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2019

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Charles Jimerson John F. Kennedy Collection, University Archives And Special Collections, Prescott Memorial Library, Louisiana Tech University Jan 2019

Charles Jimerson John F. Kennedy Collection, University Archives And Special Collections, Prescott Memorial Library, Louisiana Tech University

Manuscript Finding Aids

Newspaper clippings and magazines concerning the assassination of President John F. Kennedy.


W.T. Block Collection, University Archives And Special Collections, Prescott Memorial Library, Louisiana Tech University Jan 2019

W.T. Block Collection, University Archives And Special Collections, Prescott Memorial Library, Louisiana Tech University

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“The Diary of 1st Sergeant H. N. Connor” edited and annotated by W.T. Block. 1861-1863. 36 pgs.


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

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

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Books from the library of U.S. World War II prisoner of war camp Camp Ruston, including one book annotated by prisoner.


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

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

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Audiotape of nine speeches by Harry S Truman and 2 speeches on the death of Truman.


Eliza Roberts Cowper Papers, University Archives And Special Collections, Prescott Memorial Library, Louisiana Tech University Jan 2019

Eliza Roberts Cowper Papers, University Archives And Special Collections, Prescott Memorial Library, Louisiana Tech University

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Materials on Cowper's relative, William Paul Roberts of North Carolina, Confederate general; materials of North Carolina United Daughters of the Confederacy; programs of meetings, theme papers regarding the "Lost Cause."


Emmanuel J. Drechsel - "An Ethnohistory Of Nineteenth-Century Louisiana Indians.", University Archives And Special Collections, Prescott Memorial Library, Louisiana Tech University Jan 2019

Emmanuel J. Drechsel - "An Ethnohistory Of Nineteenth-Century Louisiana Indians.", University Archives And Special Collections, Prescott Memorial Library, Louisiana Tech University

Manuscript Finding Aids

Report prepared for the National Park Service, includes bibliography.


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

Enzio Siena Camp Ruston Collection, University Archives And Special Collections, Prescott Memorial Library, Louisiana Tech University

Manuscript Finding Aids

Materials concerning Enzo Siena, Italian prisoner of war at Camp Ruston.


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

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

Manuscript Finding Aids

Reminiscence of Women’s Army Corps training center at Camp Ruston by WAC stationed there.


Eulis L. "Joe" Carroll Camp Ruston Collection, University Archives And Special Collections, Prescott Memorial Library, Louisiana Tech University Jan 2019

Eulis L. "Joe" Carroll Camp Ruston Collection, University Archives And Special Collections, Prescott Memorial Library, Louisiana Tech University

Manuscript Finding Aids

Material concerning donor who was a guard in hospital stationed at Camp Ruston (1943-46).


Eugenia Kennimer Welch Collection, University Archives And Special Collections, Prescott Memorial Library, Louisiana Tech University Jan 2019

Eugenia Kennimer Welch Collection, University Archives And Special Collections, Prescott Memorial Library, Louisiana Tech University

Manuscript Finding Aids

Materials concerning U.S. World War II prisoner of war camp Camp Ruston.


Felix Pierre Poche Papers, University Archives And Special Collections, Prescott Memorial Library, Louisiana Tech University Jan 2019

Felix Pierre Poche Papers, University Archives And Special Collections, Prescott Memorial Library, Louisiana Tech University

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Diary of a young Confederate Army officer kept 1863-1865, including eyewitness account of two 1864 battles in North Louisiana; after the War, Poche an attorney from St. James Parish, Louisiana, was elected a state senator and later an associate judge of the Louisiana Supreme Court.


Frances Elizabeth Tooke Walker Family Papers, University Archives And Special Collections, Prescott Memorial Library, Louisiana Tech University Jan 2019

Frances Elizabeth Tooke Walker Family Papers, University Archives And Special Collections, Prescott Memorial Library, Louisiana Tech University

Manuscript Finding Aids

Reminiscences and family biographies by Walker covering the antebellum, Civil War, and post-war years in Bienville Parish, Louisiana; includes James Jefferson Tooke family correspondence,


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

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

Manuscript Finding Aids

Materials concerning Franco Montecchi, Italian prisoner of war at Camp Ruston.


G. W. Mcginty - Francis T Nicholls Papers, University Archives And Special Collections, Prescott Memorial Library, Louisiana Tech University Jan 2019

G. W. Mcginty - Francis T Nicholls Papers, University Archives And Special Collections, Prescott Memorial Library, Louisiana Tech University

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Notes on Nicholls by G.W. McGinty; several notes refer to correspondence by Nicholls; collection contains only the notes and quoted passages compiled by McGinty.


Garmie W. Mcginty Papers, University Archives And Special Collections, Prescott Memorial Library, Louisiana Tech University Jan 2019

Garmie W. Mcginty Papers, University Archives And Special Collections, Prescott Memorial Library, Louisiana Tech University

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Materials of Dr. McGinty, history professor and Head of the Social Sciences Department, Louisiana Polytechnic Institute, 1928-1965.


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

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

Manuscript Finding Aids

Materials related to Camp Ruston.


Glen T. Bays Collection, University Archives And Special Collections, Prescott Memorial Library, Louisiana Tech University Jan 2019

Glen T. Bays Collection, University Archives And Special Collections, Prescott Memorial Library, Louisiana Tech University

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Collection contains September, 1935 issue of The American Progress newspaper. A Memorial Edition containing the last speech that Senator Huey P. Long made on the floor of the United States Senate and his assassination.


Glynn R. Kinnimer Collection, University Archives And Special Collections, Prescott Memorial Library, Louisiana Tech University Jan 2019

Glynn R. Kinnimer Collection, University Archives And Special Collections, Prescott Memorial Library, Louisiana Tech University

Manuscript Finding Aids

Photograph of donor as a teenager sitting on ruins of model castle constructed by Camp Ruston prisoners of war.


Gladys Brand Stinson Collection, University Archives And Special Collections, Prescott Memorial Library, Louisiana Tech University Jan 2019

Gladys Brand Stinson Collection, University Archives And Special Collections, Prescott Memorial Library, Louisiana Tech University

Manuscript Finding Aids

Materials donated by former U.S. Army nurse who worked at Camp Ruston P.O.W. camp.


Graham Family Artifacts, University Archives And Special Collections, Prescott Memorial Library, Louisiana Tech University Jan 2019

Graham Family Artifacts, University Archives And Special Collections, Prescott Memorial Library, Louisiana Tech University

Manuscript Finding Aids

Artifacts from a prominent North Louisiana family.


Hank Fraser Interview, University Archives And Special Collections, Prescott Memorial Library, Louisiana Tech University Jan 2019

Hank Fraser Interview, University Archives And Special Collections, Prescott Memorial Library, Louisiana Tech University

Manuscript Finding Aids

Interview of Hank Frasier.


Harley B. Bozeman Papers, University Archives And Special Collections, Prescott Memorial Library, Louisiana Tech University Jan 2019

Harley B. Bozeman Papers, University Archives And Special Collections, Prescott Memorial Library, Louisiana Tech University

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Papers of longtime resident of Winn Parish, Louisiana, state politician and friend of Huey P. Long and family; in later years became known as the historian and genealogist of Winn Parish.


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

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

Manuscript Finding Aids

Items of Heinz Heinnrich, former German P.O.W. at Camp Ruston.


Helen K. Evans Collection, University Archives And Special Collections, Prescott Memorial Library, Louisiana Tech University Jan 2019

Helen K. Evans Collection, University Archives And Special Collections, Prescott Memorial Library, Louisiana Tech University

Manuscript Finding Aids

Material from U.S. World War II prisoner of war camp Camp Ruston acquired by camp cook Walt Hintz.


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

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

Manuscript Finding Aids

Nathaniel Hoss was an early settler, planter, and commission merchant in Caddo Parish, Louisiana; his son, James M. Hoss, was one of the founders and benefactors of the town of Hosston, Louisiana; includes deeds, business records, and related correspondence of three generations of the Hoss family.


Israel Shreve Letters, University Archives And Special Collections, Prescott Memorial Library, Louisiana Tech University Jan 2019

Israel Shreve Letters, University Archives And Special Collections, Prescott Memorial Library, Louisiana Tech University

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Correspondence of Colonel Israel Shreve, who served with Washington during the Revolutionary War; provides information on battles, conditions, etc., during the Revolution, including Ticonderoga, Valley Forge, Brandywine.


James L. Hogan Collection, University Archives And Special Collections, Prescott Memorial Library, Louisiana Tech University Jan 2019

James L. Hogan Collection, University Archives And Special Collections, Prescott Memorial Library, Louisiana Tech University

Manuscript Finding Aids

Afrika Korps pattern eagle and swastika. This artifact was given to American civilian camp employee, James L. Hogan by German POW Robert Kopriwa. Also, includes a book entitled The Brothers Karamazov written by Fyodor Dostoyevsky and published by Random House in 1943.


"The Civil War In Tensas Parish, Louisiana: A Community History", University Archives And Special Collections, Prescott Memorial Library, Louisiana Tech University Jan 2019

"The Civil War In Tensas Parish, Louisiana: A Community History", University Archives And Special Collections, Prescott Memorial Library, Louisiana Tech University

Manuscript Finding Aids

Master's thesis concerning the Civil War in Tensas Parish, Louisiana, written by Jeffrey Alan Owens.


John B. Wise Letters, University Archives And Special Collections, Prescott Memorial Library, Louisiana Tech University Jan 2019

John B. Wise Letters, University Archives And Special Collections, Prescott Memorial Library, Louisiana Tech University

Manuscript Finding Aids

Letters of a young Confederate soldier in Virginia to his mother and brother in or near Greenwood, Louisiana.


John Bell Hood Photographs, University Archives And Special Collections, Prescott Memorial Library, Louisiana Tech University Jan 2019

John Bell Hood Photographs, University Archives And Special Collections, Prescott Memorial Library, Louisiana Tech University

Manuscript Finding Aids

Photographs of Hood and family.