Research Catalog

Title

Under stately oaks : a pictorial history of LSU / text by Thomas R. Ruffin ; photography research and editing by Jo Jackson and Mary J. Hebert ; foreword by Mark A. Emmert ; preface by Laura F. Lindsay and J. Michael Desmond, for the University Commmission on the History of LSU.

Author

Ruffin, Thomas F.

Publication

Baton Rouge : Louisiana State University Press, 2002.

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Additional Authors

• Jackson, Jo.
• Hebert, Mary J.
• University Commission on the History of Louisiana State University and Agricultural and Mechanical College.

Description

xiii, 162 p. : ill. (some col.), maps; 29 cm.

Summary

"Nestled on a picturesque spot near the banks of the Mississippi River, Louisiana State University is a photographer's dream. From the red pantile roofs and honey-colored stucco of its Italian Renaissance architecture to the "stately oaks and broad magnolias" hailed in the alma mater, the distinct beauty of the campus is unrivaled. Few, however, realize that the history of the state's flagship university is as colorful as the azaleas that adorn its landscape every spring. Through an entertaining marriage of photographs and text, Under Stately Oaks showcases over 140 years of LSU's past and follows the evolution of the tiny Seminary of Learning of the State of Louisiana, founded near Pineville in 1853, into a university of well over thirty thousand students for the twenty-first century."--Jacket.

Subject

• Louisiana State University (Baton Rouge, La.) > History
• Louisiana State University (Baton Rouge, La.) > History > Pictorial works
• Louisiana State University > History > Pictorial works

Note

• Includes index.

Bibliography (note)

• Includes bibliographical references and index.

Processing Action (note)

• committed to retain

Contents

I. The Military School -- II. The Greater University -- III. The Research University -- Appendix Louisiana State University Chief Executive Officers 151.

ISBN

0807126829

LCCN

^^2001002209

OCLC

46785625

Owning Institutions

Harvard Library