Administrative records

Scope and Contents The collection consists of the papers of Allison Owen, New Orleans architect, as well as material related to the Washington Artillery. Owen commanded the Washington Artillery on the Mexican border in 1916 and the 141st Field Artillery in France, 1918-1919. Owen's papers include correspondence, architectural material with plans and photographs of buildings he designed, a biography, and Owen family genealogical material. Washington Artillery material includes minutes, membership lists, muster...

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The collection consists of the administrative records and correspondence of the Art Association of New Orleans. There are exhibition records, correspondence, member lists, newspaper clippings, and exhibition catalogs. Correspondents include Ethel Hutson, Ellsworth Woodward, the American Federation of the Arts, and the National Academy of Design.

Scope and Contents The Boston Club was founded 1841, and was named not for the city of Boston, but for a card game.  Its members were leading business gentlemen of New Orleans.  Its first quarters were on Royal Street, and moved several times to different locations in downtown New Orleans. The collection consists of handwritten and typed correspondence, financial records, minutes, charters, bylaws, histories, annual reports, photographs, invitations with stamped and postmarked envelopes, printed programs for...

Scope and Contents 1912.  A report compliled by consulting engineer D. Sterrett Pindell about the production potential for lands in highland Guatemala. The Caravonica Cotton Plantation Company, incorporated in New Jersey in 1912, secured lease from R.J. Echeverría to 10,000 acres in Escuintla on the Coyolate River to cultivate Caravonica cotton and extract hardwoods. The data contained in the engineer's report was to inform potential investors about the climate, soil fertility, plant yield, production and...

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This artificial collection brings together official papers of the New Orleans Brandeis Women's Committee as well as the New Orleans Chapter of Hadassah. Materials include by-laws, constitutions, membership lists, correspondence, financial reports, minutes, study group notes, newspaper clippings, photographs, bulletins, a scrapbook, as well as items for fundraising activities. There are also some materials relating to the Jewish Federation of New Orleans.

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The collection consists of the financial, academic, and administrative records of the Communal Hebrew School in New Orleans. Included are the charter, board of director's minutes, committee files, correspondence, directories, memorials, student academic files, class schedules, budgets, scholastic supply orders, faculty applications, maintenance records, membership rolls, nursery registration forms, payroll, receipt books, ledgers and financial journals.

Scope and Contents 1816-1938.  A collection of 47 documents relating to the city government or church-directed functions in Danli, Honduras. The documents in this collection are concerned with details of the functions of the city government of Danlí as seen first in the "Libro de Actas" from 1820-1839. Continuing documents trace various legal workings of the city relating to the Juzgado de Paz, with bound records of civil and criminal cases and condemnations of unattended livestock. Other documents...

Scope and Contents 1533-1836. The Mahan collection consists of autograph documents signed by Spanish kings, South American colonial officials, and South American military leaders of both the loyalist and revolutionary camps. They originated in Spain, Bolivia, Chile, Ecuador, and Peru, but are principally from Peru. Although there is a great similarity in the types of documents - dispatches, orders, requests, reports - the documents themselves are basically unrelated. Certain names appear again and again,...

Scope and Contents The collection consists of the organizational records of the Independent Women's Organization, which was founded during the late 1930s and early 1940s, and consisted of Louisiana women anxious to eliminate government corruption. In particular, they initially organized to support the anti-Huey P. Long gubernatorial candidate, Sam Houston Jones, moving on to advocate issues such as public integration and governmental reform. The collection contains bylaws, membership lists, attendance records,...

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The collection includes the club's constitution and bylaws, minutes, brochures, stationery, membership rosters, financial records, property inventory, photographs, correspondence, and memorabilia of activities. The club assists various Carnival krewes with staffing, presenting, and providing security for events. It also raises funds for its annual "Anniversary Run" and for other club, social, civic, and charitable activities.

Scope and Contents 1572-1775.  A collection of three unrelated manuscripts. Two originate from Mexico City and the third from Spain.  Manuscript 1 dates to 1572 through 1574 and records details of the trial of Miguel Morgan by the Mexican Inquisition (signed documents, 137 leaves); Manuscript 2 dates to 1678, originating from Madrid, Spain and concerns an order by the King of Spain to the Viceroy of New Spain, to report on a route to Quivira and the threat of the English and French (2 leaves); and Manuscript...

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This collection contains documentation about the activities and instruction provided by the New Orleans Center for Creative Arts (NOCCA). Materials include internal documents, studies and specifications, graduating class studies, clippings, and press releases. Two support groups of the organization, Friends of NOCCA and NOCCA Parents Club, are also represented in the collection. A 1986 issue of the Center's Writing Programs Journal, Umbra, is also included.

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The collection consists of financial records, board minutes, ledgers, membership lists, stock certificates, check stubs, correspondence, telegraphic cipher books, market reports for New Orleans and New York, visitor registers, and employee records.

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This collection consists of administrative records, correspondence, donor lists, minutes, and publications created during the operation of New Orleans Round Table of the National Conference of Christians and Jews. The goals of the organization were to teach the community the brotherhood of man and to share the experiences of World War II.

Scope and Contents The collection consists of administrative files, surveys, photographs and negatives, clippings, pamphlets, meeting materials, budgets, financial records, ledgers, committee reports, case records, group records, theses, scrapbooks, and receipt books. These materials document the expansion of the Junior League of New Orleans' philanthropic children's program to the point that the organization could no longer support it, causing it to be turned over to the State of Louisiana as the Orleans...

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Roll of delegates elected to the Democratic State Convention to be convened at the City of Baton Rouge.

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This collection consists of the business records of the Orleans Parish Medical Society from its origin until the 1996. Included are proceedings, registers of members, account books, correspondence, constitution and by-laws, hospital reports, manuals, certificates, medical cartoons, photographs, and printed materials, which include members' scholarly publications.

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1820-1833.  A collection of photocopies of manuscripts found in the Archivo General de Centroamerica in Guatemala City.  The copied documents concern political activity in Guatemala at the time of Independence from Spain and the years immediately following.  The collection is comprised of records of city government, records of parish elections, correspondence, and materials related to Mexico.

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The collection contains the Sacred Heart Alumni Association's constitution and by-laws, list of board members, history, reports, minutes, records, photographs, programs, and scrapbooks. In addition, there are yearbooks, newsletters, as well as bound copies of the school's newspaper and speeches.

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Record book of sales at Saline, Bunk Place and Atlanta, small towns in northern Louisiana.

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Typescripts of records deposited in the Louisiana Land Office, Baton Rouge, LA. Volumes contain land claims, land grants, correspondence, sketch maps and other records dating mainly from 1760 to the 1870's pertaining to the West Florida parishes of Louisiana. Prepared by the WPA Survey of Federal Archives.

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Daily record and order book of the 2nd Regiment, South Carolina Line of the U.S. Continental Army by Lt. Warley. Attached is a calling card of Miss Mary Warley, the writer's sister.

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A record of the vessels in the port of New Orleans from September 1890 to June 1894. It includes the type of vessel, tonnage, name, time of arrival and departure, procedence and destination and cargo.