Booksigning: Andrew D. Lytle's Baton Rouge: Photographs, 1863-1910

When: Friday, May 16, 2008, 2 p.m. to 4 p.m.

Where: LSU Union Bookstore

Cost: Not available

Age limit: All ages

Categories: Literary

Description: Stop by LSU Union Bookstore to meet and greet Mark Martin, editor of ANDREW D. LYTLE’S BATON ROUGE: PHOTOGRAPHS, 1863-1910. Andrew David Lytle produced thousands of photographic images in the sixty years during which he lived in Baton Rouge and operated Lytle Studio. These 120 photographs give entrée into life in Louisiana's capital city from the 1860s through the early 1900s. They compose the largest extant collection of photos created in a professional studio in nineteenth-century Baton Rouge.
Much of what is depicted in ANDREW D. LYTLE’S BATON ROUGE remains central to the city's vitality today: politics, family, home, commerce and industry, social events, parades, LSU sports, and the riverfront (now with levees). Readers will find here a priceless glimpse at a bygone world, yet one still recognizable.

Event posted May 8, 2008
Last updated May 8, 2008