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United States History

Louisiana Tech University

2019

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John E. Fagg Papers, University Archives And Special Collections, Prescott Memorial Library, Louisiana Tech University Jan 2019

John E. Fagg Papers, University Archives And Special Collections, Prescott Memorial Library, Louisiana Tech University

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Personal and professional papers of historian Dr. John E. Fagg.


Joseph J. Corneille Family Papers, University Archives And Special Collections, Prescott Memorial Library, Louisiana Tech University Jan 2019

Joseph J. Corneille Family Papers, University Archives And Special Collections, Prescott Memorial Library, Louisiana Tech University

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Photocopied papers of the Joseph J. Corneille family.


Joseph J. Corneille Record Book, University Archives And Special Collections, Prescott Memorial Library, Louisiana Tech University Jan 2019

Joseph J. Corneille Record Book, University Archives And Special Collections, Prescott Memorial Library, Louisiana Tech University

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Confederate Army soldier and businessman from New Orleans. Most of his military service was spent in St. Tammany and Tangipahoa Parishes and later in Vicksburg, Mississippi, where he spent several months ill in a hospital. He rejoined his unit, was captured near Jackson, Mississippi, in July 1863, and was released May 18, 1865.


Kellam Family Papers, University Archives And Special Collections, Prescott Memorial Library, Louisiana Tech University Jan 2019

Kellam Family Papers, University Archives And Special Collections, Prescott Memorial Library, Louisiana Tech University

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Letters received by members of the Kellam and related families, prominent residents and plantation owners in Ouachita Parish, Louisiana.


Lucien Flournoy Rountree Family Papers, University Archives And Special Collections, Prescott Memorial Library, Louisiana Tech University Jan 2019

Lucien Flournoy Rountree Family Papers, University Archives And Special Collections, Prescott Memorial Library, Louisiana Tech University

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Research manuscript by a descendant of the Flournoy family, early settlers of Caddo Parish, Louisiana; included is personal correspondence of Alfred Flournoy, a large planter and close friend of James K. Polk (whose letters appear in the collection).


Margery Kidd Nicholl And Gertrude Mayfield Brown Papers, University Archives And Special Collections, Prescott Memorial Library, Louisiana Tech University Jan 2019

Margery Kidd Nicholl And Gertrude Mayfield Brown Papers, University Archives And Special Collections, Prescott Memorial Library, Louisiana Tech University

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Materials of the Kidd and Mayfield families, early residents of Ruston, Louisiana; contains muster-out roll of Co. F, First Regiment of Louisiana Infantry from Ruston, 1898, and related records, interviews with Gertrude Mayfield Brown related to Brown and to Louisiana Industrial Institute, items regarding Ruston College and Louisiana Industrial Institute.


Margaret Pesnell Colvin Collection, University Archives And Special Collections, Prescott Memorial Library, Louisiana Tech University Jan 2019

Margaret Pesnell Colvin Collection, University Archives And Special Collections, Prescott Memorial Library, Louisiana Tech University

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Painting by Camp Ruston P.O.W., photographs of prisoners' paintings and of rocking chair constructed by them, and service records of donor's father James F. Pesnell, a member of the American staff at the camp.


Marshall Harvey Twitchell Papers, University Archives And Special Collections, Prescott Memorial Library, Louisiana Tech University Jan 2019

Marshall Harvey Twitchell Papers, University Archives And Special Collections, Prescott Memorial Library, Louisiana Tech University

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Papers of a Vermonter who was a Freedman's Bureau agent in old Sparta, Louisiana, and was later the North Louisiana leader of the Radical Republicans and owner of a plantation in Red River Parish.


Mary Simms Hope Collection, University Archives And Special Collections, Prescott Memorial Library, Louisiana Tech University Jan 2019

Mary Simms Hope Collection, University Archives And Special Collections, Prescott Memorial Library, Louisiana Tech University

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Deed of the sale of slave, Henry, age 13, to Isaac L. Leonard, 1858.


Mary Snelling Duchaney Camp Ruston Collection, University Archives And Special Collections, Prescott Memorial Library, Louisiana Tech University Jan 2019

Mary Snelling Duchaney Camp Ruston Collection, University Archives And Special Collections, Prescott Memorial Library, Louisiana Tech University

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Materials from U.S. World War II prisoner of war camp, Camp Ruston, acquired by donor while working as a camp laboratory technician.


Mckinney Collection, University Archives And Special Collections, Prescott Memorial Library, Louisiana Tech University Jan 2019

Mckinney Collection, University Archives And Special Collections, Prescott Memorial Library, Louisiana Tech University

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"Battles and Leaders of the Civil War," vols. 2, 3-7, 10-12.


Mike Montgomery Collection, University Archives And Special Collections, Prescott Memorial Library, Louisiana Tech University Jan 2019

Mike Montgomery Collection, University Archives And Special Collections, Prescott Memorial Library, Louisiana Tech University

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Materials concerning the creation and history of Bossier Parish in northwest Louisiana, including a copy of the legislative act creating the parish and the reminiscences of long-time resident Elizabeth Matlock Wise, the donor's grandmother. Research material on Pierre Bossier.


National Society Of Colonial Dames Monroe Committee Textile Collection, University Archives And Special Collections, Prescott Memorial Library, Louisiana Tech University Jan 2019

National Society Of Colonial Dames Monroe Committee Textile Collection, University Archives And Special Collections, Prescott Memorial Library, Louisiana Tech University

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Collection transferred to Textile Museum.


Nicola Mattiace Camp Ruston Collection, University Archives And Special Collections, Prescott Memorial Library, Louisiana Tech University Jan 2019

Nicola Mattiace Camp Ruston Collection, University Archives And Special Collections, Prescott Memorial Library, Louisiana Tech University

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Material concerning Nicola Mattiace, Italian prisoner of war at Camp Ruston.


North Louisiana Historical Consortium Microfilm Collection, University Archives And Special Collections, Prescott Memorial Library, Louisiana Tech University Jan 2019

North Louisiana Historical Consortium Microfilm Collection, University Archives And Special Collections, Prescott Memorial Library, Louisiana Tech University

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Microfilm of original manuscripts, printed documents and photographs in collections of member organizations of the North Central Louisiana Historical Consortium.


Otto Fernholz Collection, University Archives And Special Collections, Prescott Memorial Library, Louisiana Tech University Jan 2019

Otto Fernholz Collection, University Archives And Special Collections, Prescott Memorial Library, Louisiana Tech University

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Contemporary identified pfotographs of Camp Ruston buildings, model castles, statues, and of the grave of a German soldier; maps of Camp Ruston annotated by donor, a German former prisoner at Camp Ruston; donor's list of former POWs in Louisiana.


"Our Living And Our Dead", University Archives And Special Collections, Prescott Memorial Library, Louisiana Tech University Jan 2019

"Our Living And Our Dead", University Archives And Special Collections, Prescott Memorial Library, Louisiana Tech University

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Publication of the North Carolina Branch, Southern Historical Society. Concerns post-bellum history.


Pete Sterling Collection, University Archives And Special Collections, Prescott Memorial Library, Louisiana Tech University Jan 2019

Pete Sterling Collection, University Archives And Special Collections, Prescott Memorial Library, Louisiana Tech University

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Contemporary photographs of ships, planes, and personnel of U.S.S. Task Force Guadalcanal, which captured the German U-505 submarine, whose officers and crew were housed secretly at Camp Ruston. Donor served on U.S.S. Guadalcanal


Plase E. Maxey Collection, University Archives And Special Collections, Prescott Memorial Library, Louisiana Tech University Jan 2019

Plase E. Maxey Collection, University Archives And Special Collections, Prescott Memorial Library, Louisiana Tech University

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U.S. Army uniform, sleeping bag, and service records of Winnfield, Louisiana native Sgt. Plase E. Maxey, who entered service at Camp Livingston, Louisiana; was separated at Camp Shelby, Mississippi; and served as an artillery gun crewman in the campaigns of Naples-Foggia, Rome-Arno, southern France, the Rhineland, and in central Europe.