Algiers Public Service Co.,
Inc.
Financial Records, 1938-1954 [MS-O6]
17 v. Incorporated in 1922, the Company operated both the Canal Street ferry and the Third District ferry through a franchise agreement with the city of New Orleans. Both ferries carried passengers between the east bank of New Orleans and Algiers on the west bank. The Third District operation was discontinued in 1958. In 1960 the state of Louisiana, through the Mississippi River Bridge Authority, purchased the company's assets and took over control of the Canal Street ferry.
The records consist of carbon copies of typewritten monthly reports of CPA firms to the Company showing statements of profit and loss, statements of operations of the two ferry lines, the company's balance sheets, and other financial matters. These copies were furnished by the Company to the city's Department of Utilities. They were transferred to the City Archives in May, 1982.
We have added to this collection two typewritten documents, both titled Classification of property, revenue and expense accounts for Algiers Public Service Company, Inc., New Orleans. One is dated May 10, 1923 and the other January 1, 1925. These were found loose in the box containing the official proceedings of the New Orleans City Council.
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4/5/1997 (updated, 5/10/2001)
Archdiocesan Council of Catholic Women
Convention records, 1955 [MS-82]
Manuscript and typewritten program notes and minutes for the organization's convention during November, 1955. The theme of the meeting was, "The Christian Woman combines modesty with dignity, in dress, conduct and speech."
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12/18/2003
Armor, James Emile (b. ca.
1826)
Papers, 1837-1854 [MS-100]
10 items (106 pieces). Armor was a New Orleans banker. The papers are manuscript letters to him, mostly from his adoptive father, James Armor, a New Orleans commission merchant. They deal with the son's schooling at the Abbeyville Institute near Lancaster, Pa. and later at the Mobile Institute in Alabama. The letters originated from such places as Covington, La., Mobile, New York City, and various towns in Pennsylvania. Among the other subjects discussed are:
These papers were introduced as evidence in the Sucession of Josephine Heard Armor (#7676, Second District Court) and in the case of Henry J. Masson vs. J.E. Armor (#7883, Second District Court). See also the 1843 Probabe Court record in the Succession of James Armor.
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4/5/1997
Austin, Moses (1761-1821)
Letters to John F. Merieult, 1802-1805 [MS-41]
Miner and promoter of Texas colonization. Austin settled in Upper Louisiana in 1798 and soon established his home and mining operation at Mine au Breton. Photocopies of manuscript letters from Austin to Merieult, a merchant of New Orleans, dealing with the shipment and sale of lead from Austin's mines. The letters are dated June 18, 1802, January 25 and May 2, 1803, and December 24, 1805. The original letters are filed in the suit of Merieult vs. Austin (First Judicial District Court #3450).
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12/22/2003
Azar, Alexander James,
1902-1970
Course notes, 1923 [MS-117]
Typewritten notes from Dr. Rudolph Matas' course in the Department of Surgery at Tulane Medical School in 1923. Azar was then a medical student at Tulane; these note appear to have been his compilation, but were found in the papers of fellow student Ambrose Storck [MS-121]. Accessioned, March, 1985.
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4/7/1997
Baker, J. G.
Diary, 1868 [MS-104]
Resident of Franklin, La., and a student at Belle Vue High School near Lynchburg, Va. Manuscript diary entries recording school and social events, interspersed with copies of lessons. Also included are several printed lists of students and teachers along with printed descriptions of the school and its programs. Source unknown.
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12/17/2003
Barrow, Bennet H. (1811-ca. 1854)
Diary, 1830-1846 [MS-9]
Planter. Typewritten transcript of the original. Daily record of the operation of Barrow's Locust Grove (now Highland) Plantation in West Feliciana Parish. Includes detailed information on slavery, cotton, and politics. This transcription differs in many respects from the published version of the diary, Edwin A. Davis, Plantation Life in the Florida Parishes of Louisiana, 1836-1846, as Reflected in the Diary of Bennet H. Barrow (New York: Columbia University Press, 1943). Gift of Leo C. Browne, 1955.
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12/17/2003
Blom, Frans, ca.
1893-1963
Letter, 1927 [MS-65]
Blom was a prominent archaeologist. This item is a signed typewritten letter transmitting a copy of field reports of the first expedition conducted by the Tulane University Exploration Society. Source unknown.
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4/7/1997
Bloom, Charles James,
1886-1947
Papers, 1907 [MS-16]
Bloom was a physician and author. This item is a manuscript paper (probably a draft) titled "Wage problems in textile mills of New Orleans." It is a sociological investigation of the wage earners employed at the Lane and Maginnis mills during Bloom's junior year at Tulane University.
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4/7/1997
Boudro, Henry George
Papers, ca. 1910-1916 [MS-70]
Boudro was a New Orleans author and actor. The papers include a manuscript of his play "Cocheta," manuscript poems, and a scrapbook of playbills advertising local productions of his work. Source unknown.
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4/7/1997
Boyd, John, ca.
1783-1858
Diary, 1850 [MS-89]
Boyd was a U.S. Surveyor and planter. This is a typewritten transcription of his manuscript diary at the Southern Historical Collection, University of North Carolina, Chapel Hill. The diary records Boyd's movements around the state and includes his regular descriptions of weather conditions and comments on the comings and goings of other surveyors. Also included is a photocopy of a sample page from the original. The transcription was given to the Library by Edward D. Seghers in 1947.
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4/7/1997
Brehm, Stuart
Interviews, 1981 [MS-]
Executive Director, Sewerage and Water Board of New Orleans. Interviewer is Pat Tunstall. The interviews were recorded on five reel-to-reel tapes (no transcripts are available). They deal with the history of drainage in New Orleans and with the development of the water and sewerage systems in the Crescent City. The interviews were broadcast over radio station WBYU-FM as a five-week series of one hour "Omniscope" programs from June 21-July 19, 1981.
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12/23/2003
Bureau of Governmental Research of New Orleans
Preliminary report on scrip in New Orleans, 1933 [MS-193]
Typewritten report (20 pages), apparently not published, of a study on the question of issuing scrip for in payment of current obligations of the city and public schools. Gift of the Bureau.
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6/16/2004
Cable, George Washington,
1844-1925
Letter, 1920 [MS-64]
Unsigned manuscript letter regretting that the author and his wife would be unable to attend a reception at the New Orleans City Hall for General Robert George Nivelle. Source unknown.
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4/7/1997
Campbell, W.A.
Letters, 1935 [MS-91]
Campbell was a biblical scholar and critic residing in Kingston, Jamaica. These two manuscript letters are addressed to Dr. Rudolph Matas in New Orleans. They deal with the proposed American edition of a book by Campbell. Also mentioned is his paper, "The Gospel as Biography." Source unknown.
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4/8/1997
Carondelet Street and Carrollton City Railroad
Minute book, 1871 [MS-22]
The Company was organized in 1871 to compete with the New Orleans and Carrollton Railroad in providing street railway service to the upper part of the city and to the city of Carrollton. It failed, however, to secure sufficient trackage rights and went out of business ca. 1874. Manuscript minute book kept during the Company's organizational period. Included are specifications for construction of the railway, the Company's bylaws, and a list of stockholders. Originally filed as evidence in the suit of Benjamin S. Harrison vs. the Company (Fifth District Court, #5036). This item was separated from the remainder of the suit record in 1983.
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12/22/2003
Cave, Jess S., 1872-1948
Papers, 1936 [MS-45]
Cave was a local politician and office holder; he served briefly as acting mayor of New Orleans during the summer of 1936. These papers consist of typescripts of two radio addresses urging the election of the Long-Allen-Leche ticket in the 1936 statewide election. Source unknown.
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4/8/1997
Children's Home of the Protestant Episcopal Church in New Orleans
Papers, 1876 [MS-73]
2 items. Manuscript report signed by Sister Roberta, Superior, describing the origin and activities of the Home. Also includes a clipping of a published report on the Home. Source unknown.
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12/17/2003
Conway and Brother
Records, 1865-1866 [MS-24]
C.A. Conway and John R. Conway operated as grocers and commission merchants in New Orleans under the name Conway and Brother. John Conway later served as mayor of New Orleans (1868-1870). The records comprise a single cash book in which are recorded the firm's receipts and expenditures. Also included at the front of the volume is a financial journal of another firm, possibly H.R. Austin & Co., for the first half of 1846. Source unknown.
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4/8/1997
Coulon de Villiers, Louis
Papers, 1754 [MS-44]
According to Stanley Arthur, Old families of Louisiana, Louis Coulon de Villiers commanded the detachment of French troops that engaged, and defeated, George Washington's forces at Fort Necessity in 1754. These papers consist of a manuscript copy of his account of the Fort Necessity capture. The copy was made by A.E. Gosseling, Archivist, from records at the Archives du Seminaire de Quebec in 1905.
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4/8/1997
Crenshaw, William A.
Letters, 1839-1841 [MS-46]
Merchant. Typewritten copies of two letters describing the 1841 yellow fever epidemic in New Orleans. Also includes a typewritten copy of a third letter, possibly from Mary Crenshaw Bowe, describing life in New Orleans. Source unknown.
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12/17/2003
Cummings and Co./Cummings, Brown and Co.
Record books, 1861-1867 [MS-21]
Commission merchants of New Orleans (the firm comprised R. C. Cummings and J. G. Brown; in 1866 D. H. Cummings joined Brown as heads of the company). The records include two volumes of press copies of letters sent (1862-1866), mostly business letters dealing with the sale and shipment of cotton, orders for goods in New Orleans, and occasional inquiries into labor and real estate conditions. Includes one letter to Henry Watkins Allen in Mexico City conveying money collected by his friends in Louisiana. Also includes one volume of press copies of accounts current (182-1867) and one volume of account sales (1861-1865). Each volume is indexed. Source unknown. NOTE: the pages in these volumes are very brittle and have been damaged by acidic ink.
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12/17/2003
Daughters of the American Revolution, New Orleans Chapter
Records, 1948 [MS-78]
Typewritten copy of a talk delivered by Mrs. W. A. Brannan for the Chapter's birthday, January 13, 1948. The talk dealt with the history of the Chapter from its founding in 1913. Also included is a cover letter signed by Mrs. Frank V. Russell, Regent, dated January 14, 1948.
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12/17/2003
Davis, Mrs. Henry Hampton
Memorandum, 1856 [MS-94]
Mrs. Davis was a resident of Greenwood (Wilkinson County), Mississippi. This item is a manuscript list of slaves, with probable ages, that had been transferred to her husband by his mother, Mrs. Susan Davis, in payment of a debt. Source unknown.
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4/9/1997
DeBlanc, Louis
Will, 1825 [MS-54]
A typewritten copy of DeBlanc's last will and testament. The original document is in the St. Martin Parish court house. Source unknown.
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April 11, 1997
Denegre, Edith Bayne, ca. 1864-1936
Letter, 1912 [MS-58]
Manuscript letter noting a change of location for the annual meeting of the St. Vincent's Sewing Circle due to the threat of contagious disease at the Home. Source unknown.
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April 9, 1997
Dodge, Louis A., ca. 1871-1957
Telegram, 1899 [MS-60]
Telegram announcing his time of arrival from Savannah, Georgia. Source unknown.
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April 9, 1997
Dorr, Russell
Letter, December 15, 1878 [MS-191]
Photocopy of a letter written by Dorr, probably from New Orleans (but written on stationery from a St. Louis Hotel), to his mother Julie Carolin Ripley Dorr, a poet and novelist in Vermont. Dorr describes a Mississippi River voyage from Memphis, his association with James Buchanan Eads, the work to deepen the River's navigable channel, New Orleans, and the yellow fever of 1878. Donated by James H. Dorr, 2001.
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June 3, 2004
Duffel, Henry L., 1821-1906
Memorandum book, ca. 1880-1898 [MS-90]
Duffel was an attorney and planter residing in Ascension Parish. This item is a typewritten copy of an original manuscript in the Southern Historical Collection, University of North Carolina, Chapel Hill. It appears to be comprised of Judge Duffel's random thoughts along with extracts from various publications and scattered personal memoirs. Accompanying the copy is a photocopy of a sample page from the original. Gift of Edward D. Seghers, 1947.
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April 9, 1997
Duggan, Lida Blanche McIlvaine, 1877-1953
Papers, 1925-1932 [MS-114]
Mrs. Duggan, the wife of Dr. Timothy A. Duggan, was a teacher and housewife. These papers relate to the schooldays of her son, Timothy Loyola Duggan (1906-1976), at the New Orleans College of Oratory and Elocution from which institution she also had graduated. Included are two bound volumes of dated, typewritten lessons and teachers' notes from the College. Pasted into one of the volumes are letters, photographs, clippings, programs, and other materials relating to Timothy's school work and extracurricular activities and to Mrs. Duggan's own continuing friendship with Lily C. Whitaker, co-founder of the College. Most of the letters are from Miss Whitaker. Also included are loose materials similar to those pasted into the volume. Gift, 1985. NOTE: Items 1 & 2 are in the oversize manuscript collection with numbers O13-1 and O13-2.
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April 11, 1997
Dugue-Johnston Family
Papers, ca. 1813-1940 [MS-81]
Manuscript birth, marriage and death records written on pages that may be from a family bible. Most of the recorded events are for members of the Johnston family of Virginia, Kentucky, Missourie, Louisiana, and Texas. The Dugues married into the Johnston family in Louisiana and are also included in the entries. There are also typewritten transcriptions of the original records. The papers also include two letters. The first, dated 1938, is from New Orleans attorney Eraste Vidrine, addressed "To Whom It May Concern," and serving as a testimonial to Joseph Dugue, who is stated to be a white man. The second letter, dated 1940, is from B. D. Orgain of Beaumont, Texas, addressed to William J. Dugue, thanking him for supporting Orgain's candidacy for the Texas Democratic Executive Committee. Portraits of some family members were transferred to the Louisiana Photograph Collection. All of these materials were separated from the suit record in Civil District Court #255966.
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December 18, 2003
Duplessis, Martin
Letter, 1794 [MS-125]
Duplessis was a soldier and public official. This item is a manuscript letter dated 21 July 1794 to the Baron de Carondelet, Governor of Louisiana, offering Duplessis' services for the military. Includes manuscript endorsements of Carondelet and of J.B. Macarty, commander of the Carabineers. A translation is attached to the original document. NOTE: Filed in oversize manuscript box O16; photocopies are in the Duplessis collection file.
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April 11, 1997
Edenborn, William, 1848-1928
Papers, 1881-1900 [MS-92]
Edenborn was the first president of the American Steel and Wire Co. and founder of the Louisiana Railway and Navigation Co. These are photocopies of typewritten letters signed by Edenborn along with some typewritten transcripts of additional letters to and from him. All were written in 1898 and deal with railroad construction, negotiations for purchases of right of way, purchases of steamboats, and the railway and steamboat freight business in general. Also included are copies of patents for various wiremaking machines invented by Edenborn and miscellaneous materials collected by Glen Coleman. Gift from Glen Coleman, Kirkwood, Missouri, 1981.
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April 11, 1997
Edmonds, James E.
Papers, 1937-1943 [MS-74]
Military officer and journalist. Correspondence and bills (40 pieces) relating to his 1937 journey to Japan to do research for a series of articles on that country's importance to the U.S. cotton business to be published in the Cotton Trade Journal. Edmonds served as associate editor of the publication. The letters, mostly to Francis Hickman, the Journal's editor, were written in the Canal Zone, Tokyo, Osaka, and Bombay. In addition to Edmonds' journey the letters also deal with a subsequent dispute between him and Hickman that grew out of the trip. There are also some comments by Edmonds on the ongoing Sino-Japanese War and the political situation in Europe. The materials were separated from the suit record in the matter of the Cotton Trade Journal vs. Edmonds (Civil District Court #234,839).
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12/22/2003
E. E. Lester & Co.
Records, 1923 [MS-66]
Building contracts, cancelled checks, and invoices relating to the construction of residences for Mrs. J.A. Larmew. Separated from an unidentified Civil District Court suit record.
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April 11, 1997
Era Club
Records, 1914-1919 [MS-25]
The Era [Equal Rights Association] Club was founded by Jean and Kate Gordon in 1896 and reorganized in 1914 after internal dissention led to its dissolution. Women's suffrage was the group's main goal, but it was also involved in a variety of civic and reform endeavors. The records date from the reorganization and include the minutes of board meetings, business meetings, and open meetings, all in a single volume. Gift of Mrs. Joseph E. Friend. NOTE: Available on microfilm LN81.
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April 11, 1997
