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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

Coignet and Gaudet Family Papers

 Collection
Identifier: MS-00227
Scope and Contents This collection contains materials relating to the Coignet and Gaudet (Gaude) families, primarily the descendants of Guillaume Alfred Coignet and his two wives, sisters Charlotte and Stephanie Gaudet. The bulk of the collection consists of original correspondence (with translations) and printed sheet music. In addition, there are report cards, school assignments, poems, cards, notes, obituaries and death notices, genealogical research materials, certificates, newspaper clippings,...
Dates: 1838-2010

Martin Cortez Collection

 Collection
Identifier: MS-00043
Scope and Contents

This collection spans 2 linear feet and includes materials dating from 1910 to 1983. The collection comprises photographs, printed materials, audio recordings, and other papers relating to the local history research of Martin Cortez.

Dates: 1910-1983

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

Lafourche American Revolution Bicentennial Commission and Lafourche Heritage '76 Collection

 Collection
Identifier: MS-00029
Scope and Contents

This collection contains architectural information, newspapers and clippings, maps, photographs, artifacts, oral histories, and ephemera relating to the history of Lafourche Parish.

Dates: ca. 1976

Lafourche Parish Courthouse Records

 Collection
Identifier: MS-00188
Scope and Contents This collection spans 135 linear feet and dates from 1773 to 1983. The bulk of the materials date from approximately 1820 to 1941. The collection comprises vital, court, land, tax, and immigration records of Lafourche Parish, Louisiana. This includes records of birth, death, marriage, divorce, civil and criminal court cases, wills and estates, orphans and adoption, insolvency, lunacy, voters and elections, licenses, militias, oaths, schools, judgements and appeals, indenture, slave sales,...
Dates: 1773-1983; Majority of material found in 1820-1941

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 -- Social life and customs. 4
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Southern States -- Religious life and customs. 3
Bowie (La.) 2
Cooking -- Louisiana 2
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Louisiana -- History -- Civil War, 1861-1865. 2
New Orleans (La.) 2
Plantations -- Louisiana 2
Raceland (La.) 2
Reconstruction (U.S. history, 1865-1877) -- Louisiana. 2
Sugar plantations -- Louisiana -- Lafourche Parish. 2
Terrebonne Parish (La.) -- History 2
World War, 1939-1945 2
Yellow fever. 2
Agricultural industries -- Louisiana -- Lafourche Parish 1
Alexandria (La.) 1
Alligator hunting 1
American Revolution Bicentennial, 1976 1
Assumption Parish (La.) 1
Assumption Parish (La.) -- History, Local. 1
Brussels (Belgium) 1
Camp Beauregard (La.) 1
Carpentry 1
Carving (Decorative arts) -- Louisiana 1
Cold War 1
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Contracts for deeds -- Louisiana. 1
Cut Off (La.) 1
Dentistry 1
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Elections -- Louisiana -- Lafourche Parish. 1
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French language -- Louisiana 1
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Historic sites -- Conservation and restoration -- Louisiana -- Thibodaux. 1
Home economics extension work -- Louisiana -- Lafourche Parish 1
Hurricane Betsy, 1965. 1
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Lafourche Crossing (La.) 1
Lafourche Parish (La.) -- History -- 20th century. 1
Lafourche Parish (La.) -- Politics and government. 1
Lockport (La.) 1
Louisiana -- Economic conditions. 1
Louisiana -- History. 1
Manila Village (Lafourche Parish, La.) 1
Marriage records -- Louisiana 1
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Military training camps -- United States. 1
Mobile (Ala.) 1
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Segregation -- Louisiana 1
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Spanish-American War, 1898. 1
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Trapping -- Louisiana 1
Volunteer fire departments -- Louisiana 1
Waterways -- Louisiana 1
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World War, 1939-1945 -- Prisoners and prisons, German. 1
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Lafourche Parish (La.) 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
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
Catholic Church. Education 1
Chol, Emmanuel 1
Coignet family 1
Coignet, Guillaume Alfred 1
Coignet, Joseph Alfred Octave 1
Coignet, Marie Antoinette Ducrocq 1
Coignet, Marie Blanche 1
Coignet, Marie Octavie Catherine 1
Coignet, Stephanie Gaudet 1
Cut Off High School (Cut Off, La.) 1
Daughters of the American Revolution 1
Deere and Co. (Lafourche Parish, La.) 1
E.D. White Historic Site (Thibodaux, La.) 1
Forest Grove Plantation (La.) 1
Francis T. Nicholls Junior College 1
Gaude family. 1
Gaudet family. 1
Greenwood Sugar Factory (Lafourche Parish, La.) 1
Hebert-Terrebonne Cemetery (Galliano, La.) 1
Holy Savior Church (Lockport, La.) 1
Lafourche American Revolution Bicentennial Commission 1
Lefort Cemetery (Leeville, La.) 1
Little Zion Baptist Church (Chackbay, La.) 1
Melancon, Joseph Levy, 1906- 1
Morning Star Plantation (La.) 1
Morvant, Henry F. 1
Mount Carmel Academy (Thibodaux, La.) 1
Octavia Plantation (La.) 1
Our Lady of Prompt Succor Catholic Church (Chackbay, La.) 1
Rappelet, Albert O. (Albert Otto), 1903-1984. 1
Sacred Heart Church (Cote Blanche, La.) 1
Seely, Adele Hortense Coignet. 1
Serigny Family Cemetery (Golden Meadow, La.) 1
Sisters of Mount Carmel of Louisiana. 1
South Lafourche Oyster Festival. 1
Spring Hill College. 1
St. Charles Borremeo Catholic Church (Thibodaux, La.) 1
St. John Catholic Church (Thibodaux, La.) 1
St. Joseph Church (Galliano, La.) 1
St. Luke Baptist Church (Chackbay, La.) 1
Swartenbroek family. 1
Swartenbroek, Gustave. 1
Swartenbroek, Jean Camille Lieven. 1
Tulane University. Law School 1
United Houma Nation 1
Welcome Plantation (La.) 1
White Plantation (La.) 1
Williams Cemetery (Golden Meadow, La.) 1
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