Special Collections

Archival Collections

SOCIAL & ENVIRONMENTAL JUSTICE

• Louis J. Twomey, S.J., Papers. Documents the post-World War II social reform work of the founding director of Loyola's Institute of Human Relations.
• Joseph H. Fichter, S.J., Papers. Details the life's work of the great Jesuit sociologist.
• William Quigley Papers. Traces recent legal struggles in such areas as the death penalty, the School of the Americas, and environmental racism.
• Archives of the Ecology Center of Louisiana. Documents environmental activism in Louisiana.
• Darryl Malek-Wiley Papers. Personal papers of the Louisiana environmental activist.

LITERARY ARCHIVES

• Patrick Samway S.J., Walker Percy Collection. Research materials for Fr. Samway's biography of Percy.
• Robert Giroux Papers. Correspondence, annotated proof copies, photographs, and other memorabilia of one of America's foremost 20th century literary figures.
• Lafcadio Hearn correspondence. Letters to Page Baker, managing editor of the New Orleans Times-Democrat, describing Louisiana, the West Indies, and Japan.
• H.L. Menken Letters. Letters to Lou Wylie, a New Orleans journalist.
• New Orleans Review Collection. Archives of the Loyola-based literary magazine.

VISUAL & PERFORMING ARTS

• Joseph-Aurélien Cornet, F.S.C., Collection. Research materials including field notebooks and more than 20,000 photographs documenting Br. Cornet’s internationally acclaimed work on the artistic traditions of the Congo region
• Archives of the New Orleans Opera Association. Artist files (including photographs and contracts), programs, financial records, scrapbooks, and educational materials
• Archives of the Concert Choir of New Orleans. Programs. Scrapbooks, and financial records
• Stephen Dankner Collection. Manuscript compositions of distinguished composer and Loyola professor
• Robert Hayne Tarrant Papers. Programs, photographs, and printed material documenting New Orleans cultural activities between the World Wars, from the collection New Orleans impresario Tarrant.
• Papers of distinguished Loyola alumni including Norman Triegle, Marguerite Piazza, Lorena Dureau, and others.

PUBLIC POLICY, PUBLIC AFFIARS & JOURNALISM

• Moon Landrieu Collection. Documents Landrieu’s career as mayor of the City of New Orleans.
• Janet Mary Riley Papers. Covers the career of Loyola’s distinguished law professor, who crafted much of contemporary Louisiana law regarding property and gender
• WWL-AM-FM-TV Collection. Documents that history of one of the oldest broadcast operations in the nation, which first aired on radio in 1922 from the Loyola University Department of Physics.
• Phil Johnson Collection. Contains manuscripts of WWL-TV editorial commentaries, spanning 37 years, and award winning documentary scripts.
• Nash Roberts Hurricane Papers. Contains hurricane tracking charts and related material from the long career of New Orleans’ renowned television meteorologist
• Press Club of New Orleans Papers. Includes both written and photographic documentation of the professional association from 1957 to the present.