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Taylor Beatty Diaries
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.
Georgia Plantation Records
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.
Greenwood Sugar Factory and Allied Plantations Records
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.
Historic Assumption Parish Collection
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.
Laurel Valley Collection
Louis Saillard Photograph Collection
This collection is divided into three folders. It contains black and white photographs of sugar plantations and mills in Louisiana and an issue of Rail Classics (1974). The photographs were taken by Saillard and C.W. Whitbeck.
Sugar Industry Collection
This collection comprises printed, microfilmed, and audiovisual materials relating to the sugar industry, predominantly that of Louisiana. The materials date from 1848 to 1985.
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- Sugarcane -- Louisiana -- Lafourche Parish. 2
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- Agriculture -- Louisiana -- Assumption Parish. 1
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- Billiard parlors -- Louisiana -- Labadieville. 1
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- Labadieville (La.) 1
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- Locomotives -- Louisiana -- Assumption Parish. 1
- Locomotives -- Louisiana -- Lafayette Parish 1
- Louisiana -- Economic conditions. 1
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- Madewood Plantation (La.) 1
- Meeker (La.) 1
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- Narrow gauge railroads -- Louisiana -- Assumption Parish. 1
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- Public schools -- Louisiana -- Assumption Parish. 1
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- Saint James Parish (La.) 1
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- Snow -- Louisiana -- Assumption Parish. 1
- Southdown Plantation (La.) 1
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- Stores, Retail -- Louisiana -- Labadieville. 1
- Sugar -- Manufacture and refining -- Louisiana -- Lafourche Parish. 1
- Sugar -- Manufacture and refining -- Louisiana -- Thibodaux. 1
- Sugar factories -- Louisiana -- Lafourche Parish. 1
- Sugar plantations -- Louisiana -- Lafourche Parish. 1
- Theaters -- Louisiana -- Labadieville. 1
- Thibodaux (La.) 1
- Thibodaux (La.) -- Social life and customs -- 19th century. 1
- United States -- History -- Civil War, 1861-1865 1
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- English 6
- Multiple languages 1
- Names
- Georgia Plantation (Labadieville, La.) 2
- Lula Plantation (Belle Rose, La.) 2
- Nicholls State University 2
- Alleman, Samuel Anatole. 1
- American Sugar Cane League. 1
- Armant Factory (Vacherie, La.) 1
- Assumption Parish. 1
- B. and E. Barrow (Lockport, La.) 1
- Bailey, W.L. 1
- Bank of Labadie (Labadieville, La.) 1
- Bank of Napoleonville (Napoleonville, La.) 1
- Barbier, Charles. 1
- Barthet Bros. Photography (Labadieville, La.) 1
- Barthet, Charles. 1
- Barthet, Joseph. 1
- Blanchard, Albert Jules 1
- Cedar Grove Plantation (Labadieville, La.) 1
- Church of the Assumption (Plattenville, 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
- Gaudet family. 1
- Golomine Plantation (Labadieville, La.) 1
- Good Intent Club (Assumption Parish, La.) 1
- Greenwood Plantation (Lafourche Parish, La.) 1
- Greenwood Sugar Factory (Lafourche Parish, La.) 1
- Joseph Cressionni Blacksmith and Wheelwright (Assumption Parish, La.) 1
- Klotzville Post Office (Klotzville, La.) 1
- Lafourche American Revolution Bicentennial Commission 1
- Lanier Estate (Napoleonville, La.) 1
- Laurel Grove Plantation (La.) 1
- Laurel Ridge Plantation (Labadieville, La.) 1
- Laurel Valley Plantation (Thibodaux, La.) 1
- Laurel Valley Sugar Refinery (Thibodaux, La.) 1
- M.A. Patout and Son (Jeanerette, La.) 1
- McClure's Photograph Gallery (Assumption Parish, La.) 1
- Meeker Factory (Meeker, La.) 1
- Naquin's Equipment (Thibodaux, La.) 1
- Royal Theatre (Labadieville, La.). 1
- Saillard, Louis IV, 1949- 1
- St. John Factory (St. Martinville, La.) 1
- St. John Plantation (St. Martinville, La.) 1
- St. Philomena Catholic School (Labadieville, La.) 1
- St. Philomena Church (Labadieville, La.) 1
- St. Philomena Convent (Labadieville, La.) 1
- T.X. Landry Blacksmith and Wheelwright (Assumption Parish, La.) 1
- W.H. Ragan Mill Supplies (La.) 1
- Westfield (La.) 1
- Woodlawn Plantation (Napoleonville, La.) 1 ∧ less