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Camp Ruston Correspondence, University Archives And Special Collections, Prescott Memorial Library, Louisiana Tech University Jan 2019

Camp Ruston Correspondence, University Archives And Special Collections, Prescott Memorial Library, Louisiana Tech University

Manuscript Finding Aids

Correspondence relating to Camp Ruston Documentation Project, a joint project of the Ruston Developmental Center and Louisiana Tech University to document the U.S. World War II prisoner of war camp located near Ruston, Louisiana.


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

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

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Collection of books from former prisoner of war camp, located in Ruston. Texts primarily in German. All stamped “Censored" PW Camp, Ruston, La. and initialed. Housed in the rare book collection of the Department of University Archives and Special Collections (formerly SCMA).


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

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

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Diploma from Louisiana Polytechnic Institute, 1922; autographed 1922 Lagniappe; clippings about the career of Montgomery as a teacher and coach in North Louisiana schools.


Christopher Sedden Family Letters, University Archives And Special Collections, Prescott Memorial Library, Louisiana Tech University Jan 2019

Christopher Sedden Family Letters, University Archives And Special Collections, Prescott Memorial Library, Louisiana Tech University

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Letters to Christopher Sedden and members of the Sedden family from other family members.


Confederate States Of America (Louisiana) Documents, University Archives And Special Collections, Prescott Memorial Library, Louisiana Tech University Jan 2019

Confederate States Of America (Louisiana) Documents, University Archives And Special Collections, Prescott Memorial Library, Louisiana Tech University

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Voucher for payment to Confederate soldiers, "Muster Roll" for Company C, 28th Louisiana Regiment


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

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Materials related to Camp Ruston.


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

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


Gertrude Mayfield Brown Interview, University Archives And Special Collections, Prescott Memorial Library, Louisiana Tech University Jan 2019

Gertrude Mayfield Brown Interview, University Archives And Special Collections, Prescott Memorial Library, Louisiana Tech University

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Transcripts of oral history interview with Tech's first woman graduate Gertrude Mayfield Brown, who graduated in 1898 with a major in Domestic Science.


H. Leslie Clendenen Papers, University Archives And Special Collections, Prescott Memorial Library, Louisiana Tech University Jan 2019

H. Leslie Clendenen Papers, University Archives And Special Collections, Prescott Memorial Library, Louisiana Tech University

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Papers from the files of Clendenen, professor of geography at Louisiana Tech University.


Hardtner Lumber Company Collection, University Archives And Special Collections, Prescott Memorial Library, Louisiana Tech University Jan 2019

Hardtner Lumber Company Collection, University Archives And Special Collections, Prescott Memorial Library, Louisiana Tech University

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Hardtner Lumber Company papers and records.


Henry Gerard Hall Papers, University Archives And Special Collections, Prescott Memorial Library, Louisiana Tech University Jan 2019

Henry Gerard Hall Papers, University Archives And Special Collections, Prescott Memorial Library, Louisiana Tech University

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Three-year diary of a Shreveport, Louisiana, attorney who was Parish Judge of Caddo Parish in 1873; entries cover both professional and personal affairs; includes letters of college life at Princeton University in 1850.


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

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


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

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


Ina Claire Madden Collection, University Archives And Special Collections, Prescott Memorial Library, Louisiana Tech University Jan 2019

Ina Claire Madden Collection, University Archives And Special Collections, Prescott Memorial Library, Louisiana Tech University

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Charters of the Methodist Episcopal Church South at Mt. Lebanon, Louisiana, and at Arcadia, Louisiana; charter of the Mt. Lebanon Female College; related records of the period.


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

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

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Louisiana Industrial Institute Diploma (1899) for Howard Benson Warren. (Donor’s uncle) Mr. Warren Later served in the State Senate (1930). Diploma of Heroise Warren (1919).


Dorothy Clinton Genealogical And Ruston Historical Collection, University Archives And Special Collections, Prescott Memorial Library, Louisiana Tech University Jan 2019

Dorothy Clinton Genealogical And Ruston Historical Collection, University Archives And Special Collections, Prescott Memorial Library, Louisiana Tech University

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Materials related to genealogy of Kidd-Mayfeild-Howard families and history of Ruston, Louisiana..


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.


Louisiana Tech University Garden Club, University Archives And Special Collections, Prescott Memorial Library, Louisiana Tech University Jan 2019

Louisiana Tech University Garden Club, University Archives And Special Collections, Prescott Memorial Library, Louisiana Tech University

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Minutes, roll book, and correspondence of the club.


M. E. Mcfadden, Sr. Collection, University Archives And Special Collections, Prescott Memorial Library, Louisiana Tech University Jan 2019

M. E. Mcfadden, Sr. Collection, University Archives And Special Collections, Prescott Memorial Library, Louisiana Tech University

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Ruston attorney Buddy Napper applied to the state legislature to establish the jurisdiction of the Louisiana Tech Campus Police department in the early 1950’s/ M.E. McFadden, Sr. was the first Chief of Security at Louisiana Tech University. He hired Prentiss Frasier and Clemon Speights. Mr. McFadden was working for the Louisiana State Police and kept his commission until the job here was well established. Collection contains photographs and memorabilia from McFadden’s time at Louisiana Tech.


Marjorie C. Leigh Papers, University Archives And Special Collections, Prescott Memorial Library, Louisiana Tech University Jan 2019

Marjorie C. Leigh Papers, University Archives And Special Collections, Prescott Memorial Library, Louisiana Tech University

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Articles written by Leigh, Louisiana Polytechnic Institute librarian, related to history of North Louisiana and published in local newspaper as "Out of Our Past."


Mary Moffett War Training Course Diploma, University Archives And Special Collections, Prescott Memorial Library, Louisiana Tech University Jan 2019

Mary Moffett War Training Course Diploma, University Archives And Special Collections, Prescott Memorial Library, Louisiana Tech University

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A War Training Course Diploma granted to Mary Moffett.


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

Merlin W. Merrill Collection, University Archives And Special Collections, Prescott Memorial Library, Louisiana Tech University

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After his death, E. S. Richardson’s daughter gave his mortarboard and commencement gown to Rev. Merrill, then pastor of the Trinity United Methodist Church in Ruston. Rev. Merrill wore the gown when he preached on Sundays until it became threadbare. He wore the mortarboard to receive his Ph.D. and in ceremonies at Centenary College, where he serves on the board of trustees.


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

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

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The collection contains a number of items written by Mrs. Orr. Included in the collection are a publication entitled, A Giant Step-Together and a newsletter article entitled, “Economics in the Kindergarten?”


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

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

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Church records kept by Benjamin Franklin Parnell, steward of Mount Lebanon Circuit of the Methodist Episcopal Church, South, and trustee for the Mount Lebanon Methodist Episcopal Church, Bienville Parish, Louisiana, and related papers; business records and correspondence of his son, Rinaldo Franklin Parnell.


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.


75th Anniversary Of D-Day, Boise Public Library Jan 2019

75th Anniversary Of D-Day, Boise Public Library

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Resources and Photographs of a display of government documents from Boise Public Library, Boise ID.


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.


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

Iva K. Bain Collection, University Archives And Special Collections, Prescott Memorial Library, Louisiana Tech University

Manuscript Finding Aids

Photographs and memorabilia in early Tech days sent to the university archives by the Alumni center.


Harrell R. Smith L.P.I. Commencement Invitation, University Archives And Special Collections, Prescott Memorial Library, Louisiana Tech University Jan 2019

Harrell R. Smith L.P.I. Commencement Invitation, University Archives And Special Collections, Prescott Memorial Library, Louisiana Tech University

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Commencement invitation, Louisiana Polytechnic Institute, including class roll.


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.