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Beary and Swartenbroek Family Papers

 Collection
Identifier: MS-00226
Scope and Contents This collection consists of papers relating to the Beary and Swartenbroek families of Lafourche Parish, Louisiana. The collection covers three linear feet and spans 1845 to 2003. Materials include correspondence, a diary, receipts, maps, financial and legal documents, genealogical research materials, schedules of religious services, descriptions of gymnastics routines, sheet music, photographs, and other printed matter. Topics represented in this collection include family news and business...
Dates: 1845-2010, undated

Evans J. Casso Collection

 Collection
Identifier: MS-00062
Scope and Contents

This collection spans 6 linear feet and dates from 1890 to 1988. The collection comprises manuscripts, publications, photographs, clippings, cassettes, floppy disks, printed materials, correspondence, sheet music, and other research materials. Materials relate to Evans J. Casso and his research subjects, including Francis T. Nicholls, the Civil War, and Italian-Americans.

Dates: 1890-1988

Catholic Holy Year Rally Program

 Collection
Identifier: MS-00171
Scope and Contents

This collection comprises one program for the Holy Year Rally held at the New Orleans Superdome on September 7, 1975.

Dates: 1975

Center for Traditional Louisiana Boatbuilding Oral History Collection

 Collection
Identifier: MS-00075
Scope and Contents

This collection comprises oral histories collected by the Center for Traditional Louisiana Boatbuilding. All interviews relate to topics of boats and the history of southern Louisiana, particularly Lafourche and Terrebonne Parish.

Dates: 1979-1985

Commemorative Medallions and Doubloons Collection

 Collection
Identifier: MS-00150
Scope and Contents

This collection comprises medallions and doubloons commemorating various events in Louisiana history.

Dates: 1904-2015, undated

Historic Lafourche Parish Collection

 Collection
Identifier: MS-00017
Scope and Contents

This collection dates from 1773 to 2006 and spans 7 linear feet. It consists of photographs, reports, printed materials, correspondence, meeting minutes, maps, blueprints, ephemera, and artifacts relating to the history and culture of Lafourche Parish in Louisiana. The collection is divided into the following series: General parish history, People, Events, Organizations, Education, Churches, Foodways, Historic sites, Transportation, and Business and industry.

Dates: 1773-2006, undated; Majority of material found in circa 1900-1990

Charles M. Menard Collection

 Collection
Identifier: MS-00166
Scope and Contents

This collection comprises a speech and copies of the Annals of the Church of St. Joseph Church (photocopy of English translation and microfilmed copy of original French) written by the Rev. Charles M. Menard.

Dates: 1888, undated

Benjamin F. Morse Letters

 Collection
Identifier: MF-050
Scope and Contents

Microfilm copy of correspondence between Benjamin F. Morse and family members during the Civil War. Letters date from 1962 to 1965 and relate the Morse's service in the United States Army. Places mentioned include Woodbury and Brattleboro, Vermont, and Brashear City (Morgan City), Bayou Des Allemands, Algiers, and New Orleans, Louisiana.

Dates: 1862, 1864-1865

South Louisiana Oral History Collection

 Collection
Identifier: MS-00076
Scope and Contents

This is an artificial collection created by Ellender Memorial Library from oral histories donated over a period of decades. It comprises oral histories (on audiotape and videotape) and related materials collected from residents of South Louisiana between approximately 1972 and 1998. Interviewees discuss topics relating to local history and culture, including foodways, traditional crafts, race, religion, illness and medicine, education, labor, and industry.

Dates: 1972-1998 and undated

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Louisiana -- History -- Civil War, 1861-1865. 5
Lafourche Parish (La.) 4
Louisiana -- History -- Religious aspects -- Catholic Church. 3
Louisiana -- Social life and customs. 3
Southern States -- Religious life and customs. 3
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Terrebonne Parish (La.) -- History 3
Thibodaux (La.) 3
World War, 1914-1918 3
Civil war -- Louisiana. 2
Cooking -- Louisiana 2
Fishing -- Louisiana 2
Lafourche Parish (La.) -- History, Local. 2
Louisiana -- History. 2
Thibodaux (La.) -- History -- Religious aspects -- Catholic Church. 2
United States -- History -- Civil War, 1861-1865 2
World War, 1939-1945 2
Agricultural industries -- Louisiana -- Lafourche Parish 1
Alexandria (La.) 1
Algiers (La.) 1
Alligator hunting 1
Assumption Parish (La.) 1
Assumption Parish (La.) -- History, Local. 1
Bayou Terrebonne (La.) 1
Boatbuilding -- Louisiana. 1
Bowie (La.) 1
Brussels (Belgium) 1
Camp Beauregard (La.) 1
Carpentry 1
Catholic church buildings -- Louisiana -- Thibodaux 1
Cold War 1
Community organization -- Louisiana -- Lafourche Parish 1
Cut Off (La.) 1
Dentistry 1
Duck shooting 1
Ducks 1
Economic history. 1
Education -- Louisiana 1
Fisheries -- Louisiana -- History 1
Fishing boats -- Louisiana 1
Floods -- Louisiana. 1
French language -- Louisiana 1
Game calling (Hunting) 1
Gulf Intracoastal Waterway. 1
Healers -- Louisiana 1
Historic buildings -- Conservation and restoration -- Louisiana -- Thibodaux. 1
Historical reenactments 1
Holy year, 1975. 1
Home economics extension work -- Louisiana -- Lafourche Parish 1
Hurricane Betsy, 1965. 1
Italian Americans -- Louisiana 1
Labor unions -- Fishers -- Louisiana. 1
Labor unions -- Louisiana 1
Lace and lace making 1
Lafourche Crossing (La.) 1
Lafourche, Bayou (La.) 1
Lockport (La.) 1
Louisiana -- Economic conditions. 1
Manila Village (Lafourche Parish, La.) 1
Marshlands 1
Medicine -- Louisiana 1
Military training camps -- United States. 1
Napoleonville (La.) 1
Natural resources -- Louisiana -- Lafourche Parish 1
New Orleans (La.) 1
New Orleans, Battle of, New Orleans, La., 1815 1
Offshore oil Industry 1
Oil industries -- Louisiana 1
Plantation overseers. 1
Plantations -- Louisiana 1
Preparatory schools -- Louisiana -- Thibodaux -- History -- 19th century. 1
Raceland (La.) 1
Railroads -- Employees 1
Reconstruction (U.S. history, 1865-1877) -- Louisiana. 1
School boards -- Louisiana -- Lafourche Parish 1
Schools -- Louisiana -- Lafourche Parish 1
Segregation -- Louisiana 1
Shipyards -- Louisiana -- Lockport 1
Shrimpers' Strike, Lafourche Parish (La.), 1938. 1
Spiritual healing 1
Strikes and lockouts -- Shrimp industry -- Louisiana -- Lafourche Parish. 1
Sugar plantations -- Louisiana -- Lafourche Parish. 1
Trapping -- Louisiana 1
Volunteer fire departments -- Louisiana 1
Waterways -- Louisiana 1
Woodwork 1
World War, 1939-1945 -- Prisoners and prisons, German. 1
Yellow fever. 1
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Multiple languages 5
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Menard, Charles M., 1817-1896. 2
Nicholls State University 2
Acadia Plantation (Thibodaux, La.) 1
Allemand, Samuel A. 1
American Red Cross. 1
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Arialo Plantation (Lafourche Parish, La.) 1
Babin, Larry J. 1
Bank of Lafourche (Thibodaux, La.) 1
Bayou Lafourche (Lafourche Parish, La.). 1
Beary, Andrew Thomas, 1890-1953 1
Beary, Edward Joseph 1
Beary, John Van Hal, 1883-1933 1
Beary, Laura Felicia Swartenbroek 1
Beary, Thomas, 1853-1914 1
Benjamin, J. P. (Judah Philip), 1811-1884 1
Bollinger, Donald G. (Donald George), 1915-2000. 1
Bourgeois, Henry Louis. 1
Bouverans Plantation (Lafourche Parish, La.) 1
C.P. Shaver and Co. (Thibodaux, La.) 1
Casso, Evans J., 1914- 1
Catholic Church 1
Catholic Church. Archdiocese of New Orleans (La.) 1
Cut Off High School (Cut Off, La.) 1
Deere and Co. (Lafourche Parish, La.) 1
E.D. White Historic Site (Thibodaux, La.) 1
Francis T. Nicholls Junior College 1
Greenwood Sugar Factory (Lafourche Parish, La.) 1
Hebert-Terrebonne Cemetery (Galliano, La.) 1
Holy Savior Church (Lockport, La.) 1
Lafourche Parish (La.) 1
Lefort Cemetery (Leeville, La.) 1
Little Zion Baptist Church (Chackbay, La.) 1
Louisiana Purchase Exposition (Location of meeting: Saint Louis, Mo.). Date of meeting or treaty signing: (1904 :.) 1
Melancon, Joseph Levy, 1906- 1
Morse, Benjamin F., 1828-1924 1
Mount Carmel Academy (Thibodaux, La.) 1
Nicholls State University. Center for Traditional Louisiana Boat Building. 1
Nicholls, Francis T. (Francis Tillou), 1834-1912. 1
Our Lady of Prompt Succor Catholic Church (Chackbay, La.) 1
Perez, Leander, 1891-1969. 1
Rappelet, Albert O. (Albert Otto), 1903-1984. 1
Sacred Heart Church (Cote Blanche, La.) 1
Serigny Family Cemetery (Golden Meadow, La.) 1
South Lafourche Oyster Festival. 1
St. Charles Borremeo Catholic Church (Thibodaux, La.) 1
St. John Catholic Church (Thibodaux, La.) 1
St. Joseph Church (Galliano, La.) 1
St. Joseph's Catholic Church (Thibodaux, La.) 1
St. Luke Baptist Church (Chackbay, La.) 1
Superdome (New Orleans, La.) 1
Swartenbroek family. 1
Swartenbroek, Gustave. 1
Swartenbroek, Jean Camille Lieven. 1
Thibodaux College (Thibodaux, La.) 1
United Houma Nation 1
Welcome Plantation (La.) 1
White Plantation (La.) 1
Williams Cemetery (Golden Meadow, La.) 1
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