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

Bradley E. Black donated the collection.

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This is a collection of movie flyers advertising motion-pictures which appeared in local movie theaters, especially the Bailey in Opelousas. The flyers are arranged alphabetically by title of movie.

Donated by Yorick Chachere, 1989.

Scope and Contents The papers reflect Osborne's activities in the women's movement and her career in advertising. There are several scrapbooks concerning her years in New York. The largest series contains League of Women Voters records of the local and state levels. The collection includes memos, correspondence, publicity materials (a great interest of Osborne's) and, often, photographs. Her photographs of delegates to the 1973 Constitutional Convention are probably one of the better visual sources on its...

Scope and Contents This collection contains literary material of Ernest Jackson Whisler, a turn-of-the-century writer of plays and folk stories under the name of Jack Whisler. His career appears to span the first half of the 20th century. Born in Rochester, Pennsylvania in the 1870s, Whisler's family later settled in Tucson, Arizona because of his parent's health. Whisler died in 1958 of a heart attack in his home in Burlingame, California. Also included in the collection are ads and flyers, plays,...