These photos were taken during a visit to Mississippi
and Louisiana in November 2005, by a teams of conservators and archivists
from the National Archives and the Council of State Archivists.
The photographer is Karl Niederer, State Archivist
of New Jersey.
Water-soaked records of the Orleans Parish Criminal
District Clerk of Court immediately after removal from the Orleans Criminal
District courthouse.
Salvage teams from Document Reprocessors, Inc. remove
soaked, moldy records of the Orleans Parish Criminal District Court
from file drawers for reboxing.
Moldy indexes to case files of the Orleans Parish
Criminal District Court await freeze-drying and decontamination.
Cartload of soaked, moldy index cardfiles from the
Orleans Parish Criminal District Clerk of Court's office.
Salvage team member from Document Reprocessors, Inc.
reboxes records of the Orleans Parish Criminal District Clerk of Court's
office prior to drying.
Pallets of records of the Orleans Parish Criminal
District Clerk of Court prepared for freeze-drying.
File cabinets and drawers discarded after the removal
of records outside the Orleans Parish Criminal Courthouse.
Kimberly Butler Williams, Orleans Parish Criminal
District Clerk of Court, and Archivist of the United States Allen Weinstein
inspect water-soaked, moldy ledger books of the Orleans Parish Criminal
District Clerk of Court's office.
Close-up view of mold-infested weapons logbooks of
the Orleans Parish Criminal District Clerk of Court's Evidence Section.
Weapons in the evidence vault of the Orleans Parish
Criminal District Clerk of Court’s Office.
Index card to case files in the Orleans Parish Criminal
District Clerk of Court’s Office.
Salvaged deed books ready for shelving in the temporary
quarters of the New Orleans Notarial Archives
View into an emptied records storage room on the ground
floor of the Orleans Parish Criminal District Courthouse.
Mold blooms on the wall of the Federal Building in
New Orleans.
Mold blooms on the wall of the Federal Building in
New Orleans.
