Seeking the Unknown, part 7

03/25/13 • 3 min

Lawrence presents information on some of the visual treasures in the exhibition. The exhibition Seeking the Unknown: Natural History Observations in Louisiana, 1698—1840 presents objects that provide a broad historical background for the study of Louisiana’s natural history—from taxidermied animals, specimens in jars, and pressed plants to lavishly illustrated folios.

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Seeking the Unknown, part 6

Langlois discusses aspects of this scientific friendship between Charles-Alexandre Lesueur and Joseph Barabino, centered in New Orleans about 1830. The exhibition Seeking the Unknown: Natural History Observations in Louisiana, 1698—1840 presents objects that provide a broad historical background for the study of Louisiana’s natural history—from taxidermied animals, specimens in jars, and pressed plants to lavishly illustrated folios.

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Pipe Dreams: Louisiana under the French Company of the Indies

Erin Greenwald historian and curator of the exhibition Pipe Dreams:Louisiana under the French Company of the Indies, 1717—1731 discuses colonization, John Law, the Mississippi Bubble and the dreams of the French Company of the Indies to establish a tobacco empire in French colonial Louisiana.