Skip to main content Skip to search results

Showing Collections: 1 - 10 of 16

Valcour Aime Plantation Diary

 Collection
Identifier: MF-148
Scope and Contents

Microfilm copy of translation/typescript of the plantation diary of Valcour Aime dating from 1823 to 1855.

Dates: 1823-1855

Robert Ruffin Barrow, Jr. Papers

 Collection
Identifier: MS-00065
Scope and Contents This collection consists of business and personal correspondence, invoices, receipts, accounting books, newspapers and newspaper clippings, books and pamphlets, copies of civil court documents, a diary. a scrapbook, loose and framed photographs, and photograph albums. Most items concern the Barataria and Lafourche Canal (Westwego, La.), Myrtle Grove Sugar Plantation (Terrebonne Parish, La.), and the Airless Tube Filler Company (New Orleans, La.). The personal correspondence consists of...
Dates: 1829-1938; Majority of material found in 1901-1925

Taylor Beatty Diaries

 Item
Identifier: MF-204
Scope and Contents

Microfilmed copy of the diaries of Taylor Beatty (Beattie), Sr. of Lafourche Parish, Louisiana. The diaries document his activities during the Civil War and his later years as a sugar planter and a lawyer who attended court in Houma, Napoleanville, Thibodaux, and New Orleans, Louisiana. Reel 1 contains Volume 3, dating from 1861 to 1865. Reel 2 contains Volumes 4 through 12, dating from 1883 to 1917.

Dates: 1861-1917

Georgia Plantation Records

 Collection
Identifier: MS-00045
Scope and Contents

This collection consists of the business records of Georgia Plantation (Assumption Parish, La.), including correspondence, account books, reports, payroll ledgers, store ledgers, financial records, notes, catalogs, and ephemera. The records pertain predominantly to the cultivation and harvesting of sugar cane on Georgia Plantation, as well as associated topics such as labor, wartime agricultural production, and the Blanchard family of Assumption Parish.

Dates: circa 1890-1945

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 Assumption Parish Collection

 Collection
Identifier: MS-00018
Scope and Contents

This collection contains photographs of towns and people in Assumption Parish during the nineteenth and early twentieth centuries, programs, booklets, correspondence, surveys and newspaper clippings. It includes a masters thesis by Linda French Mariz (1973), a diary kept by Eliza Lofton Pugh from 1863-1864, a biography of Samuel Anatole Alleman who served as Assumption Parish Superintendent of Schools 1905-1947, and "History of the Town of Napoleonville" by Sam F. Gilbert.

Dates: 1806-1975

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

Laurel Valley Collection

 Collection
Identifier: MS-00180
Scope and Contents This collection comprises documents, photographs, and audio recordings relating to Laurel Valley Plantation in Lafourche Parish, Louisiana. The materials relate predominantly to efforts made between 1970 and 1979 to document and preserve the history and physical buildings of the plantation. These include correspondence, meeting minutes and publicity, photographs, grant applications, sketches, notes, and research materials. Also included in the collection are a set of sugar cane grinding...
Dates: 1898-1979 and undated; Majority of material found in 1975-1977

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

Louisiana Prints Collection

 Collection
Identifier: MS-00187
Scope and Contents

This collection comprises artistic, educational, and promotional prints by Louisiana artists or containing subject matter relating to the state of Louisiana.

Dates: 1967-2014, undated

Filtered By

  • Subject: Plantations -- Louisiana X
  • Language: English X

Filter Results

Additional filters:

Subject
Sugar plantations -- Louisiana -- Lafourche Parish. 5
Lafourche Parish (La.) 4
Assumption Parish (La.) 3
Lafourche, Bayou (La.) 3
Sugar plantations -- Louisiana 3
∨ more
Sugarcane -- Louisiana -- Assumption Parish. 3
United States -- History -- Civil War, 1861-1865 3
Company stores -- Louisiana 2
Madewood Plantation (La.) 2
Plantations -- Louisiana 2
Sugar -- Manufacture and refining -- Louisiana -- Assumption Parish. 2
Sugar -- Manufacture and refining -- Louisiana -- Lafourche Parish. 2
Sugar factories -- Louisiana -- Assumption Parish. 2
Sugar plantations -- Louisiana -- Assumption Parish. 2
Sugar plantations -- Louisiana -- Terrebonne Parish 2
Sugarcane -- Louisiana -- Lafourche Parish. 2
Thibodaux (La.) 2
World War, 1914-1918 2
Agriculture -- Louisiana -- Assumption Parish. 1
Assumption Parish (La.) -- History -- 19th century. 1
Barataria and Lafourche Canal (La.) 1
Barges -- Louisiana -- Assumption Parish. 1
Billiard parlors -- Louisiana -- Labadieville. 1
Boarding schools -- Louisiana -- Assumption Parish. 1
Carnivals -- Louisiana. 1
Cheniere Caminada (La.) 1
Church buildings -- Louisiana -- Thibodaux. 1
Civil war -- Louisiana. 1
Community organization -- Louisiana -- Lafourche Parish 1
Courthouses -- Louisiana -- Assumption Parish. 1
Dredging -- Louisiana -- Assumption Parish. 1
Ducks 1
Enslaved persons -- Louisiana -- Lafourche Parish 1
Ferries -- Louisiana -- Assumption Parish. 1
Genealogy 1
Labadieville (La.) 1
Lafayette (La.) 1
Lafayette Parish (La.) 1
Lafourche Crossing (La.) 1
Lafourche Parish (La.) -- History -- 19th century. 1
Locomotives -- Louisiana -- Assumption Parish. 1
Locomotives -- Louisiana -- Lafayette Parish 1
Louisiana -- Economic conditions. 1
Louisiana -- Maps 1
Louisiana -- Social life and customs. 1
Meeker (La.) 1
Napoleonville (La.) 1
Narrow gauge railroads -- Louisiana -- Assumption Parish. 1
Paincourtville (La.) 1
Photography, Agricultural -- Louisiana -- Assumption Parish. 1
Plantations -- Louisiana -- Assumption Parish. 1
Public schools -- Louisiana -- Assumption Parish. 1
Railroads -- Louisiana -- Assumption Parish. 1
Reconstruction (U.S. history, 1865-1877) -- Louisiana -- Lafourche Parish. 1
Saint James Parish (La.) 1
Saint Martinville (La.) 1
Slavery -- Louisiana -- Lafourche Parish. 1
Snow -- Louisiana -- Assumption Parish. 1
Southdown Plantation (La.) 1
Steam locomotives -- Louisiana -- Assumption Parish. 1
Stores, Retail -- Louisiana -- Assumption Parish. 1
Stores, Retail -- Louisiana -- Labadieville. 1
Sugar -- Manufacture and refining -- Louisiana -- Thibodaux. 1
Sugar factories -- Louisiana -- Lafourche Parish. 1
Sugar growing -- Louisiana -- St. James Parish. 1
Sugar plantations -- Louisiana -- Iberville Parish 1
Sugar trade -- Louisiana -- Lafourche Parish. 1
Sugarcane -- Louisiana. 1
Sugarcane. 1
Terrebonne Parish (La.) -- History 1
Terrebonne Parish (La.) -- History -- 19th century. 1
Theaters -- Louisiana -- Labadieville. 1
Thibodaux (La.) -- History -- 19th century. 1
Thibodaux (La.) -- Social life and customs -- 19th century. 1
Tourism -- Advertising 1
World War, 1939-1945 1
∧ less
 
Names
Georgia Plantation (Labadieville, La.) 3
Laurel Grove Plantation (La.) 3
Laurel Valley Plantation (Thibodaux, La.) 3
Woodlawn Plantation (Napoleonville, La.) 3
Albemarle Plantation (Assumption Parish, La.) 2
∨ more
Barrow, Robert R., Jr. 2
Cole, C. Grenes (Christian Grenes), 1880-1977 2
Greenwood Plantation (Lafourche Parish, La.) 2
Laurel Valley Sugar Refinery (Thibodaux, La.) 2
Lula Plantation (Belle Rose, La.) 2
Melodia Sugar House (La.) 2
St. Philomena Catholic School (Labadieville, La.) 2
Thibodaux College (Thibodaux, La.) 2
White, Edward Douglass, 1845-1921. 2
Adams, Augusta Pugh. 1
Adler, Mary. 1
Agar and Lelong. 1
Aime, Valcour, 1798-1867 1
Alleas, Louis. 1
Alleman, Samuel Anatole. 1
Allen, Richard. 1
Amarst, J.J. 1
Andrews, Sallie. 1
Ariel Plantation (La.) 1
Armant Factory (Vacherie, La.) 1
Arms, George. 1
Assumption Parish. 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. and E. Barrow (Lockport, La.) 1
B.J. West and Son (New Orleans, La.) 1
Badeau Candy Company (La.) 1
Badeau, Leslie. 1
Bailey, R.B. 1
Bailey, W.H. 1
Bailey, W.L. 1
Baker, S.J. 1
Bank of Labadie (Labadieville, La.) 1
Bank of Napoleonville (Napoleonville, La.) 1
Barbier, Charles. 1
Barilleaux, C.H. 1
Barilleaux, Francois. 1
Barker, Frank L. 1
Barthet Bros. Photography (Labadieville, La.) 1
Barthet, Charles. 1
Barthet, Joseph. 1
Barton, Clarence Clifford. 1
Barton, Elijah D. 1
Bayard, Samuel. 1
Beary, Thomas, 1853-1914 1
Bell Alliance Plantation (La.) 1
Bellevue Plantation (Grosse Tete, La.) 1
Blanchard, Albert Jules 1
Bourgeois, A., Mrs. 1
Bush Grove Sugar House (La.) 1
Cedar Grove Plantation (Labadieville, La.) 1
Cherry Henderson and Co. (New Orleans, La.) 1
Christ Episcopal Church (Napoleonville, La.) 1
Church of the Assumption (Plattenville, La.) 1
Church of the Assumption of the Blessed Virgin (Plattenville, La.) 1
Cole, Hallette Barrow, 1892-1976 1
Coulon Plantation (Thibodaux, La.) 1
Dixie Hotel (La.). 1
Drexler Motor Company (Thibodaux, La.) 1
Ducros Plantation (Thibodaux, La.) 1
Elliot Bros. 1
Elmfield Plantation (Assumption Parish, La.) 1
Enterprise Factory (Jeanerette, La.) 1
Eugene Robinson's Floating Palaces, Museum, Menagerie, and Aquarium (Assumption Parish, La.) 1
Eugene Robinson's Grand Opera House (Assumption Parish, La.) 1
Fearn, Donegan, and Co. (New Orleans, La.) 1
Gaudet family. 1
George Lysle and Sons (Pittsburg, Pa.) 1
Georgia Factory (Matthews, La.) 1
Glenwood Sugar Mill (La.) 1
Godchaux Sugars (La.) 1
Golomine Plantation (Labadieville, La.) 1
Good Intent Club (Assumption Parish, La.) 1
Greenwood Sugar Factory (Lafourche Parish, La.) 1
Hermitage Plantation (St. Charles Parish, 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
Joseph Cressionni Blacksmith and Wheelwright (Assumption Parish, La.) 1
Jules Bassett Store (La.) 1
Kittredge, E. E. (Ebenezer Eaton), 1739-1802. 1
Klotzville Post Office (Klotzville, La.) 1
Lafourche American Revolution Bicentennial Commission 1
Lafourche Drug Store (Thibodaux, La.) 1
∧ less