World War, 1914-1918
Found in 10 Collections and/or Records:
Beary and Swartenbroek Family Papers
Cheramie Family Collection of Political Campaign Materials
This collection spans three linear feet and comprises printed materials, scrapbooks, and ephemera, and artifacts. The collection relates predominantly to political campaigns in Lafourche Parish and Louisiana dating from 1948 to 1975, along with some personal materials. Campaign materials are comprised primarily of promotional campaign cards, along with postcards, political cartoons, booklets, sample ballots, and memorabilia.
Coignet and Gaudet Family Papers
Allen J. Ellender Papers
This collections consists of personal papers, correspondence, documents, personal memorabilia, photographs, diaries, scrapbooks, data on legislative matters, and 16mm film on Ellender's trips abroad.
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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.
Historic Lafourche Parish Collection
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.
William Littlejohn Martin Collection
This collections consists of negatives, photographs, correpondence, diaries, scrapbooks, and tintypes.
Miscellaneous Photographs
This collection comprises one box of photographs and photograph albums. It includes items dated from 1898 to 1952, along with many undated items which appear to date from the late nineteenth to the mid-twentieth century. Most photographs are portraits of individuals and groups, along with a few candid images.
South Louisiana Oral History Collection
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.
T. I. St. Martin Family Papers
This collection consists of the papers of the T. I. St. Martin family. The majority of the papers concern T. I. St. Martin's career as a writer and doctor, as well has his military service. The collection also contains the papers of his wife, Gladys St. Martin, and his adopted daughter Cecele Edsberg. The collection includes correspondence, military records, medical records, manuscripts, photographs, printed materials, notes, and ephemera.