A Lifetimes Devotion: Baton Rouge Through the Eyes of Photographer Andrew D. Lytle, 1857-1917

One of Louisiana's foremost photographers, A. D. Lytle (1834-1917) is best known for his Civil War images of Baton Rouge, which have been compared to the work of Mathew Brady. However, Lytle also aimed his lens at the city in peacetime, making portraits of townspeople and pictures of downtown Baton Rouge, Louisiana State University's first campus, and the south Louisiana landscape, among other subjects. Containing almost 600 Lytle photographs, this CD-ROM offers a rich tableau of southern history and culture from before the Civil War through the early twentieth century.