William Ransom Hogan Archive
of New Orleans Jazz

Residing on the third floor of Jones Hall at Tulane University in New Orleans, the William Ransom Hogan Jazz Archive serves the public from 9:00 AM to 4:45 PM Monday through Friday. It contains recorded music, photographs, sheet music, oral history, orchestrations, scrapbooks, documents, research notes, ephemera and memorabilia, as well as reference apparatus and a representative complement of books and journals.

Scholars and students, as well as media and museum programmers from all over the world, visit the Archive every year to use its considerable holdings. The collection is non-circulating, on strict reserve in closed stacks.

The Archive began in 1958 when William Ransom Hogan proposed its establishment to the Ford Foundation. With the eminent jazz historian William Russell as its first curator, Tulane administered the Archive of New Orleans Jazz through its early collecting and cataloging phase. In that period it held space in the History Department where Dr. Hogan then served as chairman.

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In 1965, the Archive moved to the library where it began operation as a research center. Cofounder and oral historian Richard Binion Allen became curator under the administrative supervision of the Director of Tulane University Libraries. During his tenure, on March 31, 1974, following Dr. Hogan's death, the Archive changed its name.

We publish the Jazz Archivist, the semi-annual newsletter of the Hogan Jazz Archive. It includes articles by scholars who have used the holdings of our archive on different aspects of jazz history, along with news of our archive, our collections, and programs.

A $25 donation to the Hogan Jazz Archives ensures you a subscription and a membership in the Friends of the Hogan Jazz Archive. For information or to subscribe, please contact Bruce Raeburn at the address to the left.