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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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TextUse in library Sc E 10-475Schomburg Center - Research & Reference
TextRestricted use Rare Books 23-211Schwarzman Building - Rare Book Collection Room 328
TextUse in library HAER (United States. Works progress administration. Louisiana. Gumbo ya-ya)Schwarzman Building - Main Reading Room 315

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Additional Authors
  • Saxon, Lyle, 1891-1946.
  • Dreyer, Edward.
  • Tallant, Robert, 1909-1957.
  • Riverside Press (Cambridge, Mass.)
  • Houghton Mifflin Company
  • Works Progress Administration.
  • United States. Works Progress Administration.
  • Louisiana State Library Commission.
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 23-211
HAER (United States. Works progress administration. Louisiana. Gumbo ya-ya)
Sc E 10-475
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