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SUMMARY

BIOGRAPHICAL/HISTORICAL NOTE

John I. Gardiner was a cotton planter of Grand Coteau, St. Landry Parish, Louisiana. He was appointed as tax collector of that parish in 1873.

SCOPE AND CONTENT NOTE

The earliest documents in the collection include family letters from John F. and Thomas J. Gardiner, of Charles County, Maryland, to John I. Gardiner, of Grand Coteau, La. (1839-1847), receipts for the burial of slaves (1840), receipts for passage on the steamer J. Dupre (1840) and freight on the steamer Cleona (1867), and bank drafts and tax receipts (1845-1860). Also included is a Confederate tax estimate and assessment of agricultural products (1863), the appointment of Gardiner as tax collector of St. Landry Parish (1873), a fragment of a broadside address from the National Democratic Committee of New York to African American voters concerning banking graft towards freedmen (1876), an envelope from the Southern States Agricultural and Industrial Exposition, New Orleans, listing names of officers and the executive committee (1876), and an envelope from J. J. Morris with the American Expeditionary Forces to Junietta Claiborne, New Roads, La. (1918).

The collection also contains enlargement prints of Reconstruction broadsides (1869-1875), including an announcement to the citizens of St. Landry Parish concerning special taxes upon all professionals, trades, and stores (Feb. 1, 1869), two broadsides from John McEnery opposing William Pitt Kellogg and his taxation policies (Mar. 1873), and an address by Edward Booth to the Democratic-Conservative members of the Legislature regarding the eviction of elected members of the House of Representatives by General de Troubriand and U.S. soldiers (Jan. 5, 1875).

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