EXTRACTS: Illustrators issue 8 © 2014 The Book Palace (96 PAGES in Full edition)

84 some jazz musicians from Preservation Hall, and a few local scenes. In 1897, in a desperate effort to control the spread of prostitution, city officials voted to set aside an area for licensed brothels as business operations. The responsibility for the scheme fell to Alderman Sidney Story: hence the name Storyville. A designer friend of the Fuchs family encouraged Fuchs to create a series of paintings of the almost forgotten district, and its famous occupants, and organised an exhibition of the paintings at Brennans. It was an inspired idea. Fuchs’ early ambition had been to be a jazz trumpeter, but after losing the tops of three fingers on his right hand in an industrial accident, he had to abandon the idea. His friend’s suggestion provided Fuchs with a wide range of subject matter, and the opportunity to create LEFT: A beautiful portrait of Lil Hardin—Mrs Louis Satchmo Armstrong. BELOW: The Mirror Ballroom with Professor Tony Jackson and girls.