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Fonville Historic Photography Collection
The following information was provided by Mr. Bob Winans who represents The
Fonville Historic Photography Collection that is housed in the Hill Memorial
Library at LSU in Baton Rouge.
Fonville Winans (1911-1988) was Louisiana's unofficial Photographer. He first
came to Louisiana in 1930 to assist his father in building the Bayou Ramous
Bridge near Morgan City. He fell in love with the state, bought a boat, The
Pintail, and began photographing its many wonderful site and people. As an
official photographer for LSU and the state during the Leche administration, he
was able to photograph festivals, people and industry throughout the state. His
documentary work was mainly from 1930 to 1955. More information concerning
Fonville can be found at www.fonvillewinans.com and www.spiart.com
This past January with the assistance of Ms Faye Phillips (LSU Libraries), I was
able to scan and upload the entire collection to Yahoo's Flickr. Over 2000
Historic Louisiana Photographs are now online at
http://www.flickr.com/photos/fonville/collections/
Our purpose now is to find out as much information as possible about events,
people and places depicted in these images and store them along with images at
LSU for all future generations to enjoy. People viewing this collection on the
web will be able to leave Notes, Tags and Comments on each image.
