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Robert Ruffin Barrow, Jr. Papers
Collection
Identifier: MS-00065
Scope and Contents
This collection consists of business and personal correspondence, invoices, receipts, accounting books, newspapers and newspaper clippings, books and pamphlets, copies of civil court documents, a diary. a scrapbook, loose and framed photographs, and photograph albums. Most items concern the Barataria and Lafourche Canal (Westwego, La.), Myrtle Grove Sugar Plantation (Terrebonne Parish, La.), and the Airless Tube Filler Company (New Orleans, La.). The personal correspondence consists of letters...
Dates:
1829-1938; Majority of material found in 1901-1925
Bonvillain-Smith House Collection
Collection
Identifier: MS-00061
Scope and Contents
This collection dates from 1908 to 1964 and spans 5 linear feet. It consists of books, photographs, correspondence, clippings, ephemera, and artifacts pertaining to the Bonvillain, Smith, and Burguieres families of Terrebonne Parish, Louisiana. The Smith materials pertain chiefly to Clifford Smith's business dealings, while the Bonvillain materials are primarily family papers.
Dates:
1908-1964, undated
Myrtle Grove Plantation Records
Collection
Identifier: MS-00053
Scope and Contents
This collection spans 9 linear feet and dates from 1927 to 1931. The collection comprises receipts, journal vouchers, correspondence, books, and notes relating to Myrtle Grove Plantation and Myrtle Grove Syrup Company of Terrebonne Parish, Louisiana.
Dates:
1927-1931
Presqu'ile Plantation Sugar Mill Photograph
Collection
Identifier: MS-00181
Scope and Contents
This collection comprises one photograph of the Presqu'ile (also spelled Presquille) Plantation sugar mill. The image shows the exterior of the mill with several people standing in the surrounding yard.
Dates:
circa 1890-1900
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- Subject: Sugar plantations -- Louisiana -- Terrebonne Parish X