French Colonial, Spanish Colonial, and Nineteenth-Century Louisiana Documents


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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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Abstract of documents in the Pointe Coupée Parish archives relating to the concession of Paris Duvernay de la Garde to the village of the Bayagoulas, in conjunction with the succession of Claude Trénonay
Abstract of documents in the Pointe Coupée Parish archives relating to the concession of Paris Duvernay de la Garde to the village of the Bayagoulas, in conjunction with the succession of Claude Trénonay
Abstract of documents to support claims
Abstract of documents to support claims
Acceptance of mortgage created by David B. Morgan and his wife, Saint Tammany Parish on 1838 July 25, by which [General] David Bannister Morgan and his wife Mary Constance Baham, both of the same parish, created a mortgage in favor of the Citizens' Bank t
Acceptance of mortgage created by David B. Morgan and his wife, Saint Tammany Parish on 1838 July 25, by which [General] David Bannister Morgan and his wife Mary Constance Baham, both of the same parish, created a mortgage in favor of the Citizens' Bank t
Account of pay and clothing of A[natole] L.H. Kernion, Company C., 22nd Louisiana Regiment, [Mobile, Louisiana]
Account of pay and clothing of A[natole] L.H. Kernion, Company C., 22nd Louisiana Regiment, [Mobile, Louisiana]
Account of the fire that devastated New Orleans
Account of the fire that devastated New Orleans
Account of the work of convicts employed by New Orleans in May 1825
Account of the work of convicts employed by New Orleans in May 1825
Act Incorporating the City of Carrolton
Act Incorporating the City of Carrolton
Act of Congress of the United States regarding land claim decisions in the Louisiana Territory
Act of Congress of the United States regarding land claim decisions in the Louisiana Territory
Act of Congress of the United States regarding land claims in the Louisiana Territory
Act of Congress of the United States regarding land claims in the Louisiana Territory
Act of donation of a slave by David Lejeune and his wife, New Feliciana, to Carlota Bauvais
Act of donation of a slave by David Lejeune and his wife, New Feliciana, to Carlota Bauvais
Act of emancipation by Francois Camus, New Orleans, of his female slave Souris
Act of emancipation by Francois Camus, New Orleans, of his female slave Souris
Act of mortgage granted by Bernard Marigny and his wife Anne Mathilde Morales to the Citizens' Bank of Louisiana
Act of mortgage granted by Bernard Marigny and his wife Anne Mathilde Morales to the Citizens' Bank of Louisiana
Act of mortgage granted by Bernard Marigny and his wife Anne Mathilde Morales to the Citizens' Bank of New Orleans
Act of mortgage granted by Bernard Marigny and his wife Anne Mathilde Morales to the Citizens' Bank of New Orleans
Act of mortgage granted by Elijah Thompson, Amite County, Mississippi, to the Mississippi Union Bank
Act of mortgage granted by Elijah Thompson, Amite County, Mississippi, to the Mississippi Union Bank
Act of mortgage granted by Elisée E. Mailhoit, Assumption Parish, in favor of Jean Baptiste Aucoin, Assumption Parish
Act of mortgage granted by Elisée E. Mailhoit, Assumption Parish, in favor of Jean Baptiste Aucoin, Assumption Parish
Act of mortgage granted by Hortense Lacoste, widow of Antonio Ducros, Orleans Parish, to the Citizens' Bank of Louisiana
Act of mortgage granted by Hortense Lacoste, widow of Antonio Ducros, Orleans Parish, to the Citizens' Bank of Louisiana
Act of mortgage granted by James Baily Sullivan, Rapides Parish, to the Bank of Louisiana
Act of mortgage granted by James Baily Sullivan, Rapides Parish, to the Bank of Louisiana
Act of mortgage, New Orleans
Act of mortgage, New Orleans
Act of retrocession, New Orleans
Act of retrocession, New Orleans
Act of sale at public auction of a property in Terrebonne Parish to Brigitte Bellanger, widow of H.S. Thibodaux
Act of sale at public auction of a property in Terrebonne Parish to Brigitte Bellanger, widow of H.S. Thibodaux
Act of sale of properties, Brest
Act of sale of properties, Brest
Act of sale of properties, Brest
Act of sale of properties, Brest
Act of Sale of property
Act of Sale of property
Act of Sale of property
Act of Sale of property

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