Maude Billiu Collection MS.00020
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MAUDE BILLIU COLLECTION (1838-1993) MS.00020 Location: R
Bio/History note Helen Maude Billiu was born to Samuel Billiu and Alice Malhiot. She later became the owner of Malhiot's Religious Goods. Billiu died in 1994.
Scope and content This collection spans 1838-1993 and covers 15 linear feet. It includes photographs, newspapers, newspaper clippings, negatives, glass plate negatives, notarial records, court summons, certificate of death, death notices, obituaries, correspondence, a business license, tax receipts, postcards, scrapbooks, yearbooks, sketches, monographs, and a school program. See also LARBC Collection (MS. AA) - Lafourche American Revolution Commission for related photographs. NOTE: Scrapbooks have separate print indexes.
Maude Billiu Collection MS.00020
Table of Contents: Photographs Music Collection Scrapbooks Glass Plate Negatives Misc. Newspapers & Maps
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Inventory: Box 1—Photographs (1880s-1927, n.d.) Item # Date Description 1 St. Joseph's Church after 1916 fire (6 Prints) [See also LARBC Collection (MS. AA), Photograph Album #1, pg. 28] 2 Dr. Fleetwood Drugstore (corner of 3rd and St. Philip St.) (6 Prints) [See also Photocopy Album, pg. 63— Box 7 & LARBC Collection (MS. AA), Photograph Album #1, Pg. 8] 3 Malhiot's Music Store (4th St.) (2 prints) Also: Talking Machine & Novelty Store, and Meyer building [See also LARBC Collection (MS. AA), Photograph Album #1, pg. 11] 4 Thibodaux Mardi Gras scenes in front of City Hall on Green St. with Courthouse in background (3 prints) [See also LARBC Collection (MS. AA), Photograph Album #1, pg. 5] 5 Paving 2nd St. in Thibodaux (7 prints) [See also LARBC Collection (MS. AA), Photograph Album #1, pg. 49 & 55] 6 First Jeffries Hotel (destroyed by fire in Feb. 1926) (5 prints) [See also LARBC Collection (MS. AA), Photograph Album #1, pg. 48] 7 Thibodaux Mardi Gras - crowd awaiting arrival of the king by boat (2nd St.) - Nick Musso building (St. Philip & West 2nd St.) (5 Prints) [See also LARBC Collection (MS. AA), Photograph Album #1, pg. 2] 8 Bayou Lafourche at Thibodaux, bridge in background (3 prints) [See also LARBC Collection (MS. AA), Photograph Album #1, pg. 17] 9 Guion Academy (2 prints) - Academy building - Class of children 10 Firemen's Picnic 11 Grand Isle scene (?) (2 prints) 12 1927 High water - Brule Guillot [See also LARBC Collection (MS. AA), Photograph Album #1, pg. 58] 13 Green St. looking towards Catholic Church (2 prints) [See also LARBC Collection (MS. AA), Photograph Album #1, pg. 15]
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Description Joseph T. Thibodaux building (corner of Main and St. Philip St.) Courthouse, Thibodaux (5 prints) [See also LARBC Collection (MS. AA), Photograph Album #1, pg. 14] Jackson St. - covered bridge over Bayou Lafourche, Thibodaux (2 prints) [See also LARBC Collection (MS. AA), Photograph Album #1, pg. 18] Ex-Congressman Price residence - Acadia Plantation (3 prints) ) [See also LARBC Collection (MS. AA), Photograph Album #1, pg. 50] Stranger's Hotel - 5211 Green St., now Grand Theater (old City Hall on left) (3 prints) [See also LARBC Collection (MS. AA), Photograph Album #1, pg. 4] Waverly Plantation and boarding house (6 prints) - Foundation being built on Waverly Plantation (2 prints) [See also LARBC Collection (MS. AA), Photograph Album #1, pg. 56] - Waverly Sugar Factory (2 prints) [Glass plate negative located in Box 11—FF 12] - Alfred Malhiot (Billiu uncle) (engineer at Waverly) (3 prints) - Waverly Boarding House (1 print with negative) - Crevasse at Waverly (2 prints) [Glass plate negative located in Box 11—FF 12] Jackson Avenue, Thibodaux, Louisiana (2 prints) [See also LARBC Collection (MS. AA), Photograph Album #1, pg. 3] House (tenant home?) on Waverly Plantation [See also LARBC Collection (MS. AA), Photograph Album #1, pg. 57] Concord bridge over Concord River, Concord, Mass. concrete reproduction of the old wooden structure famous in battle of 1775 (2 prints) (Photograph donated by Billiu to Bicentennial) Roth Drug Store building on 3rd St., Thibodaux, La. – Firemen's Parade (2 prints) Drugstore in center of picture with Gas & Oil building next to it. [See also LARBC Collection (MS. AA), Photograph Album #1, pg. 1]
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Description Exterior and interior of Thibodaux Bank building (later Lafourche National Bank) - since 1954 Abby George Jewelry Store (3 prints) [See also LARBC Collection (MS. AA), Photograph Album #1, pg. 6-7] Old Creole house at 513 St. Philip St. (4 prints) [Glass plate negative located in Box 11—FF 1] [See also LARBC Collection (MS. AA), Photograph Album #1, pg. 19] Texas and Pacific Railroad Depot (2 prints) [See also LARBC Collection (MS. AA), Photograph Album #2, pg. 26] [Glass plate negative located in Box 11—FF 5] Exterior and interior of old Catholic Church and Rectory, Thibodaux (6 prints) [See also LARBC Collection (MS. AA), Photograph Album # 1, pg. 20 and 24] [Glass plate negative for interior photograph located in Box 11—FF 4] Three sets of photographic proofs with negatives Photographs: (41 prints) [See also LARBC Collection (MS. AA), Photograph Album #2, pg. 25] - Two women standing in doorways of residence [Glass plate negative located in Box 11b—Item 22] - Woman posing with 2 young children by picket fence outside of residence (2 prints) [See also LARBC Collection (MS. AA), Photograph Album #2, pg. 27] - Workers in field with large equipment (4 prints) [See also LARBC Collection (MS. AA), Photograph Album #2, pg. 27] [Glass plate negative located in Box 11b—Item 16 & Box 11—FF 13—Item 4] - Workers walking down dirt road [Glass plate negative located in Box 11b—Item 19] - Worker wearing sombrero posing next to machinery [Glass plate negative located in Box 11—FF 13—Item 7]
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Description - Two workers posing next to pipe stack [Glass plate negative located in Box 11b—Item 17] - Woman standing on porch with snow in background [Glass plate negative located in Box 11b—Item 26] - Two women (silhouttes) standing on porch with snow in background (2 prints) [See also LARBC Collection (MS. AA), Photograph Album #2, pg. 28] - Locomotive (Waverly?) [Glass plate negative located in Box 11b—Item 25] - Unidentified residence & buildings (Waverly?) [Glass plate negative located in Box 11b—Item 11] - Wagons loaded with sugarcane [Glass plate negative located in Box 11b—Item 9] - Washed out picture of sugar mill (Waverly?) [Glass plate negative located in Box 11b—Item 10] - Sugar mill with pipe stacks (Waverly?) [Glass plate negative located in Box 11b-Item 23] - Sugar mill with single pipe stack (Waverly?) [Glass plate negative located in Box 11b—Item 7] - Sugar mill with 3 pipe stacks & worker near pile of debris [Glass plate negative located in Box 11—FF 13—Item 6] - Machinery inside building [Glass plate negative located in Box 11b—Item 24] - Machinery along bayou [Glass plate negative located in Box 11b—Item 12] - Unidentified man on horse [Glass plate negative located in Box 11—FF 12—Item 4] - Unidentified toddler in wash basin [Glass plate negative located in Box 11—FF 13—Item 3] - Unidentified woman posing in dress and hat on porch (2 prints) [Glass plate negative located in Box 11b—Item 18]
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Description - Unidentified building near water [Glass plate negative located in Box 11—FF 13—Item 8] - Unidentified man posing on crane derrick [Glass plate negative located in Box 11—FF 13— Item 9] - Two unidentified men sitting on wooden barrels with snow on ground [Glass plate negative located in Box 11—FF 13—Item 5] - Opera House in Thibodaux, La. - Group of men in town [Glass plate negative located in Box 11—FF 13—Item 11] - Unidentified residence with snow [Glass plate negative located in Box 11b—Item 8] - Unidentified buildings with snow (wooden barrels in foreground—Waverly?) [Glass plate negative located in Box 11b—Item 13] - Unidentified buildings with snow (large drain pipes in foreground—Waverly?) (2 prints) - [Glass plate negative located in Box 11b—Item 15] - Washed out picture of group of people in town [Glass plate negative located in Box 11—FF 13—Item 10] - Two young children sitting on crate (2 prints) [See also LARBC Collection (MS. AA), Photograph Album #2, pg. 25] - Crevasse at Howell’s (1903) [Glass plate negative located in Box 11b—Item 20] Photographs: (18 prints) - St. Joseph’s Church, Hall, and Rectory (3 prints) - Knights of Columbus marching from church to K.C. Home - Old K.C. Home and swimming pool - Side view of K.C. Home - Al Badeaux home on St. Philip St. - Drexler filling station on West 4th St.
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Description - Intersection of Hwy. 1 and Goode St. (Barbier home on left; Harvey Peltier home on right) - Hotel Dixie on West 2nd St. - Water pipeline construction? - Whit Martin’s tomb in Episcopal Cemetery, Thibodaux - Water pipeline from Miss. River to Thibodaux - Al Badeaux home on St. Philip St. - Knights of Columbus grounds - Francis T. Nicholls monument in St. John Episcopal Cemetery - Corner of 2nd and St. Louis St. - Water pipeline from Miss. River to Thibodaux Photographs: (12 prints) - Liberty Bell on view at Shriever, La. - Thibodaux Firemen’s Fair Float [See also LARBC Collection (MS. AA), Photograph Album #1, pg. 5 & 14] - Archbishop Blenk & clergy walking to bless new Thibodaux College (1912) (2 prints) [Glass plate negative located in Box 11—FF 12] - Texas and Pacific Railroad Depot, Thibodaux - Judge Whit P. Martin - Guy J. Knobloch - National Eucharistic Congress, New Orleans, (October 1938) - National Eucharistic Congress, K.C. grounds, Thibodaux, La. (1938) - Eucharistic Day in Thibodaux (May 15, 1938) - Blessing of Our Lady of Prompt Succor Church at Chackbay, La. - Blessing of Chackbay Catholic Church bell Photographs: (14 prints) - Francis Knobloch driving carriage in front of Charles Dantin’s Grocery Store - Schifani Building (St. Philip & West 3rd St.) - Roth’s Drugstore (corner of West 3rd & Green St.) - Malhiot’s Curio Store (West 4th St.)
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Description - Myrtle Taylor Meyer in front of Phonograph & Curio Store by A.E. Malhiot on West 4th St. - Sheriff’s house (now parish building) on West 3rd St. - Thibodaux Park (demolished) after 1926 hurricane - Brule Guillot Rd. just before 1927 flood - Green St. (1924) (Lafourche Bank on right) - West 3rd St. (Rene Bernardien on right) - Meyer Drugstore - Lafourche Drugstore - City Hall, Thibodaux, La. [Glass plate negative located in Box 11—FF 2—Item 5] - Street Fair (corner of West 4th & St. Louis Street) [Glass plate negative located in Box 11b—Item 5] Photographs: (11 prints) - Edward Montz sitting in front of fireplace - Dr. John Fleetwood & Mrs. Nancy Roth Fleetwood - Postcard with photograph of unidentified man “Address 603 Hennen Bld” - Unidentified girl in skirt & hat - Grandpa Roth Norville (2 prints) - Unidentified woman - Lilian Shanklin & Maude Billiu - André & Dana (September 11, 1975) - Marie Lubaune - Jeanne Richard Leonard (1974) - Dr. Frank Malhiot (grandfather of Maude Billiu) Photographs: (9 prints) - Naquin house (before & after demolition) (5 prints) - Unidentified residence - Henry Schuyler Thibodaux home on St. Bridgette Plantation in Shriever, La. - Quitman house in Terrebonne Parish
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Box 2—Music Collection Item # Date 1 1845 2 1859 3 1860 4 5 6
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Description Photographs & negatives: (7 prints, 63 negatives) - Chauffeur standing by old Chevrolet - Group of 13 young girls posing - Unidentified lady in dress with bayou & boats in background - Unidentified young girl in dress & hat - Maude Billiu with 2 unidentified ladies on bus - Group of 13 men & women posing - Group of workers posing Father Charles Menard (2 prints) [See also LARBC Collection (MS. AA), Photograph Album #1, pg. 25] Thibodaux College (2 prints) Panoramic negatives (10)
Description “The Dying Soldier,” by Frederick D. Benteen “Fairybelle,” by Stephen C. Foster “Souvenirs de Mississippi,” with brilliant variations (on a favorite melody), for piano, by N.P.B. Curtiss “The Alabama,” by T. Von La Hache “We May Never Meet Again,” by Will S. Hayes “Folks That Put On Airs,” words by H. Angelo, music by William H. Coulston Pamphlet entitled “Blacker and Bro.'s Selection of Operatic Songs,” containing “Robert! All I Love,” from Meyerbeer's “Robert le Diable” “The Banjo” for piano (four hands) composed by H.C. Harris, signed on cover Mrs. F.E. Malhiot “I Love Thee,” words by N.W.G., music by Carlo Patti, cover signed Mrs. F.E. Malhiot “Yes, We Think of Thee at Home,” by J.H. Hewitt; music by E. Clarke Ilsley “Why Do I Love Thee,” by Miss Sidney A. Carl; sung by S.C. Campbell “That Bugler,” by A.G. Knight “We Parted,” by Will S. Hayes
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Date 1873
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Description Hard back volume entitled “Opera at Home,” collection of songs, duets, choruses selected from a number of operas Signed on flyleaf “Mrs. F. E. Malhiot from her husband, January 1, 1873” Hard back book of songs, name of Mrs. N.A. Fleetwood in gold leaf on cover “Centennial Varieties,” by Narciso Martinez “Call Me Back Again,” composed by W. D. Hendrickson “Sweet By-and-By,” music arranged for piano-forte, composed by J. P. Webster, signed on cover "M.A. Malhiot” “Ruth Cleveland Mazurka,” by Miss Alice Malhiot, dedicated to the “Home Circle” Orchestra of Thibodaux, Louisiana Pamphlet “Hannah, Won't You Open That Door,” Songster (words of popular songs, including title song), published by William W. Delaney, New York (early 1900's) “My Rosary,” words by Cameron Rogers, composed by Fredinand Lust. Signed on cover by Edwin L. Meyer. “Keep Your Head Down Fritzie Boy,” words music by Lt. Gitz Rice, autographed by the composer on the cover. Explanatory note says “Inspired by a Brave Tommy and written at the Battle of Ypres” “For Home Sweet Home and Uncle Sam,” words by Stanley Murphy, music by Alfred Solman “Giddy Giddap, Go On, Go On, We're On Our Way to War,” by Jack Frost “It's For You, Old Glory, It's For You,” lyrics by Paul B. Armstrong, music by F. Henri Klickmann “When The Little Blue Star in the Window Has Turned to Gold,” lyrics by Paul B. Armstrong, music by F. Henri, Klickmann “When the War Is Over I'll Return to You,” dedicated to the famous stage beauty Miss Justine Johnstone. Words by Bide Dudley, music by Fredric Watson “Oh! How I Wish I Could Sleep Until My Daddy Comes Home.” Introduced by Al Jolson, words by Sam M. Lewis and Joe Young, music by Pete Wendling. Written on cover, “To Edna from Bob, March 13, 1919”
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Date Description “A Little Loving Is Hard To Get,” words by Henry F. Morvant (of Thibodaux), music by J. E. Andino “The Everyday Song Book” Pamphlet entitled “The Music of George Washington's Time,” informational bulletin published by the U. S. George Washington Bicentennial Commission, written by John Tasker Howard “Silver Threads: A Mother’s Day Program” “Onward and Forward With Leche,” lyrics by Paul English, music by N. J. Clesi “Treasure Chest of Songs Never Forgotten” Christmas Songbook “A Une Etoile,” by D’Alfred de Muset, music by Anthony Choudens “Mussette de Nina,” published by F.D. Benteen Libretto of the opera MANON by M. Massene's under direction of Maurice Grau “That Is Love,” words and music by Felix McGlennon; also “Then You Wink the Other Eye,” by W.T. Lytton “What a Funny World This Is,” by J.W. Tufts “Twice 55 Plus Community Songs” “Evangeline,” by Will S. Hayes
***NOTE: SCRAPBOOKS HAVE PRINT INDEXES LOCATED SEPARATELY*** Box 3—Scrapbooks - Contains scrapbooks 1-9. Box 4—Scrapbooks - Contains scrapbooks 10-18. Box 5—Scrapbooks - Contains scrapbooks 19-24. Box 6—Scrapbooks - Contains scrapbooks 27, and 30-34. Box 7—Scrapbooks - Contains scrapbooks 25, 26, 28, 29, photocopies of misc. photograaphs, and photo album.
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Box 8—Scrapbooks - Contains photocopies of scrapbooks 2-4, 13, 17-18, 21-22, 25, 27, 30-32. Box 9—Scrapbooks (Oversize) - Contains photocopies of scrapbooks 1, 5-12. Box 10—Scrapbooks (Oversize) - Contains photocopies of scrapbooks 14-16, 19-20, 23-24, 26, 28-29. Box 11—Glass Plate Negatives & Photographs (n.d.) FF 1—Glass Plate Negatives (n.d.) - Contains 10 glass plate negatives: - Parade (Eugene Girard driving carriage) (Photograph located in Box 1— Item 4) [See also LARBC Collection (MS. AA), Photograph Album #2, pg. 21] (2 plates) - Standpipe & Courthouse in Thibodaux, La. - Paddlewheel boat [Photograph located in LARBC Collection (MS. AA), Photograph Album #2, pg. 20] - St. Joseph’s Church in Thibodaux, La. - Creole cottage (513 St. Phillip St.) (Photograph located in Box 1— Item 25) - Unidentified street - Unidentified woman in hat - Unidentified elderly person sitting outside - Unidentified photograph of picture in frame FF 2—Glass Plate Negatives (n.d.) - Contains 13 glass plate negatives: - Unidentified man - Unidentified woman wearing hat - Unidentified woman at desk - Unidentified woman - Thibodaux City Hall (Photograph located in Box 1—Item 32) - First Presbyterian Church - First Presbyterian Church - Carriage in front of residence - Unidentified road and buildings - Unidentified road - Marching band with City Hall in background - Thibodaux College - Unidentified man standing in sugarcane
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FF 3—Glass Plate Negatives (n.d.) - Pile of Oyster Shells [Photograph located in LARBC Collection (MS. AA), Photograph Album #2, pg. 19]
FF 4—Glass Plate Negatives (n.d.) (3 plates) - Interior of catholic church - Rectory [Photograph located in LARBC Collection (MS. AA), Photograph Album #2, pg. 18] FF 5—Glass Plate Negatives (n.d.) - Young girl in a dress with hat on, standing by fence - Group of men at train station (Photograph located in Box 1—Item 26) FF 6—Glass Plate Negatives (n.d.) - Machinery inside building - Unidentified woman (framed) - Unidentified young boy (framed) FF 7—Glass Plate Negatives (n.d.) - Courthouse - Group of men dressed up, some with musical instruments - Unidentified couple—Bride and groom FF 8—Glass Plate Negatives (n.d.) - Contains 3 glass plate negatives on construction of Waverly Plantation [Photographs located in LARBC Collection (MS. AA), Photograph Album #2, pg. 21 & 22] FF 9—Glass Plate Negatives (n.d.) - Contains 10 glass plate negatives: - Unidentified girl holding rabbit - Unidentified man in Derby hat - Living quarters for workers (Waverly Plantation?) - Unidentified men with mule team in field - Unidentified house with overgrowth - Unidentified road - Unidentified man on horse in field - Unidentified men on railroad tracks - Unidentified church - Unidentified framed picture
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FF 10—Glass Plate Negatives (n.d.) - Contains 10 glass plate negatives: - Large gathering of people - Unidentified person standing in sugarcane - Unidentified man holding hat - Unidentified man in coat and bowtie - Unidentified man in coat and bowtie - Unidentified man in coat and bowtie - Unidentified woman with toddler [See also LARBC Collection (MS. AA), Photograph Album #2, pg. 23] - Unidentified woman with toddler - Unidentified man wearing coat and hat standing in field [Photograph located in LARBC Collection (MS. AA), Photograph Album #2, pg. 21] - Unidentified ship [Photograph located in LARBC Collection (MS. AA), Photograph Album #2, pg. 20] FF 11—Glass Plate Negatives (n.d.) - Contains 5 glass plate negatives: - Unidentified young girl in dress - Thibodaux Fireman’s Fair floats - Thibodaux Fireman’s Fair floats - Thibodaux Fireman’s Fair floats - Unidentified carriages FF 12—Glass Plate Negatives (n.d.) - Contains 5 glass plate negatives: - Crevasse - Waverly Plantation (Photograph located in Box 1—Item 19) - Waverly Plantation Sugar House (Photograph located in Box 1—Item 19) - Archbishop Blenk & clergy walking to dedicate new Thibodaux College (St. Joseph’s Church in background), Thibodaux, La. (Photograph located in Box 1—Item 31) - Unidentified man on horse (photograph located in Box 1—Item 29) - Alfred Malhiot—Billiu uncle (engineer at Waverly Plantation) (Photograph located in Box 1—Item 19)
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FF 13—Glass Plate Negatives (n.d.) - Contains 11 glass plate negatives: - Unidentified woman posing with 3 young girls - Unidentified woman - Unidentified baby in wash basin (Photograph located in Box 1—Item 29) - Sugar mill operations (Waverly Plantation?) (Photograph located in Box 1— Item 29) - Two unidentified men sitting on wooden barrels (Photograph located in Box 1—Item 29) - Sugar mill (Waverly Plantation?) (Photograph located in Box 1—Item 29) - Unidentified lady in large hat (Photograph located in Box 1—Item 29) - Unidentified building (Photograph located in Box 1—Item 29) - Unidentified man posing under crane derrick (Photograph located in Box 1— Item 29) - Group of people talking (Photograph located in Box 1—Item 29) - Unidentified man pointing (Photograph located in Box 1—Item 29) FF 14—Glass Plate Negatives (n.d.) - Bank of Thibodaux FF 15—Glass Plate Negatives (n.d.) - Contains 11 glass plate negatives: - Unidentified toddler on porch - Unidentified young girl on a chair in the park - Three unidentified men in cowboy hats - Unidentified woman in horse-drawn buggy - Railroad depot - Unidentified building topped with snow and frost - Unidentified house with flooding - Mule team in field - Workers & equipment - Unidentified woman in dress - Unidentified tower [Photograph located in LARBC Collection (MS. AA), Photograph Album #2, pg. 20] [Collector’s box for housing glass plate negatives (empty)]
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Box 11b—Glass Plate Negatives (n.d.) - Contains 27 glass plate negatives: - Unidentified man in uniform holding cane - Unidentified tomb - Unidentified woman and young boy - Unidentified man wearing sweater and tie - Crowd of people downtown - Thibodaux College - Unidentified building (Photograph located in Box 1—Item 29) - Unidentified residence (Photograph located in Box 1—Item 29) - Wagons loaded with sugarcane (Photograph located in Box 1—Item 29) - Sugar Mill? (Photograph located in Box 1—Item 29) - Wagons loaded with sugarcane (Photograph located in Box 1—Item 29) - Unidentified building (Photograph located in Box 1—Item 29) - Field with wooden barrels in foreground (Photograph located in Box 1— Item 29) - Opera house, Thibodaux, La. (Photograph located in Box 1—Item 29) - Unidentified buildings - Unidentified men working at sugar mill (Waverly?) (Photograph located in Box 1—Item 29) - Two unidentified men posing in front of pipe stack (Photograph located in Box 1—Item 29) - Unidentified woman in dress and hat (Photograph located in Box 1—Item 29) - Unidentified workers walking on road (Photograph located in Box 1—Item 29) - Crevasse at Howell’s (1903) (Photograph located in Box 1—Item 29) - Waverly Sugar Factory (Photograph located in Box 1-Item 29) - Two unidentified women standing in doorways of house (Photograph located in Box 1—Item 29) - Sugar factory (Waverly?) (Photograph located in Box 1—Item 29) - Machinery (Photograph located in Box 1—Item 29) - Train at sugar mill (Waverly?) (Photograph located in Box 1—Item 29) - Unidentified woman standing on porch - Two unidentified women and man sitting
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Box 12—Misc. Materials (1838-1993, n.d.) Item # Date Description 1 1885 “Cornell’s Physical Geography” 2 1912 “Around the World” 3 n.d. “Records and Recollections of Thibodaux, Louisiana” 4 1927 “Louisiana Bird Day.” School program (features John J. Audubon) issued by the Bureau of Education, Dept. of Conservation, State of Louisiana 5 1928 “The Edison Pioneers,” by John Winthrop Hammond 6 1946 “The Presidents of the U.S.” (with picture stamps) 7 1960-1963 Thibodaux Upper Elementary School (Yearbook, section card, and trial schedules) 8 1962-1993 Envelope: correspondence, receipts, newspaper clippings, business license, essays, and application for public hearing for Pruet Oil Co. 9 1970 Yearbook for Mt. Carmel Academy, New Orleans, La. 10 n.d. “Standard Index Map and Street Guide of New Orleans” 11 n.d. Student notebook for History II at Nicholls State University 12 n.d. Ledger Book 1-7 13 n.d. Ledger Book 7-10 14 n.d. Ledger Book 10-13 15 n.d. “Old Landmarks of Thibodaux” (sketches) -Early 1900's View of Lafourche Parish Courthouse -Old City Hall -Early View of Lafourche Parish Courthouse-1860's -Mt. Carmel’s Convent -Early View of Park Pavilion 16 1838-1974 - (1838) “Proclamation No. 2 - People of Canada” - (1843) Certificate of Death from St. Joseph’s Church for Charles Aubert - (1858) Notarial record from Iberville Parish for marriage of John Hardy Fleetwood to Nancy A. Roth - (1867) Correspondence from Office of State Superintendent of Public Education to J.D. LeBlanc - (1867) Town License for A. Perrin’s store in Thibodaux - (1884) Program for concert benefit for Guion Academy
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Description - (1889) Newspaper clipping with general local news: Thibodaux Fireman’s Fair, Andrew Price renomination for Congress, poem read before Louisiana Press Association of Thibodaux on Tuesday May 14, 1889 by Ms. Addie McGroath (local editor of Baton Rouge Truth - (1899) Newspaper clipping-“The Storm: Effects of the Whirlwind in the Town” - (1901) Obituaries for Mrs. John H. Fleetwood (Nancy A. Roth), Willie Fleetwood, and Dr. John N. Fleetwood - (1912) Obituary for Henry W. Frost - (1974) Newspaper clipping from Lafourche Weekly Press-“Picture out of the Past” on class of young girls at Guion Academy - Excerpt from Southern Manufacturer on Roth Drugstore (copied by Lloyd & Myrtle T. Meyer) - Newspaper clipping-“Teddy Jr. on His Great Louisiana Duck Hunt” - Newspaper clipping-“Louisiana, Illinois Share Areas Named Assumption” (Article by Claire Puneky concerning Edouard-Elisse Malhiot – ancestor of Maude Billiu, a state senator and sugar planter of Assumption Parish who bought land in Illinois and named the place “Assumption”) - Obituary for Captain Clem P. Binnings (a well known planter at St. John Plantation) - Memorial Picture of Huey P. Long
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Box 13—Newspapers & Maps (1861-1974, n.d.) Item # Date Description 1 1861 La Sentinelle de Thibodaux 2 1863 The Banner of the Ironsides - The official journal of the parish of Lafourche (Vol. 1 No. 1) (photocopy) (original in vault) Printed & published by the 176th Regiment of New York, Company D, stationed in Thibodaux as a Provost Guard for Lafourche Parish 3 1887 Knights’ Journal 4 1925 Map of New Orleans 5 1938 Catholic Action of the South (Vol. 6 No. 30) 6 1940-1941 Social Justice (4 issues) 7 1945 The Stars & Stripes (14 issues: April-August) 8 1945 Daily Express (Scottish Daily Express) (2 issues) 9 1950-1958 Thibodaux Commercial Journal (4 issues) 10 1965 Newspaper clipping of Thibodaux College 11 1974 The Times Picayune 12 n.d. Map of Louisiana Highways & general points of interest 13 n.d. Landmark map from Houma to Donaldsonville
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Index terms Abadie, Ted Adams, Alice Hebert Adams, Celina Clement Adams, Philip C. Adams, Roland P. Jr. Adema, Dorothy May Besson. Albert, Dale. Arceneaux, Robert J. Aubert, Charles Aubert, Pierre Aucoin, Celine Roger Aucoin, Mark Joseph Aucoin, O'Neil Albert Aupied, Clara M. Aupied, Laura Galey Ayche, Bertha Ayo, Sam Baber, Grace Gwynne Babin, Daniel, J. Babin, Elaine Babin, Marie Louise Thibodaux Badeaux, Edward Badeaux, Theresa Ballard, V.G. Banker, Kernon M. Barker, Estelle Blouin Barker, Marc F. Barrois, Julius Paul Barrios, Wilson Joseph Barry, Myrtle Bascle, Elmo, Sr. Battaglia, Joseph Baye, Mae Marguerite Beauvais, Charles Becnel, Rita Campos Bell, Milton Bendix, John Benoit, Clifton Benoit, Joseph W. Benoit, Paulin Benoit, Russell Joseph
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Index terms continued Bentz, Joseph C. Bergeron, Anna Bergeron, Annie Lucy Chivers Bergeron, Daniel Bergeron, Ernest J. Bergeron, George D. Bernard, Adeline Bernard, W.J. (Doodie) Bernard, Rene, Mrs. Bertheault, Jules Billiu, Marion Billiu, H. Maude (Helen Maude) -1994 Binnings, Clem P. Blackburn, J.N. Blanchard, George J. Boggs, Hale, 1914-1972 Bolden, Ophelia Marie Naquin Bonano, Joseph G. (Sharkey) Boquet, Albert. Bordis, Sidonia Boudreaux. Borne, Charles L. Borne, Denise C. Borne, Serena Boudreaux, Bennie Antoine Boudreaux, Chris, Jr. Boudreaux, Edward L. Boudreaux, Florida Boudreaux, Haydel J. Boudreaux, Ivy, Sr. Boudreaux, Lorraine Mary Boudreaux, Lucy Clement Boudreaux, Paul A. Bourgeois, Anna Rita Bourgeois, Carleen Ann Bourgeois, Louis Anicet Bourgeois, Vivian Pitre Bourgeois, Wayne Bourg, Chris James Bouterie, Gwen Bouterie, Phyllis Marie Bowsky, Lillian Braud
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Index terms continued Braud, Clarence Braud, Ellen Dianne Braud, Oliver Breaux, John B. Breaux, Simonet Breaux, Susan Brou, Louise Jeanne Broussard, Ethel Hawes Bryant, Paul W. Bullock, Ethel Mire Caillouet, L. Abel Caillouet, Lucien Cancienne, Camille Louise Cancienne, Paul Arnold Charitat, Maurice Charron, Eileen Ann Charron, Eugene Y. Charron, Hellen Mary Charron, Kathryn Jean Cherry, Charles Chmielewski, Kasimir Christenberry, Herbert W. Clark, Agnes Ruby Clement, Marilyn Marie Coddou, Willie Connelly, Lawrence, Philip Cormier, A.J. Cortez, Martin Lynn Crandell, A. William Crow, A.B. Cunningham, F.A. Daigle, Bonnie Benoit Daigle, Carole B. Daigle, Julius Daigle, Martha Ann Daigle, Mercedes M. Danos, Louis Arthur Dansereau, Jane Peay Dansereau, Jeanne Dantin, Carroll David, Leo J.
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Index terms continued DeFelice, Woodrow J. Delas, Charles E. Delatte, Felix Dempster, Janet Diaz, Nancy Dill, Mattie Ford Dolese, Robert Dowdy, Fred Ducasse, Noah Duet, Lillian Dugas, Theogene III Duplantis, Archie Norman Duplantis, Wilton Dupont, John M. III Dupre, Mamie Lasseigne Dupre, Max, Jr. Durocher, Allen Dye, Robert D. Falcon, Mae Denoux Faucheaux, Nelson Fletcher, Roxana G. Fleetwood, John H. Fleetwood, Willie Folse, Adolph J. Folse, Emile L. (Ike) Folse, France Folse, Gertrude M. Folse, Harold J. Folse, Michael Folse, Ricardo, (Rickie) Folse, Rose Mary Fontenot, Mark Foote, John M. Foret, Charles Foret, Mary Eleanor Francioni, Phtolema French, Evelyn Frost, Allen G. Frost, Henry William Frost, Jim Frost, Rosa
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Index terms continued Frost, Seudday Gallagher, Lucien Galliano, Vernon F. Garvin, Cora B. Gasery, Gloria. Gaudet, Augusta LeFort Gaubert, Faie, Lucille Gaudet, Whit Gill, G. Wray Giroir, Philip Gleason, Jackie Glaudi, Hap Gonzales, Gus Goods, Rahoula Gory, James Gouaux, Peter James Grabert, Gertrude Gremillion, Florian P. Grenier, J.L.V. Gros, Allen Gros, Billy John Gros, Dennis S. Guidroz, Jose Bernadette Guidry, Robert J. Hall, Rita Leine Hall, Robert Hammerli, Angela Mitchell Hammerli, Ed Harang, Donald Francis Harang, Warren J., Jr. Hargis, Leah M. Harper, Linda Joy Hebert, Cecile Ann Hebert, Edward E. Hebert, Joseph Elmo Hebert, Leonce Hebert, L.J. Himel, Gloria Vergie Himmel, Lynn M. Hill, Hosea Holt, Arvis C., Mrs.
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Index terms continued Howell, Roland B. Hughey, Elise Hutto, Bernice Pierson Hymel, Thurston Iver, George, Sr. Jackson, Norman, Sr. Johnson, Regina Hammond Jolley, Homer, R. Jones, Guy R. Kane, Harnett T. (Harnett Thomas), 1910-1984 Kleinpeter, Mary Rousseau Knobloch, Francis Lewis Knobloch, Guy J. Kurtz, Wilson La Rose, Lydia Anne Labe, Julie Labit, Raphael C. Lafargue, Lula B. Lamartina, Mary Landrieu, Moon, 1930Landry, Alfred Landry, Clarence Landry, Clifford W. Landry, Robert La Rose, Lydia Anne Larose, Theogene T. Lasseigne, Angeline Falterman Lasseigne, Elmo J. Lasseigne, Hugh Paul, (Senator) LeBlanc, J.D. LeBlanc, Marie Louise LeBlanc, Oliver LeBlanc, Solange Gaude LeBoeuf, Gene Ledet, Eugene Jack Lefort, Lillie Legendre, Aline Pennison Legendre, Byron Joseph. Legendre, J.A. (Sonny) Legendre, Lydia LeGrand, Louis
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Index terms continued Lepine, Oscar Charles Lepine, J. Wilson Leishen, Robert M. Leonard, Anna Theresa Leonard, Gaston Oscar Leonard, Leonce Leonard, Lucie. Levy, Jerome Loupe, Mercedes, Mrs. Lovell, Johnny Lovell, Perry Malhiot, Frances Malhiot, Frank Malbrough, Florence Malhoit, Ethel McCormick Manale, Frank Manning, Elisha Archie III Mariette, R. Marionneaux, Eleanor Ann Marquette, Edmund Marshall, George Martin, Leroy Martin, Whitmell P. (Whitmell Pugh), 1867-1929 Martinez, Mark Mattingly, Francis Trudeau Maureaux, Gaston Samuel McDonald, Robert McDonald, Sam McDonough, Thomas McShane, John A. Melancon, Ada Melancon, Earl Melancon, Harris Metcalf, Jim Meyer, Edwin L. Meyer, Lloyd Morvant, Henrietta Michelet Mire, Harry D. (Butsy) Mitchell, Miriam Morvant, Artie Mulhern, Ethalee
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Index terms continued Musso, Nick Mustacchia, Mary Cosima Rotelo Naquin, Alfred Naquin, Cecile Lasseigne Naquin, Elizabeth Ann Naquin, Ellen Jane Naquin, Emily Naquin, Leslie Marie Naquin, Lionel O. Jr. Naquin, P.J. Naquin, Peter Naquin, Suzette Neeley, Joyce Newfield, John L. Nicholls, Francis T. (Francis Tillou), 1834-1912 Northrop, Jerrry Francis Ogeron, Edmond J. Oncale, L.J. O'Neil, P.J. Ortner, Paul A. Oschwald, J. Benedict Papa, Charles Paradis, M.R. Parfait, Stephen Jerome Payne, George Peltier, Pearl Eloise Peltier, Sidney Pena, Iris Kearns Percy, Peter Randolph Perk, Norman A. Perrin, A. Perrin, Philip Felix Pitre, Lucille Plaisance, Francis Scuddy Polmer, Irvin F. Polmer, Mervin Joseph Pontiff, Elvance Joseph Prejean, Delton Price, Andrew Price, Edna C. Prima, Louis
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Index terms continued Pugh, John Ravoire, A.F. (Augustin Francis), 1873-1950 Reed, Robert W. Reso, Richard Alvin Richard, Alfred V. Richard, Ella Dalferes Richard, Elvire Naquin Richard, Guy Earl Richard, Paul Emile Richardson, E.E. Rivet, Gregory Robertson, Bernice Robichaux, Francis A. Robichaux, Hubert P. Robichaux, Marie Felecia Bourgeois Robichaux, Munson H. Robichaux, Oliver Charles Rodrigue, Dennis Horace Rodrigue, Fernand E. Rodrigue, James Rodrigue, Steve Roger, Amedeo Roger, Wilbert Romagosa, Lawrence G. Roth, Magnus Roth, Andrew Rummel, Joseph F. Rushing, Wallace Ray Russo, Anthony Samakintos, Eloise Lopez Arollo Schifani, Nina Agnes Schoenberger, Podine Scioneaux, Phyllis Anne Scott, Mamel Shufeldt Scudday, James Shanklin, Edward D. Shanklin, Florence J. Shanklin, Henry Shanklin, Tom Shaver, Leona Gleason Smith, Charlie
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Index terms continued Smith, Gerald L.K. Soignet, Julia Bernard Songe, Margaret M. St. Martin, H.P. St. Martin, Thaddeus St. Romain, Martin J. Stagni, Antoine Stark, Thomas Steelman, Ernest Stevens, Charles J., Jr. Sweet, Harvey Ray Swift, James O. Szush, John Tabor, Norris Tardo, Bessie R. Tardo, Cyrus Tardo, Louis J. Tardo, Mark Tate, Margaret Bourgeois Taylor, Nolan A. Taylor, William Alton Tenney, Fred Allen Thibodaux, Dennis Joseph Thibodaux, Dolien Thibodaux, Victoria Thibodeaux, Ernest A. Thormas, Felice LeBuff Toups, A.H. Toups, Beatrice Braud Toups, Charles Ray Toups, Edgar J. Toups, Emma Toups, Jeanne Foret Toups, Jules Toups, Mary Ruth Toups, Reynaud L. Toups, Ruel Anthony, Sr. Toups, Thomas Andrew Toups, Walter Trosclair, Annie Mae Trosclair, Wayne Michael
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Index terms continued Uzee, Philip D. Verdun, Larry Joseph Vicknair, Pansy D. Vinet, Johnny Waguespack, David Wahl, Melvina Walker, Frank Wallace, Lloyd Webre, L.A. Weldon, Fallon Weldon, Joseph E., Sr. Weldon, Mary Patricia Williams, Tennessee, 1911-1983 Winthrop, John Wright, Mildred V. Ziegler, William R.
American Legion Bank of Thibodaux (Thibodaux, La.) Briar Rabbit (Thibodaux, La.) Brule Guillot (La.) Calvary United Methodist Church (Thibodaux, La.) Compair Lapins (Thibodaux, La.) Concord Bridge (Concord, Mass.). Coulon Plantation (Thibodaux, La.) Enola Plantation (Napoleonville, La.) First Federal Savings and Loan (Thibodaux, La.) Fleetwood Drugstore (Thibodaux, La.) Gordon, Arata, and McCollam Attorneys at Law Guion Academy (Thibodaux, La.) Holy Rosary Catholic Church (Larose, La.) Jake's Store (Thibodaux, La.) Jeffries Hotel (Thibodaux, La.) Joseph T. Thibodeaux (Thibodaux, La.) Lafourche Communications (Thibodaux, La.) Lafourche Drug Store (Thibodaux, La. Lafourche National Bank (Thibodaux, La.) Lafourche Parish (La.). Council Laurel Valley Plantation (Thibodaux, La.) Locquet-Leroy Institute (New Orleans, La.)
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Index terms continued Malhiot's Music Store (Thibodaux, La.) Malhoit's Novelty Store (Thibodaux, La.) Melodia Plantation (Thibodaux, La.) Mount Carmel Academy (Thibodaux, La.) Mount Zion Baptist Church (Napoleonville, La.) Our Lady of Prompt Succor Catholic Church (Chackbay, La.) Pascal's Manale Restaurant (New Orleans, La.) Quality Pharmacy (Thibodaux, La.) Rene's Bar (Thibodaux, La.) Roth Drugstore (Thibodaux, La.) Rox's Bar (Thibodaux, La.) Schneider's Salloon (Thibodaux, La.) St. John Plantation (St. Martin Parish, La.) St. John's Episcopal Cemetery (Thibodaux, La.) St. John's Episcopal Guild (Thibodaux, La.) St. Joseph's Catholic Church (Thibodaux, La.) St. Luke Catholic Church (Thibodaux, La.) St. Philomena Church (Labadieville, La.) Stranger's Hotel (Thibodaux, La.) Sunset Limited The Talking Machine Novelty Store (Thibodaux, La.) Thibodaux College (Thibodaux, La.) Thibodaux Senior Citizens Center (Thibodaux, La.) Waverly Boarding House (Thibodaux, La.) Waverly Plantation (Thibodaux, La.) White Fathers Order (Thibodaux, La.) Carnival Louisiana - Thibodaux Courthouses Louisiana Thibodaux Foundries - Louisiana - Thibodaux Mardi Gras Railroad trains - Louisiana - Shriever Lafourche, Bayou (La.)
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Genre Baptismal certificates Black-and-white negatives Black-and-white photographs Clippings (information artifacts) Correspondence Death certificates Licenses Newspapers Obituaries Photograph Albums Postcards Receipts (financial records) Scrapbooks Yearbooks
Added titles The Banner of the Ironsides Baton Rouge Truth Call Me Back Again Catholic Action of the South Daily Express The Edison Pioneers The Everyday Song Book Knights' Journal Old Landmarks of Thibodaux, Louisiana Physical Geography Records and Recollections of Thibodaux Social Justice The Stars and Stripes Thibodaux Commercial Journal
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