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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.
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