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Prisoners are photographed in the Angola Penitentiary

Prisoners are laboring under the watchful eye of a police officer,

Justin Calais, Christian Calais, and Alice Wilson have an informal conversation about friends and family.

This is an excerpt from an interview with Charles H. Rowell who interviewed Ernest Gaines, titled "This Louisiana Thing That Drives Me". The interview was conducted in Baton Rouge, LA in May 1976 then published in Callaloo in 1978.

This is a B&W photo of St. Maurice Oak. Pointe Coupee Parish, Louisiana from the 1920s.

These pages from the October 16th, 1937 issue of The Nation newspaper gives a brief summary of and commentary on the first publishing of Zora Neale Hurston's 1937 novel Their Eyes Were Watching God. The text addresses the progression of the plot,…

Handwritten notes describing the story "A Long Day in November" from his collection Bloodline. A description of the plantation.

Handwritten notes describing the story "A Long Day in November" from his collection Bloodline. A description of the plantation.

Handwritten notes describing the story "A Long Day in November" from his collection Bloodline. The notes describe his memory of life on the Plantation in the 1930s.

Manuscript and Typescript Drafts of Ernest Gaines' short story "Three Men" (contained in his collection of short stories 'Bloodline: Five Stories')