Photo Collection

PONCHATOULA, LOUISIANA Dr. Joy Jackson copied originals
November 1981

Pix #

Date of PixSize of PixNo. of PixKind of ImageNegative

1 unknown 3 x 5 2 B&W copy print 35mm B&W

Sugar mill on farm of Mr. George Hollister, now L. S. Jackson
home. Mr. Hollister, Mr. Bert Branch, and Mr. Elmer Parker came
from Michigan and worked at the thriving sugar mill in 1895.
Written on back: “John’s on wagon.” Photographer of original,
Stillman & Saunders, Hammond, LA. Size of original 5″ x 7
¾” on cardboard backing. Original owner, Inez Parker
Layrisson.

2 unknown 3 x 5 3 B&W copy print 35mm B&W

Old Ray Home, North Seventh Street, Ponchatoula, Louisiana built
about 1900. Home now owned by Mr. & Mrs. Don Adams.
Photographer of original, Davis Brothers, Hammond, LA. Size of
original 6″ x 8″ on cardboard backing. Owner of original, Inez
Parker Layrisson.

3 unknown 3 x 5 1 B&W copy print 35mm B&W

Picture post card of former American Legion Home. First built by
Dr. Bowman a dentist about 1915 as a home. Photographer unknown.
Size of original 3″ x 5″ postcard. Owner of original, Inez Parker
Layrisson.

4 unknown 3 x 5 3 B&W copy print 35mm B&W

Baskets full of food distributed by Fire Department and Town in
1927, 1928, 1929, and 1930 and perhaps later. sitting in front
people standing on cars. Mr. E. D. Parker, city clerk, past mayor,
is man in the suit and tie in the center, third from the left.
Photo indicates Ponchatoula takes care of its own. Photo reproduced
in the Ponchatoula Centennial Book.

5 unknown 3 x 5 1 B&W copy print 35mm B&W

Ponchatoula elementary and high school built in 1918 and had
sixteen rooms. It was located on the corner of Oak and Fourth
Streets. Photographer unknown. Size of original 3″ x 5″. Original
owner Mrs. Max Roussel.

6 unknown 3 x 5 3 B&W copy print 35mm B&W

Dr. and Mrs. Charles Marion Abbott (Stella Young) shortly before
marriage in 1903. Picture copied from the Daily Star, Hammond, LA
from Thursday, February 15, 1973 edition. Photographer unknown.
Owner of original, Mrs. Max Roussel.

7 unknown 3 x 5 3 B&W copy print 35mm B&W

Dr. Charles Marion Abbott. Picture copied from the Daily Star,
Hammond, LA from Thursday, February 15, 1973 edition. Photographer
unknown. Owner of original, Mrs. Max Roussel.

8 unknown 8 x 10 3 B&W copy print 35mm B&W

Road south of Ponchatoula, Hwy. 51, before it was paved.

9 unknown 3½ x 5½ 2 original color postcard none

Side front view of the Collinswood School Museum, 1876-1976,
East Pine Street.

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Pix #

Date of PixSize of PixNo. of PixKind of ImageNegative

10 unknown 3½ x 5½ 2 drawing none

Illinois Central Mail Car, a miniature post office, now on the
tracks in Ponchatoula, Louisiana, is the property of the National
Historical Railroad Society. It was in use on regular passenger
runs during the 1940s (drawing by Midge White.)

11 circa 1924 4¼ x 6 2 B&W postcard none

Building at the Southeast corner of Pine and Pine Railroad
Avenue with a sign that reads “Ponchatoula, Gateway to New
Orleans.”

12 circa 1940s 6 x 6 2 original strawberry label none

LOU-ANN Brand Strawberry, Grown and Packed for Ponchatoula Union
Coop. Assn., Inc.

13 unknown 8½ x 11 1 drawing none

Collinswood Museum.

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Neg. 1 (35mm B&W)

Several Negroes hanging from a tree on Northwest
Railroad Avenue in Ponchatoula. They were buried behind Cave Tangi.
Picture circa before World War I. Photo copied in July 1982.