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1. SCAPLA_130524_092.JPG: White Jefferson Benjamin
2. SCAPLA_130524_104.JPG: Jackson
3. SCAPLA_130524_107.JPG: De Soto
4. SCAPLA_130524_111.JPG: Iberville
5. SCAPLA_130524_115.JPG: Allen
6. SCAPLA_130524_133.JPG: The instruments which we have just signed will cause no tears to be shed. They prepare ages of happiness for innumerable generations of human creatures. Robert R. Livingston May 3rd 1803 After the signing of the treaty purchasing Louisiana from France
7. SCAPLA_130524_205.JPG: We have lived long but this is the noblest work of our whole lives. It will transform vast solitudes into thriving districts. The United States take rank this day among the first powers of the earth.
8. SCAPLA_130524_286.JPG: Bernardo de Galvez Spanish Governor of Louisiana 1776-1783 Galvez, with the aid of militia and volunteers from Louisiana, won victories at Baton Rouge, Mobile, and Pensacola during the American Revolution. By his daring leadership he drove the British from the lower Mississippi valley and west Florida, giving Spain claim to this area at the close of hostilities. Following the treaty with Spain in 1819, the entire Florida territory became a part of the United States. This tablet was placed in celebration of the bicentennial of the American Revolution by the Louisiana Society, Daughters of the American Revolution, on September 21, 1975, which date is the 196th anniversary of the battle of Baton Rouge, fought during the American Revolution.
9. SCAPLA_130524_311.JPG: The Goddess of Abundance by Jules Guerin
10. SCAPLA_130524_335.JPG: Jean Baptiste Lemoyne, Sieur de Bienville
11. SCAPLA_130524_368.JPG: Confederacy
12. SCAPLA_130524_379.JPG: Henry Watkins Allen Governor, 1864-1865
13. SCAPLA_130524_428.JPG: John J. Hainkel, Jr.
14. SCAPLA_130524_451.JPG: The Goddess of Knowledge by Jules Guerin
15. SCAPLA_130524_540.JPG: Huey P. Long United States Senator and Former Governor of Louisiana Died September 10 1935, from a bullet wound inflicted here on September 8, 1935. He was 42 years old.
16. SCAPLA_130524_568.JPG: The Shooting of Huey Long: Huey Pierce Long, U.S. Senator and former Governor, aroused powerful emotions in the citizens of Louisiana. To many, he was the champion of the poor who promised to "share the nation's wealth" if he achieved the power of the Presidency. To others, Long was a demagogue, the "Kingfish," who threatened constitutional liberties. On this site, on the night of September 8, 1835, Senator Long was accosted shortly after leaving the Chamber of the State House of Representatives by Dr. Carl Austin Weiss of Baton Rouge. According to official reports, Dr. Weiss fired one shot from a small automatic pistol which mortally wounded Long. The Senator;s bodyguards immediately killed Weiss in a hail of bullets. Other, unofficial, investigations have suggested that Dr. Weiss confronted Long but did not fire and that the Senator may have been shot accidentally in the confusion which ensued. The tragic deaths of Huey Long and Carl Austin Weiss remain the subject of debate, conjecture, and remorse.
17. SCAPLA_130524_597.JPG: Roughly the same view as shown in the previous illustration of the assassination.
18. SCAPLA_130524_695.JPG: Francis Redding Tillou Nichols
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Wikipedia Description: Louisiana State Capitol
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The Louisiana State Capitol building is the capitol building of the state of Louisiana, located in Baton Rouge. At 450 feet (137 meter) tall with 34 stories, it is the tallest capitol building in the United States. It is located on a 27-acre tract, which includes the capitol gardens. The Louisiana State Capitol building is a National Historic Landmark.

As part of his gubernatorial campaign in 1928, Huey Long advocated the construction of a new, modern capitol building to replace the Old Louisiana State Capitol building, built in 1847. Ground was broken in 1930, and the 27-month construction completed in 1932.

In 1935, former governor of Louisiana, and then Senator Huey Long was shot in the Capitol building. He died two days later as a result of his wounds and is interred in the capitol gardens.

Long contracted New Orleans architectural firm Weiss, Dreyfous and Seiferth to design the building, and expressed interest in a tower. They took Bertram Goodhue's Nebraska State Capitol Building as their model, which was still under construction at the time. The building includes integrated sculpture by Ulric Ellerhusen, Lee Lawrie, Adolph Alexander Weinman, Corrado Parducci and Lorado Taft, among others.
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2013 photos: Equipment this year: I mostly used my Fuji XS-1 camera but, depending on the event, I also used a Nikon D7000 and Nikon D600. Trips this year: three Civil War Trust conferences (Memphis, TN, Jackson, MS [to which I added a week to to visit sites in Mississippi, Louisiana, and Tennessee], and Richmond, VA), and my 8th consecutive San Diego Comic-Con trip (including sites in Nevada and California). Ego Strokes: Aviva Kempner used my photo of her as her author photo in Larry Ruttman's "American Jews & America's Game: Voices of a Growing Legacy in Baseball" book. Number of photos taken this year: just over 570,000.
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