Dancehalls in Orleans Parish

Autocrat

African American club- Featured in the 1949 Negro Motorist Green Book: 1609 LaHarpe Street 1958 photo of many members of the Lawrence Marrero Polo Barnes New Orleans Jazz Band rehearsing at the Autocrat Club is in the Ralston Crawford Jazz Photography collection in the Hogan Jazz Archive at Tulane University. http://cdm16313.contentdm.oclc.org/cdm/singleitem/collection/p16313coll4/id/599/rec/34 ...

Bagnetto’s

Early jazz hall: south corner of S. Rampart (Circus) & Girod (Notre Dame): Map at : http://webpages.charter.net/davidmmiller/neworleans.htm ...

BarbaraÕs_

Jazz club in “Black Storyville”: North corner of Gravier and Franklin: Map at : http://webpages.charter.net/davidmmiller/neworleans.htm ...

Manson’s Hall

Newspaper item about dance to benefit the Lawton School library, 1912: http://chroniclingamerica.loc.gov/lccn/sn88064020/1912-11-28/ed-1/seq-1/ ...