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Lafitte Country

 Collection
Identifier: MF-203
Scope and Contents

This resource contains microfilmed copies of unpublished, original typed accounts based on interviews conducted with Louisiana residents of “Lafitte Country” (near Barataria) in 1939. Topics include Berthoud (Berchaud) Cemetery, All Saints Day, St. Joseph’s Day, Voodoo, Adams Family Cemetery, trapping and fishing, shrimp fleet blessing, piroque races, and water funerals. Items written by Breaux.

Dates: 1939-1940 and undated

Veterans of Southeast Louisiana Collection

 Collection
Identifier: MS-00219
Scope and Contents

This collection consists of interviews with veterans residing in the following parishes of Louisiana: Assumption, Jefferson Davis, Lafourche, Orleans, St. Martin, and Terrebonne. Each interview showcases the life and military experience of the veteran and is stored in digital video format. The collection includes photographs, monographs, military awards and memorabilia, as well as telegrams, correspondence, and newspaper clippings.

Dates: 1917-2019

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  • Language: English X
  • Subject: Jefferson Parish (La.) X

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Ackerman (Miss.) 1
All Saints' Day -- Louisiana 1
Armed Forces -- Officers. 1
Barataria (La.) 1
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Bayou Dularge (La.) 1
Berwick (La.) 1
Bora-Bora (French Polynesia) 1
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Camp Kaiser (Unchon-ni, South Korea) 1
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Cemeteries -- Louisiana 1
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Fasts and feasts -- Catholic Church 1
Fishing -- Louisiana 1
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Iraq War, 2003-2011 -- Campaigns -- Iraq -- Fallūjah. 1
Iraq-Kuwait Crisis, 1990-1991. 1
Italian Americans -- Louisiana 1
Iwo Jima, Battle of, Japan, 1945. 1
Korean War, 1950-1953. 1
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Pearl Harbor (Hawaii), Attack on, 1941. 1
Persian Gulf War, 1991 -- Campaigns -- Iraq. 1
Point au Chene (La.) 1
Prisoners of war -- Germany. 1
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Raceland (La.) 1
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Saipan, Battle of, Northern Mariana Islands, 1944. 1
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Shrimp industry -- Louisiana 1
Simmesport (La.) 1
Sunset (La.) 1
Thibodaux (La.) 1
Trapping -- Louisiana 1
Vacherie (La.) 1
Vietnam War, 1961-1975. 1
Whitecastle (La.) 1
Women and the military -- Louisiana. 1
World War, 1939-1945 -- African Americans. 1
World War, 1939-1945 -- Blacks -- Germany. 1
World War, 1939-1945 -- Campaigns -- Africa, North. 1
World War, 1939-1945 -- Campaigns -- Belgium. 1
World War, 1939-1945 -- Campaigns -- Europe. 1
World War, 1939-1945 -- Campaigns -- France. 1
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World War, 1939-1945 -- Campaigns -- Japan -- Okinawa Island. 1
World War, 1939-1945 -- Campaigns -- Pacific Ocean. 1
World War, 1939-1945 -- Prisoners and prisons, German. 1
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Blanchard, Mrytle L. (Myrtle Louviere) 1
Boudreaux, Irvin Robert. (Bobby) 1
Cheramie, Joseph R. (Joseph Roy), 1923-2007. 1
Chiasson, Huey P., Sr., 1924-2011. 1
Chiasson, Roland M., 1921-2008. 1