Pitre Store Ledgers
Scope and Contents
This collection covers three linear feet and spans 1924-2010. It consists of store ledgers showing store sales and individual customer accounts. Most ledger entries were recorded in French with a few in English. The collection includes photographs of Constant Ignace Pitre and his wife Amy Lorraine, Resolution of Condolence from the Knights of Columbus pertaining to Constant Ignace’s death in 1952, and an interview on DVD with Constant “Bill” Pitre by his son, Billy Pitre, on May 29, 2010.
Dates
- 1924-2010
Terms Governing Use and Reproduction
Physical rights are retained by Nicholls State University. Copyright is retained in accordance with U.S. copyright laws.
Biographical Note
Constant Ignace Pitre was born 27 July 1886. His family moved from Grand Cheniere, La. to Cut Off, La. soon after the Hurricane of 1893, where he made a living as a fisherman, shrimper, and oyster farmer. In 1920, he opened a store in Cut Off that sold food commodities such as flour, rice, and canned goods, as well as hardware. One year after opening his store, he built a shipyard across from it on the bayou-side of Highway 1 where he repaired skiffs. His wife, Amy Lorraine, a native of Cote Blanche, ran the store with the help of three of their young children--Orleans, Alice, and Josephine. Amy also sold second-hand furniture and hats in a separate store. In 1948, Orleans and his nephew, Constant "Bill" Pitre bought the store from Constant Ignace and named it "P & P Grocery Store" which stood for "Pitre and Pitre." Upon Bill Pitre's return from the service in 1953, the store was closed and the building torn down. Constant Ignace died in 1952.
Extent
3 Linear Feet (7 boxes)
Language of Materials
French
Sensitive Materials Statement
This collection may contain material(s) with sensitive or confidential information that is protected under federal or state right to privacy laws and regulations. Researchers are advised that the disclosure of certain information pertaining to identifiable living individuals represented in this collection without the consent of those individuals may have legal ramifications (e.g., a cause of action under common law for invasion of privacy may arise if facts concerning an individual's private life are published that would be deemed highly offensive to a reasonable person) for which Ellender Memorial Library and Nicholls State University assume no responsibility.
- Constant Pitre Store (Cut Off, La.)
- General stores -- Louisiana -- Cut Off.
- Hardware stores -- Louisiana -- Cut Off.
- Merchants -- Louisiana -- Cut Off.
- P & P Grocery Store (Cut Off, La.)
- Pitre, Amy L. (Amy Lorraine)
- Pitre, Constant B. (Constant Bill)
- Pitre, Constant I. (Constant Ignace)
- Shipyards -- Louisiana -- Cut Off.
- Stores, Retail -- Louisiana -- Cut Off.
- Language of description
- Undetermined
- Script of description
- Code for undetermined script
Repository Details
Part of the Nicholls State University Archives and Special Collections Repository
Ellender Memorial Library
Nicholls State University
906 E 1st St.
Thibodaux Louisiana 70310 USA
985-448-4621
clifton.theriot@nicholls.edu