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Oil well drilling -- Louisiana

 Subject
Subject Source: Library of Congress Subject Headings

Found in 3 Collections and/or Records:

Madison L. Funderburk Papers

 Collection
Identifier: MS-00204
Scope and Contents The first series contains a mixture of Funderburk's personal, business, and political activities. It includes correspondence, telegrams, photographs, maps and map plats, blueprints, newspaper clippings, subscriptions, organizational memberships, certificates, audiocassettes, insurance policies, graduation and wedding invitations, civil court records, agreements and contracts, royalty and building leases, misc. notarial records, abstracts of title, subpoenas, court motions and judgments, and...
Dates: 1828-1993

Offshore Oil and Gas History Project

 Collection
Identifier: MS-00222
Scope and Contents

This collection includes over 450 oral history interviews (original audio recordings, summaries, and transcripts) and over 1,000 digital copies of photographs from the historical period. The results of the study were published in 2008 in six volumes (see External Documents link below).

Dates: 2001-2006

Louis J. Roussel, Jr. Collection

 Collection
Identifier: MS-00088
Scope and Contents This collection contains information primarily pertaining to Roussel's new drilling barge, "Mr. Louie," including correspondence, notes, programs, newspaper clippings, receipts, ephemera, printed matter, and photographs. It also includes a few invitations to christenings of other barges, miscellaneous ribbons, Roussel's ancestor chart, obituaries for Roussel and his wife, and two volumes of his autobiography, "Friends, Enemies, & Victims." The collection also contains a model of...
Dates: 1955-2002