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New Orleans designer Mignon Faget creates jewelry renowned for its natural forms and blend of French, Egyptian, and Southern styles. Continue »
Falcon, Cleoma Breaux
Musician and singer Cléoma Breaux Falcon recorded the first Cajun record with her husband, Joseph Falcon. Continue »
Fall of New Orleans and Federal Occupation
For both Union and Confederate forces, New Orleans was considered a strategic city at the mouth of the Mississippi River. Continue »
Farm Security Administration Photography
The Farm Security Photography project was a Depression-era program that resulted in images which provided a unique glimpse into the lives of working-class Louisianans as they struggled to survive. Continue »
Faulkner, William
Nobel Prize-winning author William Faulkner lived in New Orleans and wrote some of his earliest works there. Continue »
Febres, George
New Orleans artist George Febres helped to establish the late twentieth century art movement known as Visionary Imagism. Continue »
Federal Art Project
The Federal Art Project was a Depression-era effort to bring art and artists into the everyday lives of Americans while simultaneously extending work relief to artists. Continue »
Federal Writers Project
The Federal Writers Project in Louisiana produced oral histories, local guidebooks, and other writings between 1935 and 1939. Continue »
Fein, Skylar
Largely self-taught and working primarily in wood sculptures, Skylar Fein graphically combines pop-culture icons and revolutionary texts into artwork with embedded political critiques. Continue »
Ferdinand, Roy
Artist Roy Ferdinand chronicled the street life and characters from some of New Orleans' toughest neighborhoods with graphic, head-on representations of his subjects. Continue »
Fernández, Royes
Royes Fernández was considered to be America's first premier ballet dancer. Continue »
Fiction, Local Color
Local color fiction was a literature genre popular with American readers between 1870 and 1900. Continue »
Flanders, Benjamin Franklin
During Reconstruction, Unionist Benjamin Flanders was selected as Louisiana’s first Republican governor in June of 1867. Continue »
Flattmann, Alan
New Orleans artist Alan Flattmann has become recognized as one of the most influential and respected pastel artists in the country. Continue »
Fleischbein, Francois Jacques
Though he painted a variety of subjects, German-born painter François Jacques Fleischbein is best known as portraitist who worked in New Orleans between 1834 and 1868. Continue »
Flood of 1927
The Flood of 1927 inundated nearly 26,000 square miles in 170 counties in seven states, driving an estimated 931,159 people from their homes. Continue »
Florida Parishes in the Civil War
The Florida Parishes of Louisiana were especially significant to the Union during the Civil War because of their strategic location. Continue »
Folse, France
France Folse was the most successful folk painter to emerge from the Bayou Lafourche region in the twentieth century. Her painting chronicle the rapid changes that took place in the region with the discovery of oil and gas and the mechanization of the sugar industry. Continue »
Fontenot, Canray
Canray Fontenot was a legendary Creole fiddle player from southwestern Louisiana. Continue »
Ford, Thomas Edison "Brownie"
Brownie Ford was a Louisiana cowboy musician with an extensive repertoire of cowboy songs, frontier ballads, sentimental parlor ditties, and early country and western songs. Continue »
