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Virgil Orr Handwriting Analysis Collection, University Archives And Special Collections, Prescott Memorial Library, Louisiana Tech University

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Items relating to the analysis of handwriting.

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

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Memorabilia from the donor's student days at Louisiana Polytechnic Institute, [1940], and from his service in the U.S. Army during World War II, 1944-1945.

Donated in honor of the centennial of Louisiana Tech University, 1894-1994

Presbyterian Church, Vernon, Louisiana Records, 1891- 1899, University Archives And Special Collections, Prescott Memorial Library, Louisiana Tech University

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Session minutes

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

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Papers of prominent attorney, U.S. Congressman, district judge of Caddo Parish, Louisiana, and a pioneer resident of Shreveport; include mainly correspondence of Roland Jones (1813-1869) and his wife, Anne Neville Stokes, and that of their descendants in Louisiana. Letters cover political, professional, social and family matters.

Ruston Civic Symphony Financial Records, University Archives And Special Collections, Prescott Memorial Library, Louisiana Tech University

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Records of the Ruston (Louisiana) Civic Symphony, including the bulk of financial records

Ruston College Records, University Archives And Special Collections, Prescott Memorial Library, Louisiana Tech University

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Records of Ruston College

Ruston State Bank 105th Anniversary Exhibit And Records, University Archives And Special Collections, Prescott Memorial Library, Louisiana Tech University

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Materials concerning exhibit celebrating the 105th anniversary of Ruston State Bank

Suzanne Norred Philley Collection, University Archives And Special Collections, Prescott Memorial Library, Louisiana Tech University

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Collection includes a sweatshirt with Louisiana Polytechnic Institute and a silver mug with Louisiana Polytechnic Institute.

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

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Belongings of the late professor T.W. Ray Johnson donated by his sister, Miss Ruth Johnson. These items can be found at the Alumni Center.

Thomas M. Wade Papers, University Archives And Special Collections, Prescott Memorial Library, Louisiana Tech University

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Materials related to the history of Tensas Parish, Louisiana; notes of "The Bowies and Their Kindred" (1899), sketches of Bowie family members (including Jim Bowie)

Thomas W. Jenkins Collection, University Archives And Special Collections, Prescott Memorial Library, Louisiana Tech University

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Tech commemorative programs discovered by donor, a maintenance technician, in attic of Howard Auditorium.

Donated in honor of the centennial of Louisiana Tech University, 1894-1994

Zeta Tau Alpha Letter, University Archives And Special Collections, Prescott Memorial Library, Louisiana Tech University

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Letter establishing the first national sorority at Louisiana Industrial Institute.

William C. Boone Letters, University Archives And Special Collections, Prescott Memorial Library, Louisiana Tech University

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Letters written from Baton Rouge, Louisiana, by the Claiborne Parish state senator and attorney to his wife during the first two years of the Huey P. Long administration; correspondence deals with political matters including the impeachment proceedings against Governor Long

William A. Marbury, Jr., History Of The Ruston State Bank, University Archives And Special Collections, Prescott Memorial Library, Louisiana Tech University

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"Many Happy Returns: A Salute to Ruston State Bank" written by Nancy A. Bergeron for the 100th year anniversary

Riley Joe Wilson Collection, University Archives And Special Collections, Prescott Memorial Library, Louisiana Tech University

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"Crimefighters: Centennial History of the Ruston Police Department"

Samuel Worth Jones Family Papers, University Archives And Special Collections, Prescott Memorial Library, Louisiana Tech University

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The journal of a prosperous farmer in Webster Parish, Louisiana, kept 1870-1925; and the personal, legal, and business records and correspondence of Jones, his father John Jones III, his son Floyd and other members of the family

Zion Hill Baptist Church Committee Collection, University Archives And Special Collections, Prescott Memorial Library, Louisiana Tech University

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Materials relatiing to Zion Hill Baptist Church of Union Parish, Louisiana

T.L. James Company, University Archives And Special Collections, Prescott Memorial Library, Louisiana Tech University

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Video recording on James Company history and current operations and organization, c.1990

Truett Lynn West Centennial Brick, University Archives And Special Collections, Prescott Memorial Library, Louisiana Tech University

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Tech Alumnus commemorative brick

Virgil Orr Recorded Sound Collection, University Archives And Special Collections, Prescott Memorial Library, Louisiana Tech University

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Sound recordings, including Louisiana Tech University Band concert and original stage production of "All the Trees of Paradise."

W. Walter Wicker Collection, University Archives And Special Collections, Prescott Memorial Library, Louisiana Tech University

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Tech note pad featuring drawings of campus buildings.

Donated in honor of the centennial of Louisiana Tech University, 1894-1994

Wesley Chapel United Methodist Church Collection, University Archives And Special Collections, Prescott Memorial Library, Louisiana Tech University

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"History of Wesley Chapel ... and Cemetery," by Murray P. Rasbury and various records of the church.

Pleasant Grove Baptist Church Records, 1881-1969, University Archives And Special Collections, Prescott Memorial Library, Louisiana Tech University

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Church records

Rosa Colvin Barksdale Collection, University Archives And Special Collections, Prescott Memorial Library, Louisiana Tech University

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Sketch based on records kept by Ainsley H. Colvin, the reminiscences of S.P. Colvin, C.C. Colvin, G.A. Colvin, and genealogical research conducted by Rosa Colvin Barksdale.

S.H. Bolinger Company Collection, University Archives And Special Collections, Prescott Memorial Library, Louisiana Tech University

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Drawings of plats of timber land belonging to the S.H. Bolinger Company, Shreveport, Louisiana

Ruth Reed Calhoun Collection, University Archives And Special Collections, Prescott Memorial Library, Louisiana Tech University

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Historical memorabilia from the donor's student days at Louisiana Polytechnic Institute

Spring Hill Missionary Baptist Church, Oakland, La., University Archives And Special Collections, Prescott Memorial Library, Louisiana Tech University

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Articles of faith, church covenant, church roll, and minutes of church conferences of an early Union Parish church. [See M 20 for another copy of Book I

Sunrise Kiwanis Club Of Ruston Collection, University Archives And Special Collections, Prescott Memorial Library, Louisiana Tech University

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Ruston Sunrise Kiwanis organization records documenting activities from its beginning in 1974.

Thomas Claude Beard 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. Donor was a member of the U.S. staff at the camp

CAMP RUSTON DOCUMENTATION PROJECT

The College Game - Tech Vs. Nsu, University Archives And Special Collections, Prescott Memorial Library, Louisiana Tech University

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Four-color magazine sold at Independence Stadium, Shreveport, Louisiana for the Louisiana Tech University vs. Northwestern State University annual State Fair Game. This magazine showcases Louisiana Tech while including articles about college football in general. There are individual and group black-and-white photographs of members of the football team, cheerleaders, dance squad, coaching staff, support staff and applicable faculty.

Donated by Cliff Theriot, LAMA.