Georgia Bertha Drennan family papers
Scope and Contents
This collection consists of personal, professional, and family papers of Georgia Bertha Drennan. Included are handwritten and typed correspondence, post cards, greeting cards, biographical and genealogical information, research notes, numerous notes of explanation or transcriptions added by the collection's donor, family photographs and negatives, a telegram, drawings, diplomas, ribbons, essays, poems, World War II era pins and rationing tokens and stamps, a medal, certificates, invitations and other items of social ephemera, a scrapbook with personal mementos, school papers, newspaper clippings, published works, and other printed items. Correspondents are primarily family members in Mississippi and elsewhere in the United States, but also include the Louisiana State Museum and the Mississippi Department of Archives and History. Newspaper clippings include Ms. Drennan's published letters to the editor, as well as Carnival articles, images of buildings, and features on a variety of New Orleans historical topics. Individuals and families represented in the collection include Westfeldt, Wofford, Campbell, Davis, Agnew, Torrey, Brown, Watson, Devlin, and Wallace.
Dates
- 1823-1963.
Conditions Governing Access
Access is unrestricted.
Conditions Governing Use
Physical rights are retained by the Louisiana Research Collection. Copyright is retained in accordance with U.S. copyright laws.
Biographical / Historical
Georgia Bertha Drennan (1882-1967), usually known as Bertha Drennan, was born in Mississippi, but lived most of her life in New Orleans, La. Her parents were Judge William Augustus Drennan and Georgia Torrey Drennan. Bertha Drennan was educated at Newcomb College, and later worked in New Orleans as Project Supervisor on the Historic American Buildings Project of the Works Projects Administration. From a young age, she was actively interested in genealogy, doing research about her ancestors through correspondence. Remaining unmarried, she donated her papers to Tulane University to support historians' research.
Extent
1 Linear Feet (1.5 (2 boxes) (linear feet))
Language of Materials
English
French
Spanish; Castilian
Arrangement
Arranged by document type and chronologically.
Immediate Source of Acquisition
Acquired in 1966 from Georgia Bertha Drennan of New Orleans, La..
- Carnival -- Louisiana -- New Orleans Subject Source: Library Of Congress Subject Headings
- Drennan family.
- Drennan, Georgia Bertha, 1882-1967.
- Genealogists -- Louisiana Subject Source: Library Of Congress Subject Headings
- Louisiana -- Genealogy Subject Source: Library Of Congress Subject Headings
- Mississippi -- Genealogy Subject Source: Library Of Congress Subject Headings
- New Orleans (La) -- Buildings, structures, etc Subject Source: Library Of Congress Subject Headings
- New Orleans (La) -- History -- 20th century Subject Source: Library Of Congress Subject Headings
- New Orleans (La) -- Social life and customs -- 20th century Subject Source: Library Of Congress Subject Headings
- Southern States -- Genealogy Subject Source: Library of Congress Subject Headings
- Southern States -- Social life and customs -- 19th century Subject Source: Library Of Congress Subject Headings
- Southern States -- Social life and customs -- 20th century Subject Source: Library Of Congress Subject Headings
- World War, 1939-1945 -- United States Subject Source: Library Of Congress Subject Headings
- Title
- Georgia Bertha Drennan family papers finding aid
- Status
- Completed
- Author
- Written for WorldCat by Susanna Powers. Edited and entered into ArchivesSpace by Andrew Mullins, III.
- Date
- 2016 April 12
- Description rules
- Describing Archives: A Content Standard
- Language of description
- English
- Script of description
- Latin
Repository Details
Part of the Tulane University Special Collections Repository
