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Abdalla’s Department Stores. Collection, 1967-1974

 Collection
Identifier: UAAMC-COLL-0539

Scope and Contents

This collection contains scrapbooks of advertisements for Abdalla’s department stores. These advertisements largely come from Lafayette newspapers.

Bradley E. Black donated the collection.

Dates

  • 1967-1974

Biographical / Historical

Abdalla’s, a popular clothing store chain, was established by Edward Abdalla III and his wife Irma Belle Abdalla in 1933. The store had presences in Lafayette, Opelousas, and New Iberia. There were two locations in Lafayette: downtown and in the Oil Center. Edward “Brother” Abdalla IV and his wife Catherine Abdalla opened their own store, Brother’s on the Boulevard, in 1976, which for 43 years until its closing in 2019. Abdalla’s Oil Center location closed in 2005.

Extent

12.9167 Linear Feet (12 feet and 11 inches of materials contained in 5 oversize boxes)

Language of Materials

English

Title
Abdalla’s Department Stores Collection
Status
Completed
Author
Zack Stein
Date
06/13/2022
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