New Orleans (La) -- Social life and customs -- 20th century

Scope and Contents

This collection consists of handwritten correspondence, birthday greetings, a business card, a calling card, advertisements, a marriage announcement, an invitation, Samuel Sansum's 1918 certificate of naturalization, and Cornelia Sansum's small prebound datebook into which she wrote birth, death, and marriage dates of her relatives. Names represented include members of the Sansum, Genella, and Kennedy families of Louisiana and Mississippi.

Scope and Contents This collection consists of personal and professional papers of Ethel W. Perkins of New Orleans, La. Included are several scrapbooks covering Miss Perkins's connection to Newcomb College, Tulane University, and Sophie B. Wright High School. Mounted in these are photographs, correspondence, certificates, programs, poems, handwritten music, greeting cards, school papers, coasters, invitations and other items of social ephemera, newspaper clippings, and other printed items. One of her...