Laurel Valley Plantation (Thibodaux, La.)

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This collection spans 1838-1993 and covers 15 linear feet. It includes photographs, newspapers, newspaper clippings, negatives, glass plate negatives, notarial records, court summons, certificate of death, death notices, obituaries, correspondence, a business license, tax receipts, postcards, scrapbooks, yearbooks, sketches, monographs, and a school program.

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This collection spans 7.5 linear feet and comprises ledgers dating from 1912 to 1947. The ledgers include day to day sales accounts, bank accounts, shipments, and other records relating to Leon Z. Boudreaux's store.

Scope and Contents This collection comprises documents, photographs, and audio recordings relating to Laurel Valley Plantation in Lafourche Parish, Louisiana. The materials relate predominantly to efforts made between 1970 and 1979 to document and preserve the history and physical buildings of the plantation. These include correspondence, meeting minutes and publicity, photographs, grant applications, sketches, notes, and research materials. Also included in the collection are a set of sugar cane grinding...

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This collection contains the business records of Laurel Valley and Melodia Plantations and owner J. Wilson Lepine. These records include correspondence, letter books, account books, payroll records, plantation diaries, invoices, and sugar mill records. Of particular interest are the thirteen plantation diaries which span the years 1903-1915 which give a day by day account of life and labor on a Louisiana sugar plantation in the early twentieth century.

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This collections consists of negatives, photographs, correpondence, diaries, scrapbooks, and tintypes.