Skip to main content Skip to search results

Showing Collections: 1 - 8 of 8

Martin Cortez Collection

 Collection
Identifier: MS-00043
Scope and Contents

This collection spans 2 linear feet and includes materials dating from 1910 to 1983. The collection comprises photographs, printed materials, audio recordings, and other papers relating to the local history research of Martin Cortez.

Dates: 1910-1983

Dietetics 330 Collection - Health Beliefs & Practices in a Diverse Society

 Collection
Identifier: MS-00217
Scope and Contents

This collection consists of audio cassettes, questionnaires, transcriptions, and surveys of food and health practices during the early twentieth century in the parishes of southeast Louisiana.

Dates: 2006-2013

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 American Revolution Bicentennial Commission and Lafourche Heritage '76 Collection

 Collection
Identifier: MS-00029
Scope and Contents

This collection contains architectural information, newspapers and clippings, maps, photographs, artifacts, oral histories, and ephemera relating to the history of Lafourche Parish.

Dates: ca. 1976

Lafourche Heritage Society Records

 Collection
Identifier: MS-00039
Scope and Contents This collection consists of the records of the Lafourche Heritage Society. It includes a constitution, bylaws, correspondence, membership information, financial documents (bills, receipts, and bank statements), newsletters, legal documents, meeting minutes, notes, printed materials, publication manuscripts, surveys, interviews, essays, invitations, book jackets, scrapbooks, photographs, slides, cassette tapes, floppy disks, and ephemera. The materials concern the Society's activities...
Dates: 1852-2017; Majority of material found in 1976-2017

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

Doris Mae Naquin Ledet Collection

 Collection
Identifier: MS-00079
Scope and Contents

This collection consists of the research materials of Doris Mae Naquin Ledet pertaining to the local history and genealogies of Lafourche Parish and surrounding areas. It includes genealogical charts, certificates, maps, photographs, newspapers, magazines, books, catalogs, photocopies, audiocassettes, medals, checks, and ephemera.

Dates: 1830-2009, undated

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

Filtered By

  • Subject: Lafourche Parish (La.) -- History, Local. X

Filter Results

Additional filters:

Subject
Lafourche Parish (La.) 3
Lafourche Parish (La.) -- History -- 20th century. 3
Thibodaux (La.) 3
Assumption Parish (La.) -- History, Local. 2
Bowie (La.) 2
∨ more
Cooking -- Louisiana 2
Historic buildings -- Conservation and restoration -- Louisiana -- Thibodaux. 2
Lafourche Parish (La.) -- History -- 19th century. 2
Louisiana -- Social life and customs. 2
Raceland (La.) 2
Sugar plantations -- Louisiana -- Lafourche Parish. 2
World War, 1914-1918 2
World War, 1939-1945 2
Agricultural industries -- Louisiana -- Lafourche Parish 1
Alligator hunting 1
American Revolution Bicentennial, 1976 1
Ascension Parish (La.) -- History, Local. 1
Assumption Parish (La.) 1
Carpentry 1
Carving (Decorative arts) -- Louisiana 1
Cold War 1
Community organization -- Louisiana -- Lafourche Parish 1
Contracts for deeds -- Louisiana. 1
Cut Off (La.) 1
Dentistry 1
Diet -- Louisiana. 1
Dietetics -- Louisiana. 1
Duck decoys -- Louisiana 1
Duck shooting 1
Ducks 1
Education -- Louisiana 1
Elections -- Louisiana -- Lafourche Parish. 1
Enslaved persons -- Louisiana -- Lafourche Parish 1
Fishing -- Louisiana 1
Floods -- Louisiana. 1
French language -- Louisiana 1
Game calling (Hunting) 1
Genealogies. 1
Gulf Intracoastal Waterway. 1
Healers -- Louisiana 1
Health attitudes -- Louisiana. 1
Health behavior -- Louisiana. 1
Health education -- Louisiana. 1
Health surveys -- Louisiana. 1
Historic sites -- Conservation and restoration -- Louisiana -- Thibodaux. 1
Home economics extension work -- Louisiana -- Lafourche Parish 1
Hurricane Betsy, 1965. 1
Iberville Parish (La.) -- History, Local. 1
Lace and lace making 1
Lafourche Crossing (La.) 1
Lafourche Parish (La.) -- Newspapers. 1
Lafourche Parish (La.) -- Politics and government. 1
Lafourche, Bayou (La.) 1
Lafourche, Bayou (La.) -- History 1
Lockport (La.) 1
Louisiana -- History -- Civil War, 1861-1865. 1
Louisiana -- History. 1
Manila Village (Lafourche Parish, La.) 1
Marriage records -- Louisiana 1
Marshlands 1
Medicine -- Louisiana 1
Napoleonville (La.) 1
Natural resources -- Louisiana -- Lafourche Parish 1
New Orleans (La.) -- Social life and customs -- 20th century. 1
Nutrition -- Louisiana 1
Offshore oil Industry 1
Oil industries -- Louisiana 1
Railroads -- Employees 1
Rural health -- Louisiana 1
Saint Bernard Parish (La.) -- History, Local. 1
Saint Charles Parish (La.) -- History, Local. 1
Saint James Parish (La.) -- History, Local. 1
Saint John the Baptist Parish (La.) -- History, Local. 1
Saint Landry Parish (La.) -- History, Local. 1
School boards -- Louisiana -- Lafourche Parish 1
Schools -- Louisiana -- Lafourche Parish 1
Segregation -- Louisiana 1
Self-care, Health -- Louisiana 1
Shipyards -- Louisiana -- Lockport 1
Slavery -- Louisiana -- Lafourche Parish. 1
Southern States -- Religious life and customs. 1
Spiritual healing 1
Terrebonne Parish (La.) -- History 1
Terrebonne Parish (La.) -- History, Local. 1
Thibodaux (La.) -- History -- 20th century. 1
Trapping -- Louisiana 1
Volunteer fire departments -- Louisiana 1
Waterways -- Louisiana 1
Woodwork 1
World War, 1939-1945 -- Prisoners and prisons, German. 1
∧ less
 
Language
Multiple languages 5
English 3
 
Names
Nicholls State University 3
Lafourche Heritage Society 2
Lafourche Heritage Society. Genealogy Committee 2
Lafourche Parish (La.) 2
Acadia Plantation (Thibodaux, La.) 1
∨ more
Allemand, Samuel A. 1
Amedee, Roland 1
American Red Cross. 1
Arabie, Velma P. (Velma Plaisance) 1
Arialo Plantation (Lafourche Parish, La.) 1
Babin, Larry J. 1
Bank of Lafourche (Thibodaux, La.) 1
Bayou Lafourche (Lafourche Parish, La.). 1
Billiot, Edelta Mae 1
Bollinger, Donald G. (Donald George), 1915-2000. 1
Bourgeois, Henry Louis. 1
Bouverans Plantation (Lafourche Parish, La.) 1
C.P. Shaver and Co. (Thibodaux, La.) 1
Cut Off High School (Cut Off, La.) 1
Daughters of the American Revolution 1
Deere and Co. (Lafourche Parish, La.) 1
Durham, Norma 1
E.D. White Historic Site (Thibodaux, La.) 1
Francis T. Nicholls Junior College 1
Gaubert, Barbara Z. (Barbara Zeringue) 1
Greenwood Sugar Factory (Lafourche Parish, La.) 1
Hebert, Ida Fay 1
Hebert-Terrebonne Cemetery (Galliano, La.) 1
Holy Savior Church (Lockport, La.) 1
Hotard, Minnie 1
Hymel, Ann Theresa N. (Ann Theresa Naquin) 1
King, Dorothy B. (Dorothy Bourque) 1
Lafourche American Revolution Bicentennial Commission 1
LeMelle, Leone R. (Leone Rideaux) 1
Lefort Cemetery (Leeville, La.) 1
Little Zion Baptist Church (Chackbay, La.) 1
Melancon, Joseph Levy, 1906- 1
Mount Carmel Academy (Thibodaux, La.) 1
Our Lady of Prompt Succor Catholic Church (Chackbay, La.) 1
Perque, Ernest 1
Rappelet, Albert O. (Albert Otto), 1903-1984. 1
Robert, Joycelyn 1
Sacred Heart Church (Cote Blanche, La.) 1
Seaton, Josephine 1
Serigny Family Cemetery (Golden Meadow, La.) 1
South Lafourche Oyster Festival. 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
United Houma Nation 1
Williams Cemetery (Golden Meadow, La.) 1
Wright, Alberta J. (Aberta Jackson) 1
Young, Gerald J. (Gerald Joe) 1
∧ less