William Weeks Hall
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William Weeks Hall, was an American artist, photographer and art critic. He was the last individual owner of the Shadows-on-the-Teche, a historic house and former sugar cane plantation.
Shadows-on the-Teche plantation (1938), New Iberia, Louisiana
The Air-Conditioned Nightmare is a 1945 memoir by Henry Miller about his year-long road trip across the United States in 1940, following his return from nearly a decade living in Paris.
William Weeks Hall
…after his death. Hall's art work is including in public museum collections at the Pennsylvania Academy of the Fine Arts. In Henry Miller's book, The Air-Conditioned Nightmare (1945), includes information about his time in New Iberia and Hall is quoted (page 97). David Weeks and family papers, 1782-1957 at LSU Libraries…
First edition cover, 1945
A 1932 Buick sedan, similar to the car Miller purchased for the trip.