Plantations -- Louisiana
Subject
Subject Source: Local sources
Found in 2 Collections and/or Records:
Evans J. Casso collection
Collection
Identifier: 075
Content Description
Evans Joseph Casso (1914-1996) was an amateur historian, author and lecturer from Donaldsonville and New Orleans, Louisiana. He served as president of the Civil War Roundtable of New Orleans at Tulane University.The collection contains historical writings on Henry McCall's Evans Hall Plantation, a study of Reconstruction-era educator Emerson Bentley, and the diary of a Donaldsonville cannoneer, Romain Octave Landry, transcribed by Casso, as well as clippings and other research materials.
Dates:
1861-1988
Found in:
Amistad Research Center
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Evans J. Casso collection
Robert H. Stewart Family papers
Collection
Identifier: 356
Scope and Contents
The Robert H. Stewart Family papers include correspondence, account books, and receipts and promissory notes regarding the operation of businesses owned by Natchez, Mississippi, morticians and furniture dealers Robert H. and Robert Stewart. The account books of Robert H. Stewart and his father, Robert Stewart, list business expenses such as supplies, freight charges, wages, and equipment; charges for coffins (for both whites and blacks) and making and repairing furniture; and...
Dates:
Created: 1836-1862; Other: Date acquired: 10/01/1966