Palmetto People
Photo Collection
Palmetto People Collection
(Images Donated by Charles A. Dranguet, Jr.)
Pix #
Date of PixSize of PixNo. of PixKind of ImageNegative#1 1970’s 8 ½ x 11 5 Color 1,2
Panoramic of a swamp
2 1970’s 8 ½ x 11 1 Color
Picture of two trees in a swamp
3 1970’s 8 ½ x 11 2 Color
Picture of swamplands
4 1970’s 8 ½ x 11 1 Color
A gentleman walking through the swampland wearing blue jeans and a red shirt
5 1970’s 8 ½ x 11 2 Color
Tree with Spanish moss growing off it and vegetation around the base
6 1970’s 8 ½ x 11 2 Color
A home on the bayou with a dock in the front and a clothesline on the porch
7 1970’s 8 ½ x 11 1 Color
A side angle of a house on the bayou with two boats on the side
8 1970’s 8 ½ x 11 1 Color
A man fishing in a boat on the bayou
9 1970’s 8 ½ x 11 2 Color
Picture of the Turtle Cove Experimental Station
10 1970’s 8 ½ x 11 3 Color 5
An owl perched in a tree
11 1970’s 8 ½ x 11 4 Color
A grasshopper on a blade of grass
11A 1970’s 8 ½ x 11 1 Color 4
Landscape picture of the Manchac Swamp around dusk with a stark tree in the center
11B 1970’s 8 ½ x 11 1 Color 3
Wetlands picture around dusk or dawn
11C 1970’s 8 ½ x 11 1 Color 7
Wetlands picture taken around midday in early fall
Pix #
Date of PixSize of PixNo. of PixKind of ImageNegative#11D 1970’s 8 ½ x 11 1 Color 6
A fishing boat with nets cast in the water
11E 1970’s 8 ½ x 11 1 Color
A flock of seagulls on a pier
11F 1970’s 8 ½ x 11 2 Color 9
Manchac Lighthouse
11G 1970’s 8 ½ x 11 1 Color 13
A fishing net being pulled from the water
11H 1970’s 8 ½ x 11 1 Color 14
Two fish being measured
12 1880-1920 3x5 6 B&W 23, 22
Nine men at either a fishing or logging camp
13 1900’s 3x5 1 B&W
Recently logged forest
14 1900’s 3x5 1 B&W
Six gentlemen and one lady surveying a railroad
15 1900’s 3x5 1 B&W
Men working on the railroad track
16 1900’s 3x5 1 B&W
Men working on the railroad with a crane
17 1900’s 3x5 2 B&W
Aerial view of a town and plant
18 1900’s 3x5 1 B&W
OPDENWEYERFISCHER CYPRESS & Co. business building.
19 1900’s 3x5 2 B&W
A view of a forest
20 1900’s 3x5 1 B&W
Aerial view of the Railroad tracks
Palmetto People Collection
Pix # Date of PixSize of PixNo. of PixKind of ImageNegative#
21 1880’s 3x5 4 B&W 21
Swamp dweller sitting in front of his palmetto home.
22 Early 1990’s 5x7 5 B&W
Logging patterns left by a pull boat
23 Early 1990’s 5x7 1 B&W 30
Family portrait with two girls, three boys, and a mother and father
24 Early 1990’s 5x7 3 B&W
Family portrait in front of a house
25 Early 1990’s 5x7 2 B&W 60
Family of five with two dogs
26 1909 5x7 2 B&W
Profile shot of a Choctaw Indian woman
27 Early 1990’s 5x7 3 B&W
Picture of a large log saw
28 Early 1990’s 5x7 2 B&W
Several logs piled upon each other
29 1908 5x7 14 B&W
Five adults and three children standing by a "dugout" boat
30 Early 1900’s 5x7 1 B&W
Picture of four shots of the same woman
31 1970’s 5x7 2 B&W 45
Picture of a young man in camouflage holding four dead ducks
32 Early 1900’s 5x7 2 B&W
Picture of a lumberyard
33 Early 1900’s 5x7 2 B&W
Three men stacking lumber to air dry
34 Early 1900’s 5x7 1 B&W
Palmetto trees
Pix #
Date of PixSize of PixNo. of PixKind of ImageNegative#35 Early 1900’s 5x7 4 B&W 35
Picture of the Manchac lighthouse
36 Early 1900’s 5x7 2 B&W
Three adults and one child standing on a porch
37 Early 1900’s 5x7 2 B&W
Picture of a couple
38 Early 1900’s 5x7 2 B&W 36
Picture of a couple and a baby
39 Early 1900’s 5x7 6 B&W
Side profile of a man with a mustache
40 Early 1900’s 5x7 4 B&W 41
Picture of a two mass sailboat at a dock
41 Early 1900’s 5x7 2 B&W 40
Man in a boat in the wetlands
42 Early 1900’s 5x7 5 B&W
Three men standing by a train
43 Early 1900’s 5x7 2 B&W 32
Picture of an old factory
44 Early 1900’s 5x7 3 B&W 18
Picture of a house on the water with two men on a boat in front
45 Early 1900’s 5x7 4 B&W 24
Two men working on a pull boat on the Manchac Swamp
46 Early 1900’s 5x7 5 B&W
Three men in the forest, two of the men are holding axes
47 Early 1900’s 5x7 2 B&W
Schematic diagram of a railroad skidder outfit
48 Early 1900’s 5x7 2 B&W
Schematic diagram of a railroad skidder outfit
Pix #
Date of PixSize of PixNo. of PixKind of ImageNegative#49 Early 1900’s 5x7 4 B&W 49, 50
Side view of a train
50 Early 1900’s 5x7 4 B&W 29
Train switching tracks
51 Early 1900’s 5x7 2 B&W
Picture of a recently deforested area
52 Early 1900’s 5x7 2 B&W
Picture of a recently deforested area
53 Early 1900’s 8 ½ x 11 3 B&W
Landscape of wetlands with a dead tree centered
54 Early 1900’s 8 ½ x 11 1 B&W
Landscape of wetlands
55 Early 1900’s 8 ½ x 11 1 B&W
Landscape of wetlands with a bridge in the background
56 Early 1900’s 8 ½ x 11 1 B&W
Landscape of wetlands with a bridge in the back
57 Early 1900’s 8 ½ x 11 2 B&W 48
Aerial section of a forest recently cut for the railroad
58 Early 1900’s 8 ½ x 11 1 B&W
Recently cut forest with machinery in the background
59 Early 1900’s 8 ½ x 11 1 B&W
Recently deforested landscape
60 Early 1900’s 8 ½ x 11 2 B&W 52, 53
Lumber being stacked for transport
61 Early 1900’s 8 ½ x 11 5 B&W 56-59
Two men cutting down a tree
62 Early 1900’s 8 ½ x 11 3 B&W
Picture of a house and a boat on the river
Pix #
Date of PixSize of PixNo. of PixKind of ImageNegative#63 Early 1900’s 8 ½ x 11 1 B&W
Three men working on the railroad
64 Early 1900’s 8 ½ x 11 1 B&W
Picture of the machine used to lay the rails for the railroad
65 Early 1900’s 8 ½ x 11 2 B&W
The end of the railroad
66 Early 1900’s 8 ½ x 11 2 B&W
Picture of a man standing in front of the rail-layer
67 Early 1900’s 8 ½ x 11 2 B&W
Picture of the pulley system used to lay rails
68 Early 1900’s 8 ½ x 11 2 B&W
Picture of the railroad crane in a forested area
69 Early 1900’s 8 ½ x 11 2 B&W 51
Picture of the railroad crane in a deforested area
70 Early 1900’s 8 ½ x 11 2 B&W
Picture of a building in the woods with a steam stack
71 Early 1900’s 8 ½ x 11 4 B&W
Logs being prepped for cutting
72 Early 1900’s 8 ½ x 11 3 B&W
Picture of a train engine off the tracks
73 Early 1900’s 8 ½ x 11 1 B&W
Ten people riding on the back of a train
74 Early 1900’s 8 ½ x 11 1 B&W
Twelve people riding two hand cars
75 Early 1900’s 8 ½ x 11 2 B&W
Three people loading lumber on a locomotive
76 Early 1900’s 8 ½ x 11 5 B&W
Locomotive hauling lumber
Pix #
Date of PixSize of PixNo. of PixKind of ImageNegative#77 Early 1900’s 8 ½ x 11 3 B&W
Locomotive hauling lumber around a turn
78 Early 1900’s 8 ½ x 11 1 B&W
Several bare carts on overgrown rails
79 Early 1900’s 8 ½ x 11 1 B&W
A caboose car on overgrown tracks
80 Early 1900’s 8 ½ x 11 2 B&W
Picture of the rails in a deforested area
81 1970’s 8 ½ x 11 2 B&W
Turtle Cove research center
82 1970’s 8 ½ x 11 8 B&W
A woman working with chemicals in a lab
83 1970’s 5 x 7 1 Color
Commercial fisherman running catfish line at South Pass Manchac
84 1970’s 5 x 7 1 Color 12
Commercial fishing boat on the water, only one passenger
85 1970’s 5 x 7 1 Color
Middendorf’s restaurant
86 1970’s 5 x 7 1 Color 11
Picture of Reno’s seafood
87 1970’s 5 x 7 1 Color 10
Picture of the "Pass Manchac" city sign
88 1970’s 5 x 7 1 Color 15
Picture of two men, two young girls and an alligator in the back of a truck
89 Early 1900’s 5 x 7 1 B&W 34
Picture of the Manchac lighthouse
90 1970’s 5 x 7 2 B&W
Modern view of the remains of the Manchac Lighthouse
Pix #
Date of PixSize of PixNo. of PixKind of ImageNegative#91 1970’s 5 x 7 1 B&W 44
Elderly couple, the gentleman is standing and the woman is sitting
92 1970’s 5 x 7 1 B&W 43
Side angle of the Turtle Cove Research Center
93 1970’s 5 x 7 1 B&W 38
Remains of an old steam engine
94 Early 1900’s 5 x 7 1 B&W 28
Locomotive hauling lumber
95 1950’s 5 x 7 1 B&W 42
First official cars over the Hammond-New Orleans highway
96 1950’s? 5 x 7 2 B&W
Blurry picture of one or two people watching a crane
97 Early 1900’s 5 x 7 2 B&W
Picture of several people working a pull boat
98 Early 1900’s 5 x 7 1 B&W 19
People loading logs on the railroad from the river
99 Early 1900’s 5 x 7 1 B&W 25, 26
A man sitting a boat in front of a white building on top of a pile of moss
100 Early 1900’s 5 x 7 1 B&W
Three children sitting on a porch, two are wearing light colored clothing and the one in the center is wearing dark clothing
101 Early 1900’s 5 x 7 1 B&W 39
A man in a small fishing boat named the U.S. LHS
102 Early 1900’s 5 x 7 2 B&W 16, 17
A man paddling a small paddle boat through the wetlands
103 Early 1900’s 3 x 5 1 B&W
An old lumberyard with tracks running throughout the property
104 Early 1900’s 3 x 7 1 B&W
Same lumberyard as 103 taken at a different angle
Pix #
Date of PixSize of PixNo. of PixKind of ImageNegative#105 Early 1900’s 3 x 7 1 B&W
Same lumberyard as in 104 taken at a different angle
106 1902 3 x 5 1 B&W 46
Cypress Lumber company mill at Ruddock Louisiana
107 1970’s 3 x 5 1 B&W 33
Picture of a large drill bit compared to a quarter
108 1970’s 3 x 5 1 B&W 37
Two man saw being compared to a pen
109 1970’s 3 x 5 1 B&W
Picture of a man next to what looks like a large funnel with "BAPTIST SYSTEM" printed on the side
110 1970’s 3 x 5 1 B&W
Picture of a 1914 Louisiana trapper’s license
111 1970’s 8 ½ x 11 1 B&W
Louisiana Cypress Company crane
112 Early 1900’s 8 ½ x 11 1 B&W 47
Aerial view of the railroad
113 Early 1900’s 8 ½ x 11 2 B&W 54
Railroad tracks going through the wetlands
114 1970’s 8 ½ x 11 1 B&W
Shrimp boat with lowered "butterfly" nets east of the railroad draw bridge, South Manchac Pass
115 1970’s 8 ½ x 11 2 B&W
Headquarters of the Louisiana Cypress Lumber Company in Pontchatoula
116 1970’s 5 x 7 1 B&W 8
Picture of the Pass Manchac city sign
117 Early 1900’s 5 x 7 1 B&W
Picture of a train going into a lumber mill
Pix #
Date of PixSize of PixNo. of PixKind of ImageNegative#118 Early 1900’s 5 x 7 1 B&W 55
Two men cutting down a tree in the woods
119 Early 1900’s 0 B&W 31
Picture of a mill with four steam stacks
Palmetto People Exhibit Collection
Pix #
Date of PixSize of PixNo. of PixKind of ImageNegative1 1980’s 3x5 1 Color yes
Picture of four photos in an exhibit.
2 1980’s 3x5 1 Color yes
Picture of two photos in the exhibit
3 1980’s 3x5 1 Color yes
Picture of Four photos within one frame in the exhibit
4 1980’s 3x5 1 Color yes
Picture of four photos within one frame
5 1980’s 3x5 1 Color yes
Picture of five photos within one frame
6 1980’s 3x5 1 Color yes
Picture of four photos within one frame
7 1980’s 3x5 1 Color yes
Two ladies looking at the exhibit
8 1980’s 3x5 1 Color yes
Lady in a blue dress looking at the exhibit
9 1980’s 3x5 1 Color yes
Three ladies looking at the exhibit