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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

Bonvillain-Smith House Collection

 Collection
Identifier: MS-00061
Scope and Contents

This collection dates from 1908 to 1964 and spans 5 linear feet. It consists of books, photographs, correspondence, clippings, ephemera, and artifacts pertaining to the Bonvillain, Smith, and Burguieres families of Terrebonne Parish, Louisiana. The Smith materials pertain chiefly to Clifford Smith's business dealings, while the Bonvillain materials are primarily family papers.

Dates: 1908-1964, 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

Richard T. Hanson Family Papers

 Collection
Identifier: MS-00036
Scope and Contents

This collection spans from 1840 to 1979 and includes correspondence, legal and government documents, receipts, and newspaper clipping relating to Richard Tuite Hanson and his family. This collection also includes several documents signed by Louisiana Governors Francis T. Nicholls, Louis A. Wiltz, and Samuel D. McEnery, as well as United States Presidents Grover Cleveland and Benjamin Harrison.

Dates: 1840-1979

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

Sugar Industry Collection

 Collection
Identifier: MS-00169
Scope and Contents

This collection comprises printed, microfilmed, and audiovisual materials relating to the sugar industry, predominantly that of Louisiana. The materials date from 1848 to 1985.

Dates: 1848-1986

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Lafourche Parish (La.) 4
Louisiana -- Social life and customs. 3
Plantations -- Louisiana 3
World War, 1914-1918 3
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Louisiana -- History -- Civil War, 1861-1865. 2
New Orleans (La.) 2
Plantation overseers. 2
Reconstruction (U.S. history, 1865-1877) -- Louisiana. 2
Southern States -- Religious life and customs. 2
Sugar plantations -- Louisiana -- Lafourche Parish. 2
Terrebonne Parish (La.) -- History 2
Thibodaux (La.) 2
Agricultural industries -- Louisiana -- Lafourche Parish 1
Alexandria (La.) 1
Bowie (La.) 1
Brussels (Belgium) 1
Businessmen -- Louisiana. 1
Camp Beauregard (La.) 1
Cold War 1
Community organization -- Louisiana -- Lafourche Parish 1
Contracts for deeds -- Louisiana. 1
Cooking -- Louisiana 1
Courtship -- Southern states 1
Cut Off (La.) 1
Donaldsonville (La.) 1
Economic history. 1
Elections -- Louisiana -- Lafourche Parish. 1
Enslaved persons -- Louisiana -- Lafourche Parish 1
Fishing -- Louisiana 1
Floods -- Louisiana. 1
Gulf Intracoastal Waterway. 1
Home economics extension work -- Louisiana -- Lafourche Parish 1
Houma (La.) 1
Hurricane Betsy, 1965. 1
Lafourche Crossing (La.) 1
Lafourche Parish (La.) -- Politics and government. 1
Lockport (La.) 1
Louisiana -- Economic conditions. 1
Manila Village (Lafourche Parish, La.) 1
Marriage records -- Louisiana 1
Marshlands 1
Military training camps -- United States. 1
Mobile (Ala.) 1
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Oil industries -- Louisiana 1
Plantations -- Louisiana -- Ascension Parish 1
Plantations -- Louisiana -- Assumption Parish. 1
Raceland (La.) 1
Railroads -- Employees 1
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Slavery -- Louisiana -- Lafourche Parish. 1
Spanish-American War, 1898. 1
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Sugarcane -- Louisiana. 1
Terrebonne Parish (La.) -- Social life and customs -- 20th century. 1
Trapping -- Louisiana 1
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World War, 1939-1945 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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American Sugar Cane League. 1
Arialo Plantation (Lafourche Parish, La.) 1
Ascension Episcopal Church (Donaldsonville, 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
Belle Terre Plantation (Assumption Parish, La.) 1
Bonvillain family 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
Deere and Co. (Lafourche Parish, La.) 1
Dugas Place (Ascension Parish, La.) 1
E.D. White Historic Site (Thibodaux, La.) 1
Forest Grove Plantation (La.) 1
Gaude family. 1
Gaudet family. 1
Greenwood Sugar Factory (Lafourche Parish, La.) 1
Hanson, John Delmayne, 1857-1920 1
Hanson, Margaret Calderwood, 1855-1934 1
Hanson, Richard Tuite, 1819-1895 1
Hanson, Robert Lockhead 1
Hanson, William Calderwood, 1864-1918 1
Hebert-Terrebonne Cemetery (Galliano, La.) 1
Holy Savior Church (Lockport, La.) 1
Lefort Cemetery (Leeville, La.) 1
Lemann, Bernard, -1899 1
Little Zion Baptist Church (Chackbay, La.) 1
Morning Star Plantation (La.) 1
Morvant, Henry F. 1
Mount Carmel Academy (Thibodaux, La.) 1
Nicholls, Francis T. (Francis Tillou), 1834-1912. 1
Octavia Plantation (La.) 1
Our Lady of Prompt Succor Catholic Church (Chackbay, La.) 1
Peytavin Plantation (Ascension Parish, La.) 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
Smith, Clifford Percival, 1858-1943 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
Welcome Plantation (La.) 1
White Plantation (La.) 1
Williams Cemetery (Golden Meadow, La.) 1
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