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Louisiana Calendars
Louisiana Calendars




BOOKS ABOUT LOUISIANA

The Roads of Louisiana
The Roads
of Louisiana


Cajun Cuisine: Authentic Cajun Recipes from Louisiana's Bayou Country
Cajun Cuisine: Authentic Cajun Recipes from Louisiana's Bayou Country


Louisiana: Off the Beaten Path
Louisiana:
Off the
Beaten Path


Louisiana Bird Watching: A Year-Round Guide
Louisiana Bird Watching:
A Year-Round Guide


Louisiana Iris: The Taming of a Native American Wildflower
Louisiana Iris:
The Taming of a Native American Wildflower


P is for Pelican: A Louisiana Alphabet
P is for Pelican:
A Louisiana Alphabet

Louisiana Flag
Louisiana Flag




Famous Louisianians

Louis Armstrong
Elizabeth Ashley
Geoffrey Beene
Arna Bontemps
Terry Bradshaw
George Washington Cable
Truman Capote
Kitty Carlisle
Claire Lee Chennault
Kate Chopin
Van Cliburn
Pauline Cushman
Michael DeBakey
Carmen De Lavallade
“Fats” Domino
Pete Fountain
Ernest J. Gaines
Louis Moreau Gottschalk
Bryant Gumbel
Lillian Hellman
Al Hirt
Mahalia Jackson
Papa Jack Laine
Dorothy Lamour
Huddie “Lead Belly” Ledbetter
Jerry Lee Lewis
Huey P. Long
Wynton Marsalis
“Jelly Roll” Morton
Huey Newton
Alcide Nunez
Joe “King” Oliver
Helen Prejean

P. B. S. Pinchback
Paul Prudhomme
Anne Rice
H. H. Richardson
Cokie Roberts
Jimmy Lee Swaggart
Kordell Stewart
Ray Walston
Theodore Ward
Andrew Young
Buckwheat Zydeco




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State of Louisiana Posters, Art Prints, Photographs, & Maps
images for educators and home schoolers, themed decor in studio or office.


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Louisianna from Space
Louisianna
from Space

(31º0'0"N 92º0'0"W)

Louisiana, known as the “Pelican State”, joined the Union on April 30, 1812 as the 18th state.

Located in the West South Central Region, Louisiana is bordered on the east by the Mississippi River and the state of Mississippi, to the north by Arkansas, the west by Texas, and the south by the Gulf of Mexico.

State Bird : Brown Pelican
State Flower : Magnolia & Iris
State Insect : Honey Bee
State Tree : Baldcypress
State Capital : Baton Rouge
State Motto : “Union, Justice, and Confidence”.
Louisiana Map by county.
US Census Bureau
All About Louisiana Facts


Sailing down the Mississippi in 1682, La Salle claimed a vast area, which included the present state, for France's Sun King, Loouis XIV. Today, Louisiana's premier tourist attraction is the Vieux Carre, better known as the French Quarter of New Orleans.

In spirit of its long-accepted name, the French Quarter's hundred blocks of Old World buildings, with leafy patios and balconies of iron grillwork, are more Spanish than French in design. And gastronomes assert that New Orlean's famous cuisine is not French but Creole – based on the spices of the delta, the bounty of the gulf, and the culinary arts of French, Indian, Spanish, and African cooks. And the music? Not French at all, but Dixieland jazz blaring every night from bistros on Bourbon Street. New Orleans, in its uniqueness, delights the eyes, ears, and taste buds of those fortunates who can sample its charms.

South Central United States Map
South Central
United States Map

Rich in the fine antebellum homes, the stretch of the old River Roads that hugs the Mississippi from New Orleans to Baton Rouge meanders by such showpiece mansions as San Francisco Plantation house and the Houmas House. A skyscraper capitol in Baton Rouge stands as a striking counterpoint.

If you've brought your fishing gear, some of Louisiana's best freshwater angling spots await you in the northern half of the state. Toldedo Bend Reservoir on the Texas-Louisiana border abounds in bass, crappie, beam, and catfish. In the north, too, prehistoric indian mounds rise at Poverty Point, a notable archeological site near Epps. And Shreveport, northern Louisiana's largest city, each spring stages a ten-day festival of art and flower shows and contests.

Lafayette is the heart of Acadiana, or Cajun country as most call it. The people of this region – southern Louisiana in general – have a culture that intensely upholds the language, joie de vivre, and Catholic faith of their French forebears who came here in the 18th century after being expelled from Acadia, now Nova Scotia. A wooded state park north of St. Martinville commemorates the area's most enduring tale, the tragic story of separated Acadian lovers told by Henry Wadsworth Longfellow in Evangeline.

Vast fields extend from the highway as you travel through southwestern Louisiana's prairies, the rice belt. In spring irrigation turns fields into lakes, which during the growing season become green seas of grain. Fall changes them into a golden harvest. Crowley celebrates the bounty of October with a fair that includes rice-eating and rice-cookng contests.

To the east, New Iberia claims to be the sweetest, spiciest, and saltiest spot in the South. A visit here – with its proximity to extensive sugarcane fields, a hop-pepper-sauce works, and huge salt domes – could definitely enhance the flavor of a day's outing.

Wildlife refuges along the shore attest to the popularity of Louisiana's coastal marshes as wintering grounds for flocks of wild ducks and geese. Charter boats from Grand Isle and other costal towns will take you deep-sea fishing in the Gulf of Mexico.

(poster text about Louisiana)



Louisiana Flag Art Print
Louisiana Flag
Art Print

Baton Rouge State Capitol, Louisiana Art Print
Baton Rouge State Capitol, Louisiana

• more flag posters



Gulf of Mexico & Caribbean Sea, Art Print
Gulf of Mexico & Caribbean Sea,
Art Print


Louisiana, Map, Pelican, Flag, Magnolia Art Print
Louisiana, Map, Pelican,
Flag, Magnolia
Art Print



Map of Vieux Carre, New Orleans, Louisiana, Art Print
Map of Vieux Carre,
New Orleans, Louisiana,
Art Print

Greetings from Louisiana, Poster
Greetings from Louisiana, Poster



Louisiana State University Art Print
Louisiana State University
Art Print

Tulane University Art Print
Tulane University
Art Print



August 28, 2005, Hurricane Katrina Approaching the Gulf Coast, Photographic Print
August 28, 2005, Hurricane Katrina Approaching the
Gulf Coast,
Photographic Print


Poster of Satellite image of NASA Satellite Spots Oil at Mississippi Delta's Mouth, Print
Poster of Satellite image of NASA Satellite Spots Oil at Mississippi Delta's Mouth,
Print

Astronomy/Earth posters
river posters
hurricane posters



Bald Cypress Tree Giclee Print
Bald Cypress Tree
Giclee Print
(Louisiana State Tree)


Brown Pelican Giclee Print
Brown Pelican
Giclee Print

• more trees posters

• more birds posters


Atchafalaya River Delta, Only Louisiana Area Where Land is Increasing, Photographic Print
Atchafalaya River Delta, Only Louisiana Area Where Land is Increasing, Photographic Print

(29º26'30"N 91º25'0"W)

Atchafalaya Basin, in Louisiana, is the largest swamp in the United States, is a combination bayous, bald cypress swamps, marshes and brackish estuarine conditions of a river delta where the Atchafalaya River meets the Gulf of Mexico.



Choctaws in Louisiana Bayou Country Harvest Corn, Photographic Print
Choctaws in Louisiana Bayou Country Harvest Corn, Photographic Print

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Poverty Point, Nation State Historic Site
Poverty Point Culture & Ancient Mounds (books)

• more biomes posters



French Quarter Architecture, New Orleans, Louisiana, USA, Photographic Print
French Quarter Architecture, New Orleans, Louisiana,
Photographic Print


Creole Queen Boat on Mississippi River, Louisiana, Photographic Print
Creole Queen Boat on Mississippi River, Louisiana, Photographic Print

architecture posters



Lafitte's Blacksmith Shop, New Orleans, Louisiana, Art Print
Lafitte's Blacksmith Shop,
New Orleans, Louisiana,
Art Print

Mask at New Orleans Mardi Gras Parade, New Orleans, Louisiana, Photographic Print
Mask at New Orleans Mardi Gras Parade, New Orleans, Louisiana, Photographic Print

mask posters
mask making lesson plan ideas


Huey P. Long Monument, Baton Rouge, Louisiana, Giclee  Print
Huey P. Long Monument, Baton Rouge, Louisiana
Art Print

Huey P. Long
b. 8-3-1893; Winnfield, LA
d. 9-10-1935; assassinated in Baton Rouge


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