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Offshore oil field equipment industry -- Louisiana

 Subject
Subject Source: Library of Congress Subject Headings

Found in 2 Collections and/or Records:

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