Abdalla’s Department Stores. Collection, 1967-1974
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
Edith Garland Dupré Library
University of Louisiana at Lafayette
400 East St. Mary Blvd.
Lafayette LA 70503 United States
337-482-6031
speccoll@louisiana.edu