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The collection consists of the financial and business records of the Blattmann Sheet Metal Works. Material includes invoices, job cost records, job estimates, job quotes, blueprints, account books, personnel records, payroll records, advertising, correspondence, invoices, purchase orders, and price lists.

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One oversized folder containing Clermont Harbor brochure for Hopkins-Rhodes Co.

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The collection is made up of correspondence, receipt books, sales reports, a brief, an insurance policy, sales receipts, a photograph album, business records, lists of customers, an abstract, and an advertisement from different companies, families, and individuals involved in the cotton trade.

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The collection consists of six scrapbooks by writer Duncan Francis Young (b. 1862) that date between 1876 to 1940. Contents of the scrapbooks include manuscripts, correspondence, poems, photographs, articles, advertisements for his books, a biography, and clippings. There are two folders of separata that include published poems by Young.

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The Edgar A. Perilloux papers consists of many documents relating to the history of Carrollton including a manuscript of Carrolton's history, newspaper clippings, pamphlets, articles, notes, certificates, correspondence, and club records.The collection also contains financial papers (statements, checkbooks, and stubs) and photographs.

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Two volumes of late nineteenth century colored advertising cards. One album contains 68 pages of pasted-in advertisements and 23 cards. The other album consists of 15 pages of pasted-in cards and 19 cards. The cards advertise national products.

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This collection consists of correspondence, commissions, diaries, photographs, clippings, currency, stocks, legal documents, certificates, a wallet, biographical information, and other items relating to Confederate Brigadier General Meriwether Jeff Thompson, and other members of the Thompson family of Missouri and Louisiana. Included are handwritten secret codes used by the Confederate Army.

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A collection of printer's proofs of advertising handbills from various New Orleans merchants during the 1840s and 1850s. The advertising side includes the merchant's address. On the reverse of each advertisement is a print of an historical event or site. Some have two merchants listed.

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This collection includes programs, newsletters, concert schedules, broadsides, advertisements, correspondence, sheet music, performance descriptions, and other records of the New Orleans early-music ensemble that specializes in performing music of the Medieval and Early Baroque periods. The collection document's the group's founding in 1966, when it was originally called The Woodvine Recorder Consort.

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The collection consists of the business and financial records of the New Orleans Traffic and Transportation Bureau. Included are a history and list of functions of the Bureau, minutes, advertisements, reports, ledgers, journals, cash books, receipts, and trial balances. The Bureau was started in 1915 to promote the development of the Port of New Orleans by establishing competitive freight rate structures for water, rail, and truck transportation.

Scope and Contents The collection consists primarily of manuscripts for the books Old Louisiana Plantation Homes and Family Trees, and Azalea Villa by Herman de Bachellé Seebold (1875-1950). In addition, there are photographs and negatives of Louisiana plantation homes and personal photographs of the Seebold family. There is also business and personal correspondence, as well as journals, legal documents, a scrapbook of business receipts, a homework notebook from 1851, clippings, publication advertisements,...

Scope and Contents The Simplex Manufacturing Corporation collection includes original drafts and designs of motorcycle parts, records of orders, advertisements from magazines and newspapers, a history of the Servi-Cycle by Gary L. Wollard, and original company promotional material. The corporation began production of the Simplex Servi-Cycle in 1935 and ceased production in 1960. The motorcycles were sold both in the United States and abroad. The company was the only one to produce motorcycles in Louisiana and...

Scope and Contents This collection is comprised of letters written to William Newton Mercer and assorted ephemera from 1829-1841, with one anonymous poem from 1854. Three aspects of Dr. Mercer's life are consistently mentioned throughout the collection: his business, his family and friends, and his politics. Business transactions and invoices compose the largest part of Mercer's papers. As the head of a plantation he  was  in business with N. & J. Dick and Co. for years, a company whose letters deal with...