Prudhomme Family Papers 1765-1997

Collection Number: 00613

Collection Title: Prudhomme Family Papers 1765-1997

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Size	41.0 feet of linear shelf space (approximately 16,375 items)
Abstract	The Prudhomme family of Natchitoches Parish, La., were the French Creole owners of a plantation based on a workforce of enslaved people and later tenant farmers, sharecroppers, and day laborers, with interests in cotton, corn, hay, lumber, livestock, and a general store. Six generations of Prudhommes and enslaved people and their descendents, spanning the 19th and 20th centuries, lived at Bermuda plantation (later called Oakland). The collection documents life and labor on the plantation from the perspective of the plantation owning family members. Topics include courtship and marriage; sickness; social activities; travel; agricultural and general store operations at Bermuda/Oakland plantation, including accounts with sharecroppers, tenants, and hired laborers, many of whom were freedmen; relationships with other Cane River plantation owners and businesses across the country; the succession of plantation ownership; accounting records of the plantation physician, James A. Leveque; genealogy and historic preservation; and school, religious, military, political, and club activities. Other families represented in the collection are the Cloutiers, Lecomtes, and Metoyers of Natchitoches area, and the Keator family of Webster Groves, Mo. Other plantations represented in the collection are Magnolia, Shallow Lake, Vienna, Gente Place Coco Point, Homeplace, and Cognac in Natchitoches Parish and nighboring parishes. Collection materials include correspondence, writings, scrapbooks, photographic materials, financial records, genealogical and family history materials, maps and plats, and audiovisual materials. Many 18th- and 19th-century materials are in French.
Creator	Prudhomme (Family : Natchitoches Parish, La.)
Curatorial Unit	University of North Carolina at Chapel Hill. Library. Southern Historical Collection.
Language	English. French.

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Preferred Citation: [Identification of item], in the Prudhomme Family Papers #613, Southern Historical Collection, Wilson Library, University of North Carolina at Chapel Hill.

Provenance: Received from Edward C. Prudhomme of Bermuda, La., in 1938; from Mrs. Edward Prudhomme, also of Bermuda, in 1948; from the Prudhomme family in 1999-2001 (Acc. 98382, 98494, 98744, 99147), in memory of J. Alphonse and Lucile Keator Prudhomme; and from Elizabeth Brown Nettleton of Shreveport, La., in 2001 (Acc. 99119).

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Processed by: Nancy Kaiser, April 2001

Encoded by: Nancy Kaiser, April 2001

Revisions: Kathryn Michaelis, 2010; Nancy Kaiser, March 2020 and January 2021.

Conscious Editing Work by: Nancy Kaiser, March 2020. Updated abstract and scope and content notes.

This inventory incorporates parts of the inventory to the Phanor Prudhomme Papers, which was compiled in the 1960s and reprocessed in the 1980s. The 1938 and 1948 deposits have been integrated with the 1999-2001 donations to form the Prudhomme Family Papers.

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The nearly 200 year history of the Prudhomme family as plantation owners began with Jean Pierre Emanuel Prudhomme (1762-1845), the son of Jean Baptiste Prudhomme (1736-1786), a physician, captain in the militia, and planter, and the grandson of Jean Pierre Philippe Prudhomme (circa 1673-1739), a merchant and trader who settled in the Natchitoches area in 1716. Emanuel married Marie Catherine Lambre (1763-1848) in 1782, and around 1792 he purchased land that straddled the Red River thirteen miles south of Natchitoches. He planted indigo and tobacco crops, and in 1795 introduced cotton to the region. He was the first planter to grow cotton on a large scale west of the Mississippi River in the Louisiana Purchase territory. In 1818 he began building a plantation house and in 1821 the family moved in. The house and plantation were called Bermuda until 1873, when it was partitioned by the family. The house and the land on the right bank of the Red River thereafter became known as Oakland.

Emanuel's son, P. Phanor Prudhomme I (1807-1865), appears to have taken over the family plantation in the 1840s. Phanor I was married to Suzanne Lize Metoyer (d. 1855) in 1835. The Metoyer family also seems to have owned considerable acreage in Natchitoches Parish, and may also have been active in commercial endeavors, such as cotton factorages and stores. The Prudhommes had five children: Adeline (1836-1878); J. Alphonse I (1838-1919); Emma (d. 1854); Henriette, (1848-1922); and Emanuel (1844-1934).

Besides the main plantation, materials in this collection suggest that Phanor Prudhomme I had other business ventures, including a sawmill that was widely used by his neighbors. Prudhomme's stature in the community can be surmised from an 1855 letter in which he declined the offer of a Democratic Party nomination to Congress. Near the end of his life, Phanor I's property was listed for war tax purposes. This 1862 assessment shows Phanor in possession of the following: 900 acres in cultivation; 1200 woodland acres; 100 acres directly fronting the Red River; 1000 acres of pine woods; and a lot and townhouse at Natchitoches. In addition, he enslaved 146 people and owned several gold watches, considerable silver and gold plate, a piano, and miscellaneous farm and pleasure conveyances, both animal and vehicular. His children were well educated, with his daughters attending the Ladies of the Sacred Heart School in Natchitoches (mid 1850s), and his sons the University of North Carolina (J. Alphonse, 1858-1860) and Georgetown College, Washington, D.C. (Emanuel, 1861).

Upon Phanor Prudhomme I's death in 1865, J. Alphonse I took control of Bermuda plantation and other family interests. It is not clear how the other children shared in the inheritance. J. Alphonse I married Eliza Elizabeth Lecomte (1840-1923) in 1864. The Lecomte family, like the Prudhommes and the Metoyers, owned considerable acreage, across Natchitoches and in surrounding parishes. Magnolia, Shallow Lake, and Vienna plantations were among their holdings at that time.

J. Alphonse I and Eliza had eight children: P. Phanor II (1865-1948); Jules Lecomte (1867-1916); Edward Carrington (1869-1941); Marie Cora (1871-1952); Marie Attala (1875-1958); Marie Julia (1878-1933); Marie Maie (1880-1964); and Marie Noelie (1883-1978). J. Alphonse I proved to be a highly successful cotton planter. In 1904 he received a gold medal at the St. Louis World's Fair for growing the highest grade of cotton in the South.

After the Civil War, the Prudhommes transitioned from enslaved labor to a tenant economy. Many freedmen became sharecroppers and hired laborers on the plantation. Cotton planting, ginning, and pressing remained the chief operations on the plantation, but it appears that livestock, hay, and timber also were important agricultural activities, especially during the 1880s.

Phanor II assumed plantation responsibilities probably during the 1910s, but certainly by 1919 when J. Alphonse I died. Before that, Phanor II attended Notre Dame (1886-1888). In 1891 he married Marie Laure Cloutier (1871-1941). The Cloutier family owned land in Natchitoches parish, although it is not clear how much. Materials in the collection indicate that after the Civil War and into the 1870s the Cloutiers contracted with freedmen to work the family land.

Phanor II and Laure had nine children: J. Alphonse II (1896-1991); Louise Vivian (1898-1904); Elisa Elizabeth (1900-1953); Marie Adele (1903-1974); Marie Leanore (born and died 1904); P. Phanor (born and died 1908); P. "Pete" Phanor III (1909-1978); Marie Lucile (1911-1976); and Louis Donald (1913-1993).

During Phanor II's tenure as patriarch of Oakland, cotton and the general store were the chief operations. Phanor II retired and sold the family business to his son, J. Alphonse II ("Phonsie"), in 1942. Materials in the collection suggest that cotton and the store remained the primary focus of Prudhomme business interests after the 1940s. Cotton farming can be tracked until around 1960, and the store records extend to 1982.

Phonsie married Rosalie Lucile Keator (sometimes called "Lu" or "LuLu") in 1924. Lucile grew up in Webster Groves, Mo., with her parents Mabel and Mayo Sands Keator, an engineer. She also had Keator relations living in Bermuda, La., including her grandfather, Dr. James E. Keator, and her uncle, Dr. James T. Keator. In 1920 Lucile attended St. Mary's Academy in Natchitoches, La., where she befriended classmate Adele Prudhomme and her older brother. Phonsie and Lucile had four children: James Alphonse III (1927-1988); Kenneth Andrew (b. 1929); Mayo Keator (b. 1932); and Rose Vivian (b. 1934). The children of Phonsie and Lucile were the sixth and last generation of Prudhommes to live at Oakland. All four children married and moved from Oakland.

Lucile Keator Prudhomme was an active advocate for Prudhomme and Oakland plantation history. She conducted much of the historic preservation and genealogical research activity at Oakland. Her family research interest dates to the 1920s when she joined as a charter member of the St. Denis chapter of the Daughters of the American Revolution. Lucile would go on to join several more genealogical societies and remain active in them until the 1980s. Her concern for the preservation of Oakland began in 1940 when a museum of the plantation's artifacts was arranged in a couple of rooms in the house. Her devotion to the preservation of Oakland culminated in it being placed on the National Register of Historical Places in 1979. In 1997 Oakland was purchased by the National Park Service to become part of the Cane River Creole National Historical Park.

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The collection documents the Prudhomme family of Natchitoches Parish, La., the French Creole owners of a plantation based on a workforce of enslaved people and later tenant farmers, sharecroppers, and day laborers. Six generations of Prudhommes and enslaved people and their descendents, spanning the 19th and 20th centuries, lived at Bermuda plantation (later called Oakland). The collection documents life and labor on the plantation from the perspective of the plantation owning family members. Collection materials include correspondence, writings, financial materials, genealogical and family history materials, maps and plats, photographic materials, and audiovisual materials. Many 18th- and 19th-century materials are in French.

Correspondence, 1828-1993, documents life at Bermuda plantation (later called Oakland), from the perspective of the plantation owners. Topics include courtship and marriage, school life, social activities, sports, weather, travel, and general news of the Prudhomme, Keator, Cloutier, Lecomte, Metoyer, and other related families. Writings, 1850-1991, include diaries, commonplace books, school composition and lesson notebooks, poetry, and sheet music. The materials in these two series chiefly illustrate the education, interests, and concerns of white women, especially young white women, in the late 19th through mid 20th century. There are few materials relating to the Civil War. Among them are three letters that describe the effects of the war and an 1864 diary with entries describing military life.

Financial materials include ledgers and a variety of volumes, receipts, and loose papers, documenting the everyday financial operations of a plantation with interests in cotton, corn, hay, lumber, livestock, and a general store. In addition to Bermuda plantation (later called Oakland), there is some scattered information about other nearby plantations, including Gente Place, Magnolia, Shallow Lake, Coco Point, Homeplace, Cognac, Vienna, and others. The collection also documents relationships with other plantation owners and businesses; the plantation physician, James A. Leveque; and miscellaneous personal financial records of various Prudhomme family members and several persons related through marriage to the family, but otherwise financially distinct from the plantation economy records. As a group, the financial materials largely document the perspective of the plantation owners; however, there is demographic, social, and economic information, such as names, birth and death dates, health status, work areas and production, consumer purchases, and financial precarity of the enslaved and later free people who performed the labor.

Legal papers, 1810-1971, are comprised of agreements and indentures, deeds of property and land, judgments and suits, marriage contracts, mortgages, and wills and successions. These materials chiefly concern interactions of the plantation owners with the legal system, but there is some evidence of their intersection with the lives of the people who performed the labor on the plantation as well, and typically in regard to the terms of the labor.

Genealogical materials, 1842-1993, document Lucile Keator Prudhomme's interest in family history throughout her adult life. Included are her extensive genealogical correspondence; research notes on the Prudhomme, Keator, and other related families; lineage scrapbooks created by family researchers; family mementos; records of genealogical societies in which she was active; and a small sampling of the published materials used by Lucile in her genealogical research.

Maps and plats are chiefly of the Cane River plantations and Natchitoches Parish, La.

Photographic materials include color and black-and-white photographs, slides, and albums of multiple generations of family members, travels, social activities, and Oakland plantation. There are some 19th-century portraits, but the bulk of the photographic materials document the 20th-century (1910s-1980s). Nearly all of the materials are annotated.

Also included are two audio cassettes, two 16 mm home movies, and 3 reels of microfilm of the original Phanor Prudhomme collection at the Southern Historical Collection.

Other materials, 1811-1995, relate to the social life and non-business interests of the Prudhomme and Keator families. Materials document interest and active participation in education, religion, military service, politics, historic preservation, literary pursuits, domestic arts, sports, and travel.

Many of the 18th- and 19th-century materials are in French.

Contents list

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1. Correspondence, 1837-1993.
1A. Correspondence, 1828-1917 (Additions of 2001).
2. Writings, 1850-1991.
2A. Writings, 1855-1864 (Additions of 2001).
3. Financial Materials, 1788-1989.
3.1. General Plantation Materials, 1788-1989.
3.2. Plantation Operations and Personal Financial Materials, 1837-1977.
3.3. Other Financial Materials, 1836-1918.
3A. Financial Materials, 1765-1895 (Additions of 2001).
4. Legal Papers, 1810-1971.
4A. Legal Materials, 1809-1868.
5. Genealogical Materials, 1842-1993.
5A. Genealogical Materials, 1846-1923.
6. Maps and Plats, 1816-1977.
6A. Maps and Plats, 1768.
7. Photographic Materials, circa 1880-1993.
7.1. Photographs, circa 1880-1993.
7.2. Slides, 1904-1980.
7.3. Photograph Albums, 1906-1980s.
7A. Photographic Materials, circa 1900.
8. Audio Materials, 1986-1989.
9. Film Materials, 1963.
10. Other Materials, 1811-1995.
10A. Other Materials, 1838-1872.
11. Microfilm, 1990.

Expand/collapse Series 1. Correspondence, 1837-1993.

About 3500 items.

Arrangement: Chronological.

Correspondence documents everyday personal and family life and social activities of six generations of the Prudhomme family in Natchitoches Parish, La. These materials were chiefly written and exchanged by the women of the family. The surname of correspondents is uncertain in many cases, though the genealogical volume compiled by Lucile Keator Prudhomme in Series 5.2 may provide some clarifications.

The 19th-century materials were written chiefly by young white women and men in their teens and twenties. Repeated themes include sickness; feelings of isolation when apart from sisters, cousins, and peers; school life; courtship and marriage; diversions such as balls, riding, and sewing; and the effect of weather on plantation work and life. The few letters written by males concern school and work interests, the local baseball teams, and occasionally plantation operations. The Civil War is mentioned in two letters, giving the general effects of the war in Louisiana and the prevailing pessimism. Correspondence from the 1890s is comprised chiefly of letters written to Laure Cloutier Prudhomme. Some items in French.

The 20th-century materials introduce correspondence written by Lucile Keator Prudhomme and the Keator family. Life in St. Louis and Webster Groves, Mo., and Baltimore, Md., are documented, in addition to happenings in Natchitoches Parish, La. Repeating themes include courtship, sickness, loss of loved ones, and aging parents. The dissolution of multi-generational plantation life as family members left Natchitoches to settle elsewhere in the state and country is also reflected in these materials.

The heaviest correspondence is exchanged between J. Alphonse Prudhomme II and Lucile Keator during their 1923-1924 courtship. Also of note are postcards sent by Laure Cloutier Prudhomme to her son, J. Alphonse Prudhomme II, while he served in the U.S. Army during and after World War I, and his postwar correspondence with a French mother and daughter he befriended during his stay in Paris. Other war-related correspondence includes letters from Randall R.D. Keator to his aunt and uncle, Mabel Keator and Mayo S. Keator, and from J. Alphonse Prudhomme III to his father, J. Alphonse Prudhomme II. Also of note is Lucile Keator Prudhomme's extensive correspondence with non-family members, including tourists who had visited Oakland.

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Correspondence, 1837-1896

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Correspondence, 1897-1919, and undated

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Folder 37-48

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Correspondence, 1920-1934

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Folder 49-64

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Correspondence, 1935-1964

Box 5

Folder 65-75

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Correspondence, 1965-1993

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Folder 76-86

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Greeting cards, 1880-1993

Includes miniature calling, gift, and decorative cards.

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Folder 87-95

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Greeting cards, 1880-1993

Includes miniature calling, gift, and decorative cards.

Expand/collapse Series 1A. Correspondence, 1828-1917 (Additions of 2001).

12 items.

Acquisitions Information: Accessions 99119, 99147

Materials chiefly relating to the Lecomte and Hertzog families. Included are one letter describing feelings about the Civil War, anniversary and birthday greetings, and a few letters with news of home. Several items are in French.

Box 72

Folder 887-888

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Folder 888

1828-1914, 1917

Expand/collapse 2. Writings, 1850-1991.

About 100 items.

Arrangement: Alphabetical by last name.

Includes diaries, commonplace books, school composition and lesson notebooks, original and handwritten copies of poetry, and sheet music. Of note are Fulbert Cloutier's Civil War diary describing military life, and the commonplace books and diaries created by teenage girls such as Eulalie Buard and Lucile Keator Prudhomme. Some items in French.

Box 8 Folder 96-115 Folder 96 Folder 97 Folder 98 Folder 99 Folder 100 Folder 101 Folder 102 Folder 103 Folder 104 Folder 105 Folder 106 Folder 107 Folder 108 Folder 109 Folder 110 Folder 111 Folder 112 Folder 113 Folder 114 Folder 115	Writings, 1852-1948 Authors include Pauline Amelie Bossier, Coralie Buard, Eulalie Buard, Amelie Cloutier, Fulbert Cloutier, Laure Cloutier, James E. Keator, Kate Agnes Keator, Mayo S. Keator, Marie Julia Buard Lecomte, Lise Lecomte, Lise Metoyer, Adele Prudhomme, Angella Prudhomme, J. Lawrence Prudhomme, and J. Alphonse Prudhomme. Items of note: Folder 102: Fulbert Cloutier diary with description of military life near Alexandria, La., during Civil War, September-October 1864. Folder 104: Lucile Cloutier diary of a teenage girl, 1894 Folder 105b: James E. Keator valedictory address for New Orleans School of Medicine, 1858. Folder 108: Mayo S. Keator journal with an account of World's Fair, 1904. Some items are in French.
Oversize Paper OP-613/2	Sheet music for "Charley's Dream of the Fair," by Charles D. Keator, 1904
Box 9 Folder 116-140 Folder 116 Folder 117 Folder 118 Folder 119 Folder 120 Folder 121 Folder 122 Folder 123 Folder 124 Folder 125 Folder 126 Folder 127 Folder 128 Folder 129 Folder 130 Folder 131 Folder 132 Folder 133 Folder 134 Folder 135 Folder 136 Folder 137 Folder 138 Folder 139 Folder 140	Writings, 1830-1991 Authors include J. Alphonse Prudhomme, J. Alphonse Prudhomme II, Lucile Keator Prudhomme, Mayo Keator Prudhomme, Nina Prudhomme, P. Phanor Prudhomme I, P. Phanor Prudhomme II, Topics include chemistry, anatomy, grammar, arithmatic, rhetoric, astronomy, French lessons, World War I, teenage girls, and a 50th wedding anniversary. Items of note: Folder 121: Lucile Keator Prudhomme notebook with descriptions of classmates at Saint Mary's Academy; accounts of conversations and handwritten copies of poetry by Adele Prudhomme and others. Folder 133: P. Phanor Prudhomme II diary written while a student at the University of Notre Dame, concerning visits with sister Cora Prudhomme and possibly Fanny Bossier at Saint Mary's Academy in South Bend, Ind..
Oversize Paper OP-613/1	Handwritten, unattributed poem, undated

Expand/collapse Series 2A. Writings, 1855-1864 (Additions of 2001).

10 items.

Acquisitions Information: Accessions 99119, 99147

Included are an autograph book, commonplace book, two diaries, and a religous composition.

Box 72

Folder 889-895

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Writings,

Folder 892-893: Diary includes lists of letters written and expenses while J. Alphonse Prudhomme was a student at the University of North Carolina, 1855-1858.

Folder: 894: Diary of J. Alphonse Prudhomme written while working on Mississippi and Pacific Railroad.

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About 5500 items.

Financial materials document the everyday financial operations of a plantation based on a workforce of enslaved people and later tenant farmers, sharecroppers, and day laborers, with interests in cotton, corn, hay, lumber, livestock, and a general store. In addition to Bermuda plantation (later called Oakland), there is some scattered information about other nearby plantations, including Gente Place, Magnolia, Shallow Lake, Coco Point, Homeplace, Cognac, Vienna, and others. These materials document the perspective of the plantation owners; however, some financial records also provide insight into the lived experiences of the plantation workforce. There is demographic, social, and economic information, such as names, birth and death dates, health status, work areas and production, consumer purchases, and financial precarity of the people who performed the labor.

Material has been divided into three subseries. Subseries 3.1 contains overview materials that relate to the plantation business as a whole, organization and planning, long term accounting, and the plantation store. Accordingly, correspondence, account ledgers, plantation journals, daybooks, cash account books, receipts, and tax materials are located in this subseries. Subseries 3.2 contains financial materials that describe the specific details of various plantation operations. Accordingly, cotton records, gin, press, corn, and hay books, inventory and order books, and other like materials that pertain to specific crops or day to day functions of the plantation, general store accounting excluded, are collected here. There are also time books, which concern the work of day laborers. Also, this subseries contains materials pertaining to the personal finances of Prudhomme family members, including pocket notebooks, a stock book, and succession records. Subseries 3.3 contains financial materials created by individuals related to and/or living near the Prudhommes at Bermuda/Oakland, but do not pertain directly to the organization and running of the Prudhomme properties. The medical and financial materials of the plantation doctor, for example, are collected in this subseries.

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About 4600 items.

Arrangement: By format.

General plantation materials relate to the plantation organization and planning, long term accounting, or the plantation store. Materials include correspondence, account ledgers, plantation journals, daybooks, cash account books, receipts, and tax assessments.

Nineteenth-century correspondence pertains chiefly to land sales and mortgages, and includes an 1862 overseer report, a mortgage on enslaved people and land, and a letter requesting that enslaved people be sent to work for the Road Commissary. Several items with 1890s dates discuss sale of swamp lands for timber. Many items are in French.

Twentieth-century materials pertain chiefly to orders, notice of receipt of goods, and inquiries and advertising sent to and from merchandise and service vendors, including Standard Oil, in business with the Oakland plantation store. Other notable items include the mercantile reports filed with Louisiana Tax Commission, gin equipment instructions, and materials related to the food stamp program during the 1930s.

There are also account ledgers of laborers, tenants, sharecroppers, and other plantation owners in business with Prudhomme family. Some of the documentation about enslaved people can be found here. The names of freedmen fill the account books after the Civil War as the plantation made the transition to tenant, sharecropper, and a day labor work force.

Cash account books record extensions of credit granted until the customer could pay, probably when able to bring cotton for ginning at Prudhomme gin.

Day books provide a daily record of cash and credit sales at the plantation store and are listed by date and then name with items purchased. There are no daybooks for years 1886-1919 and 1972-1973.

Plantation journals and records provide a daily record of farm work completed, information about enslaved people, reports of weather and how it affected plantation work. The records about enslaved people often include names, ages, births, deaths, the monetary value assigned to them, and information about their health and work. Other information includes poison schedules, rent records, equipment lists, hay and cotton sales, cotton picked and ginned, tenant accounts, football bowl game results, cattle counts and tagging, and bills. Miscellaneous records include information about bales of cotton hauled, measurements of uncultivated land, cabin residents of Oakland, Cognac, and Gangre Place, acres in cultivation, list of gin laborers, chickens sold, corn hauled, rainfall, household inventories, and weather summaries.

Plantation and store ledgers record sales and purchases at the Prudhomme plantation store. The daily sales to individuals were recorded first in the daybooks and cash account books and then copied by customer name to these ledgers. At various times plantation expenses, day worker accounts, merchandise reports (in some cases by item, e.g. pecans), credit and cash sales reports, vendor accounts, crop records, and taxes paid to FICA social security tax and the Internal Revenue Service also were recorded in these ledgers. Occasionally temperature, rainfall, and brief weather descriptions were recorded on inside covers. There are no ledgers for 1895-1915, 1918-1919, or 1924.

Receipts are chiefly 19th-century promissory notes, orders, account summaries, bank receipts, bills of lading, and transfers of credit that document crops, brands, merchandise, and services bought and sold. In addition, there are some miscellaneous succession receipts and tax receipts, a record of enslaved people lent to work on fortifications during the Civil War and purchases made by the Confederate Army, and some 20th-century handwritten merchandise orders from local customers. Volumes contain a representative sample of 20th-century receipts that document merchandise purchased to stock the store. Many 19th-century items in French.

Recapitulations and tax returns detail plantation assets, income, and expenses.

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Folder 141-156

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Correspondence, 1802-1931

Box 11

Folder 157-166

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Correspondence, 1932-1989, and miscellaneous accounts

Items of note:

Folder 163: Phanor Prudhomme I accounts, 1836-1852

Folder 164: Account book, 1845-1860, with entries relating to Prudhomme and Lecomte family properties, includes the Magnolia, Shallow Lake, and Vienna plantations with lists of enslaved people with age, gender, and monetary value assigned.

Folder 165: Account book, 1858-1865, of Phanor Prudhomme I with various individuals, including sawmill accounts and records of Confederate States of America bonds purchased.

Folder 166: Miscellaneous accounts, 1866-1878, including freedmen accounts with days worked, money earned, and school tax, records relating to the estate of Phanor Prudhomme I, and other records.

Box 12

Folder 167-171

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Account books, 1878-1893

By customer name with debits and credits by date.

Items of note:

Folder 170-171: Account book, 1911-1913, with record of day laborer store credits and debits, store rent revenue, ginning and seed expenditures, stock information.

Box 13

Folder 172-184

Folder 172

Folder 173

Folder 174

Folder 175

Folder 176

Folder 177

Folder 178

Folder 179

Folder 180

Folder 181

Folder 182

Folder 183

Folder 184

Cash books, 1894-1944

Box 13

Folder 183-184

Folder 183

Folder 184

Day book, 22 March 1876-11 July 1877

Box 14

Folder 185-192

Folder 185

Folder 186

Folder 187

Folder 188

Folder 189

Folder 190

Folder 191

Folder 192

Day books, 1877-1884

Oversize Volume SV-613/1

Day book, 13 August 1878-11 December 1878

Box 15

Folder 193-206

Folder 193

Folder 194

Folder 195

Folder 196

Folder 197

Folder 198

Folder 199

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Folder 205

Folder 206

Day books, 1884-1926

Box 16

Folder 207-221

Folder 207

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Folder 210

Folder 211

Folder 212

Folder 213

Folder 214

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Folder 218

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Folder 221

Day books, 1927-1934

Box 17

Folder 222-234

Folder 222

Folder 223

Folder 224

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Folder 226

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Folder 228

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Folder 231

Folder 232

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Folder 234

Day books, 1934-1942

Box 18

Folder 235-247

Folder 235

Folder 236

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Folder 238

Folder 239

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Folder 241

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Folder 245

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Folder 247

Day books, 1942-1951

Box 19

Folder 248-260

Folder 248

Folder 249

Folder 250

Folder 251

Folder 252

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Folder 254

Folder 255

Folder 256

Folder 257

Folder 258

Folder 259

Folder 260

Day books, 1951-1962

Box 20

Folder 261-266

Folder 261

Folder 262

Folder 263

Folder 264

Folder 265

Folder 266

Day books, 1962-1975

Box 20

Folder 267

Enslaved work record, 1836

Includes daily picking records.

Box 20

Folder 268

Plantation journal, 1837-1839

Includes lists of enslaved people and scattered accounts.

Box 20

Folder 269

Plantation journal, 1839-1842

Contains scattered journal entries, accounts, lists of enslaved people, and notes.

Box 20

Folder 270

Ambrose Lecomte, 1852

Ledger with inventory, supplies purchased, births and deaths of enslaved people, age of and monetary value assigned to enslaved people on Vienna Plantation. Records were kept in printed books called The Cotton Plantation Record and Account Book by Thomas Affleck. Printed in New Orleans, these books offered the opportunity to make entries under titles such as "Daily Record of Passing Events,""Daily Record of Cotton Picked," and "Planter's Annual Record of His Negroes."

Box 20

Folder 271

P. Phanor Prudhomme I, 1852, 1854, 1866-1867 (bulk, 1852, 1866)

Affleck ledger with daily record of events includes description of work completed on plantation; weather; cotton picked by each enslaved person; bale weights; births, deaths, ages of, and monetary value assigned to enslaved people; and rations issued.

Box 20

Folder 272

P. Phanor Prudhomme I, 1857

Affleck ledger with record of weather and labor performed on plantation, remarks on various crops, cotton picked by each enslaved person, births and deaths of enslaved people, physician visits with explanation as to purpose, and livestock increases.

Box 20

Folder 273

Plantation journal, 1856-1863

Contains farm work records, accounts, lists of enslaved people, and other records.

Box 20

Folder 274

1860

Affleck ledger with daily record of activities on Prudhomme properties, weather reports, information about enslaved people, livestock.

Box 21

Folder 275-277

Folder 275

Folder 276

Folder 277

1861-1864

Affleck ledger with daily record of activities on Prudhomme properties, weather reports, information about enslaved people, livestock.

Box 21

Folder 278

P. Phanor Prudhomme I, 1864-1866

Daily weather and labor account, how much corn given and to whom, lists of enslaved people with an accounting for death and desertion "to the Yankees."

Box 21

Folder 279

J. Alphonse Prudhomme I, 1867

Affleck ledger with plantation records. The format is similar to those used in 1860-1864 but the forms were modified to reflect the end of slavery.

Box 21

Folder 280

P. Phanor Prudhomme II, 1942-1961

Record of when and where crops were planted and by whom, poisons applied.

Box 21

Folder 281-282

Folder 281

Folder 282

1964-1965

Daily record of activities on plantation.

Box 22

Folder 283-290

Folder 283

Folder 284

Folder 285

Folder 286

Folder 287

Folder 288

Folder 289

Folder 290

1966-1988

Daily record of activities on plantation.

Item of note:

Folder 286: Includes account of James Alphonse Prudhomme III's cancer.

Box 22

Folder 287-288

Folder 287

Folder 288

Miscellaneous records, 1839-1982

Box 22

Folder 289-290

Folder 289

Folder 290

Ledger, 1873

Includes inventory of barterable goods and list of plantation laborers in account with J. Alphonse Prudhomme I.

Box 23

Folder 291-295

Folder 291

Folder 292

Folder 293

Folder 294

Folder 295

Ledgers, 1877-1882

Includes some invoice tracking, cash reporting, summarizes accounts in balance in biweekly reports.

Box 24

Folder 296-300

Folder 296

Folder 297

Folder 298

Folder 299

Folder 300

Ledgers, 1882-1886

Oversize Volume SV-613/2

Ledger, 1883-1884

Box 25

Folder 301-304

Folder 301

Folder 302

Folder 303

Folder 304

Ledger, 1887-1892

Box 26

Folder 305a-307b

Ledgers, 1892-1894, 1916

Items of note:

Folder 306a-306b: Includes accounting for succession of A. L. Prudhomme.

Box 27

Folder 308-314

Folder 308

Folder 309

Folder 310

Folder 311

Folder 312

Folder 313

Folder 314

Ledgers, 1917-1926

Box 28

Folder 315-320

Folder 315

Folder 316

Folder 317

Folder 318

Folder 319

Folder 320

Ledgers, 1927-1932

Box 29

Folder 321-325

Folder 321

Folder 322

Folder 323

Folder 324

Folder 325

Ledgers, 1933-1937

Box 30

Folder 326-330

Folder 326

Folder 327

Folder 328

Folder 329

Folder 330

Ledgers, 1938-1943

Box 31

Folder 331-335

Folder 331

Folder 332

Folder 333

Folder 334

Folder 335

Ledgers, 1944-1948

Box 32

Folder 336-340

Folder 336

Folder 337

Folder 338

Folder 339

Folder 340

Ledgers, 1949-1953

Box 33

Folder 341-347

Folder 341

Folder 342

Folder 343

Folder 344

Folder 345

Folder 346

Folder 347

Ledgers, 1954-1958

Box 34

Folder 348-352

Folder 348

Folder 349

Folder 350

Folder 351

Folder 352

Ledgers, 1959-1963

Box 35

Folder 353-358

Folder 353

Folder 354

Folder 355

Folder 356

Folder 357

Folder 358

Ledger, 1964-1971

Box 36

Folder 359-360

Folder 359

Folder 360

Ledgers, 1972-1974, 1977-1982

Box 36

Folder 361-371

Folder 361

Folder 362

Folder 363

Folder 364

Folder 365

Folder 366

Folder 367

Folder 368

Folder 369

Folder 370

Folder 371

Receipts, 1788-1858

Box 37

Folder 372-387

Folder 372

Folder 373

Folder 374

Folder 375

Folder 376

Folder 377

Folder 378

Folder 379

Folder 380

Folder 381

Folder 382

Folder 383

Folder 384

Folder 385

Folder 386

Folder 387

Receipts, 1859

Some receipts arranged by name: H. Gillie, Emma Lambre, P. A. Prudhomme, P. Placide Prudhomme, J. Reginald Prudhomme.

Oversize Volume SV-613/3-7

SV-613/3

SV-613/4

SV-613/5

SV-613/6

SV-613/7

Receipts, 1895-1918

Box 37

Folder 388-391

Folder 388

Folder 389

Folder 390

Folder 391

Tax statements and assessments, 1851-1916

Oversize Paper OP-613/8

The Democratic Review Supplement: State Tax Sales on Movable Property, 1849

Oversize Paper OP-613/9

Assessment list of Mrs. F. A. Prudhomme, 1916

Oversize Paper OP-613/10

Certificate of purchase for public land by Daniel Sparks, 1849

Expand/collapse Subseries 3.2. Plantation Operations and Personal Financial Materials, 1837-1977.

About 725 items.

Arrangement: Alphabetical by subject, then chronological.

Plantation operations and personal financial materials constitute a microeconomic approach to the Prudhomme plantation and store records. These materials demonstrate the various operations on Prudhomme properties in minute, day-to-day detail. Included are cotton crop, gin, and press records, time books and store accounts for laborers, corn books, hay books, store inventory books, customer order books, ice, lumber, and seed books, market reports, personal expense notebooks, and succession records.

Articles-needed books are a record of grocery, hardware, dry goods, and drug merchandise to be added to the store inventory.

Corn books are a record of store accounts to be paid in corn by customers.

Cotton records include notebooks, a ledger, receipts and correspondence. Cotton books document store accounts paid for with cotton and sometimes include notes on cotton bale tag numbers and crop yields for tenants and sharecroppers at Oakland and Coco Point plantations. Some items also contain information about corn, hay, and lumber crops. The cotteon ledger is an account book of cotton grown at nearby plantations. Receipts and correspondence consist chiefly of bills of sale and lading, account summaries, Cotton Producers Association contracts, Louisiana Farm Bureau Cotton Growers Cooperative Association materials, sales agreements, and bank deposits.

Gin records concern cotton ginned for tenants and sharecroppers on the Prudhomme's plantation, and for other cotton growers on nearby plantations. Materials include gin books, a ledger, receipts and reports. Volumes and receipts record ginning expenses and profits. Reports, which record the bale weight and tag numbers for cotton ginned at the Prudhomme gin, were required by the Agricultural Adjustment Act to demonstrate compliance with the cotton quota. See also the plantation and store ledgers in Subseries 3.1. for ginning between 1912 and 1920.

Hay books are a record of work performed by day laborers and store charges against their earnings. Laborers earned 75 cents per day, which generally was credited to a store account, but appears to have been paid out in cash on occasion. Some books contain records of sale and purchase of hay bales, amounts brought up, amounts pressed, the weight of the bales, number of bales sold and where distributed or stored.

Inventory books are lists of the groceries, drugs, dry goods, hardware, gasoline and oil, and notions in stock in the store, usually inventoried the first of the year.

Livestock records chiefly concern horse breeding, with some entries for cattle breeding and mules loaned to be gentled. The poultry book records weight and sale of turkeys and hens.

Lumber and sawmill books record the sale of lumber, including size and price.

Order books are a record of merchandise ordered for the house and store and for individual customers. Several books document accounts with J. B. Planche in New Orleans.

Press books are a record of bags and ties received and issued, seeds pressed, and reports to government.

Store notebooks are a record of merchandise and cash advances purchased at store on credit by day laborers and farmers, then repaid in labor, crops, or cash.

Time books are a record of work performed by day laborers and store charges against their earnings.

Other materials include tax assessments, records documenting succession accounting for family members, personal notebooks, an ice book, seed book, stock investment book, and Post Office records. J. Alphonse Prudhomme I became the second postmaster of Bermuda, La., in 1903. J. Alphonse Prudhomme II succeeded him as the third postmaster, and J. Alphonse Prudhomme III served as the fourth, from 1962-1966.

Box 38 Folder 392	Articles-needed books, 1884-1887
Box 38 Folder 393-397 Folder 393 Folder 394 Folder 395 Folder 396 Folder 397	Corn books, 1882-1890
Box 38 Folder 398-406 Folder 398 Folder 399 Folder 400 Folder 401 Folder 402 Folder 403 Folder 404 Folder 405 Folder 406	Cotton books, 1877-1878, 1888-1889, 1910-1912, 1933-1941
Oversize Volume SV-613/8	Cotton ledger, 1882-1902 Record of cotton purchased from tenants and sharecroppers at Oakland, Gente Place, and Shallow Lake Plantations, and from land of Lucie Ayres, James A. Leveque, Cora Lambre, and P. Felix Prudhomme.
Box 38 Folder 407-413 Folder 407 Folder 408 Folder 409 Folder 410 Folder 411 Folder 412 Folder 413	Cotton receipts and correspondence, 1831-1897, 1923-1977
Box 39 Folder 414	Gin book, 1893
Folder 415a-415b	Gin ledger, 1894-1900 Includes expenses for ginning, taxes, rent, building repair and renovation charges, insurance; accounting information for succession of August Lambre Prudhomme. James Alphonse Prudhomme I acted as executor of the succession and accountant for August Lambre Prudhomme's widow, Lucie Prudhomme, and then the remarried Mrs. Lucie Ayres (who was guardian to daughter June Prudhomme by August Lambre Prudhomme).
Box 39 Folder 416-423 Folder 416 Folder 417 Folder 418 Folder 419 Folder 420 Folder 421 Folder 422 Folder 423	Gin books, 1899-1910
Box 40 Folder 424-432b	Gin books, 1911-1938
Box 41 Folder 433a-433b	Gin book, 1934
Box 41 Folder 434	Gin reports, 1938
Box 41 Folder 435a-435b	Gin book, 1939-1940
Box 41 Folder 436-441 Folder 436 Folder 437 Folder 438 Folder 439 Folder 440 Folder 441	Gin receipts, 1950-1961
Box 41 Folder 442-445 Folder 442 Folder 443 Folder 444 Folder 445	Hay books, 1876-1882
Box 42 Folder 446-453 Folder 446 Folder 447 Folder 448 Folder 449 Folder 450 Folder 451 Folder 452 Folder 453	Hay books, 1883-1888
Box 42 Folder 454	Ice book, 1926-1931 Record of sale of ice at store.
Box 42 Folder 455-460 Folder 455 Folder 456 Folder 457 Folder 458 Folder 459 Folder 460	Inventory book, 1920-1928, 1949-1970
Box 42 Folder 461	Licenses and memberships, 1873-1962 Includes permits to sell alcohol, tobacco, soft drinks, and retail goods; memberships in various organizations, including Louisiana Farm Bureau Federation, Louisiana Cotton Ginners Association.
Box 42 Folder 462-464 Folder 462 Folder 463 Folder 464	Stud book, 1847-1857, 1882-1911
Box 43 Folder 465-466 Folder 465 Folder 466	Stud book, 1912-1919
Box 43 Folder 467	Poultry book, 1956-1959 Records of weight and sale of turkeys and hens.
Box 43 Folder 468-469 Folder 468 Folder 469	Lumber and sawmill book, 1860-1862
Box 43 Folder 470	Market reports, 1859-1894 Printed reports on cotton, tobacco, and other crops for St. Louis and New Orleans markets.
Box 43 Folder 471-476 Folder 471 Folder 472 Folder 473 Folder 474 Folder 475 Folder 476	Order books, 1842-1881
Box 43 Folder 477-483 Folder 477 Folder 478 Folder 479 Folder 480 Folder 481 Folder 482 Folder 483	Pocket notebooks: P. Phanor Prudhomme I,1841-1925 P. Phanor Prudhomme I, P. L. Prudhomme. Items of note: Folder 479: P. Phanor Prudhomme I xxpenses during a visit to Mammoth Cave In French. Folder 482: P. L. Prudhomme notes on car fare, gambling loss at the horse races, remedies, job advertisements.
Box 43 Folder 484	Post Office cash book, 1923-1924
Box 44 Folder 485	Post Office money order register, 1908-1944
Box 44 Folder 486-496 Folder 486 Folder 487 Folder 488 Folder 489 Folder 490 Folder 491 Folder 492 Folder 493 Folder 494 Folder 495 Folder 496	Press books, 1917-1928
Box 45 Folder 497-504 Folder 497 Folder 498 Folder 499 Folder 500 Folder 501 Folder 502 Folder 503 Folder 504	Press books, 1929-1940
Box 45 Folder 505	1916, 1950-1961 Record of seed bought from or by sharecroppers. Includes a 1950 journal of weather, personal activities, clock and jewelry repair by P. Phanor "Pete" Prudhomme III for 1950-1951 and 1955-1961.
Box 45 Folder 506	Stock investment book, 1924-1934 P. Phanor Prudhomme II's record of shares purchased and dividends for Peoples Bank, Natchitoches Sanitorium, and John Henry Oil and Gas, Inc. Also, record of money borrowed from Dr. E. G. Lawton, the husband of his sister Cora Prudhomme Lawton, to make payment on equipment for gin press and to pay succession, land leased, and royalties.
Box 45 Folder 507-508 Folder 507 Folder 508	Store notebooks, 1878-1880
Box 46 Folder 509-511 Folder 509 Folder 510 Folder 511	Store notebooks, 1880-1881, 1892-1893 Folder 511: Chiefly accounting for W. W. Breazeale, Jr., but other accounts included, viz. Metoyer and Hertzog.
Box 46 Folder 512	Division of Jean Pierre Emmanuel Prudhomme and Catherine Lambre Prudhomme estate, 1845-1860 Includes entries for notes collected and paid out, interest collected, assets, and notes of auction; additional entries record Phanor Prudhomme I's administration of the successions of N. C. Levoy and Achille Lebreton, and the accounts of Phanor's children (1853-1860); accounting for a saw mill and a dairy in Texas. Chiefly in French.
Box 46 Folder 513	1868-1875 Succession and personal accounts of the children of Achille Prudhomme and Estelle Prudhomme; J. Alphonse Prudhomme I served as executor.
Box 46 Folder 514-518 Folder 514 Folder 515 Folder 516 Folder 517 Folder 518	Time books, 1880s Includes record by month of time worked and lost by laborers.

Expand/collapse Subseries 3.3. Other Financial Materials, 1836-1918.

About 100 items.

Other Financial Materials were created by individuals related to and/or living near the Prudhommes at Bermuda/Oakland plantation, but do not pertain directly to the organization and running of the Prudhomme properties. Materials in this subseries have been divided into James A. Leveque materials and miscellaneous materials. James A. Leveque served as doctor for Oakland community and the surrounding community. Around 1879, the doctor began recording the sale of merchandise, perhaps at that time beginning a store partnership of some sort with the Prudhommes. Materials include the following: account summaries of customers in debt to Leveque; daybooks with daily records of medical services provided and merchandise sold, and some documentation of livestock breeding; ledgers with accounting information for medical services, expenses, and contracts, which were paid in cash, draft from someone else, labor, liens, and merchandise; notebooks with medical and store accounting records; a succession book; and miscellaneous items pertaining to professional and personal finances, including promissory notes, receipts, a drug price list, requests for house calls, and court judgments against non-paying clients.

Miscellaneous materials consist of a few other notebooks belonging to Alexis Cloutier, Emile Cloutier, Achille Lebreton, James E. Keator, A. Lecomte, and one of unknown authorship, but possibly belonging to a member of the Keator family. These financial materials were created by individuals related to and/or living near the Prudhommes at Bermuda/Oakland, but do not pertain directly to the organization and running of the Prudhomme properties

Box 46 Folder 519	Account summaries, circa 1880-1893
Box 46 Folder 520-521 Folder 520 Folder 521	Day books, 1873-1888 Item of note: Folder 521: Includes notes on medical treatment of diptheria cases in August 1885.
Box 47 Folder 522	Day book, 1888-1893
Box 47 Folder 523-527 Folder 523 Folder 524 Folder 525 Folder 526 Folder 527	Ledgers, 1867-1876 Item of note: Folder 523: Includes record of workers hired for 1868; notes on feed expenditures for horses.
Box 48 Folder 528	Ledger, 1876-1879
Box 48 Folder 529	Folder number not used
Oversize Volume SV-613/9	Ledger, 1879-1884
Oversize Volume SV-613/10	Ledger, 1885-1886
Oversize Volume SV-613/11	Ledger, 1885-1892
Box 48 Folder 530-533 Folder 530 Folder 531 Folder 532 Folder 533	Notebooks, 1872-1891 Items of note: Folder 530: Includes notes on tree grafting experiments, livestock breeding, medical notes on a miscarriage, vaccinations, treatment for pneumonia, typhoid fever. Folder 531: Includes notes on tree harvesting in swamp. Folder 533: Includes recipes (chiefly in French), fence law for livestock, horsebreeding records, house dimensions for floors, roof, hay workers accounting, and a hunting report.
Box 48 Folder 534a-534b	Succession Book, 1893-1900 Record of notes, judgments, rights on credits, cash payments, livestock and furniture inventories, and a continuing account with Leveque's widow; includes inventory of medical supplies, household furniture, and tools; succession administered circa 1894 by J. Alphonse Prudhomme I.
Box 49 Folder 535-536 Folder 535 Folder 536	Miscellaneous, 1876-1899
Box 49 Folder 537	Alexis Cloutier, 1836-1839 Succession book documenting account with City Bank of New Orleans.
Box 49 Folder 538	Emile Cloutier and Fulbert Cloutier, 1868-1869 Account notebook tracking cotton and corn yields and sales, store expenses, medical bills, equipment and livestock rental, and poll taxes credited or charged to freedmen and other sharecroppers.
Folder 539	Emile Cloutier and Fulbert Cloutier, 1870-1876 Account notebook tracking cotton and corn yields and sales, store expenses, medical bills, equipment and livestock rental, and poll taxes credited or charged to freedmen and other sharecroppers.
Box 49 Folder 540	Emile Cloutier and Fulbert Cloutier, 1882-1886 Account notebook tracking cotton and corn yields and sales, store expenses, medical bills, equipment and livestock rental, and poll taxes credited or charged to freedmen and other sharecroppers.
Box 49 Folder 541	James E. Keator, 1877-1879 Medical ledger with ailment and treatment descriptions accompanying bookkeeping in some cases; broken bones, neuralgias, abortions, and various infections are documented.
Box 49 Folder 542	James T. Keator, 1896-1918 Horse breeding book tracks lineage and offspring of horses.
Box 49 Folder 543	Achille Lebreton, 1854 Succession book; in French.
Box 50 Folder 544a	A. Lecomte, 1838-1849 Bank book.
Box 50 Folder 544b	1890 List of expenses, gifts for family members, and miscellaneous jottings; author unknown, but possibly belonging to a Keator.

Expand/collapse Series 3A. Financial Materials, 1765-1895 (Additions of 2001).

About 775 items.

Acquisitions Information: Accessions 99119, 99147

Materials include correspondence, chiefly from overseers and factors; a store account book; promissory notes; receipts and accounting for store purchases, school tuition, music lessons, taxes paid, and other financial transactions; and miscellaneous plantation records, including undated lists of enslaved people, household and personal inventories, and land valuations. Included are some records documenting the sale, rental, manumission, and medical expenses of enslaved people. Many of these materials relate to Ambrose Lecomte's Magnolia, Shallow Lake, and Vienna plantations. Also of interest are a permit allowing an enslaved person to go to Coin-Coin, a free woman, for four days, and the receipts documenting the expenses of Eliza Lecomte, a young white woman in the 1840s and 1850s. Many items are in French.

Box 72 Folder 896	Correspondence, 1783-1828 Includes a description of an enslaved person who was punished for going to Cloutierville for a drink. Many items are in French.
Box 72 Folder 897	Correspondence, 1930s
Box 72 Folder 898-904 Folder 898 Folder 899 Folder 900 Folder 901 Folder 902 Folder 903 Folder 904	Correspondence, 1840s-1880s
Box 73 Folder 905	Account book, 1895 Store account book belonging to May Prudhomme.
Box 73 Folder 906	Plantation records, undated Materials include undated lists of enslaved people, household and personal inventories, land valuations, and other plantation records. Items of note include an 1841 inventory of effects belonging to Dominique, who was enslaved by Ambrose Lecomte.
Box 73 Folder 907-908 Folder 907 Folder 908	Receipts, 1765-1816
Box 73 Folder 909	Receipts, 1830s
Box 73 Folder 910	Receipts, 1830s
Box 73 Folder 911	Receipts, 1830s
Box 73 Folder 912-916 Folder 912 Folder 913 Folder 914 Folder 915 Folder 916	Receipts, 1840s
Box 73 Folder 917	Receipts, 1840s
Oversize Paper OP-613/4	Account sheet for Ambrose Lecomte, 1847
Extra Oversize Paper XOP-613/5	Account sheet for Ambrose Lecomte, 1841
Oversize Paper OP-613/6	Account sheet, undated
Box 73 Folder 918-919 Folder 918 Folder 919	Plantation records, 1850s
Box 74 Folder 920-929 Folder 920 Folder 921 Folder 922 Folder 923 Folder 924 Folder 925 Folder 926 Folder 927 Folder 928 Folder 929	Plantation records, 1850s-1870s
Box 74 Folder 930	Cotton records, 1820s-1850s Chiefly receipts of cotton sales and shipments. Also included are a few issues of New Orleans Prices Current, Commercial Intelligencer and Merchants' Transcript.

Expand/collapse 4. Legal Papers, 1810-1971.

About 75 items.

Arrangement: Alphabetical by subject, then chronological.

Legal papers include agreements and indentures, deeds of property and land, judgments and suits, marriage contracts, mortgages, wills and successions. These materials chiefly concern interactions of the plantation owners with the legal system, but there is some evidence of their intersection with the lives of the people who performed the labor on the plantation as well, and typically in regard to the terms of the labor.

Box 50 Folder 545	Correspondence, 1840-1973 Chiefly concerning a land dispute, denial of patent, power of attorney, and a legal challenge to the arrest of a local doctor.
Folder 546	1867-1881 Worker agreements, planting agreements, tenant liens.
Box 50 Folder 547-548 Folder 547 Folder 548	Deeds, 1810-1859, 1871- Land and property, includes the sale of enslaved people by a free Black person.
Box 50 Folder 549	Judgments and suits, 1809-1878 Includes documentation of a divorce.
Box 50 Folder 550	Leases, 1937-1971 Includes agreement with Standard Oil for drilling on property.
Box 50 Folder 551	Marriage contracts, 1855, 1875 Handwritten copies.
Box 50 Folder 552	Mortgage, 1933 P. Phanor Prudhomme II's copy of loan documents from Federal Land Bank of New Orleans covering primary and secondary mortgages on Oakland plantation.
Box 50 Folder 553	Wills and successions, 1848-1871
Box 50 Folder 554	Wills and successions, 1919-1924 J. Alphonse Prudhomme I, Eliza Prudhomme.
Box 50 Folder 555	Wills and successions, 1933-1948 Julia Prudhomme, Phanor Prudhomme II, and a list of people who attended S. Hyams's estate sale and purchases made.
Extra Oversize Paper XOP-613/47	"Tableau of Distribution Amongst the Heirs of Remy Lambre," undated
Oversize Paper OP-613/58	Passport of Achille Lebreton, 17 February 1837 In French.

Expand/collapse Series 4A. Legal Materials, 1809-1868.

About 20 items.

Acquisitions Information: Accessions 99119, 99147

Box 74

Folder 931

Legal materials, 1809-1868

Materials include deeds, lawsuits, succession papers, a marriage contract, and work contracts with freedmen. Some items are in French.

Expand/collapse Series 5. Genealogical Materials, 1842-1993.

About 2000 items.

Arrangement: By format.

The materials in this series document Lucile Keator Prudhomme's interest in genealogy throughout her adult life.

Correspondence is chiefly exchanges of genealogical information between Lucile Keator Prudhomme and family members, various archives in the eastern United States and in England and France, members of various genealogical societies, and other genealogists. Notebooks contain copies of Lucile's outgoing letters and include some unrelated letters and genealogical notes.

Research notes are chiefly jottings of genealogical information collected by Lucile Keator Prudhomme through correspondence and during research visits to archives and cemeteries. Lucile kept track of information in notebooks by subject, on miscellaneous scraps of paper, and on lineage charts. She also collected photocopies of 18th- and 19th-century court documents regarding the families associated with Oakland and other Cane River area properties. This subseries also contains three scrapbooks in which genealogical information has been gathered into a coherent narrative or chart form.

Family mementos include published and unpublished materials recording births, deaths, religious ceremonies, marriages, and various family celebrations. These materials reflect the family's multi-generational interest in historical record keeping.

Genealogical society materials document Lucile Keator Prudhomme's research on both her birth family and her husband's to prove lineage in order to join various genealogical societies. Included are membership materials, notebooks recording the minutes of two societies in which Lucile was active, and miscellaneous records pertaining to society history and activities.

There is also a sampling of archival publications, genealogical newsletters, photocopies of book chapters, newspaper articles, and other published materials used by Lucile Keator Prudhomme in her genealogical research. Included is a copy of her Natchitoches Cemeteries (1977).

Box 50 Folder 556-559 Folder 556 Folder 557 Folder 558 Folder 559	Genealogical correspondence, 1911, 1939-1969, and undated
Box 51 Folder 560-567 Folder 560 Folder 561 Folder 562 Folder 563 Folder 564 Folder 565 Folder 566 Folder 567	Genealogical correspondence, 1971-1992
Box 51 Folder 568-577 Folder 568 Folder 569 Folder 570 Folder 571 Folder 572 Folder 573 Folder 574 Folder 575 Folder 576 Folder 577	Genealogical notebooks, 1967-1988
Box 52 Folder 578-579 Folder 578 Folder 579	Baptismal records notebooks, 1940s, 1969
Box 52 Folder 580	Birthdays notebook, circa 1991
Box 52 Folder 581-583 Folder 581 Folder 582 Folder 583	Cemetery records notebook, 1960s-1972
Box 52 Folder 584	Church records notebook, 1950s Includes Cloutier family in Canada
Box 52 Folder 585	Court house records (marriages) notebook, 1960s
Box 52 Folder 586-587 Folder 586 Folder 587	Daughters of the American Revolution notebook, 1957, 1977
Box 53 Folder 588	Research notebook, circa 1970 Excerpts from diaries of William S. Tourney and Adolphe Prudhomme, various genealogical publications, cemetery notes, and biographical histories of Northwest Louisiana.
Box 53 Folder 589-592 Folder 589 Folder 590 Folder 591 Folder 592	Marriage records notebooks, 1953, 1970s Folder 590: Includes list of Natchitoches enslavers in 1862, and an essay on first gas well discovery by enslaved people in 1823.
Box 53 Folder 593	Family name research notebook: Cloutier family records, 1950s-1970s
Box 53 Folder 594	Family name research notebook: Hyams family records, 1950s-1970s
Box 53 Folder 595a	Family name research notebook: Keator and Bass family records, 1950s-1970s Includes a guest list for fiftieth wedding anniversary party of J. Alphonse Prudhomme II and Lucile Keator Prudhomme
Box 53 Folder 595b	Family name research notebook: Keator and Blake family records, 1950s-1970s
Box 53 Folder 596	Family name research notebook: Prudhomme family records, 1950s-1970s
Box 53 Folder 597-600 Folder 597 Folder 598 Folder 599 Folder 600	Family name research notebook: Miscellaneous family records, 1950s-1970s
Box 54 Folder 601-613 Folder 601 Folder 602 Folder 603 Folder 604 Folder 605 Folder 606 Folder 607 Folder 608 Folder 609 Folder 610 Folder 611 Folder 612 Folder 613	Unbound research notes
Box 55 Folder 614-617 Folder 614 Folder 615 Folder 616 Folder 617	Unbound research notes
Box 55 Folder 618-619 Folder 618 Folder 619	Charts
Box 55 Folder 620	Agreements, 1772-1897 (photocopies)
Box 55 Folder 621	Birth, death, and baptism certificates, 1905-1974 (photocopies; arranged alphabetically)
Box 55 Folder 622-624 Folder 622 Folder 623 Folder 624	Deeds, 1786-1942 (photocopies)
Box 55 Folder 625	Judgments and suits, 1826-1906, and undated (photocopies)
Box 55 Folder 626-627 Folder 626 Folder 627	Marriage contracts, 1758-1831, 1845-1883, 1905, 1907, 1924
Box 55 Folder 628-629 Folder 628 Folder 629	Mortgages, 1888-1923 (photocopies)
Box 56 Folder 630	Wills and successions, 1814-1893, 1902 (photocopies)
Box 56 Folder 631	Miscellaneous, 1903-1980, and undated (photocopies)
Box 56 Folder 632	Lambre family lineage, 1842-1944 Brief narrative written by Emma Breazeale Lambre.
Box 56 Folder 633-634 Folder 633 Folder 634	Prudhomme-Keator genealogical scrapbook, 1955-1975 Traces both family trees across many generations; includes pictures, postcards, newspaper clippings and other miscellaneous bits of information that have been glued to pages; compiled by Lucile Keator Prudhomme.
Box 56 Folder 635	Solomon Williams family lineage, 1984 Research compiled by Carol Lee Thomas on the family tree of Solomon Williams, an enslaved person who worked as a blacksmith on the Phanor Prudhomme I plantation. Compiler documents sources used; disassembled album.
Oversize Paper OP-613/53	John Lanier family lineage
Box 56 Folder 636-639 Folder 636 Folder 637 Folder 638 Folder 639	Birth announcements Cards, clippings.
Box 56 Folder 640	Marriage records See also subseries 7.7 Invitations.
Box 56 Folder 641	P. Phanor Prudhomme II, 50th wedding anniversary guest book, 1941
Box 56 Folder 642	Samuel M. Hyams and Marie Emma Cloutier Hyams, 50th wedding anniversary guest book, 1957
Box 57 Folder 643-647 Folder 643 Folder 644 Folder 645 Folder 646 Folder 647	Death announcements, programs, obituaries
Box 57 Folder 648-649 Folder 648 Folder 649	Mass cards, 1964, 1968 Samuel M. Hyams, J. Alphonse Prudhomme III.
Box 57 Folder 650	Memorial book for J. Alphonse Prudhomme III, 1988
Box 57 Folder 651-653 Folder 651 Folder 652 Folder 653	Miscellaneous records and clippings Includes certificates for honorary offices, selective service, Knights of Columbus.
Oversize Paper OP-613/11a-19	Family communion and confirmation certificates, 1909-1945
Box 57 Folder 653	Membership applications, 1931-1985 Various societies
Box 57 Folder 654	Membership cards, circa 1920-1960 Daughters of the American Revolution
Box 58 Folder 655-657 Folder 655 Folder 656 Folder 657	Colonial Dames XVII Century, Louisiana Society and Daughters of the American Revolution activities, 1978-1982
Box 58 Folder 658-665 Folder 658 Folder 659 Folder 660 Folder 661 Folder 662 Folder 663 Folder 664 Folder 665	Yearbook for Daughters of the American Revolution, St. Denis Chapter, 1935-1964
Box 58 Folder 666-669 Folder 666 Folder 667 Folder 668 Folder 669	Miscellaneous, 1939-1993
Box 58 Folder 670	Cloutier Collection, 1966
Box 58 Folder 671	Huit Premieres Generations de la Genealogie Descendante de Denis Cloutier, 1984
Box 59 Folder 672	Denison, miscellaneous
Box 59 Folder 673	Keator Family in America, 1961
Box 59 Folder 674	Natchitoches Cemeteries, 1977, by Lucile Keator Prudhomme
Box 59 Folder 675	Papers of the Fifth Grand Reunion of the Descendants of the Founders of Natchitoches, 1984; Papers of the Sixth Grand Reunion of the Descendants of the Founders of Natchitoches, 1985; Selected Papers of the Seventh Grand Reunion of the Descendants of the Founders of Natchitoches , 1986
Box 59 Folder 676	Reflections, June 1984-April 1992, newsletter of the founders of Natchitoches
Box 59 Folder 677	World Book of Prudhommes, 1991
Box 59 Folder 678	Miscellaneous pamphlets, articles, and clippings

Expand/collapse Series 5A. Genealogical Materials, 1846-1923.

About 15 items.

Acquisitions Information: Accessions 99119, 99147

Research notes, background material, and family mementos relating to Prudhomme family genealogy.

Box 74 Folder 932	Research notes, undated
Box 74 Folder 933	Family mementos, 1846-1923
Box 74 Folder 934	Folder number not used

Expand/collapse Series 6. Maps and Plats, 1816-1977.

About 25 items.

Arrangement: Chronological.

Chiefly copies of mid-1800s plats of the Cane River plantations, probably issued for administration of successions. Included are an undated survey with measurement points for crop boundaries; also, a 1977 aerial map of Oakland plantation, an undated oil and gas map of Natchitoches Parish, La., and an undated annotated map of plats in part of Natchitoches Parish.

Folder 679	1816-1977
Box 59 Folder 680	Undated Includes survey of crop boundaries.
Extra Oversize Paper XOP-613/21	Aerial image of land along Red River, 1977
Extra Oversize Paper XOP-613/22	Blossom Oil and Gas Company, Lake Flemmins derrick sites, Campti, La.,
Extra Oversize Paper XOP-613/23	Plat, circa 1830
Extra Oversize Paper XOP-613/24	Plat, circa 1830
Extra Oversize Paper XOP-613/25	Plat of land ownership, 1837
Extra Oversize Paper XOP-613/27	Plat of Deblieuse, 1854
Oversize Paper OP-613/28	Survey of land on the Red River near Natchitoches, 1857
Oversize Paper OP-613/29	Survey of land on the Red River near Natchitoches, 1863
Oversize Paper OP-613/30	Survey of land
Extra Oversize Paper XOP-613/31	Plat of Natchitoches Parish,
Oversize Paper OP-613/54	Plat of land ownership, undated
Oversize Paper OP-613/55	Plat of land ownership, circa 1840
Oversize Paper OP-613/56	Plat of land ownership, circa 1840
Oversize Paper OP-613/57	Plat of land ownership, circa 1850

Expand/collapse Series 6A. Maps and Plats, 1768.

1 item.

Acquisitions Information: Accessions 99119, 99147

Plat of land between Bermuda, La. and Natchitoches, La..

Extra Oversize Paper XOP-613/20

1768

Expand/collapse Series 7. Photographic Materials, circa 1880-1993.

About 5000 items.

Arrangement: By format.

Documents Prudhomme family and neighbors, including the Keator and Hyam families, the big house and renovations, World War I, travel, quilting, anniversary celebrations. There are some 19th-century materials, but materials date chiefly from the 20th century (1910s-1980s).

Expand/collapse Subseries 7.1. Photographs, circa 1880-1993.

About 2500 items.

Arrangement: Alphabetical by family name, then subject.

Extended Prudhomme and Keator families are documented. Chiefly portraits of individuals and families and images of their gatherings, such as for holidays, birthdays, weddings, recreation, and travel. Nineteenth-century portraits have cardboard backing. Architectural images include interior and exterior views of Oakland and its 19th-century tools. Renovations of 1953 and 1964 are documented. Other architectural images document various Keator homes. Genealogical society activities also are documented. Miscellaneous images include pets, World War I, and construction scenes. Nearly all photographs are annotated with names and dates. Some negatives are available.

Special Format Image SF-P-613/1	Walter Stuart Blake, daguerreotype
Special Format Image SF-P-613/2	Walter Stuart Blake, tintype
Special Format Image SF-P-613/3	Elisha Breazeale and Mary Keator Breazeale, with others seated in a car, tintype
Special Format Image SF-P-613/4	Mary Keator Breazeale and Kate Keator[?] in car, tintype
Special Format Image SF-P-613/5	Mary Keator Breazeale and Kate Keator[?] in car, tintype
Special Format Image SF-P-613/6	Unidentified man with hand on crossed leg, tintype
Special Format Image SF-P-613/7	Unidentified man with hands on lapels, tintype
Special Format Image SF-P-613/8	Unidentified man with hat, tintype
Special Format Image SF-P-613/9	Unidentified man, ambrotype
Special Format Image SF-P-613/10	Unidentified man with cane in left hand, tintype
Special Format Image SF-P-613/11	Unidentified man, tintype
Special Format Image SF-P-613/12	Unidentified baby with cat, glass covered photograph
Special Format Image SF-P-613/13	Headshots of 20 unidentified men, daguerreotype
Special Format Image SF-P-613/14a	Unidentified couple, tintype
Special Format Image SF-P-613/14b	Unidentified couple, tintype
Special Format Image SF-P-613/14c	Unidentified couple, tintype
Oversize Image Folder OP-P-613/1	Photographs of a 1949 youth group, a 1949 religious group meeting, and a 1974 genealogical society meeting; collage of Oakland plantation scenes, undated
Image Folder PF-613/1	Elisha Breazeale and Mary Keator Breazeale, undated
Image Folder PF-613/2	Harriet Prudhomme Breazeale, 1910-circa 1920, and undated
Image Folder PF-613/3	Other Breazeale family, circa 1900
Image Folder PF-613/4	Blanche Capaville, circa 1900
Image Folder PF-613/5a	Cloutier family, circa 1880-1983
Image Folder PF-613/5b	Cloutier family, circa 1880-1983
Image Folder PF-613/5c	Cloutier family, circa 1880-1983
Image Folder PF-613/5d	Cloutier family, circa 1880-1983
Image Folder PF-613/5e	Cloutier family, circa 1880-1983
Image Folder PF-613/6	Cunningham family, circa 1910-1950
Image Folder PF-613/7	Seessel Breazeale Durand, undated
Image Folder PF-613/8	Frampton family, circa 1890-1900
Image Folder PF-613/9	Hyams family, circa 1920-1940
Image Folder PF-613/10	Charles D. Keator, circa 1900-1910
Image Folder PF-613/11	Charles D. Keator and family, circa 1914-1971
Image Folder PF-613/12	Charles E. Keator, circa 1911
Image Folder PF-613/13	James E. Keator, circa 1900
Image Folder PF-613/14	James T. Keator and family, circa 1890
Image Folder PF-613/15	Kate "Kitten" Keator (individual), undated
Image Folder PF-613/16	Kate "Kitten" Keator (group), circa 1890-1940
Image Folder PF-613/17	Kate "Kitten" Keator and Mary Keator Breazeale, 1892-circa 1960
Image Folder PF-613/18	Mabel Keator, circa 1910-1940
Image Folder PF-613/19	Mayo S. Keator, undated
Image Folder PF-613/20	Keator family (group), circa 1900-1960
Image Folder PF-613/21	Extended Keator family, 1905-1944, and undated
Image Folder PF-613/22	Lambre family, 1889-1909, and undated
Image Folder PF-613/23	Legrand family, 1966-1986
Image Folder PF-613/24	Metoyer family, undated
Image Folder PF-613/25	Murray-Masters family, circa 1880-1952
Image Folder PF-613/26	J. Alphonse Prudhomme II, 1918-1991
Image Folder PF-613/27	J. Alphonse Prudhomme III and family, 1944-circa 1990
Image Folder PF-613/28	Kenneth Prudhomme and family, 1943-1991
Image Folder PF-613/29	Lucile Keator Prudhomme (individual), circa 1910-1992
Image Folder PF-613/30	Lucile Keator Prudhomme (group), circa 1908-1990
Image Folder PF-613/31	Lucile Keator Prudhomme and J. Alphonse Prudhomme II, 1949-1989
Image Folder PF-613/32	Mayo Prudhomme and family, 1945-1978
Image Folder PF-613/33	Vivian Prudhomme Flores and family, circa 1940-1990
Image Folder PF-613/34	Prudhomme family, 3rd and 4th generations
Image Folder PF-613/35a	Prudhomme family, 5th generation, circa 1890-1940
Image Folder PF-613/36	Prudhomme family, 6th generation, 1930-1951
Image Folder PF-613/37-38 PF-613/37 PF-613/38	Extended Prudhomme family
Image Folder PF-613/39	Tremble family, 1906-1917
Image Folder PF-613/40	Adele Prudhomme Brett and family, 1961-1986
Image Folder PF-613/41	Voiers family, 1890-1920
Image Folder PF-613/42	Miscellaneous people: A-E
Image Folder PF-613/43	Miscellaneous people: H-L
Image Folder PF-613/44	Miscellaneous people: M-R
Image Folder PF-613/45	Miscellaneous people: S-W
Image Folder PF-613/46-47 PF-613/46 PF-613/47	Miscellaneous people: Unidentified
Image Folder PF-613/48	Events: Valentine dance, February 1951
Image Folder PF-613/49	Events: Lucile Keator Prudhomme's 80th birthday, 1986
Image Folder PF-613/50	Events: J. Alphonse Prudhomme II's 91st birthday, 1987
Image Folder PF-613/51	Events: Special mass for Lucile Keator Prudhomme and J. Alphonse Prudhomme II, 1988
Image Folder PF-613/52	Events: Wedding anniversaries, 1984, 1989
Image Folder PF-613/53	Events: Miscellaneous gatherings (identified), 1978-1981
Image Folder PF-613/54	Genealogical societies, 1970s
Image Folder PF-613/55	Genealogical societies, 1980s
Image Folder PF-613/56-57 PF-613/56 PF-613/57	Keator family homes: Bermuda, La., 1916
Image Folder PF-613/58	Keator family homes: New York, 1906-circa 1915
Image Folder PF-613/59	Keator family homes: Webster Groves, Mo., 1906-1944, and undated
Image Folder PF-613/60	Oakland plantation: Buildings, 1901-1968
Image Folder PF-613/61	Oakland plantation: Fishing camp scenes, 1933-1934
Image Folder PF-613/62	Oakland plantation: Interior, 1968-1986
Image Folder PF-613/63	Oakland plantation: Portraits
Image Folder PF-613/64	Oakland plantation: Renovations, 1953
Image Folder PF-613/65	Oakland plantation: Renovations, 1964
Image Folder PF-613/66	Oakland plantation: tools from 19th century
Image Folder PF-613/67	Oakland plantation: Tour, 1963, 1971-1972
Image Folder PF-613/68-69 PF-613/68 PF-613/69	Oakland plantation: Miscellaneous outdoor views
Image Folder PF-613/70	Travel, 1913-1916
Image Folder PF-613/71	Travel, 1941-1968
Image Folder PF-613/72	Travel, 1973-1983
Image Folder PF-613/73-75 PF-613/73 PF-613/74 PF-613/75	World War I
Image Folder PF-613/76	Miscellaneous: baseball, circa 1890
Image Folder PF-613/77	Miscellaneous: Bermuda Bridge
Image Folder PF-613/78	Miscellaneous: Construction scenes, circa 1900-1940
Image Folder PF-613/79	Miscellaneous: Louisiana and Missouri homes, circa 1900-1941
Image Folder PF-613/80	Miscellaneous: Inventions by Mayo S. Keator
Image Folder PF-613/81	Miscellaneous: Pets
Image Folder PF-613/82	Miscellaneous: Railroad
Image Folder PF-613/83	Miscellaneous: Scenes (identified), including outdoor church service and various sites in St. Louis, Mo.

Expand/collapse Subseries 7.2. Slides, 1904-1980.

About 500 items.

Arrangement: Chronological (family images and historic Oakland plantation images are separated).

Chiefly images of family gatherings for weddings, holidays, and other events, and travel. Oakland plantation images include 19th-century tools, miscellaneous outdoor views. Images are in black-and-white and color.

Image Folder PF-613/84	World's Fair[?] in St. Louis, Mo., 1904
Image Folder PF-613/85	Keator family[?], May 1941-October 1945
Image Folder PF-613/86	Keator family, Oakland plantation, October 1945-1955
Image Folder PF-613/87	Christmas, Easter, Kenneth Prudhomme and Sally Prudhomme's wedding, Vivian Prudhomme Flores's classroom, Mother's day, 7th generation of Prudhommes, 1957-1958
Image Folder PF-613/88	7th generation Prudhommes, February 1960 snow, Christmas, Vivian Prudhomme Flores's wedding rehearsal supper, 1959-1960
Image Folder PF-613/89	Travel[?], circa 1960
Image Folder PF-613/90	7th generation Prudhommes, Kisatchie National Forest, air shows, Vivian Prudhomme Flores's home, Hodges' Gardens, 1961-1962
Image Folder PF-613/91	Travel to western United States and British Columbia, 1963
Image Folder PF-613/92	Oakland plantation museum, well tools, and antiques
Image Folder PF-613/93	Oakland plantation "Project Discovery", circa 1980
Image Folder PF-613/94	Miscellaneous, circa 1955-1985 35mm color negatives

Expand/collapse Subseries 7.3. Photograph Albums, 1906-1980s.

10 items.

Albums chiefly document the extended family and friends of the Prudhommes and Keators and their holiday and social gatherings from the 1920s to the 1980s. Photographs of recreation activities, family weddings, and travel are numerous. Also included are childhood and young adult photographs of Lucile Keator Prudhomme, her children, who represent the 6th generation of Prudhommes, and her grandchildren, the 7th generation. Many photographs were annotated by Lucile Keator Prudhomme. Some albums have been disassembled for preservation. Negatives are available for some photographs.

Photograph Album PA-613/23

1906-1957

Includes photographs of Lucile Keator Prudhomme as a child; sixth generation Prudhommes as children; J. Alphonse Prudhomme III's wedding; World War II training camp; Oakland plantation renovations; miscellaneous Keators and Prudhommes.

Photograph Album PA-613/24

1918-1954

Prudhomme and Keator family and friends.

Photograph Album PA-613/25

1919-1922

Lucile Keator Prudhomme at school, with friends and relatives in Bermuda, La., and Webster Groves, Mo.

Photograph Album PA-613/26

Circa 1920

Chiefly Keator family photos, including some swimming scenes.

Image Folder PF-613/95-97

PF-613/95

PF-613/96

PF-613/97

Circa 1940-1969

Prudhomme family and friends, travel, and weddings (disassembled album).

Image Folder PF-613/98-100

PF-613/98

PF-613/99

PF-613/100

1963-1964

Oakland plantation scenes with various Prudhomme and Keator friends and relatives (disassembled album).

Image Folder PF-613/101-103

PF-613/101

PF-613/102

PF-613/103

1950-1983

Oakland plantation in the snow; 7th generation Prudhommes; genealogical society events; Mayo S. Keator's inventions; filming of Horse Soldiers (disassembled album).

Image Folder PF-613/104

"Grandma's Gallery,"1961-1966

Vivian Prudhomme Flores's children (disassembled album).

Image Folder PF-613/105-109

PF-613/105

PF-613/106

PF-613/107

PF-613/108

PF-613/109

1969-circa 1985

Travel; family gatherings, including weddings; Oakland plantation; genealogical society events (disassembled album).

Image Folder PF-613/110

"Our Golden Wedding Anniversary", 9 August 1974

Lucile Keator Prudhomme and J. Alphonse Prudhomme II's 50th wedding anniversary mass and reception (disassembled album).

Expand/collapse Series 7A. Photographic Materials, circa 1900.

2 items.

Acquisitions Information: Accessions 99119, 99147

Photographs of Eliza Lecomte, Julia Prudhomme, and Noelie Prudhomme of the fifth generation of Prudhomme family.

Image Folder PF-613/35b

Prudhomme family, 5th generation

Expand/collapse Series 8. Audio Materials, 1986-1989.

2 items.

Audio recordings of Prudhomme family.

Audiocassette C-00613/1

Appreciation Mass for Papa and Lu Lu, 1986

Audiocassette

Recording of Catholic mass said in honor of J. Alphonse Prudhomme and Lucile Keator Prudhomme.

Audiocassette C-00613/2

"Battle of Bermuda Bridge,"9 December 1989

Audiocassette

Recording of Paul Harvey describing battle in which three children, J. Alphonse Prudhomme III, Kenneth Prudhomme, and Mayo Prudhomme, defeated the U.S. Army under George S. Patton in "war games" training near Oakland plantation in September 1941; interview with Kenneth Prudhomme and Mayo Prudhomme recorded November 1994.

Expand/collapse Series 9. Film Materials, 1963.

2 items.

Film F-00613/1

Oakland plantation, August 1963

Includes roof work and seventh generation Prudhommes.

Film F-00613/2

Home movie of road trip to western United States and British Columbia, September-October 1963

Expand/collapse Series 10. Other Materials, 1811-1995.

About 1000 items.

Primarily materials that relate to the social life and non-business interests of the Prudhomme and Keator families. Address books, day planners and calendars, club records, and invitations evidence the breadth and depth of social contacts and activities engaged in on a regular basis. The political papers, Oakland and other historic Natchitoches materials, scrapbooks, recipes, remedies, and instructions, advertising materials, and the miscellaneous materials document a wide range of interests, from political leadership in the community to historic preservation and domestic arts to sporting activities and travel. School, military, and religious materials suggest three important undercurrents valued by every generation of the Prudhomme and Keator families: education, service to country, and the Catholic faith. Finally, blueprints and designs and field books illustrate Mayo S. Keator's engineering work with railroads and his interest in architecture.

There are scrapbooks with announcements and clippings about the family, the plantation, Bermuda and Natchitoches history and social life, war, religion, and genealogical society activities. Many of the scrapbooks include poetry, greeting cards, postal cards, and other mementos. The earliest scrapbooks are illustrative of the interests of white girls and women, particularly in the 1880s and 1890s. Postal card scrapbooks have been disassembled for preservation and to provide access to verso annotations. Postal cards are stored in original order.

Box 59 Folder 681-688 Folder 681 Folder 682 Folder 683 Folder 684 Folder 685 Folder 686 Folder 687 Folder 688	Address books, 1926-1946 Mayo S. Keator, Lucile Keator Prudhomme, J. Alphonse Prudhomme, Peter L. Prudhomme.
Box 59 Folder 689-690 Folder 689 Folder 690	Advertising materials, 1875-1960 Decorative cards, calendars, bookmarks, business cards, and broadsides advertising products and services.
Oversize Paper OP-613/3	Broadside advertisement for Avery Bee-Line Bursters
Box 60 Folder 691-693 Folder 691 Folder 692 Folder 693	Blueprints and design specifications, 1873, 1916, 1963, and undated Includes specification for a Lecomte store in Natchitoches, a volume of Mayo S. Keator's notes on house in Webster Groves, Mo., and an unidentified house in Natchitoches, possibly owned by Antoine Prudhomme.
Oversize Paper OP-613/48	Blueprint for a bridge, undated
Extra Oversize Paper XOP-613/49-52 XOP-613/49 XOP-613/50 XOP-613/51 XOP-613/52	Blueprints for a gin press, undated
Box 60 Folder 694-697 Folder 694 Folder 695 Folder 696 Folder 697	Club materials, 1896-1949 Materials include membership cards, activity programs, minutes, meeting notices for various groups, including Knights of Columbus, Order of the Eastern Star, American Legion Auxiliary, Catholic Cemetery Association, Social Tennis Club, Harmony Literary Club of St. Louis, St. Louis Tercentenary Shakespeare Society, Webster Groves Garden Club.
Box 60 Folder 698-705 Folder 698 Folder 699 Folder 700 Folder 701 Folder 702 Folder 703 Folder 704 Folder 705	Day books and calendars, 1897-1991 Day planners and calendars are brief records of daily social and work activities, birthday and death dates, comings and goings of family members, weather, addresses, and other miscellaneous information, such as children's layettes.
Box 61 Folder 706-708 Folder 706 Folder 707 Folder 708	Day books and calendars, 1897-1991 Day planners and calendars are brief records of daily social and work activities, birthday and death dates, comings and goings of family members, weather, addresses, and other miscellaneous information, such as children's layettes.
Box 61 Folder 709-717 Folder 709 Folder 710 Folder 711 Folder 712 Folder 713 Folder 714 Folder 715 Folder 716 Folder 717	Field books, 1912-1918 Mayo S Keator's notes on work he supervised as a civil engineer for Terminal Railroad Association; contacts with contractors, expenses, and payments.
Box 61 Folder 718-719 Folder 718 Folder 719	Invitations, 1839-1992 Chiefly wedding showers, baby showers, dances, and "at home" invitations. See also Scrapbooks Subseries 10.14 for more invitations.
Box 62 Folder 720-725 Folder 720 Folder 721 Folder 722 Folder 723 Folder 724 Folder 725	Military materials, 1828-1957 At least four Prudhommes across three generations served in the military between the Civil War and the 1950s. World War I materials include souvenir programs that document J. Alphonse Prudhomme II's social life in postwar Paris, materials produced by the U.S. Army to provide information about uniforms, military discipline and etiquette, life insurance, reacculturation, and social events for soldiers, paperwork assigning him to Motor Transport Corps, leave passes, letter of commendation, pay record book, and some issues of the "Kroonland Daily Wireless" from September 1919. World War II-related materials include a selective service card for Donald L. Prudhomme and a guide to the armed forces. The Newton Voiers and Warren Voiers folder relates to the military service of these Prudhomme neighbors and relatives through marriage. Included are identification cards, photographs, and memoranda from the Veterans Administration upon death of Warren Voiers in 1957. See also war time correspondence in Subseries 1.1, Fulbert Cloutier's Civil War diary in Series 2, and World War I-related photographs in Series 7.
Oversize Paper OP-613/32	Appointment of Ambrose Lecomte as Second Lieutenant in the Natchitoches Artillery, 18th Regiment, 1828
Oversize Paper OP-613/33	J. Alphonse Prudhomme appointment as adjutant in the Confederate Army, 1862
Oversize Paper OP-613/34	Roster, Advance MTC Supply Depot 702, Paris, France, undated
Box 62 Folder 726-730 Folder 726 Folder 727 Folder 728 Folder 729 Folder 730	Oakland and Other Historic Natchitoches Materials, 1941-1997 Documents the Prudhommes' long interest and active participation in historic preservation activities and reenactment events in Natchitoches. Included are correspondence and drawings related to preservation of Oakland plantation and its listing on the National Registry of Historic Places, and miscellaneous notes, printed material, and clippings describing historic tour programs and Oakland's importance to Natchitoches, La.
Oversize Paper OP-613/35	Holiday card featuring Oakland, 1988
Oversize Paper OP-613/36	Oakland drawing, 1959
Oversize Paper OP-613/37	Map of historic Natchitoches, 1967
Box 62 Folder 731-740 Folder 731 Folder 732 Folder 733 Folder 734 Folder 735 Folder 736 Folder 737 Folder 738 Folder 739 Folder 740	Guestbooks, 1901-1995
Box 63 Folder 741-746 Folder 741 Folder 742 Folder 743 Folder 744 Folder 745 Folder 746	Guestbooks, 1901-1995
Box 63 Folder 747	Undated notes Includes descriptions of the plantation, its buildings and furnishing, probably written by Lucile Keator Prudhomme for historic tour presentations.
Box 63 Folder 748-749 Folder 748 Folder 749	Clippings (unarranged)
Box 63 Folder 750-752 Folder 750 Folder 751 Folder 752	Printed material, 1950-1989 and undated
Box 64 Folder 753	Printed material, 1950-1989 and undated
Box 64 Folder 754-761b	Political papers, 1811 Political papers include voter registrations, code of local law for Natchitoches, an 1833 list of parish voters, an 1860 census, and election results submitted by the parish judge to the secretary of state of Louisiana for local, state, and national offices, and adoption of the 1845 state constitution. Also of note are the minutes of the Taxpayer Association/Conservative Democrat Party. The Taxpayer Association formed in opposition to the "Radical Party" in 1874 to reform the tax schedule. Within a short time the group reorganized as the People's Party, a political party with the intention of electing delegates to the state nominating convention. In 1876, the group reorganized again and renamed itself the Conservative Democrat Party. Some items in French. Items of note: Folder 758: Census ledger tracks name, sex, age, skin color, profession, value of personal and real estate, place of birth, at school, disabilities (deaf, mute, and blindness), and literacy for approximately 350 families, probably in Natchitoches Parish, La.
Oversize Paper OP-613/38	List of members of House of Representatives in Louisiana, undated
Oversize Paper OP-613/39	Justice of the peace form
Box 64 Folder 762-763 Folder 762 Folder 763	Crochet and knitting instruction book, 1896 Chiefly newsprint pasted over an old stock account ledger.
Box 64 Folder 764-767 Folder 764 Folder 765 Folder 766 Folder 767	Recipe books, undated Mable B. Keator's handwritten and newsprint recipes pasted over Latin lessons notebook.
Box 64 Folder 768	Remedies, 1939, and undated Chiefly in French.
Folder 769-771 Folder 769 Folder 770 Folder 771	Religious materials, 1850-1986 Religious materials demonstrate an intense affiliation of nearly 200 years with the Catholic Church. Included are handwritten copies of prayers; prayer cards depicting saints and religious scenes, which were given to and by recipients of the sacraments; and a small sampling of miscellaneous programs and printed materials for religious events and sites of importance to family members. Some items in French. See also Subseries 10.14 Scrapbooks for additional collections of religious materials.
Box 65 Folder 772-774 Folder 772 Folder 773 Folder 774	School materials, 1853-1992 Commencement announcements, diplomas, tuition bills and receipts, and report cards.
Oversize Paper OP-613/40	Peter P. Prudhomme telegraphy certificate from Notre Dame, undated
Oversize Paper OP-613/41	"Testimonial of Satisfaction" to Peter P. Prudhomme's good behavior at Notre Dame, undated
Oversize Paper OP-613/42	E. W. Breazeale medical license, 1903
Extra Oversize Paper XOP-613/43	Pauline Bossier diploma from Nazareth Female Academy, 30 June 1853
Extra Oversize Paper XOP-613/44	Peter P. Prudhomme diploma from University of Notre Dame, 20 June 1888
Photograph Album PA-613/1	Scrapbook: Fanny Bossier Prudhomme, 1860 Poetry and cut out pictures, correspondence.
Photograph Album PA-613/2	Scrapbook: Angela Lambre, 1881 A gift from Cecilia Dauphin, with poetry, cut-out figures, calling cards.
Photograph Album PA-613/3	Scrapbook: Marie Coralie Cloutier, 1890
Photograph Album PA-613/4	Scrapbook: P. Phanor Prudhomme II, 1885-1887; 1896 Clippings of cartoons, advice, and etiquette, writings, political party tickets; previously an expenses ledger from the 1880s.
Photograph Album PA-613/5	Scrapbook: Women's invitations, ribbons, advertising, circa 1900 Enclosures include postcards, correspondence, calling cards, greeting cards, gift cards for 30 April 1907 wedding of Emma Hyams and Samuel M. Hyams.
Photograph Album PA-613/6	Scrapbook: Elma Lambre, 1896-1906 Postcards, cut out pictures, correspondence.
Photograph Album PA-613/7	Scrapbook: Lucile Keator Prudhomme, circa 1924 Wedding gift cards, dance cards, invitations, greeting cards, napkins.
Photograph Album PA-613/8	Scrapbook: Historical images, 1920s
Photograph Album PA-613/9	Scrapbook: Religious-themed cut out figures and scenes, 1910-circa 1930
Photograph Album PA-613/10	Scrapbook: Lucile Keator Prudhomme, 1930-1950 Anniversary, birthday, and holiday greeting cards.
Photograph Album PA-613/11	Scrapbook: Greeting cards sent to Mabel Keator, circa 1930
Photograph Album PA-613/12	Scrapbook: Lucie Prudhomme, 1933 A gift from her mother, Laure Cloutier Prudhomme, with greeting cards and quilt and crochet patterns clipped from newspapers.
Photograph Album PA-613/13	Scrapbook: Daughters of the American Revolution family and place histories, 1935
Photograph Album PA-613/14	Scrapbook: Daughters of the American Revolution meetings and social activities, 1935-1942 Includes a short history of Oakland.
Photograph Album PA-613/15	Scrapbook: Mayo K. Prudhomme, circa 1940 Child's scrapbook of cut out pictures.
Photograph Album PA-613/16	Scrapbook, 1900-1950 Clippings of war, religious images, women's enfranchisement in England, relations with England, political cartoons.
Photograph Album PA-613/17	Scrapbook, 1930-1940 Religious and historical images; many pages have been laid out but not glued in.
Photograph Album PA-613/18	Scrapbook: P. Phanor Prudhomme II, circa 1940-1960 Clippings of social record, obituaries, calling cards, get well, sympathy, birthday, and anniversary greeting cards.
Photograph Album PA-613/19-20 PA-613/19 PA-613/20	Scrapbook: Road trip from Bermuda, La., to western United States, 1963 Includes Arizona, California, Oregon, Washington, and Idaho, and British Columbia; includes postcards, placemats, photographs, receipts, brochures, maps, matchbooks (matches have been removed), and drink stirrers, all with annotations; enclosures include a small notebook with notes on expenses, itinerary, and mileage.
Photograph Album PA-613/21	Scrapbook: Colonial Dames XVII Century, 1971-1973, 1979 Events, meetings, and correspondence (Lucile Keator Prudhomme was president of the local chapter, 1971-1973); annual historic tour of Oakland and Natchitoches, La.
Photograph Album PA-613/22	Scrapbook: Colonial Dames XVII Century, 1977-1978 State conference, clippings, certificates, pages from other Louisiana chapters (Lucile K. Prudhomme was state president, 1977-1978).
Box 65 Folder 775	Scrapbook: "Bermuda Gleanings,"1890 Newspaper clippings with social news of social comings and goings of Bermuda's residents; some business news.
Box 65 Folder 776	Scrapbook, December 1918 Adele Prudhomme and Eliza Elizabeth Prudhomme compiled jokes printed in newspaper and then pasted into a notebook for J. Alphonse Prudhomme II.
Box 65 Folder 777	Scrapbook, circa 1890-1920 Program from band concert, French fashion, photocopy of prisoner of war release, deed for sale of land, poetry, school programs.
Box 65 Folder 778-779 Folder 778 Folder 779	Invitations, printed cards for marriages and birthdays, religious materials, death notices, valentines
Box 65 Folder 780-783 Folder 780 Folder 781 Folder 782 Folder 783	Clippings, including genealogical information
Box 65 Folder 784-787 Folder 784 Folder 785 Folder 786 Folder 787	Emma Cloutier: postcards, circa 1905-1910
Box 66 Folder 788-794 Folder 788 Folder 789 Folder 790 Folder 791 Folder 792 Folder 793 Folder 794	J. Alphonse Prudhomme II, from his grandmother, circa 1908-1926 Scenic vistas, advertisements, holidays, historic sites; includes Lucile Keator Prudhomme's postcards.
Box 66 Folder 795-799 Folder 795 Folder 796 Folder 797 Folder 798 Folder 799	Adele Prudhomme and Lise Prudhomme, 1910-1926 Approximately 350 postcards.
Box 66 Folder 800-803 Folder 800 Folder 801 Folder 802 Folder 803	Adele Prudhomme, 1926 Summer in St. Louis, Mo.
Box 67 Folder 804-814 Folder 804 Folder 805 Folder 806 Folder 807 Folder 808 Folder 809 Folder 810 Folder 811 Folder 812 Folder 813 Folder 814	Adele Prudhomme, 1926 Summer in St. Louis, Mo.
Box 67 Folder 815-818 Folder 815 Folder 816 Folder 817 Folder 818	Postcards, circa 1900-1920
Box 68 Folder 819-835 Folder 819 Folder 820 Folder 821 Folder 822 Folder 823 Folder 824 Folder 825 Folder 826 Folder 827 Folder 828 Folder 829 Folder 830 Folder 831 Folder 832 Folder 833 Folder 834 Folder 835	Postcards, circa 1900-1920
Box 69 Folder 836-852 Folder 836 Folder 837 Folder 838 Folder 839 Folder 840 Folder 841 Folder 842 Folder 843 Folder 844 Folder 845 Folder 846 Folder 847 Folder 848 Folder 849 Folder 850 Folder 851 Folder 852	Postcards, circa 1900-1930
Box 69 Folder 853	Essay on historic homes of Louisiana with postcard illustrations, by Catherine Hooker or Flora Hooker, 1947
Box 70 Folder 854-867 Folder 854 Folder 855 Folder 856 Folder 857 Folder 858 Folder 859 Folder 860 Folder 861 Folder 862 Folder 863 Folder 864 Folder 865 Folder 866 Folder 867	Postcards, circa 1950-1970
Box 70 Folder 868	Collection of typed transcriptions of letters, legal documents, and an article about Hot Springs National Park Probably assembled as a scrapbook of genealogical research.
Box 70 Folder 869	Amusements, 1946 and undated
Box 70 Folder 870	Appointments, 1845, 1867, 1925 Includes notices of appointment to police jury, postmaster, and New Orleans Police Department. See also Subseries 10.8 Military Materials.
Oversize Paper OP-613/45	Appointment of James A. Prudhomme to Postmaster at Bermuda, La., 1924
Box 70 Folder 871	Baseball, 1899 Includes scorecards and clippings.
Box 70 Folder 872	Booklists, 1930s Handwritten list of books with antebellum imprints in Prudhomme library.
Box 70 Folder 873a	Garden notebook, circa 1908 Location and name of rosebushes and other flowers in garden.
Box 70 Folder 873b	Horse racing materials, 1848-1860 and undated Jockey subscription list, pedigree advertisement, clippings, correspondence, and race announcement.
Oversize Paper OP-613/46	Horseracing notice, undated
Box 70 Folder 874	Inventions and patents, 1892-1942 Correspondence related to Mayo S. Keator's warfare inventions, and Doctors Leveque and Lawton's patent application for "Dr. L.M. Leveque's Night Pill".
Box 71 Folder 875	Postcards: Natchitoches and other Louisiana locations
Box 71 Folder 876-885 Folder 876 Folder 877 Folder 878 Folder 879 Folder 880 Folder 881 Folder 882 Folder 883 Folder 884 Folder 885	Postcards World War I, Paris, a road trip to western United States and British Columbia.
Box 71 Folder 886	Travel itineraries, 1981 and undated

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About 45 items.

Acquisitions Information: Accessions 99119, 99147

Chiefly undated materials relating to military service; historic Oakland plantation; Louisiana politics; recipes, remedies, and instructions; horse racing; and other miscellaneous interests of the Prudhomme family.

Box 74 Folder 935	Military materials, 1863 and undated Materials include permission to proceed to Texas with exemption from impressment of property, and an application to United Confederate Veterans.
Box 74 Folder 936	Oakland Plantation history, undated
Box 74 Folder 937	Political papers, 1838-1872 Chiefly election results and voter registrations; includes an address to Central Democratic Committee of Natchitoches, La.
Box 74 Folder 938	Recipes, remedies, and instructions, undated
Box 74 Folder 939	1797-1866 Scrapbook of of 18th- and 19th-century personal and financial correspondence and receipts. Chiefly in French.
Box 74 Folder 940	Horse racing materials, 1851-1860, and undated Chiefly materials pertaining to horse racing, including pedigrees, meeting minutes, rules and regulations, and newspaper accounts of races at Metairie Jockey Club in New Orleans, La.
Box 74 Folder 941	Miscellaneous, undated
Oversize Paper OP-613/7	Timeline of American history from 1764-1841, 1855

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3 items.

Reel R-613/1-3

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R-613/3

1990 microfilm of original Phanor Prudhomme Papers collection, 1804-1940

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Collection Number: 00613

Collection Title: Prudhomme Family Papers 1765-1997