This collection consists of a 1940 film of Captain Mouton’s Les Jardins de Mouton in Lafayette, Louisiana with native cypress and oaks covered in moss. There was a grotto or shrine with Stations of the Cross and benches. There is a reference to a rock garden with statuary and a Shrine to Our Lady of Lourdes. Plum trees were in bloom and there was a statue of Evangeline. Camellias were in this garden, which included the celebrated and rare Governor Mouton camellia, Pink Perfection, and the rare “Hermey” There were hundreds of flowering plants, which were rare and costly. The field ends with a solemn salute by Captain Mouton to the Evangeline Statue.

Richard C. Broussard of Lafayette, Louisiana donated this collection.