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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.

Scope and Contents This collection consists of two ledgers from the Cahanin Store in Opelousas. Volume 1, dated 1838-1840, contains 480 pages.The second ledger is dated December 1847 to 1850 and contains 549 pages. This manuscript kept the sales record of a general store, with many thousands of named accounts and what they bought. There are over 10,000 entries for such products as whiskey, tobacco, quinine, wines, clothing, fabrics, and much more.Linnie C. Herpin donated Volume 1....

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This collection consists of financial records, photographs, and publications related to the Emar Andrepont Store. Also included are materials related to the Prairie Ronde Cotton Gin, an enterprise started among community members, including Mr. Andrepont.

The City of Opelousas Tourism/Le Vieux Village, with the help of Boisy Pitre, donated this collection.

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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 consists of a journal (account book) of goods sold in his general store in Youngsville, Louisiana.

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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.