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Published on: 8/15/2004
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One of the organizers of the exhibit, Leah Wood Jewett, director of the United States Civil War Center at LSU, said the books will be grouped in display cases according to different subject areas such as school books and composition books.The collection includes publications on a variety of topics including biography, military matters, politics, children's education, music and literature.
"They will show contemporary attitudes," Jewett said.There will be books about religion and other broad areas of concern, she said.Framed political cartoons from the era, a framed diagram of a Confederate powder works and some framed maps will hang on the walls in the exhibit area, she said.
"We will have some items from the (LSU) Rural Life Museum," Jewett said.Those items include a rosary and children's toys from the era."We will have exhibits in both the upstairs and downstairs exhibit areas," she said.
"Some items from Hill's Mississippi Valley Collection will supplement Mr. Bruno's collection," Jewett said.
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"It will be something different," Jewett said.