New Orleans (La.)
Subject
Subject Source: Library of Congress Subject Headings
Scope Note: https://lccn.loc.gov/n79007238
Found in 11 Collections and/or Records:
B. H. B. Latrobe St. Louis Cathedral Contract
Collection
Identifier: MSS-0845
Abstract
1819 contract for construction of the central tower on the St. Louis Cathedral.
Dates:
1819
Carriere and Borduzat conveyance
Collection
Identifier: MSS-0282
Overview
Notarized document dated 22 April 1836, for sale of slaves in New Orleans by (Auguste) Carriere & (Daniel Gregoire) Borduzat to Prosper Foy.
Dates:
1836 April 22
Ferdinand Masendorff financial notebook
Collection
Identifier: W-0039
Overview
Financial notebook includes lists of prices and shipping rates for items such as cotton, sugar, coffee and corn, as well as lists of currency exchange rates, United States cotton production rates, and Mobile cotton brokers.
Dates:
1849-1861
Herman Packard journal
Collection
Identifier: MSS-1092
Abstract
Diary of a Pennsylvania minister and agent of the American Tract Society, written while he was in New Orleans and Greenville, Louisiana, in 1839 and 1846.
Dates:
1837-1847
Jack D. L. Holmes papers
Collection
Identifier: W-0001
Overview
Correspondence, manuscripts, journal articles, newspaper clippings, and maps of this professor and Alabama author.
Dates:
1963-1988
Mears Family Papers
Collection
Identifier: MSS-4294
Overview
Contains diary kept by Virginia Henry Mears while on a journey with her husband from Philadelphia to New Orleans shortly before the Civil War, along with other family materials and photographs.
Dates:
1850-1919
Mississippi, New Orleans, Mobile records
Collection
Identifier: MSS-1000
Abstract
Miscellaneous manuscripts from the Gulf Coast; business related, bills, receipts, pricing lists
Dates:
1836 - 1876
Natalie Thornton Photograph Album
Collection
Identifier: 2012-001
Abstract
One photographic album depicting scenes from The University of Alabama featuring coeds at the Kilgore House and the campus. Also scenes from Montgomery, Alabama, New York City, New Orleans, Florida, and Texas.
Dates:
1905-1911
Saul Gordon Photographic Album
Collection
Identifier: 2010-013
Abstract
Collection consists of one photo album with one hundred and forty-three photographs of Saul Gordon, a University of Alabama student in the early 1930s. Album contains scenes of campus life, including coeds, buildings, football, the band, ROTC and dorm life. Several photographs are depicting devastation caused by the March 22, 1932 Northport tornado. These photographs are accompanied by clippings relating details of the disaster. Album also includes photographs with scenes from the 1932 New...
Dates:
1930 - 1932
W. M. Vaughn letter
Collection
Identifier: MSS-1497
Abstract
A letter dated 7 July 1840, from New Orleans, to his father in Greensburg, Kentucky, discussing business, Vaughn's health, and local excitement over an election.
Dates:
1840 July 7
Espy Williams papers
Collection
Identifier: MSS-1558
Overview
Contains the original copy of Espy Williams, "The Last Quest of Merlin" play. Given at the Round Table Club, New Orleans, Louisiana, 1908. Also includes the signatures of the actors and a photograph of Espy Williams.
Dates:
1908