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Labauve, Theodore A. (1877-1972) and Pischoff, Joseph L. (1874-1964) Families. Papers, 1878-1969

 Collection
Identifier: UAAMC-COLL-0048

Scope and Contents

This collection includes personal and business correspondence for both families, photographs, and other miscellaneous materials. Labauve business papers include business correspondence, financial records, publications, etc. The collection also includes financial records of Alice Labauve (1890-1966), 1955 – 1963.

Dates

  • 1878-1969

Creator

Biographical / Historical

Theodore Adolphus Labauve was born on 10 January 1877 in Ashton, Louisiana, St. Mary Parish. He was the first child born to Theodore Stephen Lebauve and Marie Clara Prevost. He attended the State Normal School in Natchitoches for one year. He also attended Soulé Business College during 1902 and 1903 where he studied bookkeeping, English, French, Latin and Spanish. He spoke English, French, German, Spanish, and Italian. Labauve was employed as a manager, bookkeeper, and postmaster from 1906-1911. In 1911 he purchased the first of two stores he eventually owned.

Joseph Laurent Pischoff was born on 21 July 1874 in Montegut, Louisiana. He was the son of Leon Zenon Pischoff and Calixte Elina Bouvier Pischoff. Pischoff married Marie Olympe Labauve, Thomas Adolphus Labauve’s sister, on 20 January 1908. They had two children. Pischoff died on 12 August 1964 in San Francisco, CA and is buried in Colma, CA.

Extent

7.5 Linear Feet (7.5 feet of materials contained in 15 boxes and 1 oversize folder)

Language of Materials

English

General

See control file for Mooneyham, Charles. “Economic Study of Theodore Adolphus Labauve”, 16 May 1970.

See also Wuerthner, Terri P. In a Cajun Kitchen. St. Martin’s Press, 2006 [LaRm TX715.3 .L68 W84 2006]

  • 1) Bjőrkman, Frances Maude. Woman Suffrage – History, Arguments, and Results. New York: National American Woman Suffrage Association, 1913 2) Le Chemin de la Croix… Paris: Thiériot, Libraire-Éditeur, 1842 3) Cornell’s Primary Geography no title page 94 pp. [incomplete] 4) Fish, Daniel W. Robinson’s Progressive Practical Arithmetic. New York: Ivison, Blakeman, Taylor & Co., 1877 5) Froehlich, Hugo B. and Bonnie E. Snow. Text Books of Art Education: Book 6 and Book 7. New York: Prang Educational Company, 1905 6) Long, C. C. Language Exercises for Primary Schools. New York: American Book Company, 1882
  • 1) Dodson, W. R. “Rotation Experiments with Cotton, Corn, Cow Peas and Oats.” Louisiana Bulletin No. 111 (Sept., 1908) 2) “Planting and Cultivating Corn.” Baton Rouge: Press Bulletin of the Experiment Stations, LSU, 1913 3) Dalrymple, W. H. “Stock Feeding,” Louisiana Bulletin No. 148 (May, 1914) 4) Dalrymple, W. H. “Breeds of Hogs,” and Dodson, W. R. “The Best Crops to Grow for Hogs,” LSU Agriculture Extension Division, Circular No. 3 (June, 1915) 5) Snowden, Mason. “Oats, A Louisiana Crop.” LSU Agricultural Extension Division Circular No. 6 (Oct., 1915) 6) Edgerton, C. W. and J. B. Garrett. “Citrus Canker,” LSU Agricultural Extension Division, Circular No. 15 (May, 1916) 7) The Picayune’s Map of New Orleans, 1909. Alfred F. Théard, Del.; T. Fitzwilliam & Co., Ltd., Lithographers 28” x 22”
  • Hunt, Caroline L. and Hannah L. Wessling. “Bread and Bread Making in the Home,” USDA Farmers’ Bulletin 807 (April, 1917)
Title
Theodore A. Labauve and Joseph L. Pischoff Families Papers
Status
Completed
Author
Lindsey Lutgring
Date
05/17/2021
Description rules
Describing Archives: A Content Standard
Language of description
Undetermined
Script of description
Code for undetermined script
Language of description note
English

Repository Details

Part of the University Archives and Acadiana Manuscripts Collection Repository

Contact:
Edith Garland Dupré Library
University of Louisiana at Lafayette
400 East St. Mary Blvd.
Lafayette LA 70503 United States
337-482-6031