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.Sort
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- Oration on the Occasion of the Unveiling of Shiloh Equestrian Monument Erected by the Veterans of the Army of Tennesse, Metairie Cemetery.
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- Biennial Report of the Secretary of State of the State of Louisiana for the Two Years Ending Mayy 1, 1882 to His Excellency Sam'l D. Mcenery, Governor of Louisiana
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- Pinckney Benton Stewart Pinchback to T.J. Galbreth concerning conditions in East Carroll Parish, Louisiana
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- Personal letter from Eugène-François Buquin, Grenoble, to "Monsieur" [name not given], [New Orleans?], 1878 August 17.
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- Bill issued by the New Orleans, Mobile and Chattanooga Railroad Company, New Orleans, to Golsan and Brothers, New Orleans, 1877 September 7.
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- Inaugral Message of His Excellency Governor S.B. Packard, to the General Assembly of the State of Louisiana
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- Personal letter from E[thelbert] Barksdale, Jackson, Mississippi, to Jefferson Davis, no place, 1874 January 7.