John E. Kuhlman A Photographic Collection Of The New Orleans Music Scene In The 1950s
Photographer John E. Kuhlman captured New Orleans musicians in performance, on the street, and backstage.
Description: Working as a portrait and wedding photographer, he documented the city from 1948 through the late 1970s. His daughter, Susan Morris, preserved the archive and assembled these images for the first time.
- Onward Brass Band on North Claiborne Avenue before the interstate
- Alphonse Picou and George Lewis on Bourbon Street
- Pete Fountain and George Girard with the Basin Street Six
- Louis Armstrong, Duke Ellington, and Liberace onstage and backstage
- Hank Williams’s New Orleans wedding
John E. Kuhlman A Photographic Collection Of The New Orleans Music Scene In The 1950s
Photographer John E. Kuhlman captured New Orleans musicians in performance, on the street, and backstage.
Description: Working as a portrait and wedding photographer, he documented the city from 1948 through the late 1970s. His daughter, Susan Morris, preserved the archive and assembled these images for the first time.
- Onward Brass Band on North Claiborne Avenue before the interstate
- Alphonse Picou and George Lewis on Bourbon Street
- Pete Fountain and George Girard with the Basin Street Six
- Louis Armstrong, Duke Ellington, and Liberace onstage and backstage
- Hank Williams’s New Orleans wedding