I am very excited to let you know that an article I wrote about my grandmother's family, “A Creole Family Revealed in Portraits by Arthur P Bedou" is the cover story of the recently published 2024 annual Journal of the Louisiana Creole Research Association (LA Creole). The genealogical research and the story of a large group of family portraits by the highly regarded New Orleans photographer was also the subject of a presentation I made at the Association’s conference in November 2024. My brother Charles was a collaborator on the very extensive genealogical research which leads back to the earliest French noblemen who colonized Louisiana, enslaved Africans from Senegambia, and Free People of Color who played a significant role in the Creole community in 19th century New Orleans. The photo of our grandmother, Yvonne Marie Revoile, that appears on the cover of the journal is one of nine of the four Revoile sisters by Arthur P Bedou that illustrate the article. Bedou, described as “the leading black photographer of New Orleans in the first half of the twentieth century” is known for his close association With Booker T. Washington. By the time the Revoile sisters sat for his camera he had photographed such notable personages as Marcus Garvey, George Washington Carver, Andrew Carnegie, and presidents Theodore Roosevelt, William McKinley, and William Howard Taft. I discuss this remarkable family collection of photographs in the context of fashionable portraiture and as expressions of each sister’s unique style and personal history. If you would like to receive a PDF of the article please contact me. -Alan