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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

Greenwood Sugar Factory and Allied Plantations Records

 Collection
Identifier: MS-00035
Scope and Contents

This collection dates from 1894 to 1968 and spans 20 linear feet. It consists of reports, ledgers, notebooks, printed materials, bank records, tax records, blueprints and photographs relating to sugar cane production at Greenwood Sugar Factory (Thibodaux, La.) and surrounding plantations.

Dates: 1894-1968

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 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

Laurel Grove Plantation Store Records

 Collection
Identifier: MS-00024
Scope and Contents

This collection contains records of the Laurel Grove Plantation Store between 1857 and 1953. Records include sales slips, inventories, receipts, ledgers, order books, account books, sales and credit journals, day books, cash journals, payrolls, and other documents.

Dates: 1857-1953

J. Wilson Lepine Collection of Laurel Valley and Melodia Plantation Records

 Collection
Identifier: MS-00025
Scope and Contents

This collection contains the business records of Laurel Valley and Melodia Plantations and owner J. Wilson Lepine. These records include correspondence, letter books, account books, payroll records, plantation diaries, invoices, and sugar mill records. Of particular interest are the thirteen plantation diaries which span the years 1903-1915 which give a day by day account of life and labor on a Louisiana sugar plantation in the early twentieth century.

Dates: Majority of material found within 1890-1926; 1867-1976

Martin-Pugh Family Collection

 Collection
Identifier: MS-00012
Scope and Contents

This collection consists of title searches, business records, ledger books, correspondence, maps, invoices, and genealogies of the Littlejohn, Whitmell-Bryan, and Pugh-Martin families.

Dates: 1806-1887

William Littlejohn Martin Collection

 Collection
Identifier: MS-00011
Scope and Contents

This collections consists of negatives, photographs, correpondence, diaries, scrapbooks, and tintypes.

Dates: 1811-1964

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Lafourche Parish (La.) 8
Sugar plantations -- Louisiana -- Lafourche Parish. 5
World War, 1914-1918 4
Louisiana -- Social life and customs. 3
Thibodaux (La.) 3
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Enslaved persons -- Louisiana -- Lafourche Parish 2
Lafourche Crossing (La.) 2
Lafourche Parish (La.) -- History, Local. 2
Lafourche, Bayou (La.) 2
Louisiana -- History -- Civil War, 1861-1865. 2
New Orleans (La.) 2
Plantations -- Louisiana 2
Reconstruction (U.S. history, 1865-1877) -- Louisiana. 2
Slavery -- Louisiana -- Lafourche Parish. 2
Southern States -- Religious life and customs. 2
Sugar -- Manufacture and refining -- Louisiana -- Lafourche Parish. 2
Sugar plantations -- Louisiana 2
United States -- History -- Civil War, 1861-1865 2
Yellow fever. 2
Agricultural industries -- Louisiana -- Lafourche Parish 1
Alexandria (La.) 1
Assumption Parish (La.) 1
Assumption Parish (La.) -- History -- 19th century. 1
Bowie (La.) 1
Brussels (Belgium) 1
Camp Beauregard (La.) 1
Carnivals -- Louisiana. 1
Cheniere Caminada (La.) 1
Church buildings -- Louisiana -- Thibodaux. 1
Civil war -- Louisiana. 1
Cold War 1
Community organization -- Louisiana -- Lafourche Parish 1
Company stores -- Louisiana 1
Contracts for deeds -- Louisiana. 1
Cooking -- Louisiana 1
Cut Off (La.) 1
Economic history. 1
Elections -- Louisiana -- Lafourche Parish. 1
Fishing -- Louisiana 1
Floods -- Louisiana. 1
Gulf Intracoastal Waterway. 1
Home economics extension work -- Louisiana -- Lafourche Parish 1
Hurricane Betsy, 1965. 1
Lafourche Parish (La.) -- History -- 19th century. 1
Lafourche Parish (La.) -- Politics and government. 1
Lockport (La.) 1
Louisiana -- Economic conditions. 1
Madewood Plantation (La.) 1
Manila Village (Lafourche Parish, La.) 1
Marriage records -- Louisiana 1
Marshlands 1
Military training camps -- United States. 1
Mobile (Ala.) 1
Natural resources -- Louisiana -- Lafourche Parish 1
Oil industries -- Louisiana 1
Plantation overseers. 1
Raceland (La.) 1
Railroads -- Employees 1
Reconstruction (U.S. history, 1865-1877) -- Louisiana -- Lafourche Parish. 1
Saint James Parish (La.) 1
School boards -- Louisiana -- Lafourche Parish 1
Schools -- Louisiana -- Lafourche Parish 1
Spanish-American War, 1898. 1
Sugar factories -- Louisiana -- Lafourche Parish. 1
Sugar trade -- Louisiana -- Lafourche Parish. 1
Sugarcane -- Louisiana -- Lafourche Parish. 1
Terrebonne Parish (La.) -- History 1
Terrebonne Parish (La.) -- History -- 19th century. 1
Thibodaux (La.) -- History -- 19th century. 1
Trapping -- Louisiana 1
Volunteer fire departments -- Louisiana 1
World War, 1939-1945 1
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Laurel Grove Plantation (La.) 3
Albemarle Plantation (Assumption Parish, La.) 2
Greenwood Plantation (Lafourche Parish, La.) 2
Greenwood Sugar Factory (Lafourche Parish, La.) 2
Lafourche Parish (La.) 2
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Laurel Valley Plantation (Thibodaux, La.) 2
Melodia Sugar House (La.) 2
Thibodaux College (Thibodaux, La.) 2
Woodlawn Plantation (Napoleonville, La.) 2
Acadia Plantation (Thibodaux, La.) 1
Adams, Augusta Pugh. 1
Adler, Mary. 1
Agar and Lelong. 1
Alleas, Louis. 1
Allemand, Samuel A. 1
Allen, Richard. 1
Amarst, J.J. 1
American Red Cross. 1
Andrews, Sallie. 1
Arialo Plantation (Lafourche Parish, La.) 1
Ariel Plantation (La.) 1
Arms, George. 1
Atkinson, Annetta S. 1
Aucoin, Francois. 1
Aucoin, Gabriel Guilliame. 1
Aucoin, Hyacinthe. 1
Aucoin, Jean Baptiste. 1
Aucoin, Joseph. 1
Auslet, Joachin. 1
Ayo, Ernest. 1
Ayo, J.J. 1
Ayo, Sam. 1
Azemar, Louis. 1
B.J. West and Son (New Orleans, La.) 1
Babin, Larry J. 1
Badeau Candy Company (La.) 1
Badeau, Leslie. 1
Bailey, R.B. 1
Bailey, W.H. 1
Baker, S.J. 1
Bank of Lafourche (Thibodaux, La.) 1
Barilleaux, C.H. 1
Barilleaux, Francois. 1
Barker, Frank L. 1
Barton, Clarence Clifford. 1
Barton, Elijah D. 1
Bayard, Samuel. 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
Bell Alliance Plantation (La.) 1
Bourgeois, A., Mrs. 1
Bourgeois, Henry Louis. 1
Bouverans Plantation (Lafourche Parish, La.) 1
Bush Grove Sugar House (La.) 1
C.P. Shaver and Co. (Thibodaux, La.) 1
Catholic Church. Education 1
Cherry Henderson and Co. (New Orleans, La.) 1
Chol, Emmanuel 1
Christ Episcopal Church (Napoleonville, La.) 1
Church of the Assumption of the Blessed Virgin (Plattenville, La.) 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
Coulon Plantation (Thibodaux, La.) 1
Cut Off High School (Cut Off, La.) 1
Deere and Co. (Lafourche Parish, La.) 1
Dixie Hotel (La.). 1
Drexler Motor Company (Thibodaux, La.) 1
Ducros Plantation (Thibodaux, La.) 1
E.D. White Historic Site (Thibodaux, La.) 1
Elliot Bros. 1
Elmfield Plantation (Assumption Parish, La.) 1
Fearn, Donegan, and Co. (New Orleans, La.) 1
Forest Grove Plantation (La.) 1
Gaude family. 1
Gaudet family. 1
George Lysle and Sons (Pittsburg, Pa.) 1
Georgia Factory (Matthews, La.) 1
Georgia Plantation (Labadieville, La.) 1
Glenwood Sugar Mill (La.) 1
Godchaux Sugars (La.) 1
Hebert-Terrebonne Cemetery (Galliano, La.) 1
Hermitage Plantation (St. Charles Parish, La) 1
Holy Savior Church (Lockport, La.) 1
Idlewild Plantation (La.) 1
J.T. Gibbons and Co. 1
J.W. Burridge and Co. 1
J.W. Platt and Co. 1
John and M. Hart. 1
Jules Bassett Store (La.) 1
Kittredge, E. E. (Ebenezer Eaton), 1739-1802. 1
Lafourche Drug Store (Thibodaux, La.) 1
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