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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

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

Louis Saillard Photograph Collection

 Collection
Identifier: MS-00224
Scope and Contents

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.

Dates: 1948-1975

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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Nicholls State University 2
American Sugar Cane League. 1
Armant Factory (Vacherie, La.) 1
Blanchard, Albert Jules 1
Enterprise Factory (Jeanerette, La.) 1