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Gumbo ya-ya : a collection of Louisiana folk tales
- Title
- Gumbo ya-ya : a collection of Louisiana folk tales / compiled by Lyle Saxon, state director, Edward Dreyer, asst. state director, [and] Robert Tallant, special writer.
- Author
- Louisiana Writers' Project.
- Publication
- Boston : Houghton Mifflin, 1945.
- ©1945
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| Status | Format | Access | Call Number | Item Location |
|---|---|---|---|---|
Available - Can be used on site. Please visit New York Public Library - Schwarzman Building to submit a request in person. | Text | Use in library | HAER (United States. Works progress administration. Louisiana. Gumbo ya-ya) | Schwarzman Building - Main Reading Room 315 |
Not available - Please for assistance. | Text | Restricted use | Rare Books 23-211 | Schwarzman Building - Rare Book Collection Room 328 |
Available - Can be used on site. Please visit New York Public Library - Schomburg Center to submit a request in person. | Text | Use in library | Sc E 10-475 | Schomburg Center - Research & Reference |
Details
- Additional Authors
- Description
- xiii, 581 pages, [40] p. of plates : illustrations, portraits; 24 cm
- Series Statement
- American guide series
- Alternative Title
- Gumbo ya ya.
- Subjects
- Genre/Form
- Guidebooks – Louisiana – New Orleans – 1945.
- Note
- "Material gathered by workers of the Works Progress Administration, Louisiana Writers' Project, and sponsored by the Louisiana State Library Commission" -- half-title verso.
- "Compiled by Lyle Saxon, state director, Edward Dreyer, asst. state director [and] Robert Tallant, special writer" -- half-title verso.
- Copy in Rare Books 23-211 has ghost map of Louisiana on front pastedown and free endpaper.
- Includes index.
- Binding (note)
- Copy in Rare Books 23-211 bound in publishers' red cloth over boards; with original dust jacket and decorations designed by Roland Duvernet; illustrated with photographs; drawings by Caroline Durifux.
- Contents
- Kings, Baby dolls, Zulus, and Queens -- Street criers -- The Irish channel -- Axeman's jazz -- Saint Joseph's day -- Saint Rosalia's day -- Nickel gig, nickel saddle -- The Creoles -- The Cajuns -- The temple of innocent blood -- The plantations -- The slaves -- Buried treasure -- Ghosts -- Crazah and the glory road -- Cemeteries -- Riverfront lore -- Pailet lane -- Mother Shannon -- The Sockserhause Gang -- Songs -- Chimney Sweeper's holiday -- A good man is hard to find -- Who killa da chief? -- Appendixes -- Index.
- Call Number
- Rare Books 23-211
- OCLC
- 28260132
- Author
- Louisiana Writers' Project.
- Title
- Gumbo ya-ya : a collection of Louisiana folk tales / compiled by Lyle Saxon, state director, Edward Dreyer, asst. state director, [and] Robert Tallant, special writer.
- Imprint
- Boston : Houghton Mifflin, 1945.
- Copyright Date
- ©1945
- Series
- American guide series
- Binding
- Copy in Rare Books 23-211 bound in publishers' red cloth over boards; with original dust jacket and decorations designed by Roland Duvernet; illustrated with photographs; drawings by Caroline Durifux. NN
- Added Author
- Saxon, Lyle, 1891-1946.Dreyer, Edward.Tallant, Robert, 1909-1957.Riverside Press (Cambridge, Mass.), printer.Houghton Mifflin Company, publisher.Louisiana Writers' Project.Works Progress Administration.United States. Works Progress Administration.Louisiana State Library Commission.
- Added Title
- Gumbo ya ya.
- Research Call Number
- Rare Books 23-211HAER (United States. Works progress administration. Louisiana. Gumbo ya-ya)Sc E 10-475