Madison Parish, Louisiana
Photos of Historic Interest

You are visitor number
 

since the counter was installed February 28, 2000

Do you know of a photo that should be included?  Please send an email to dicksevier@comcast.net

Last Updated July 10, 2009

Click on Picture to Enlarge (Clicking again on lower right hand  "Button" or "+" may enlarge even more)

Agriculture and Cotton DustingDuckport & Shirley Plantations 1910-1930
Baptizing — Tallulah - Brushy Bayou, circa 1920-30
Buildings — Tallulah
Businesses — Tallulah
Cotton Carnival 1948 — Tallulah
Floods

Ivory-billed Woodpecker
La Delta Project
— Thomastown
Miscellaneous
Tallulah Centennial-1957

Agriculture and Cotton Dusting Duckport & Shirley Plantations 1910-1930

firsttac.jpg (92155 bytes)  handust.jpg (63250 bytes)  muledust.jpg (49009 bytes)  1925differentdusters.jpg (54851 bytes)
1st Tractor in Madison Parish                Dusting by Hand                                         Dusting With Mules        Several Types of Dusters

1925huff_dalandatairport.jpg (45559 bytes)
  huffdalanddusting.jpg (71042 bytes)  huff_dalandfleet.jpg (46147 bytes)  1925huff_dalandwreck.jpg (49198 bytes)
      Dusting Near Airport            Huff-Daland Duster                    Huff-Daland Fleet                    Huff-Daland Wreck

lab1925.jpg (132604 bytes)  testflightsloading.jpg (53696 bytes)  testflights.jpg (60034 bytes)
USDA Staff - Tallulah Lab            Test Flight Loading                Test Flights Dusting

Baptizing — Tallulah - Brushy Bayou, circa 1920-30

baptizing1.jpg (58294 bytes)  baptizing2.jpg (79953 bytes)  baptizing3.jpg (80189 bytes)  baptizing4.jpg (57905 bytes)
baptizing5.jpg (79540 bytes)
Baptizing - Tallulah Johnson Street Bridge

Buildings — Tallulah

1880scourthouse.jpg (68307 bytes)  courthouse.jpg (27453 bytes)  1938courthouse.jpg (108765 bytes)  1936tallulahcc.jpg (72710 bytes) tallulahpanorama.jpg (513433 bytes)
Courthouse about 1890       Courthouse about 1910    Courthouse 1938    Old Tallulah Community Club 1936 Tallulah-Early 1900's Double Panoramic View

tallulahjail1936.jpg (127484 bytes) johnnylandscafe.jpg (42638 bytes) library1945.jpg (226923 bytes) shushop.jpg (71744 bytes) 
Tallulah Jail 1936       Johnny Land's Cafe 1930's                       Library Dedication 1945                        Madison Shoe Hospital 1947

 1930sscurriagrocery.jpg (155989 bytes)  1930sellisstore.jpg (111008 bytes)  1935samscurriagroc.jpg (274895 bytes)  1940samscurriagroc.jpg (164011 bytes)
  Phillip J. Scurria Grocery 1930's             Scurria Grocery & Ellis 5 & 10 Early 1930's          Sam Scurria Grocery 1935          Sam Scurria Grocery 1940

 1930ford1.jpg (84913 bytes)  1930ford2.jpg (28549 bytes)  1930ford3.jpg (40684 bytes)  1930ford4.jpg (156143 bytes)
Tallulah Motor Company's showing of 1930 Ford

1936tallulahgrammerschool.jpg (68771 bytes)  1936waverlyschool.jpg (26972 bytes)  1937waverlyschool.jpg (75801 bytes)
Tallulah Grammar School 1936                             Waverly School 1936                 Waverly School 1937

     

Cotton Carnival 1948 — Tallulah

48cc_band.jpg (50363 bytes)  48cc_crowd.jpg (40975 bytes)  48cc_flt1.jpg (55234 bytes) 48cc_flt2.jpg (47130 bytes)
Band                                                Crowd                                        Float 1                                            Float 2

48cc_flt3.jpg (57266 bytes)  48cc_flt4.jpg (56350 bytes)  48cc_flt5.jpg (53310 bytes)  48cc_flt6.jpg (55671 bytes)
Float 3                                            Float 4                                        Float 5                                        Float 6

48cc_flt7.jpg (58686 bytes) 48cc_flt8.jpg (64643 bytes) 48cc_flt9.jpg (52916 bytes) 48cc_flt10.jpg (51730 bytes)
More Floats

48cc_flt11.jpg (62070 bytes) 48cc_flt12.jpg (58168 bytes) 48cc_flt13.jpg (73373 bytes) 48cc_flt14.jpg (46542 bytes)
More Floats

48cc_flt15.jpg (50274 bytes) 48cc_flt16.jpg (47554 bytes) 48cccars.jpg (65106 bytes) 48ccmgnlin.jpg (61957 bytes) 48ccsanta.jpg (70254 bytes)

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.

woodpeckerandkuhn061.jpg (38737 bytes) Nestling ivory-billed woodpecker and J. J. Kuhn, March 6, 1938
 woodpeckerandkuhn2062.jpg (39501 bytes)

Nestling ivory-billed woodpecker and J. J. Kuhn, March 6, 1938
 
  tanner046.jpg (69451 bytes)

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

   soundrecording070.jpg (63392 bytes)

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

temporarycamp090.jpg (90802 bytes)

Temporary camp on Indian Lake

 

 

 

changingatnest044.jpg (64201 bytes)

Ivory-billed woodpecker pair changing at nest, April 1935

  changingatnestenl045.jpg (38676 bytes)

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

 deadhackberry020.jpg (83845 bytes)

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

deadlimb021.jpg (62858 bytes)

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

raineylakecypress015.jpg (72767 bytes)

Cypress at end of Rainey Lake, March 1940

 

 

femaleibatnest28.jpg (70963 bytes)

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

 femaleibatnest29.jpg (47111 bytes)

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

maleatnest054.jpg (63988 bytes)

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

maleatnest055.jpg (37257 bytes)

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


roostingholes004.jpg (99332 bytes)

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

 

 

maleatnest056.jpg (70355 bytes)

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

maleatnest057.jpg (40637 bytes)

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

nest043.jpg (63529 bytes)

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

tensasriver093.jpg (61951 bytes)

Tensas River, July 1937

woodpeckerfedingsign024.jpg (105656 bytes)

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.

canningsquash.jpg (53079 bytes)  discing.jpg (51457 bytes)  fertilizing.jpg (54939 bytes)  homedemo.jpg (61173 bytes)
Canning Squash                        Disking                                        Fertilizing                                    Home Demonstration Group

newbarn.jpg (52589 bytes)  newchickenhouse.jpg (52582 bytes)  newgin.jpg (50151 bytes)  newhomes.jpg (46034 bytes)
New Barn                                    New Chicken House                    New Gin                                        New Homes  

newold.jpg (48065 bytes)  newschool.jpg (44301 bytes)  oldhouse.jpg (50419 bytes)  oldslavehouse.jpg (54983 bytes)
New House vs. Old                    New School                                Typical Old House                        Old Slave House  

oldslavehouse2.jpg (59527 bytes)  pickingupthreshedoats.jpg (48845 bytes)  school.jpg (57290 bytes)  smokehouse.jpg (55315 bytes)
Old Slave House Close-up    Picking up Threshed Oats              School                                        Smoke House

tbhouse.jpg (54626 bytes)  teacherage.jpg (46270 bytes)
TB Isolation House                    Teacherage 

Miscellaneous

belleofthebend.jpg (222328 bytes)  1903phonebook.jpg (59071 bytes)  speech1920s.jpg (207945 bytes)  deer1935.jpg (44735 bytes)  vbferrybw.jpg (43724 bytes)
       Belle of the Bend         1903 Tallulah Phone Book                         1920's Boll Weevil Speech                     1935 Deer Hunt       1930's Delta-Vicksburg Ferry 

germanplane.jpg (36331 bytes)  snyder.jpg (52051 bytes)  lawgroup.jpg (87384 bytes)  vaughnsetal.jpg (42403 bytes)    1915tallulahorchestra.jpg (38389 bytes)
German Air Force Plane*      Governor Leche & Judge Snyder           1935 Law enforcement Grp                        Jim Vaughn's First plane Ride       1915 Tallulah Orchestra

1937snow01.jpg (80383 bytes)  1937snow02.jpg (73673 bytes) 1945samscurriafamily.jpg (168293 bytes)  1948baptistbrotherhood.jpg (254700 bytes)  1948bcgbreaking.jpg (370518 bytes)
                                 Scenes from 1937 snow in Tallulah                          Sam Scurria Family-1945     1948 Baptist Brotherhood 1948 Baptist Groundbreaking
*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.

Tallulah Centennial - 1957

centennial4ladies.jpg (64317 bytes)  centennialcops.jpg (69862 bytes)  centennialhotdogs.jpg (63829 bytes)  centennialiwojima.jpg (110860 bytes)  centennialoldcar.jpg (83201 bytes)
Neumans & Mrs. E. H. Lancaster, Sr.

centenniallancastersr.jpg (60501 bytes)  centennialprivy.jpg (75485 bytes)  centennialtrain.jpg (67415 bytes)  centennialwagon.jpg (90646 bytes)  centennialwagon2.jpg (73185 bytes)
E. H. Lancaster, Sr.

centennialpollardcorbin.jpg (27561 bytes)
Buddy Pollard & John Corbin

Return to Madison Home Page

© 2008 Richard P. Sevier (dicksevier@comcast.net)