 inches or smaller. Reproduction Number: LC-USF34-031688-D (b&w film neg.) Farm Security Administration - Office of War Information Photograph Collection (Library of Congress) Repository: Library of Congress Prints & Photographs Division Washington, DC 20540 http://hdl.loc.gov/loc.pnp/pp.print Collections: Farm Security Administration/Office of War Information Black-and-White Negatives Part of: Farm Security Administration - Office of War Information Photograph Collection (Library of Congress) Bookmark This Record: http://www.loc.gov/pictures/item/fsa2000012862/PP/
Title: Farm house near Norco, Louisiana Creator(s): Lee, Russell, 1903-1986, photographer Date Created/Published: 1938 Oct. Medium: 1 negative : safety ; 3 1/4 x 3 1/4 inches or smaller. Reproduction Number: LC-USF34-031690-D (b&w film neg.) Rights Advisory: No known restrictions. For information, see U.S. Farm Security Administration/Office of War Information Black & White Photographs (http://www.loc.gov/rr/print/res/071_fsab.html) Call Number: LC-USF34- 031690-D [P&P] LOT 1681 (corresponding photographic print) Repository: Library of Congress Prints & Photographs Division Washington, DC 20540 http://hdl.loc.gov/loc.pnp/pp.print Collections: Farm Security Administration/Office of War Information Black-and-White Negatives Part of: Farm Security Administration - Office of War Information Photograph Collection (Library of Congress) Bookmark This Record: http://www.loc.gov/pictures/item/fsa2000012864/PP/
Title: [Untitled] Date Created/Published: [between 1935 and 1942] Medium: 1 negative : safety ; 3 1/4 x 3 1/4 inches or smaller. Reproduction Number: LC-USF34-031692-D (b&w film neg.) Rights Advisory: No known restrictions. For information, see U.S. Farm Security Administration/Office of War Information Black & White Photographs (http://www.loc.gov/rr/print/res/071_fsab.html) Call Number: LC-USF34- 031692-D [P&P] Repository: Library of Congress Prints & Photographs Division Washington, DC 20540 http://hdl.loc.gov/loc.pnp/pp.print Collections: Farm Security Administration/Office of War Information Black-and-White Negatives Part of: Farm Security Administration - Office of War Information Photograph Collection (Library of Congress) Bookmark This Record: http://www.loc.gov/pictures/item/fsa2000012866/PP/ Collections: Farm Security Administration/Office of War Information Black-and-White Negatives Part of: Farm Security Administration - Office of War Information Photograph Collection (Library of Congress) Bookmark This Record: http://www.loc.gov/pictures/item/fsa2000012866/PP/
Title: Man atop truck getting ready to hook chain in position for hoisting bundle of sugarcane from truck. Sugar mill near Jeanerette, Louisiana Creator(s): Lee, Russell, 1903-1986, photographer Date Created/Published: 1938 Oct. Medium: 1 negative : safety ; 3 1/4 x 3 1/4 inches or smaller. Reproduction Number: LC-USF34-031689-D (b&w film neg.) Collections: Farm Security Administration/Office of War Information Black-and-White Negatives http://www.loc.gov/pictures/item/fsa2000012863/PP/
Title: Lineup of trucks loaded with sugarcane waiting to be unloaded at the mill near Jeanerette, Louisiana Creator(s): Lee, Russell, 1903-1986, photographer Date Created/Published: 1938 Oct. Medium: 1 negative : safety ; 3 1/4 x 3 1/4 inches or smaller. Reproduction Number: LC-USF34-031694-D (b&w film neg.) Rights Advisory: No known restrictions. For information, see U.S. Farm Security Administration/Office of War Information Black & White Photographs(http://www.loc.gov/rr/print/res/071_fsab.html) Call Number: LC-USF34- 031694-D [P&P] Repository: Library of Congress Prints & Photographs Division Washington, DC 20540 http://hdl.loc.gov/loc.pnp/pp.print Collections: Farm Security Administration/Office of War Information Black-and-White Negatives Part of: Farm Security Administration - Office of War Information Photograph Collection (Library of Congress) Bookmark This Record: http://www.loc.gov/pictures/item/fsa2000012868/PP/
The help of the American Red Cross extended beyond humans. (Photo courtesy of Patrick Yoes)
"Posters like this one, drawn by Harrison Fisher in 1918, attracted new recruits into the Red Cross, where they were desperately needed to nurse the casualties of World War I."
P. A. Torres is a typical river shrimp fisherman.
Shrimping on the Mississippi River in New Sarpy. (Photo courtesy of Suzanne Friloux)
Percy Alleman and Paul Richard show off their duck hunting results. (Photo courtesy of Merrill Richard Zeringue)
Shrimp packers busy with the day’s catch at Des Allemands. (Source: St. Charles Parish Resources and Facilities publication, 1947)
An early 1900s photo of hunters in St. Charles Parish.
Bayou Gauche serves as a base for commercial fishermen and trappers. (Source: St. Charles Parish Resources and Facilities publication, 1948)
Nora Zeringue and John Lehmann display a catfish catch from the Mississippi River. (Photo courtesy of Chip Zeringue)
The Trépagnier Plantation, which later became Myrtleland, was built by Francois Trépagnier. Myrtleland Plantation was sold to Thomas Sellers in 1876 and the area (present-day Norco) became known as Sellers. The Bonnet Carré Crevasse of 1882 brought about the end of the flourishing plantation but the house remained intact. Sellers and neighboring upriver Roseland Plantations were consolidated to form Diamond Plantation, which was later sold to Leon Godchaux in 1897. (Sketch courtesy of William E. Riecke, Jr., 1973)
The spillway became a tourist attraction.
A picture from a 1930s Shell Bulletin shows the crowds waiting on the levee for the president.
It works! The spillway opens in 1937.
Hundreds turned out for the spillway opening in 1937.
Between 1849 and 1882, the Bonnet Carré Crevasse left a large, fan-shaped imprint on the landscape. (Map from the New Orleans District U.S. Army Corps of Engineers Brochure on the Bonnet Carré Spillway)