Lafourche, Bayou (La.)
Found in 10 Collections and/or Records:
Bayou Newcomers Club Records
This collection comprises the records of the Bayou Newcomers Club of Thibodaux, Louisiana, which consist of scrapbooks and meeting minutes. Scrapbooks include photographs, clippings, newsletters, and correspondence.
Maude H. Billiu Collection
This collection spans 1838-1993 and covers 15 linear feet. It includes photographs, newspapers, newspaper clippings, negatives, glass plate negatives, notarial records, court summons, certificate of death, death notices, obituaries, correspondence, a business license, tax receipts, postcards, scrapbooks, yearbooks, sketches, monographs, and a school program.
Center for Traditional Louisiana Boatbuilding Oral History Collection
This collection comprises oral histories collected by the Center for Traditional Louisiana Boatbuilding. All interviews relate to topics of boats and the history of southern Louisiana, particularly Lafourche and Terrebonne Parish.
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.
Hurricane Juan Collection
This collection spans 1.5 linear feet and dates from 1985. The collection comprises audiovisual recordings, photographs, and newspaper clippings documenting the impact of Hurricane Juan (1985) on Lafourche Parish, La. and surrounding areas.
Lafourche Heritage Society Records
Martin-Pugh Family Collection
This collection consists of title searches, business records, ledger books, correspondence, maps, invoices, and genealogies of the Littlejohn, Whitmell-Bryan, and Pugh-Martin families.
William Littlejohn Martin Collection
This collections consists of negatives, photographs, correpondence, diaries, scrapbooks, and tintypes.
Ron Simeral Collection
This collection covers 1.5 linear feet and consists of materials relating to the production of Lafourche: Fork of the Mississippi, a documentary on the history and industries of Bayou Lafourche. Materials were created around the time of the film's production in 1979 and consist of narration scripts and photographic prints. Images include Madewood plantation house, steamboats, and a sugar mill.
Emanuel J. Toups Collection
This collection contains photographs, picture frames, certificates, a record album, magazines, and plaques.