Works Projects Administration.
Organization
Found in 2 Collections and/or Records:
Historic Terrebonne Parish Collection
Collection
Identifier: MS-00021
Scope and Contents
The collection dates from 1816 to 2002 and spans three linear feet. It includes maps, copies of diaries, ephemera, printed materials, photographs, artifacts, and audiovisual material relating to the history and culture of Terrebonne Parish. The collection is divided into seven series: People, families, and personal Items; Historic sites; Schools; Events; Religious organizations; Businesses; and Terrebonne Parish general papers.
Dates:
1816-2002, undated; Majority of material found within 1906-2002
W.P.A. collection. Historical Records Survey transcriptions of Louisiana police jury records.
Collection
Identifier: MS-00220
Scope and Contents
This collection consists of microfilm of transcriptions of police jury meeting minutes for Assumption Parish between 1848 and 1924, Lafourche Parish between 1852 and 1933, and Terrebonne Parish between 1822 and 1936. The records document government functions such as elections, road building, public health, law enforcement, parish budgets and taxes, the development of education for blacks and whites, the battle to control yellow fever, livestock maintenance, transportation, flood control, and...
Dates:
1822-1936
Additional filters:
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- Agriculture -- Louisiana -- Terrebonne Parish 1
- Assumption Parish (La.) -- Police Jury. 1
- Assumption Parish (La.) -- Politics and government. 1
- Catholic Church -- Terrebonne Parish 1
- Cooking -- Louisiana 1
- County councils -- Louisiana -- Assumption Parish. 1
- County councils -- Louisiana -- Lafourche Parish. 1
- County councils -- Louisiana -- Terrebonne Parish. 1
- County government -- Louisiana -- Assumption Parish. 1
- County government -- Louisiana -- Lafourche Parish. 1
- County government -- Louisiana -- Terrebonne Parish. 1
- County officials and employees -- Louisiana -- Assumption Parish. 1
- County officials and employees -- Louisiana -- Lafourche Parish. 1
- County officials and employees -- Louisiana -- Terrebonne Parish. 1
- County ordinances -- Louisiana -- Assumption Parish. 1
- County ordinances -- Louisiana -- Lafourche Parish. 1
- County ordinances -- Louisiana -- Terrebonne Parish. 1
- County school systems -- Louisiana -- Assumption Parish. 1
- County school systems -- Louisiana -- Lafourche Parish. 1
- County school systems -- Louisiana -- Terrebonne Parish. 1
- County services -- Louisiana -- Assumption Parish. 1
- County services -- Louisiana -- Lafourche Parish. 1
- County services -- Louisiana -- Terrebonne Parish. 1
- Criminal justice, Administration of -- Louisiana -- Assumption Parish. 1
- Criminal justice, Administration of -- Louisiana -- Lafourche Parish. 1
- Criminal justice, Administration of -- Louisiana -- Terrebonne Parish. 1
- Elections -- Louisiana -- Assumption Parish. 1
- Elections -- Louisiana -- Lafourche Parish. 1
- Elections -- Louisiana -- Terrebonne Parish. 1
- Europe -- Description and travel 1
- Fishing -- Louisiana 1
- Historic Sites -- Louisiana -- Terrebonne Parish 1
- Hurricane Andrew, 1992 1
- Lafourche Parish (La.) -- Police Jury. 1
- Lafourche Parish (La.) -- Politics and government. 1
- Louisiana -- Description and travel 1
- Musical groups -- Louisiana -- Terrebonne Parish 1
- New York (N.Y.) -- Description and travel 1
- Oil industries -- Louisiana 1
- Political participation -- Louisiana -- Assumption Parish. 1
- Political participation -- Louisiana -- Lafourche Parish. 1
- Political participation -- Louisiana -- Terrebonne Parish. 1
- Schools -- Louisiana -- Lafourche Parish 1
- Schools -- Louisiana -- Terrebonne Parish 1
- Slavery -- Law and legislation -- Louisiana -- Assumption Parish. 1
- Slavery -- Law and legislation -- Louisiana -- Lafourche Parish. 1
- Slavery -- Law and legislation -- Louisiana -- Terrebonne Parish. 1
- Southdown Plantation (La.) 1
- Sugarcane -- Louisiana -- Terrebonne Parish 1
- Taxation -- Louisiana -- Assumption Parish. 1
- Taxation -- Louisiana -- Lafourche Parish. 1
- Taxation -- Louisiana -- Terrebonne Parish. 1
- Terrebonne Parish (La.) -- History, Local. 1
- Terrebonne Parish (La.) -- Politics and government. 1
- World War, 1939-1945 1 ∧ less
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