Documenting Mildred Dessens:

Scrapbooking, Tourism, and the

Creation of the Modern Evangeline

Jessica Dauterive

PhD Candidate

George Mason University

Evangeline in the "Bayou romantic"

"Property of The Modern Evangeline
Mildred Dessens
St. Martinville, Louisiana"

Mildred Dessens Scrapbooks, Collection 259, Acadiana Manuscripts Collections, Dupre Library, University of Louisiana at Lafayette.

scrapbooks as sources

"The modern evangeline"

"...a chaplet of beads and her missal, Wearing her Norman cap and her kirtle of blue, and the earrings...an heirloom."

--Evangeline, Longfellow

"MY TRIP TO NOVA SCOTIA"

"back to ancient days"

"Louisiana Lassies in city"

st. martinville girl will be married

evangeline on the silver screen