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This collection consists of correspondence, personal papers, business records, land records and tax bills and receipts (including one from the Confederacy), and succession records for members of the Lorrain family. Most of the correspondence is from family members who remained in France. It also includes maps, plans for a sawmill, and election certificates. Of special interest is a traiteur’s cure for worms. There is also a family genealogy drawn up many years later.

Scope and Contents This collection contains mainly business papers of Charles A. McGowan (1849-1921) who was a dentist, druggist, banker, merchant and civic leader in Jeanerette, Louisiana. Included are some articles on Jeanerette written by Florence Bussey McGowan, and diaries kept by her relatives in Mississippi in 1876. There is also a claim for property destroyed or confiscated by Union soldiers in Jackson, Mississippi in 1863. In addition, the collection contains a record book for the Sans Souci Club of...

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This collection consists of newspaper and magazine articles on the petroleum industry in Louisiana. Also included are numerous oil-related magazines and journals, reports, interviews, and photographs on the industry from the 1900s-1970s.

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This collection consists of records from the Ludeau Pitre Store and Dixieland Ranch. This includes store ledgers, sharecropper time books, correspondence, receipts, and miscellaneous farm material from the store and ranch.

Boisy Pitre, great-grandson of Ludeau Pitre, donated this collection.

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This volume consists of financial records of Planter’s Hardware in Kaplan, Louisiana from January 10 – December 23, 1944.

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This collection consists of a scrapbook of photographs from Poret’s service in the military. Some of the photographs are identified by location. This scrapbook has been digitized, so a user’s copy is available on CD. Also included is “A Brief Autobiography” by Poret, Army Service material, and other writings.

Scope and Contents This collection consists of copies of transcripts of the letters from Mrs. Margaret Jones Rees Morgan of Morgantown, Berks County, Pennsylvania to her son David Rees in Louisiana (usually sent in care of Benjamin Morgan or George Morgan of New Orleans). The letters are dated from 1804 to 1827. David Rees settled near Breaux Bridge, Louisiana, served as a justice of the peace from 1805 to 1835, represented Attakapas County in the first legislature of Louisiana, and served as a major in the...

Scope and Contents This collection contains personal and business correspondence of the Henry Rees Family of Breaux Bridge, Louisiana. It reflects life from about mid-nineteenth century to the twentieth century dealing with family life, illness (such as yellow fever), community life, agriculture, finances, taxes, legal matters and attitudes and opinions on contemporary events. Included also are the legal papers of Henry Rees generated while he served as Justice of the Peace in St. Martin Parish and Orderly...

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This collections contains ledgers from the Sibille Brothers store, plantation and cotton gin.

Jules LeRoy Sibille and Mrs. Mellie (Sibille) Fontenot from Sunset, LA donated the collection.

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This collection consists of correspondence, speeches, reports, and other miscellaneous materials relating to Verret’s official business as lieutenant governor.