HAWKINS (J.E.) PAPERS
Mss. 982
Inventory
Louisiana and Lower Mississippi Valley Collections
Special Collections, Hill Memorial Library
Louisiana State University Libraries
Baton Rouge, Louisiana State University
Reformatted 2003
Revised 2012
CONTENTS OF INVENTORY
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SUMMARY
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11 linear feet (4,464 items, 135 manuscript volumes) |
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Geographic locations. |
Evangeline, St. Landry, Orleans, Calcasieu, Avoyelles parishes, Louisiana; Arkansas; Kentucky |
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Inclusive dates. |
1857-1929 |
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1880-1900 |
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English |
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Summary. |
Business and personal papers of Josiah Edwin Hawkins, physician, surgeon, and farm owner of Bayou Chicot, Evangeline Parish, Louisiana. |
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Restrictions on access. |
If microfilm is available, photocopies must be made from microfilm. |
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Related collections. |
None. |
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Copyright. |
Copyright of the original materials is retained by descendants of the creators in accordance with U.S. copyright law. |
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Citation. |
J. E. Hawkins Papers, Mss. 982, Louisiana and Lower Mississippi Valley Collections, LSU Libraries, Baton Rouge, La. |
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UU:309-315, J:8-9, OS:H |
BIOGRAPHICAL/HISTORICAL NOTE
Josiah Edwin Hawkins was a physician, surgeon, and farm owner in Bayou Chicot, Evangeline Parish, Louisiana. Hawkins was originally from Talbot County, Georgia, received his medical education at Jefferson Medical College in Philadelphia, Pennsylvania, and first practiced medicine in Columbia City, Arkansas in the 1850s. In the late 1860s or early 1870s, he moved to Evangeline Parish and there he practiced medicine, opened a hospital, and operated a farm.
SCOPE AND CONTENT NOTE
Professional, business, and personal papers document Hawkins' medical practice in Columbia City, Arkansas, and Evangeline Parish, Louisiana. Financial documents include papers pertaining to the purchase and sale of land, livestock, agricultural and building supplies, tax payments, and contracts with tenants, sharecroppers, and laborers (1890-1900). Subjects mentioned in correspondence include the medical education of his young assistants, Louisiana state and local politics, the migration of African Americans from Louisiana to Kansas, and public road construction.
Printed materials include copies of newspapers and periodicals, chiefly from New Orleans and St. Landry Parish (1882-1929); and catalogs and pamphlets relating to education, medicine, and pharmaceutical supplies (1878-1912). Plats and surveys show property bought and sold in Louisiana; maps include a geographical map of Central and South America (undated), a map of Louisiana by the Bureau of Immigration (undated), and a map of Turkey (1877).
Manuscript volumes include 33 medical day books recording patients' names, visits, fees, diagnoses, and treatments (1860-1898); 14 ledgers of medical accounts (1860-1892); 34 memorandum books pertaining to medical practice and farming expenses (1871-1905); 4 plantation diaries (1881-1901); 15 plantation record and day books (1872-1912); 16 time books related to plantation workers (1874-1900); 4 indexes to the books and ledgers; and 15 miscellaneous books including contracts with labor and tenants (1896), financial records and receipts, and a justice of the peace docket and record book.
COLLECTION DESCRIPTION
Early items in the collection include a letter from James G. Taliaferro to William Hawkins pertaining to the settlement of a land claim (1859), a letter from Professor L.A. Dugas, Medical College of Georgia, to J.E. Hawkins inviting Southern students, “subject to the taunts of vile abolitionists in Northern cities,” to return South and attend the college (1859), and a number of receipts for taxes (1868-1870) and bills for merchandise, furnishings, and credit for cotton (1868-1881). A letter from Jeffie J. Hawkins to his family relates the hardships encountered on his journey from Arkansas to Bayou Chicot and describes the country and people of the area (1872). Also included are contracts with sharecroppers and laborers (1874-1876), a letter pertaining to the estate of William Hawkins (1878), letters from patients concerning their ailments (1877-1882), and letters from the Superintendent of the Insane Asylum of Louisiana concerning admission of an applicant to the crowded hospital (1880). Two letters from Simmesport, La., mention “Kansas fever” and the migration of local African Americans to that state (1879).
J.H. Parker, a student attending the Kentucky School of medicine, writes to Drs. W.E. Hawkins and J.E. Hawkins describing faculty, classes, incidents at school, and the Board of Health in Louisville (1883). A letter from J.E. Clark, Lavaca County, Tex., describes his income and medical practices (1883), and a letter from W.E. Hawkins discusses tests for eyeglasses (1883). Other letters come from various merchants (1883), as well as medical students, patients, and other doctors discussing cases (1883-1896). A broadsheet from the office of the Board of Health, State of Louisiana, pertains to patients with diphtheria, scarlet fever, and smallpox (1884). Letters from J.W. Crawford, Cheneyville, La., mentions a group of African Americans operating near Evergreen stealing cattle (1884). A letter from Dr. Charles Miles mentions a serious type of fever in St. Landry Parish (1886), Dr. S.B. Singleton, Welsh City in Calcasieu Parish, writes describing the city and his practice (1888), and a letter from Henry Garland discusses the political situation in the state (1887). Also included are contracts with tenants and sharecroppers (1888-1899), bills of lading (1895-1896), letters from patients stating their inability to pay bills (1888), assessment lists of Hawkins’ taxable property, St. Landry Parish (1889), letters from C.J. Thompson relating to the economic possibilities of St. Landry Parish (1892), and a letter from L.N. Brunswig in New Orleans mentioning a political disturbance in St. Landry Parish (1896).
Later items include a homestead application of Caroline Pleasants with endorsement of all rights to Hawkins (1898-1899), receipts for costs incurred in the suit of Robert Taylor v. Patsy Slack (1900-1902), contracts with tenants and sharecroppers (1900-1905), letters discussing land for sale (1903-1905), and memoranda of agreement pertaining to Hawkins rental of land on Bayou Cocodrie for banking timber to H.F. Cady Lumber Company (1903-1905). Other letters concern the purchase, sale, and litigation related to timber and timber lands in St. Landry Parish (1906-1907). Also included is a certificate of the appointment of Dr. Hawkins as Special Deputy United States Marshall (1906-1907), receipts for payment of medical bills (1909-1912), contracts with a household servant (1909-1912), and letters concerning swamp land (1908) and land for sale near Lake Charles (1909-1912).
Undated items include descriptions of land near Bayou Chicot and in St. Landry Parish, mortgage deeds, a veterinary circular, letters relating to Hawkins’ delinquent taxes, patient letters, and handbills for drugs and medical supplies.
Other items include sheet music of L’Angelus. By C. Gounad, Boston: Oliver Ditson and Co. (undated), a photograph of the Mandell Company Wholesale Dry Goods (undated), and a number of business and calling cards (undated). Also found in the collection are a number of maps, plats, and land surveys. See container list for details.
Printed items
Printed items include scattered issues of newspapers and newspaper clippings, mostly from New Orleans and St. Landry Parish (1882-1929).
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The Mascot, New Orleans, June 3, 1882 |
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St. Landry Democrat, Opelousas, September 29, 1888 |
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The Question of the Hour, New Orleans, August 28, 1890 |
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The Play, New Orleans, 1890 |
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The New Idea, Detroit, 1890 |
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The Agents Guide, New York, January, 1897 |
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The People’s Tribune, Opelousas, April 3, 1897 |
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The Lecompte Messenger, Lecompte, 1897 |
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The Opelousas Courier, February 20, 1904 |
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The St. Landry Clarion, Opelousas, April 22, April 29, 1905 |
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The Washington Herald, Washington, October 26, 1912 |
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Needlecraft, New York, 1912 |
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Weekly Market Bulletin, Baton Rouge, 1929 |
Pamphlets and similar materials pertain principally to medicine and medical supplies, with some items concerning agriculture and other matters (ca. 1896-1897).
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Annual Report of Commissioner of Agriculture, 1878 |
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List of Medical, Surgical, and Scientific Books and Periodicals, 1878 |
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Jayne’s Medical Almanac, 1882 |
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The Southern Almanac, 1882 |
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Across the Continent, 1883 |
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The Diamond Almanac, 1888 |
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Speech of Honorable Samuel M. Robertson (House of Representatives). 1890 Two Copies |
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“Medical Profession,” 1890 |
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Eight copies Afro-American Almanac, 1897 |
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Speech of Honorable Henry M. Teller (United States Senator), 1896 |
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Animal Therapy by Thomas Osmond Summers, 1896 |
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Charles Marchand’s Medical Preparations, 1897 |
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Forage or Hay Crops, 1907 |
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Orchard Report of the Baton Rouge Station of Agricultural Experiment Station of the Louisiana State University and A&M College, Baton Rouge, Louisiana, 1908 |
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Twenty-First Annual Report of the Agricultural Experiment Stations of the Louisiana State University and A&M College for 1908, 1909 |
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Master Masonic Degree, undated |
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Bacterine, undated |
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Specimen Sheet of Reynolds’ System of Medicine, undated, 1880, 1 January |
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Habitual and Threatened Miscarriage, undated |
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Palpitation, undated |
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A plea for Honest Pharmacy, undated |
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P. Blakiston, Son & Co., Medical, Dental, Pharmaceutical, and Scientific Books, undated |
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Phytoline – Walker Pharmaceutical Co. St. Louis, Missouri, undated |
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The Efficacy of Coca – Vin Mariani, undated |
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Classified List of Medical, Dental, and Scientific Books, P. Blakiston, Son & Co., undated |
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Book of Modern Homes – Sears Roebuck & Co., undated |
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Some Distressing Affections by Dr. Robert C. Kenner, undated |
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Phaselin Tablets, Alta Pharmacal Company, undated |
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The Process of Digestion, Sultan Drug Company, undated |
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Antiphlogistine, ca. 1900 |
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Celerina, The Nerve-Tonic, undated |
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McIntosh Combined Galvanic and Faradic Battery Company, undated |
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The Digestion of Starchy Food, Trommer Extract of Malt Company, undated |
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Often Imitated, Never Equaled, Peacock Chemical Company, undated |
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Lambert’s Lithiated Hydrangea, Lambert Phamacal Company St. Louis, ca. 1882 |
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Medical Review, 1897 |
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To Physiciana, Bromidia, Battle and Company, undated |
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Catalogs: |
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Louisiana State University, 1881 |
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Louisiana State Fair and Exposition, Shreveport, 1888 |
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Southern Medical College, Atlanta, 1896-1897 |
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Louisiana State Normal School, 1911-1912 |
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James L. Haven and Company, Cincinnati (mills, hardware and similar supplies) ca. 1880 |
Manuscript Volumes
A large portion of the collection consists of manuscript volumes. Account books begin in 1857 with Dr. Hawkins’ medical practice in Arkansas and continue in Louisiana after 1870, with some gaps until 1886. Thirty-three daybooks contain a record of office and home visits, giving the names of the patients, fees for services and medicine, and frequently mentioning the nature of the illness and the treatment prescribed. 14 ledgers contain the manner of settlement, either in money or produce, of his accounts.
The material relating to farming begins in 1871 and continues until 1900. These include 34 memorandum books, 19 record books, and 16 time books, pertaining to farming operations and recording cattle sales and purchases; cotton picking, hauling and personal and public ginning; and labor contracts and work assignments; and accounts with tenants; sharecroppers and laborers for supplies.
Also included is a Justice of the Peace Case Docket and Record Book noting civil actions by public road overseers against persons for failure to work the roads in their districts (1876-1879).
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1. Bank Book. J.E. Hawkins, 1906-1907 |
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2. Check Book. 1905 |
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3. Daybook – Field. Arkansas. 1857-1864 |
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4. Daybook – Office. Arkansas. 1860-1862 |
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5. Daybook – Office. Arkansas. 1863-1864 |
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6. Daybook – Office. Arkansas. 1865-1867 |
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7. Daybook – Field. Arkansas. June – September 1869 |
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8. Daybook – Field. Arkansas. September – December 1869 |
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9. Daybook – Office. Arkansas. April – December 1869 |
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10. Daybook – Field. Louisiana. July – September 1871 |
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11. Daybook – Field. Louisiana. September – October 1871 |
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12. Daybook – Field. Louisiana. October – December 1871 |
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13. Daybook – Office. Louisiana. March – December 1872 |
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14. Daybook – Office. Louisiana. January – September 1873 |
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15. Daybook – Office. Louisiana. September 1873 – October 1874 |
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16. Daybook – Field. Louisiana. March – May 1875 |
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17. Daybook – Field. Louisiana. July – October 1875, July – August 1876 |
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18. Daybook – Field. Louisiana. October – December 1875 |
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19. Daybook – Office. Louisiana. January – December 1875 |
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20. Daybook – Office. Louisiana. July – December 1879 |
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21. Daybook – Field. Louisiana. January – May 1880 |
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22. Daybook – Field. Louisiana. December 1880 – June 1881 |
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23. Daybook – Field. Louisiana. July 1881 |
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24. Daybook – Field. Louisiana. August – October 1881 |
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25. Daybook – Office. Louisiana. May 1880 – August 1881 |
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26. Daybook – Field. Louisiana. December 1881 – January 1882 |
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27. Daybook – Field. Louisiana. March – May 1882 |
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28. Daybook – Office. Louisiana. July 1882 – February 1882 |
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29. Daybook – Field. Louisiana. February – April 1883 |
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30. Daybook – Office. Louisiana. February 1884 – September 1884 |
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31. Daybook – Field. Louisiana. June – October 1884 |
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32. Daybook – Office. Louisiana. September 1884 – August 1885 |
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33. Daybook – Office. Louisiana. August 1885 – April 1886 |
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34. Daybook – Field. Louisiana. Undated |
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35. Daybook – Field. Louisiana. Undated. |
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36. Draft Book, 1892-1896 |
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37. Draft Book, 1895-1897 |
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38. Draft Book, 1903-1904 |
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39. Draft Book, 1903-1904 |
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40. Index. Undated. |
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41. Index. Undated. |
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42. Index. Undated. |
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43. Index. Undated. |
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44. Ledger. 1860-1865 |
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45. Ledger. 1865-1870 |
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46. Ledger. April 1871- July 1872 |
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47. Ledger. February – December 1872 |
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48. Ledger. January 1872 – December 1873 |
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49. Ledger. January 1872 – December 1873 |
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50. Ledger. 1872 – 1877 |
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51. Ledger. 1872 – 1886 |
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52. Ledger. 1873 |
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53. Ledger. 1873-1874 |
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54. Ledger. 1873 – 1876 |
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55. Ledger. 1874 – 1876 |
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56. Ledger. 1880 |
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57. Ledger. 1892 |
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58. Memorandum Book. 1860 |
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59. Memorandum Book. June 1871 – March 1872 |
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60. Memorandum Book. November 1872 |
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61. Memorandum Book. November 1875 – January 1876 |
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62. Memorandum Book. November 1876 – August 1878 |
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63. Memorandum Book. August 1881 – September 1881 |
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64. Memorandum Book. September 1881 |
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65. Memorandum Book. June 1882 |
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66. Memorandum Book. 1882 |
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67. Memorandum Book. 1883 |
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68. Memorandum Book. 1884 |
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69. Memorandum Book. 1885 |
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70. Memorandum Book. 1888 |
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71. Memorandum Book. 1893-1894 |
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72. Memorandum Book. 1894 |
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73. Memorandum Book. 1896 |
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74. Memorandum Book. 1896-1897 |
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75. Memorandum Book. 1898 |
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76. Memorandum Book. 1904-1905 |
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77. Memorandum Book. 1905 |
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78. Memorandum Book. Coin Bank. Undated |
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79. Memorandum Book. Coin Bank. Undated |
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80. Memorandum Book. Undated |
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81. Memorandum Book. Undated |
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82. Memorandum Book. Undated |
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83. Memorandum Book. Undated |
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84. Memorandum Book. Undated |
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85. Memorandum Book. Undated |
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86. Memorandum Book. Undated |
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87. Memorandum Book. Undated |
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88. Memorandum Book. Undated |
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89. Memorandum Book. Undated |
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90. Memorandum Book. Undated |
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91. Memorandum Book. Undated |
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92. Miscellaneous Book. Index of Accounts. 1871-1878 |
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93. Miscellaneous Book. Justice of the Peace Case Docket & Record Book. 1876-1879 |
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94. Miscellaneous Book. Index of Accounts. 1881-1888 |
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95. Miscellaneous Book. Index of Accounts. 1882 |
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96. Miscellaneous Book. Prescription Book. 1882-1883 |
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97. Miscellaneous Book. Index of Accounts. 1887 |
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98. Plantation Daybook. 1878-1877 |
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99. Plantation Daybook. 1877 |
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100. Plantation Daybook. 1877-1878 |
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101. Plantation Daybook. Blacksmith. 1879-1880 |
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102. Plantation Daybook. Johnnie Haas. 1879-1880 |
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103. Plantation Daybook. 1892-1894 |
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104. Plantation Daybook. 1895 |
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105. Plantation Diary. 1895 |
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106. Plantation Diary. 1895 |
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107. Plantation Record Book. 1895 |
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108. Plantation Daybook. 1895-1896 |
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109. Plantation Record Book. 1896 |
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110. Plantation Daybook. 1897 |
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111. Plantation Daybook.1897 |
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112. Plantation Daybook.1897-1898 |
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113. Plantation Diary. 1898-1899 |
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114. Plantation Diary. 1900-1901 |
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115. Plantation Record Book. 1911-1912 |
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116. Plantation Record Book. Undated |
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117. Receipt Book. 1893-1896 |
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118. Receipt Book. Undated |
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119. Timebook. 1874 |
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120. Timebook. 1876 |
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121. Timebook. 1876 |
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122. Timebook. 1876 |
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123. Timebook. 1877 |
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124. Timebook. 1879 |
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125. Timebook. 1893 |
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126. Timebook. 1894 |
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127. Timebook. 1895 |
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128. Timebook. 1896 |
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129. Timebook. 1897 |
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130. Timebook. 1899 |
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131. Timebook. 1899 |
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132. Timebook. 1899 |
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133. Timebook. 1900 |
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134. Timebook. 1901 |
INDEX TERMS
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African Americans--Migrations--Kansas. |
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Agriculture--Louisiana--Evangeline Parish. |
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Evangeline Parish (La.) |
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Farmers--United States. |
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Hawkins, J. E. (Josiah Edwin) |
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Maps. |
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Medical education--United States. |
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Medicine--Louisiana. |
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Newspapers. |
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Pamphlets. |
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Photographic prints. |
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Physicians--Arkansas. |
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Physicians--Louisiana. |
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Plats (maps) |
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Saint Landry Parish (La.) |
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Sheet music. |
CONTAINER LIST
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UU:308-315 |
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1859-1883 |
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9-14 |
1884-1886 |
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15-22 |
1887-1889 |
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23-29 |
1890-1892 |
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30-36 |
1893-1894 |
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37-44 |
1895-1897 |
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45-53 |
1898-1907 |
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54-60 |
1907-1912, undated |
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61-69 |
Bills, land records, notes, fragments of letters, calling cards, business cards, crochet work (undated) |
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Printed pamphlets, catalogs (1868-1912, undated); photograph of Mandell Company (undated); The New Idea (Detroit, 1890) |
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J:8-9 |
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Manuscript volumes 1-187 [See collection description for full list] |
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Sheet music of L’Angelus (undated) |
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T 3 S. R. 1 E. South Western District, Louisiana (April 29, 1887) |
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S. R. 11 E. South Western District, Louisiana (May 21, 1842) |
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T 1 N. R. W. South Western District, Louisiana (August 3, 1839) |
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T 5 S. R. 1 E. South Western District, Louisiana (January 18, 1854) |
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T 1 S. R. 1 E. South Western District, Louisiana (June 9, 1855) |
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T 11 S. R. 1 E. South Western Land District, Louisiana (undated) |
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T 2 S. R. 2 E. South Western District, Louisiana (September 30, 1857) |
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Map of township Number 2 South Range Number 1 West by John Cook (undated) |
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T 3 S. R. 1 E. South Western District, Louisiana (March 1, 1859) |
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T 2 S. R. 1 W. South Western District, Louisiana (February 11, 1878) |
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Plat of Survey of a Portion of the Estate of Mrs. A.E. Leigh (August 1891) |
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Certificate in Latin to Carl George Nielsen (1919) |
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Monteith’s Physical and Intermediate Geography Map of Central and Southern America (undated) |
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Lone Pine School Building, Blueprints. Duncan and Barron Architects. Alexandria, Louisiana (undated) |
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Maps of Louisiana, Compliments of South Western Louisiana Land Company, Crowley, Louisiana (undated) |
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Map of Turkey showing the Seat of War (1877) |
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Map of State of Louisiana issued by the Bureau of Immigration (undated)
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Newspapers (1888-1912) St. Landry Democrat (1888); People’s Tribune (1897); The Lecompte Messenger (1897); The Opelousas Courier (1904); The St. Landry Clarion (1905); The Washington Herald (1912) |
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Oversize items removed from collection: contracts, account sheets, bills, medical broadsides, T 3 S. R. 1 E. South Western District, Louisiana (1857-1858); Township 4 S and 1 E Ste District, Louisiana; Township One South Range One West District S.A.; Newspapers: The Mascot (1882); The Question of the Hour (1890); The Agents Guide (1897); Needlecraft (1912) |
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Plan L’Exposition de Paris (1878) |