Louisiana State Museum, Historical Center Third Floor, Old U.S. Mint 400 Esplanade Avenue New Orleans, LA 70116 Telephone number: (504) 568-3660 Fax: (504) 568-2678 Contact person: Sarah-Elizabeth Gundlach Email: [email protected] (Note: this is the Louisiana State Museum’s general email, to contact the Historical Center specifically, call the number above) Website: http://www.crt.state.la.us/museum/collections/historical_center.aspx Access privileges: Open to researchers: Monday and Tuesday 10 am - 12 pm and 1 pm - 4:30 pm Hours: By appointment only, Monday – Friday Repository Information: The Louisiana Historical Center is an historical, cultural and educational institution whose primary purpose is to collect, preserve and make available records, manuscripts, maps, books, microfilm, Diderot encyclopedias, and newspapers that reflect the history, art and culture of Louisiana and its people from the late-sixteenth century to the present day. Although the most notable collections relating to women are listed below, women are represented throughout the Center's holdings. Collection highlights: The Louisiana colonial judicial archive houses the records of the French Superior Council (1714-1769) and the Spanish Judiciary (1769-1803). These criminal and civil records, which comprise the heart of the museum's manuscript collection, are an invaluable resource for researching Louisiana's colonial history. They record the social, political and economic lives of rich and poor, female and male, slave and free, African, Native, European and American colonials. They are a rich resource for the history of women in the State. Although the majority of the cases deal with attempts by creditors to recover unpaid debts, the colonial collection includes documents that contain a wealth of biographical information concerning Louisiana's colonial inhabitants. Finding aids: Available in the repository. Facilities: Photocopying. 1. American Women's Volunteer Services (SB 1) 1942-1945 5 volumes Scrapbooks of this women's organization containing clippings and photographs. 2. Anonymous Woman's Cookbook and Collected Recipes (RG 451) 1942-1988, n.d. 0.5 linear ft. Collection of newspaper and other collected recipes (secondary source and holographic) found in 1942 edition of The Original Picayune Creole Cookbook (included in collection). Also found in the collection is a ticket to the St. Louis Cathedral Christmas Concert. 3. Beacon (see Issues of The Mardi Gras Parade and Beacon) 4. Begue, Madame (RG 301) 1910-1929 1 volume Breakfast guest book of Madame Begue's restaurant. 5. Black, Marian, Family (RG 104) 1809-1964 1 linear ft. Correspondence and marriage certificates of the Black family. Includes an autograph book of Lizzie A. Jones (1881), and a scrapbook of the United Daughters of Confederacy. 6. Blum, Maxine (RG 250) 1980-1989 20 items A collection of programs of the New Orleans Opera Association, Tulane Theater, Louisiana World Exposition, New Orleans City Ballet, and other cultural events. Also includes the program from a memorial service for AIDS victims. 7. Bonaventure Plantation, Georgia (RG 128) 1850-1851 1 volume Record of plantation near Ricebore, Georgia. Includes lists of slaves, livestock, and farm implements. 8. Bonhomme-Cahn Family (RG 142) 1843-1870 20 items This collection includes correspondence, marriage certificates, and legal documents concerning the lawsuit of Caroline Myers vs. her husband. 9. Bornside, Bette (RG 418) ca. 1943 0.5 ft. Memorabilia collected by Bette Bornside (b. 1933), a politically active woman in New Orleans. She served as president of the Louisiana League of Women Voters (1983-1987), and of the New Orleans League of Women Voters (1992), and has been involved in local volunteer work. 10. Burguieres, Gertrude (RG 400) May 21, 1896 - Aug 20, 1918 0.5 linear ft. Correspondence of the Burguieres family. Largely consists of letters to Bertha Todd Trufant from her daughter Sara Hyam Trufant Burguieres. The collection also houses four small notebooks: three kept by Sara Todd Hyams Chapman (Bertha's sister) and a debutante engagement book and scrapbook kept by Sara H. Trufant [Burguieres], 1908-1909. Of special interest are five letters written by G.K. Fazende, a Louisiana woman residing in Paris during World War II. 11. Butler's Island Hospital (RG 100) 1838-1843 4 vols. Records of a slave hospital located on Butler's Island, near Darien, Georgia. Records of admissions to plantation hospital. Gives names, plantations of origin, diseases, remarks, and dates of discharge. 12. Carroll Family (RG 72) 1800-1880 0.5 ft. Within this collection are a number of items of and concerning women, among them the letters of F.W. Carroll to his mother, one letter from Martha Washington, a diary of a woman's trip abroad, love notes, and a scrapbook complied by a woman in the 1870s. 13. Chamberlain, Grace (RG 14) 1850-1918 1.5 linear ft. These papers contain writings on women's suffrage in Louisiana, the National American Woman's Suffrage Association, and the Equal Rights for All Club. Also includes charter stock certificate in Chamberlain and Nexon, Ltd., a small retail confectionery business; health certificates used as passes during the 1897 yellow fever epidemic; a pledge to abstain from alcohol (as devised by the National Christian Temperance Organization, 1875); and material on Sophie B. Wright and the Ladies of the Maccabees. 14. Charity Hospital (RG 29) 1811-1912 1 ft. Administrative and correspondence files of the Charity Hospital, including a certified copy of the act of cession by Micaela Almonaster to her hereditary rights as patroness of the hospital to the city of New Orleans, as well as certified copies of Acts of Sale of named female slaves to the hospital, 1817-1844. 15. Cohn, Marianne (RG 442) 1982-1986, 1995 1 linear ft and 1 oversized storage box Correspondence, invitations, menus, programs, newspaper clippings, and magazine articles of Marianne Cohn, chair of the Friends of the Cabildo committee for the Sun King exhibition held at Louisiana State Museum in 1984. 16. Colonial Judicial Archive (RG 1-4) 1714-1803 ca. 300 ft. The Louisiana colonial judicial archive houses the records of the French Superior Council (1714-1769) and the Spanish Judiciary (1769-1803). These criminal and civil records are an invaluable source for researching Louisiana's colonial history. They record the social, political and economic lives of rich and poor; female and male; slave and free; African, Native, European and American colonials. They are a rich resource for the history of women in the State. Although the majority of the cases deal with attempts by creditors to recover unpaid debts, the colonial collection includes many documents that contain a wealth of biographical information concerning Louisiana's colonial inhabitants. 17. Cope, Helene Robbins (RG 70) 1963-1978 1 ft. Manuscript of, and correspondence concerning Helene Cope's book, They Saw Louisiana. 18. Copeland (see Pontalba) 19. Cusachs (RG 431) 1874-1908 1 volume Includes a ledger kept by Marie Giraud, 1874-1908. 20. Dart, H.P. (RG 284) 1618-1776, 1878-1920 15 items Among these papers are legal records concerning the property taxes for Contance Hearing in the late-nineteenth century and a typescript manuscript dedicated by Grace King to Dart. 21. Davis, Margie (RG 45) 1978-1982 1 ft. Clippings, correspondence, advertisements, notebooks, and correspondence of the King Tut Exhibition committee, New Orleans Museum of Art. 22. Dent, Barbara Keagy (RG 452) 1945-1952, n.d. 0.5 linear ft. Collected paper ephemera, originally intended to be pasted into a scrapbook, documenting donor's school years as a student at Merrick Elementary School, McMain High School, and Louisiana State University. Included in the collection are issues of Echoes of McMain, published by McMain High School; a wedding invitation, invitations to sorority parties, football game tickets, a report card, and a menu for a dinner aboard the vessel, T.E.S. Antigua. 23. d'Heur, Josephine (SB 25) 1914 1 volume Memory book of Newcomb High School. Photos of classmates, clippings, and invitations. 24. Doussau Family (RG 204) 1769-1818 5 items These papers include the death certificate of Marie Louise Mounet, 1769. 25. Duchamp Family (RG 156) 1865-1952 0.5 ft. This collection contains the 1952 writ of Marie Rose Helene Duchamp, as well as newspaper clippings and photographs of women. 26. Dunne, Patrick (RG 287) 1870 1 item Bound pamphlet "Exposition of the nullity of Mrs. Myra Clark Gaines' Pretensions to the City of New Orleans," with copies and translations of the testimony abstracted from the government records. 27. Elkins, Arabella (RG 74) 1899-1973 0.5 ft. Family papers covering three generations. Includes information on immigration to New Orleans, memorabilia, and documents concerning birth and death. 28. Eustis Family (RG 245) 1871-1903 7 items Contains the wedding certificate of Arthur Eustis to Emily Taylor (sister of Zachary Taylor) in 1871, their daughter's marriage announcement in 1903, and the Eustis family genealogy. 29. Fitch, Paul (RG 388) 1896-1951 16 items Family papers documenting the immigration, first of Pasguale D'Anna, then his wife, Concetta and two children, to Louisiana from Italy at the turn of the century. The family settled in New Iberia. Includes passports, certificate of first communion, boarding pass, death and funeral announcement. 30. Fort Bay Brand Oysters (Fort St. Phillip) May 20, 1907-Dec 28, 1929 1 item Ledger book used to detail the guard mount at Fort St. Phillip, May 20 to October 16, 1907 and also used as an account book for Fort Bay Brand Oyster Seafood packing plant located in Ostrica, La. Includes employee names, salaries, job performed, and supply accounts, from August 9, 1929 to December 28, 1929. 31. Fort St. Phillip (see Fort Bay Brand Oysters) 32. Fortier, Alcee (RG 65) 1832-1935 2 linear ft. Papers of the Fortier family including records of the Valcour Aimée Plantation.