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This report is extracted from the 1000 Section (Confirmed Newspaper Indexes) of the 1979-1980 Edition of LATHROP REPORT ON NEWSPAPER INDEXES: An illustrated guide to published and unpublished newspaper indexes in the United States and Canada.   Either a compiler, publisher or repository had confirmed the existance of this index and supplied information for the report. See the INTRODUCTION for the methodology used in compiling the LATHROP REPORT.
REPORT NO:  1158A Previous Report (1157A)  |  Next Report (1158B)
INDEX NAME:  Louisiana News Index
NEWSPAPERS INDEXED:
  • LOUISIANA GAZETTE New Orleans LA 1804-1811(Apr 24); 1814-1815
  • NEW ORLEANS TIMES PICAYUNE New Orleans LA ?-1963
  • STATES ITEM (& predecessors) New Orleans LA 1946-1964
  • German newspapers New Orleans LA 1849-1872
  • New Orleans daily newspapers New Orleans LA 1860-1866(Mar);1890-1892(Oct);1920(Jan-Mar);1930-1932(Jul);1940-1941(Mar)
COMPILER:  This index was originally launched as a Works Progress Administration (WPA) project. WPA indexing was halted in 1939 and the library continued it from 1946 through 1963.
LOCATION or PUBLISHER: NEW ORLEANS PUBLIC LIBRARY
Louisiana Division
219 Loyola Ave
New Orleans LA 70140
Telephone: (504) 586-4912
AVAILABILITY:  Only one copy of this card file index exists. It must be used in the New Orleans Public Library. Photocopies of index cards (approximately 5 per 8½x11 inch sheet) will be made at prevailing rates.
SCOPE OF INDEX:  An index to all Louisiana news. Particularly strong on the Battle of New Orleans and the Civil War. All of the following types of stories are indexed: Fatal accidents; major crimes; articles about local & state governments and politics; historical articles; important civic events; cultural events; news items concerning persons with Louisiana background (regardless of dateline); and articles aobut education. The following types of stories are indexed selectively: Sports stories which are also news stories; social events which are news stories; real estate stories concerning historic sites or buildings; real estate stories concerning opening of new subdivisions, shopping centers, etc; reviews of books by people from Louisiana; economic & business news; visitors to state; major conventions; editorials and cartoons pertaining to any of the above; and any columns pertaining to any of the above.
FORMAT OF INDEX:  A 3x5 card file index divided into three sections: SUBJECT, PERSONAL NAME and BUSINESSES. Within each file, the cards are arranged in alphabetical order. Most cards contain a single entry. Each entry consists of the headline and in some cases a brief summary of the article, followed by the citation. The citation consists of the name of the paper (abbreviated), the date (mo-dy-yr), section, page and column. There are about 528,000 cards in total.
SIZE OF INDEX:  About 650,000 entries in the total index.
BIBLIOGRAPHY:
Anita Cheek Milner. NEWSPAPER INDEXES: A LOCATION & SUBJECT GUIDE FOR RESEARCHERS. Scarecrow Press, Metuchen NJ, 1977.
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LATHROP REPORT ON NEWSPAPER INDEXES. 1979-1980 Edition. Copyright © 1979 by Norman Lathrop Enterprises. ISBN 0-910868-10-7. All Rights Reserved. No part of this publication may be reproduced, stored in a retrieval system or transmitted, in any form or by any means without the prior expressed permission of Norman Lathrop Enterprises, except as permitted by law.   Every effort was made to ensure the accuracy of the report at the time of publication.   However, it is imperative that the user contact the organization cited in a report for the current status of the index, especially if planning to visit the institution and do research using the index.