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Inaugral Message of His Excellency Governor S.B. Packard, to the General Assembly of the State of Louisiana
title
Inaugral Message of His Excellency Governor S.B. Packard, to the General Assembly of the State of Louisiana
Subject
Documents, Politics
Date created ms
1877, 1877
Abstract
Inaugural message of governor Stephen B. Packard to the General Assembly of the State of Louisiana in 1877.
The Roll of Honor
title
The Roll of Honor
Subject
Documents
Date created ms
1877-06-28, 1877-06-28
Abstract
Certificate of honor issued to M. Himman for his service in the 1st Crescent City Regiment and the part that he plated in the "restoration of legal government" to the state of Louisiana.
Handmade Walking Cane
Subject
cane
Date created ms
1877, 1930
Abstract
Ovide Daigle, Jr (1877 - 1958) or Ovide Daigle, Sr. made this cane from cypress wood. The initials "OD" are carved into the neck of the cane handle. The cane handle is carved to resemble a head of a small animal. Ovide Daigle, Jr. married Julia LeBlanc, having six children. His second wife, Andrea LeBlanc he married on July 8th, 1911 in St. Martin parish. She had three children at the time of the marriage. Andrea LeBlanc and Ovide Daigle, Jr. had 7 children between 1911 and 1926. Ovide worked on the Eraste Landry Plantation after moving to Lafayette. He is buried in Calvary Cemetery in Lafayette, La.
Louisiana Cabin Scene
title
Louisiana Cabin Scene
Subject
African Americans, Genre paintings, Cabins, Farm life
Date created ms
1878, 1920
Abstract
Rural scene showing a cabin with laundry on a line running from the cabin's porch post to an outbuilding at left. Also shown are a young girl, an elderly woman in a rocker on the porch, a child in the yard, a woman doing laundry at a tub near the porch, and a man carrying a basket on his head. Dogs, a cat, and chickens are in the cabin's yard. Baskets, jugs, doghouse, kindling wood, and a black cooking pot are also shown. Fish and pepper hang on the porch.
Roster of the First Crescent City Regiment
title
Roster of the First Crescent City Regiment
Subject
Documents, Registers
Date created ms
1877-04-25, 1877-04-25
Abstract
Roster of members involved in "Battle of Liberty Place"
Louisiana Cabin and Cotton Field
title
Louisiana Cabin and Cotton Field
Subject
Genre paintings, Oil paintings, African Americans, Cotton pickers
Date created ms
1878, 1920
Abstract
Two African-American women standing in cotton field, a full basket of cotton before them. At their right, a woman picks cotton, while at their left, a man carries a full basket of cotton on his head. In the background is a cabin with a porch and a single chimney. Trees are also in the background. One of a pair.
Map of Louisiana showing the location of the New Orleans Pacific Rail-Way and its importance to the state and to the city of New Orleans as a great commercial high way. At left: Eads Jetties at South Pass of the Mississippi [map]; and Bird's eye View, Jet
title
Map of Louisiana showing the location of the New Orleans Pacific Rail-Way and its importance to the state and to the city of New Orleans as a great commercial high way. At left: Eads Jetties at South Pass of the Mississippi [map]; and Bird's eye View, Jetties from lighthouse looking seaward.
Date created ms
1877, 1877
Unidentified
title
Unidentified
Subject
Louisiana State University (Baton Rouge, La.), Students, Photographs, Washburn, W. W
Date created ms
1877
Abstract
On back- your friend Lewis 1877. Mar. 1877.
Minutes of the Louisiana Sugar Planters' Association, 1877-1891
title
Minutes of the Louisiana Sugar Planters' Association, 1877-1891
Subject
Sugar growing, Louisiana, Sugar plantations, Louisiana, Sugarcane, Louisiana, Tariff on sugar, Louisiana, Plantation workers, Louisiana
Date created ms
1877, 1891
Calcasieu Pass Lighthouse
title
Calcasieu Pass Lighthouse
Subject
Lighthouses
Date created ms
1877
Abstract
Copy print of the Calcasieu Pass Lighthouse beacon light under construction.
1877-05-03 Tax Notice, No. 1068, Saint Martin Parish (La.)
title
1877-05-03 Tax Notice, No. 1068, Saint Martin Parish (La.)
Date created ms
1877-05-03
Abstract
Tax notice of Henry Rees with state tax of $11.85.
Miles Terrell and family papers. Papers. Folder 01a-01e, 1875-1877.
title
Miles Terrell and family papers. Papers. Folder 01a-01e, 1875-1877.
Subject
Accounts, Certificates, Correspondence, Cotton trade, Louisiana, Rapides Parish, Debtor and creditor, Louisiana, Drafts, Louisiana, Rapides Parish, Free African Americans, African American farmers, Louisiana, Rapides Parish, Cotton farmers, Louisiana, Rapides Parish, Genealogies, Invoices, Promissory, Receipts (Acknowledgments)(Acknowledgments) Shipping records, Summons, Voter registration, Louisiana, Rapides Parish
Date created ms
1875, 1877
Abstract
Materials consist primarily of financial papers relating to Miles Terrell's debt and business transactions. Documents include promissory notes, accounts, drafts for payments, and invoices. A court summons dated January 27, 1875 requires Miles Terrell to appear in court to answer a plaintiff's demand for payment for nursing services. Papers include a receipt showing payment of this debt, dated May 28, 1875. Terrell family genealogy notes, dated 1875, record the births of Miles Terrell's sons, Gloucester and Marion. A note written by Violet Terrell on October 1, 1875 instructs William Deare to pay Miles Terrell for board and use of a horse. A note written by James Hicks on November 14, 1875 asks Grean Richey to pay Miles Terrell.

Other items include an invoice for drugs (dated 1876), an order for sewing supplies and fabric (dated 1877), and a shipping document for the sale and shipment of cotton (dated 1877).
Duncan F. Kenner Papers (Sloo Collection)
title
Duncan F. Kenner Papers (Sloo Collection)
Subject
Kenner, Duncan, Confederacy, loans, Constitutional convention, 1867-1868, Passenger lists, Baruc, B, Trenholm, G.S, Benjamin, Judah P, Wells, James Madison, Election, 1876, Political elections, Monetary policy, Confederate States of America, Louisiana, Constitutional Convention (1867-1868), Suffrage, Louisiana, Reconstruction (U.S. history, 1865-1877), Louisiana, Louisiana, Politics and government, 1865-1950, Confederate States of America, Relations, England, London, Ships, Passenger lists, Presidents, United States, Election, 1876, Governors, Louisiana, Elections, 1876
Date created ms
1863, 1877
Abstract
Includes material re negotiations for a loan to the Confederacy to be made by a French banker; 1867-8 state constitutional convention; 1876 gubernatorial election; passenger list of ""S.S America"" (sailing from Bremen. Kenner aboard, traveling under assum
Rufus King Howell (1820 - 1886)
title
Rufus King Howell (1820 - 1886)
Subject
Judges, Louisiana
Date created ms
1877
Name
Andres Molinary
Abstract
Associate Justice, Louisiana Supreme Court, 1865-1877 * Judge, Louisiana Historic First Judicial District Court (Orleans Parish) 1857-1864 * Born in Mississippi, 1820 * Served as a delegate and was elected President Pro Tempore at 1864 State Constitutional Convention * Served as Company Captain in the Louisiana Militia * Opposed to secession and supported federal occupation * Died in Alum Springs, Kentucky, August 12, 1886 * Portrait painted by Andres Molinary and hangs in the 400 Royal Street building
Map of Louisiana showing General Information for the Bureau of Immigration. T.S. Hardee, 1877.
title
Map of Louisiana showing General Information for the Bureau of Immigration. T.S. Hardee, 1877.
Date created ms
1877, 1877
Name
Hardee, T.S.
Gray's New Map of Louisiana. Phila., O.W. Gray & Son, c. 1878.
title
Gray's New Map of Louisiana. Phila., O.W. Gray & Son, c. 1878.
Date created ms
1878, 1878
Name
Gray, Frank A.
Bill issued by the New Orleans, Mobile and Chattanooga Railroad Company, New Orleans, to Golsan and Brothers, New Orleans, 1877 September 7.
title
Bill issued by the New Orleans, Mobile and Chattanooga Railroad Company, New Orleans, to Golsan and Brothers, New Orleans, 1877 September 7.
Subject
Documents, Travel
Date created ms
1877-09-07, 1877-09-07
Abstract
Document. Signed: "pd Eaves." In English.
Miles Terrell and family papers. Papers. Folder 01a-01d, 1873-1877.
title
Miles Terrell and family papers. Papers. Folder 01a-01d, 1873-1877.
Subject
Free African Americans, African American farmers, Louisiana, Rapides Parish, Cotton farmers, Louisiana, Rapides Parish, Voter registration, Louisiana, Rapides Parish, Clothing and dress, Louisiana, Debtor and creditor, Certificates, Accounts, Summons, Receipts (Acknowledgments)(Acknowledgments) Correspondence, Promissory notes, Invoices
Date created ms
1873, 1877
Abstract
Chiefly financial papers that include accounts, invoices, and receipts documenting the sale of cotton, household goods, food, tobacco, farm equipment, whiskey, and quinine. Receipts also document payments on debt. Promissory notes relate to loans and payment for cotton. In a May 4, 1874 letter to M. Miars, Cornelius, Bryans orders fabric, sewing supplies and shoes to be delivered by way of Miles Terrell. Receipts, a promissory note, and a letter fragment document Miles Terrell's business transactions with A. J. Marshall. The letter fragment (October 6, 1873) written by Marshall concerns Terrell's debt to him and the seizure of Terrell's property. Also represented is Miles Terrell's voter registration certificate, dated September 14, 1874.
Philip H. Morgan
title
Philip H. Morgan
Subject
Judges, Louisiana
Date created ms
1877
Name
Andres Molinary
Abstract
Associate Justice, Louisiana Supreme Court, 1873 (1 Feb.)-1877 (9 Jan.)
Dudley Turnbull and family papers. Bills and receipts. Folder 01-04, 1878-1900.
title
Dudley Turnbull and family papers. Bills and receipts. Folder 01-04, 1878-1900.
Subject
African American Catholics, Louisiana, Baton Rouge, Taxation, Louisiana, Baton Rouge, Tax collection, Louisiana, Baton Rouge, Tuition, Louisiana, Baton Rouge, Receipts (Acknowledgments)(Acknowledgments), Louisiana, Baton Rouge, African American women, Louisiana, Baton Rouge, Home economics, Louisiana, Baton Rouge, Free African Americans, Louisiana, Baton Rouge, Education, Louisiana, Baton Rouge, African American families, Louisiana, Baton Rouge, African American fathers, Louisiana, Baton Rouge, African American mothers, Louisiana, Baton Rouge, University of New Orleans, African American universities and colleges, Louisiana, Baton Rouge
Date created ms
1878, 1900
Abstract
The folder is comprised of receipts belonging to Dudley Turnbull and Rosemarie Aldometer Mather Turnbull, who were free people of color, for parish and state taxes, goods, services, and college tuition. Included are tax receipts for the estate of Jane Giddings (mother of Aldometer Turnbull), receipts given to Dudley Turnbull for a leased Singer sewing machine, and tuition receipts for Dudley's son Arthur Turnbull's New Orleans University education.

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