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  • Shaking Up Prohibition in New Orleans: Authentic Vintage Cocktails from A to Z

    Shaking Up Prohibition in New Orleans: Authentic Vintage Cocktails from A to Z - Hardcover

    Shaking Up Prohibition in New Orleans: Authentic Vintage Cocktails from A to Z - Hardcover

    By Olive Leonhardt and Hilda Phelps Hammond

About Olive Leonhardt Books

Known for illustrating the covers of the literary magazine The Double Dealer and for her book New Orleans, Drawn and Quartered, OLIVE LEONHARDT (1895-1963) was an illustrator and artist who attended Newcomb College, the New York School of Fine and Applied Arts, and the Art Students League. HILDA PHELPS HAMMOND (1890-1951) met Olive Leonhardt through mutual friends at Newcomb, and they socialized in art salons, at Junior League events, and at marches for the suffrage movement in New Orleans. A graduate of Tulane University, Hammond organized the Women's Committee of Louisiana and is remembered as an outspoken critic of Governor Huey P. Long.