French Colonial, Spanish Colonial, and Nineteenth-Century Louisiana Documents
Description
Louisiana documents from 1655 to 1924 with a strong emphasis on the French colonial, Spanish colonial, and early national periods. Includes correspondence, land sales, slave sales, plantation journals, business licenses, property sales, professional and family papers, legal documents, land grants, tax receipts, theater programs, broadsides, engravings, and more. A noted Louisiana document collector, Felix Kuntz (1890-1971) donated his collection to Tulane University in four installments beginning in 1954 and requested that it be named after his parents. Today, the Rosemond E. and Emile Kuntz Collection (LaRC Manuscripts Collection 600) is a renowned resource for studying Louisiana with a special emphasis on New Orleans. Particularly noteworthy are records from the Company of the Indies, papers of Francisco Bouligny describing early French and Spanish authority over Louisiana, documents spanning Louisiana's entry into the United States through the Civil War and New Orleans? growth as a major commercial center, New Orleans municipal records (1805-1850s, including an 1805 census), and several small personal and family collections such as those of John McDonogh, the Pontalba family, and the Pierson family.
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Slave purchases
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Biographical Sketch and Snapshot of Former Slave Jim Smith
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Unsigned momoirs of Civil War veteran
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Official letter from Major W[illiam] H. Thomas, Assistant Commissary of Subsistence, no place, to "Whittaker," no place
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Envelope addressed to Captain A[natole] L. [H.] Kernion, Company A, 4th Regiment, 2nd Brigade, 1st Division Louisiana Militia, no place,
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Poem written by Lieutenant Charles E. McCarthy, entitled "Private in the Ranks"
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Power of attorney given by Madame André Billaud in France to an unnamed person
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Statement of accounts for the partition of the proceeds from the Ozenne estate among the heirs, [Saint Martin Parish]
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Bill submitted by [Jo?] Lacy, no place, to Mr. Claverie
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Resolution of the City Council [of New Orleans].
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Report of the night patrol, of New Orleans made by the Commissioner of Police.
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Bill issued by Captain Robert Davis to John McDonogh Jr. and Company, [New Orleans]
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Personal letter from Pedro de Limeres, no place, to Madame López
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"Plan for the defense of the Province of Louisiana," by [Colonel Francisco Bouligny]
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"Plan for the Population, Agriculture, Commerce, and Defense of the Province of Louisiana," [incomplete draft of outline and introduction by Colonel Francisco Bouligny]
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Plan for trade policies to encourage the growth of commerce in the Province of Louisiana, by [Colonel Francisco Bouligny]
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Petition submitted by Richard Tickell, [New Orleans?], to Governor Manuel Gayoso de Lemos of Louisiana
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Official letter from the Baron de Carondelet, [New Orleans?], to Colonel Francisco Bouligny, [New Orleans?]
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Report made by Auguste Lachaise and J. Landier, [Paris], to the Minister of the [French] Colonies, [Paris]
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Memoir of Captain La Gautrais, Vannes [France], concerning the advantages that the Republic [of France] would derive from recovering Louisiana
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Order of payment for Huchet of Kernion
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Index of documents submitted by Francisca [Petit de] Coulange, widow Villemont, New Orleans
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Petition submitted by Francisca Petit de Coulange, widow Villemont, New Orleans, to Governor Luis de Unzaga y Amézaga of Louisiana
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Oration of [Nicolas Chauvin de Lafrénière] before [Governor Alejandro O'Reilly], [at La Balize]; response of Governor O'Reilly
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