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

Bradley E. Black donated the collection.

This collection consists of a daybook (1877-1879) and index (1877), digitized from the original manuscripts and formatted in PDF for user access. The daybook includes daily charge transactions from December 14, 1877 to February 18, 1879. The index may or may not be the index to the daybook in this collection, as a small sample of names and numbers could not be cross-referenced.

Terry Dupuy loaned the collection for digitization and donated the digital copies.

Kaplan Furniture Store, “Where Charming Homes Begin” photographs, no date.

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

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.

Sutton’s Junk, Salvage and Army Surplus Stores. This store has products such as old, discarded iron and steel stoves, pipes, plows, machines, motors-anything made of iron or steel. The store meets the needs of America’s steel mills.