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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 collection contains receipts, consignments statements, accounts, and reports from commission merchants in New Orleans for Louis J. Arceneaux, a Lafayette Parish cotton grower. Much of the material is in French.

Beatrix A. Breaux donated the collection.

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This collection consists of a digital copy of a diary by kept by Bardell. He made daily entries from 1899 to 1910. Besides recording his activities each day, he often recorded the wages he was paid for various jobs and the prices he paid for goods.

This collection was donated by Scott Longon of Lafayette, Louisiana.

Scope and Contents This collection consists of miscellaneous family papers mostly dealing with land owned by members of the Darby family. There are also some records relating to purchases of enslaved people and 20th century tax receipts. Other records include receipts from the Iberia Sugar Cooperative, miscellaneous receipts, and a letter regarding a claim on a portion of the estate of the Very Rev. Giovanni Gradenigo, Bishop of Venice, possibly a scam.The collection was donated by Nelwyn Hebert,...

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This collection consists of biographical information on the Debaillon family, correspondence, newspaper clippings and many family photos. Most of the photos are unidentified.

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C.J. Edwards was editor of Abbeville Meridional. This collection contains letters from Harold G. Edwards and clippings from New Orleans, Alexandria, and Natchitoches papers.

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This collection consists of account books from the Forest Hill Memorial Company.

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This collection consists of day books and ledgers of the General Store in the 1920s-1930s. Kent Langlinais, Fils Gary’s grandson, donated the collection.

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This collection contains business records: correspondence, receipts, and invoices of the Iberville Bank and Trust Company, from 1912-1916. Five volumes dated 1892-1894 are missing. The financial institution dealt with companies in Louisiana, Texas, Missouri, Illinois, etc.

Scope and Contents Abrom Kaplan kept extensive records of any business transactions that he conducted or was a part of. This collection consists of diaries, correspondence, financial records, ledgers, letterpress books, microfilm, notebooks, and other miscellaneous materials as well. The bulk of the material in this collection is dated from around 1908 through the 1930s. There are some records that begin in the late 1890s.This collection was donated by Brian Kaplan [nephew of Abrom Kaplan] with the...