Louisiana broadside collection, 1764-1879.

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Louisiana broadside collection, 1764-1879.

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Seven broadsides pertain to Louisiana or its residents: a facsimile of an extract from a letter from the King of France (1764), resolutions of the Concordia Parish Police Jury (1815), an advertisement for seven lectures on architecture by James Gallier (later of New Orleans) given in Brooklyn, N.Y. (ca. 1832-34), an advertisement for speeches by Henry Watkins Allen and Thomas C.W. Ellis (1856), a sheet addressed to the citizens of Tangipahoa Parish with published correspondence between G.T. Raoul and E.F. Herwig (1873), and minutes of two meetings of the Louisiana Sugar Planters' Association (1879). One broadside is an address to the voters of Texas by William W. Wallace (1862).

8 broadsides.

eng,

fre,

Louisiana State University, LSU Libraries

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SNAC Resource ID: 6955021

Louisiana State University, LSU Libraries

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Gallier, James

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Louisiana Sugar Planters' Association

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The Louisiana Sugar Planters' Association was based in New Orleans. Henry McCall was president and Reginald Dykers was secretary of the association. From the description of Louisiana Sugar Planters' Association papers, 1877-1917. (Unknown). WorldCat record id: 122559671 ...

Ellis, Thomas C. W. (Thomas Cargill Warner)

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Concordia Parish (La.). Police Jury

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Louisiana's unit of local government is the parish rather than the county. When Louisiana was purchased from France in 1803, the portion that is now approximately the State of Louisiana was called the Orleans Territory. On April 10, 1805, the governing body of the Orleans Territory divided it into 12 counties that roughly coincided with the parishes established by the Catholic Church during the Spanish and French regimes. On March 31, 1807, the territorial legislature passed an act ...

Allen, Henry Watkins, 1820-1866

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Henry Watkins Allen, a lawyer in Mississippi, married Salome Crane (d. 1851) in 1842. He was elected to the Mississippi State Legislature in 1845. He moved to Louisiana in 1852, worked as a planter on Allendale Plantation, and was elected to the Louisiana State Legislature in 1854. Allen served in the Civil War as a lieutenant-colonel in the Delta Rifles of the 4th Louisiana Regiment. Wounded at Shiloh and Baton Rouge in 1862, Allen left active duty and was elected Confederate Governor of Louisi...

Raoul, G. T.

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Louis XV, King of France, 1710-1774

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A lawyer in New Orleans, Louisiana, Edward Alexander Parsons (1878-1962) married and had at least one daughter. A bibliophile, he briefly worked for the New Orleans Public Library in the 1930s and over a period of sixty years built a private collection, known as the Bibliotheca Parsoniana, with over 8,000 manuscripts and 40,000 publications on the American South, which was acquired by the University of Texas at Austin in 1958. An avid researcher and amateur historian, Parsons publis...

Wallace, William, Sir, -1305

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Son of William H. Wallace, first governor of Idaho territory, 1863-1864. From the description of Letter : to Burton L. French, Dec. 19, 1903. (Idaho State Historical Society Library & Archives). WorldCat record id: 42066064 ...

Herwig, E. F.

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