Main entry:

Laughlin, Clarence John, author, photographer.

Title & Author:

Ghosts along the Mississippi : an essay in the poetic interpretation of Louisiana's plantation architecture / by Clarence John Laughlin ; one hundred photographs by the author.

Edition:

New revised edition.

Publication:

New York : Bonanza Books, [1961]
©1961

Description:

224 unnumbered pages : 100 illustrations (black and white) ; 34 cm

Notes:
Edition statement from jacket.
Originally published: 1948.
"The magic of the old houses of Louisiana"--Jacket.
Text on verso facing each photograph.
Trepagnier House, St. Charles Parish -- Ormond Plantation, St. Charles Parish -- Parlange Plantation, Pointe Coupée Parish -- Voisin Plantation, St. John the Baptist Parish -- Labatut House, Pointe Coupée Parish -- St. James Cemetery, St. James Parish -- Rienzi Plantation, Lafourche Parish -- Zenon Trudeau House, St. James Parish -- Versailles Plantation, St. Bernard Parish -- Chateau des Fleurs, St. Bernard Parish -- Oakley Plantation, West Feliciana Parish -- Live Oak Plantation, West Feliciana Parish -- Waverly Plantation, Pointe Coupée Parish -- Austerlitz Plantation, Pointe Coupée Parish -- The Cottage (the Conrad Place), East Baton Rouge Parish -- Pine Alley Plantation, St. Martin Parish -- Evergreen Plantation, St. John the Baptist Parish -- Chrétien Point Plantation, St. Landry Parish -- Linwood Plantation, Ascension Parish -- The Hermitage, Ascension Parish -- Greenwood Plantation, West Feliciana Parish -- Oak Lawn Plantation, St. Mary Parish -- Rosedown Plantation, West Feliciana Parish -- Oak Alley Plantation (Bon Séjour), St. James Parish -- Bocage Plantation, Ascension Parish -- René Beauregard Plantation (Bueno Retiro), St. Bernard Parish -- Houmas House (Burnside Plantatation), Ascension Parish -- Ashland Plantation (Belle Hélène), Ascension Parish -- Belle Alliance Plantation, Assumption Parish -- Bellechasse Plantation, Plaquemines Parish -- Madewood Plantation, Assumption Parish -- Uncle Sam Plantation, St. James Parish -- Afton Villa, West Feliciana Parish -- Orange Grove Plantation, St. Bernard Parish -- The Myrtles, West Feliciana Parish -- San Francisco Plantation, St. John the Baptist Parish -- Tezcuco Plantation (Bringier House), Ascension Parish -- Belle Grove Plantation, Iberville Parish -- Woodlawn Plantation, Ascension Parish.

Summary:

For other editions, see Author Catalog.

ISBN:

0517006081
9780517006085

Subject:

Architecture, Domestic Louisiana.
Plantations Louisiana.
Architectural photography Louisiana.
Photographie d'architecture Louisiane.
Architectural photography
Architecture, Domestic
Buildings
Plantations
Louisiana Pictorial works.
Louisiana Buildings, structures, etc.
Louisiana History, Local.
Louisiane Ouvrages illustrés.
Louisiane Constructions.
Louisiane Histoire locale.
Louisiana

Form/genre:

illustrated books.
Illustrated works
Local history
Ouvrages illustrés.

Holdings:

Location: Library main 142943
Call No.: 1594
Status: Available