This collection contains correspondence, diplomas, news clippings, and a wide array of programs such as the Lafayette Centennial celebration and a Commencement program from 1935. The collection also contains phone directories, framed photographs, a Monopoly-like game, a medal, and a Southwestern Louisiana Institute hat (now University of Louisiana at Lafayette). The material relates to Janet A. Dardenne and her sister Natalie Abramson Weill, or was collected by them. Janet graduated from Southwestern Louisiana Institute (now the Univesrity of Louisiana at Lafayette) in 1941. She was a homemaker and was active in several volunteer service organizations in Baton Rouge where she lived. Her sister, Natalie Abramson Weill also graduated from SLI/USL with degrees in home economics and institutional management.

Jay Dardenne donated the collection.