Madison Parish, Louisiana
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Agriculture, USDA Lab and Cotton Dusting— Duckport & Shirley Plantations 1910-1930
Baptizing
— Tallulah - Brushy Bayou, circa 1920-30
Buildings — Tallulah
Cotton Carnival 1948 — Tallulah
Floods
Ivory-billed Woodpecker
La Delta Project
— Thomastown
Miscellaneous
Tallulah Centennial-1957

Agriculture, USDA Lab and Cotton Dusting — Duckport & Shirley Plantations 1910-1930

             
1st Tractor in Madison Parish        1919 Early Cotton Sprayer             Dusting by Hand                   Dusting With Mules               1925 Several Dusting Types         Dusting Near Airport                   Huff-Daland Duster

           
       Huff-Daland Wreck          Tallulah Airport-Original Planes          Tallulah Airport                                Huff-Daland Crew               Joe Holly & R. G. Long                 1925 USDA Field Staff               1925 USDA Lab Staff

           
Test Flight Loading                    Test Flights Dusting                  Huff-Daland in Museum                  Huff-Daland Fleet                 1922 AR Businessmen Visit     1930 bug catcher         WWII Refueling Stop

  
1931 Pilots - Payne & Yeates                                     1931 Tallulah Airport


Baptizing — Tallulah - Brushy Bayou, circa 1920-30

       

Baptizings under Tallulah Johnson Street Bridge

 

Buildings — Tallulah

       
Courthouse about 1890
                   Courthouse about 1910               Tallulah Opera House                     Commercial Hotel 1930                                Tallulah Airport 1931


Early 1900's Double Panoramic View

       
1930s First Methodist Church        1930s Madison National Bank                  Johnny Land's Cafe 1930's                                                          1930s Bear Lake Club 

       
                                                                                   Tallulah Motor Company's showing of 1930 Ford                                                                                       1930's Chicago Mill

         
1930's Sam Scurria Saloon      1930's Scurria Grocery & Ellis 5 & 10    1930's Phillip J. Scurria Grocery         Sam Scurria Grocery 1935                          Courthouse  1935

       
Old Tallulah Community Club 1936       Tallulah Jail  1936      Tallulah Grammar School 1936                       Waverly School 1936                        Waverly School 1937

     
            Courthouse 1938                         Sam Scurria Grocery 1940                     Library Dedication 1945                     Madison Shoe Hospital 1947

 

Cotton Carnival 1948 — Tallulah

         
                         Band                                                       Crowd                                                      Float 1                                                   Float 2                                                     Float 3                                                  Float 4

         
                     Float 5                                                     Float 6                                                                                                                                                         More Floats

         
                                                                                                                                                                              More Floats

   
                                                                                       More Floats

Floods Click Here

Ivory-billed Woodpecker

The last confirmed sighting of the Ivory-billed Woodpecker was in Madison Parish on the Singer Tract (now the Tensas National Wildlife Refuge) in 1944.  In 2004 there was a disputed sighting in Arkansas which was probably a Pileated Woodpecker -- often mistaken for the Ivory-billed.

These photos were taken by Dr. James T. Tanner during the period 1935-1939 and are linked to the website of the U. S. Fish & Wildlife Service.

Nestling ivory-billed woodpecker and J. J. Kuhn, March 6, 1938

Nestling ivory-billed woodpecker and J. J. Kuhn, March 6, 1938

James T. Tanner standing next to a big honey locust near Methiglum Bayou, May 1935

Paul Kellogg and J. J. Kuhn when sound recording of ivory-billed woodpecker was being made, April 1935

Temporary camp on Indian Lake

 

 

 

Ivory-billed woodpecker pair changing at nest, April 1935

Ivory-billed woodpecker pair changing at nest, April 1935. Enlargement

Dead hackberry fed upon by ivory-billed woodpeckers, June 1937

Dead limb scaled of bark by ivory-billed woodpeckers, June 1937

Cyprus at end of Rainey Lake, March 1940

 

 

 

 

Female ivory-billed woodpecker at nest in red maple, April 1935

Female ivory-billed woodpecker at nest in red maple, April 1935. Enlargement

Male ivory-billed woodpecker at nest in red maple, April 1935 (1)

Male ivory-billed woodpecker at nest in red maple, April 1935 (1). Enlargement.

Ash tree with ivory-billed woodpecker roosting holes, June 1937

 

 

 

 

Male ivory-billed woodpecker at nest in red maple, April 1935 (2)

Male ivory-billed woodpecker at nest in red maple, April 1935 (2)

Ivory-billed woodpecker nest tree, Nuttall's Oak, April 1939

Tensas River, July 1937

Dead-top gum with ivory-billed woodpecker feeding sign, May 1937

 

 

 

 

 

La Delta Project — Thomastown

These scenes of the Farm Security Administration’s La Delta Project near Thomastown were taken by noted photographer Marion Post Wolcott (1910-1990) in May and June 1940. All photos are from the Library of Congress, Prints & Photographs Division, FSA-OWI Collection. The Farm Security Administration (FSA) was created in the Department of Agriculture in 1937. The FSA and its predecessor, the Resettlement Administration (RA), were New Deal programs designed to assist poor farmers during the Dust Bowl and the Great Depression.


       Canning Squash                                          Disking                                         Fertilizing                      Home Demonstration Group                       New Barn                                 New Chicken House                             New Gin


               New Homes                              New House vs. Old                                  New School                                Typical Old House                           Old Slave House                    Old Slave House Close-up         Picking up Threshed Oats


                     School                                      Smoke House                           TB Isolation House                               Teacherage

 

Miscellaneous


         Belle of the Bend                           1903 Tallulah Phone Book                              1915 Tallulah Orchestra                  German Air Force Plane*        1922 Car-Train Wreck                      1920's Boll Weevil Speech
                                                                                                                                       *In the early 1920’s this plane landed across the bayou from what is now Tallulah High School so the pilot could walk to town and get something to eat.


      1925 Baseball Team                              1930s American Legion Post 100                            1930s Bear Lake Lilies                    1930s Building Road to Logging Camp                     1930s Logging Camp


        1930s Circus Parade                   1930s Courthouse Gathering         1930's Delta-Vicksburg Ferry  1930s Guenard-Lucas Drug    1930s Highway 80                    1930s Naylor Service Station


                      1930s Picking Cotton                                             1930s Red Cross Ladies                     1930s Roscoe Turner in Tallulah         1930s Tallulah                1930s Tallulah Businessmen


1930s Tallulah Still       1930s Wagon & Mules                                            1931 Boy Scouts                                                1935 Deer Hunt                                        1935 Law enforcement Group

 
Governor Leche & Judge Snyder  1935 Longtime Sheriff A. J. Sevier     Jim Vaughn's First plane Ride


1937 Snow Bayou in Front of Coltharp Home                                                                                           1937 Tallulah Snow Scenes (Photos by Cecil Smith)

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                More Scenes from 1937 Tallulah Snow                                       1945 Sam Scurria Family   1948 Baptist Brotherhood    1948 Baptist Groundbreaking  1949 Trinity Episcopal Church Vestry


                                                                 Scenes from 1951 Tallulah Snow                                                                     1952 Tallulah Fire Dept.

 

Tallulah Centennial - 1957


Neumans & Mrs. E. H. Lancaster, Sr.                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                 E. H. Lancaster, Sr.


                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                         Buddy Pollard & John Corbin


            Goss Family                                           Gaines Byram


           Martha Sevier                                      Jo Yerger

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