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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
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This resource contains microfilmed copies of unpublished, original typed accounts based on interviews conducted with Louisiana residents of “Lafitte Country” (near Barataria) in 1939.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
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- All Saints' Day -- Louisiana 1
- Barataria (La.) 1
- Bayou Terrebonne (La.) 1
- Boatbuilding -- Louisiana. 1
- Cemeteries -- Louisiana 1
- Fasts and feasts -- Catholic Church 1
- Fisheries -- Louisiana -- History 1
- Fishing boats -- Louisiana 1
- Italian Americans -- Louisiana 1
- Jefferson Parish (La.) 1
- Labor unions -- Fishers -- Louisiana. 1
- Labor unions -- Louisiana 1
- Lafitte (La.) 1
- Lafourche Parish (La.) 1
- Lafourche, Bayou (La.) 1
- Shrimp industry -- Louisiana 1
- Shrimpers' Strike, Lafourche Parish (La.), 1938. 1
- Strikes and lockouts -- Shrimp industry -- Louisiana -- Lafourche Parish. 1
- Terrebonne Parish (La.) -- History 1
- Trapping -- Louisiana 1 ∧ less
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- English 1
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- Louisiana Writers' Project 1
- Nicholls State University. Center for Traditional Louisiana Boat Building. 1
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