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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
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
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
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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- Southern States -- Religious life and customs. 3
- Terrebonne Parish (La.) -- History 3
- Thibodaux (La.) 3
- World War, 1914-1918 3
- Lafourche Parish (La.) -- History, Local. 2
- New Orleans (La.) 2
- Plantations -- Louisiana 2
- Reconstruction (U.S. history, 1865-1877) -- Louisiana. 2
- Yellow fever. 2
- Alexandria (La.) 1
- Alligator hunting 1
- Assumption Parish (La.) 1
- Assumption Parish (La.) -- History, Local. 1
- Bayou Terrebonne (La.) 1
- Boatbuilding -- Louisiana. 1
- Brussels (Belgium) 1
- Camp Beauregard (La.) 1
- Carpentry 1
- Contracts for deeds -- Louisiana. 1
- Cooking -- Louisiana 1
- Dentistry 1
- Duck shooting 1
- Ducks 1
- Economic history. 1
- Education -- Louisiana 1
- Elections -- Louisiana -- Lafourche Parish. 1
- Enslaved persons -- Louisiana -- Lafourche Parish 1
- Fisheries -- Louisiana -- History 1
- Fishing -- Louisiana 1
- Fishing boats -- Louisiana 1
- French language -- Louisiana 1
- Game calling (Hunting) 1
- Healers -- Louisiana 1
- Historic buildings -- Conservation and restoration -- Louisiana -- Thibodaux. 1
- Labor unions -- Fishers -- Louisiana. 1
- Labor unions -- Louisiana 1
- Lace and lace making 1
- Lafourche Parish (La.) -- Politics and government. 1
- Lafourche, Bayou (La.) 1
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- Offshore oil Industry 1
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- Shipyards -- Louisiana -- Lockport 1
- Shrimpers' Strike, Lafourche Parish (La.), 1938. 1
- Slavery -- Louisiana -- Lafourche Parish. 1
- Spanish-American War, 1898. 1
- Spiritual healing 1
- Strikes and lockouts -- Shrimp industry -- Louisiana -- Lafourche Parish. 1
- Sugar plantations -- Louisiana -- Lafourche Parish. 1
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- World War, 1939-1945 1
- World War, 1939-1945 -- Prisoners and prisons, German. 1 ∧ less
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- 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
- 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
- Forest Grove Plantation (La.) 1
- Francis T. Nicholls Junior College 1
- Gaude family. 1
- Gaudet family. 1
- Lafourche Parish (La.) 1
- Melancon, Joseph Levy, 1906- 1
- Morning Star Plantation (La.) 1
- Morvant, Henry F. 1
- Nicholls State University 1
- Nicholls State University. Center for Traditional Louisiana Boat Building. 1
- Octavia Plantation (La.) 1
- Rappelet, Albert O. (Albert Otto), 1903-1984. 1
- Seely, Adele Hortense Coignet. 1
- Sisters of Mount Carmel of Louisiana. 1
- Spring Hill College. 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 ∧ less
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