Fletcher, Joel Lafayette, Jr. (Joel Lafayette Fletcher, Jr.), 1897-1972
Person
Found in 5 Collections and/or Records:
Fletcher, Joel L., Jr. (1897-1972). Papers, 1862-1979, n.d.
Collection
Identifier: UAAMC-COLL-0012
Scope and Contents
He collected a large amount of secondary and primary material on the history of Louisiana. The primary material includes copies of items related to Acadian vigilante committees and the business records of William Wyatt of Vernon, Louisiana. Much of the secondary material was removed from the collection since it duplicated items already cataloged in the Louisiana Room. (A list of the removed items is appended to the inventory.) Fletcher gathered much information on agriculture and industrial...
Dates:
1862-1979, n.d.
Fletcher, Joel L., Jr. (1897–1972). Papers, 1843-2024, undated
Collection
Identifier: UAAMC-COLL-0012B
Scope and Contents
This addition to the collection includes handwritten letters from Joel Fletcher, Jr. to his wife, Frances Allen McLees Fletcher during the 1940s and a thank-you note from Dr. Michael Wade to Joel Fletcher III for using the letters for research on his forthcoming book about desegregation in higher education in Louisiana. Also included is correspondence from Joel Fletcher III to UL Lafayette faculty, a student who wrote a thesis about his father, and President Savoie; articles and...
Dates:
Majority of material found within 1943 - 2024
Fletcher, Joel Lafayette, Jr. (1897–1972). Papers, 1848, 1898-2000
Collection
Identifier: UAAMC-COLL-0012A
Scope and Contents
This collection reflects his long and distinguished career as a leader in Louisiana education. It also shows his keen interest in the past, the present, and the future of the state. He collected a large amount of secondary and primary material on the history of Louisiana. The primary material includes copies of items related to Acadiana vigilante committees and the business records of William Wyatt of Vernon, Louisiana.
Fletcher gathered much information on agriculture and industrial...
Dates:
1848; 1898-2000
Rice Miscellaneous. Collection, 1856-1968, n.d.
Collection
Identifier: UAAMC-COLL-0036
Scope and Contents
This collection contains items about rice, rice growing, rice milling, etc. The bulk of the material are publications from various sources and organizations, especially the Rice Millers' Association and the Rice Council. There are also materials from Joel L. Fletcher, Jr.’s 1963 trip investigating rice agriculture in the Italian Po Valley for the United States Department of Agriculture, and Thomas J. Arceneaux’s trip to Madagascar in 1951.Most materials in this collection have...
Dates:
1856-1968, n.d.
World War II. Collection, 1941-1946
Collection
Identifier: UAAMC-MSS-0001
Scope and Contents
This collection contains materials gathered mainly by President Joel L. Fletcher from items sent to him by former Southwestern Louisiana Institute (now the University of Louisiana at Lafayette) students.
Dates:
1941-1946
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- Agriculture 3
- College presidents 3
- Southwestern Louisiana Institute 3
- University of Louisiana at Lafayette 3
- Episcopal Church 2
- Lafayette (La.) 2
- Letters 2
- Louisiana 2
- Louisiana--History 2
- Presbyterian Church 2
- Rotary International 2
- Universities and colleges 2
- University of Southwestern Louisiana 2
- World War, 1939-1945 2
- Acadians 1
- American Red Cross Health and Safety Services 1
- American Red Cross. Health and Safety Services 1
- Armed Forces 1
- Article 1
- Bridges, Styles, 1898-1961 1
- Caffery, Jefferson, 1886-1974 1
- Catholic 1
- Deans (Education) 1
- Dormon, Caroline, 1888-1971 1
- Education 1
- Education, Higher 1
- Educator 1
- Educators 1
- Equal rights amendments 1
- Jeanmard, Jules B., 1879-1957 1
- Kerr, Robert S. (Robert Samuel), 1896-1963 1
- Lafayette 1
- Long, Earl Kemp, 1895-1960 1
- McKeithen, John J. (John Julian), 1918-1999 1
- New Deal, 1933-1939 1
- Photographs 1
- Poetry 1
- Race relations 1
- Rice 1
- Rice Millers' Association (U.S.) 1
- Rice farming 1
- Rice trade 1
- Rice--Milling 1
- United States. Federal Reserve Board 1
- United States. National Youth Administration 1
- United States. Navy 1
- United States. Works Progress Administration 1
- War 1
- Willis, Edwin E., 1904-1972 1 + ∧ less
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