New Orleans: A Pictorial History
Leonard V. Huber (1903-1984) was one of Louisiana's leading historians and experienced a lifetime's worth of Carnival and Mardi Gras celebrations in New Orleans and Mobile, Alabama. A businessman and an author, he was active in many local historical organizations around New Orleans and wrote many books and articles based on his experiences with Crescent City culture. He acted as president of the Louisiana Landmarks Society, Orleans Parish Landmarks Commission, and Keyes Foundation. He was also a founding member and a president of the Friends of Tulane Library, and the library holds this and other titles of Huber's.Charles L. Dufour (1903-1996) was a newspaper journalist, historian, and author. He served as a columnist for the New Orleans States-Item newspaper and wrote thousands of installments of his column, called "Pie Dufour's A La Mode." Dufour also wrote for the Sunday edition of the New Orleans Times-Picayune. He lived in New Orleans for the duration of his life. For twenty-five years, he taught a New Orleans history course at Tulane University with his colleague John Churchill Chase.