Plantations -- Louisiana
Subject
Subject Source: Library of Congress Subject Headings
Found in 4 Collections and/or Records:
C.D. Benton and Company Collection
Collection
Identifier: MSS-164
Scope and Contents
Records of the C. D. Benton & Company plantation store at Burnett, Louisiana, include letter book, 1883-1886, with copies of correspondence relating to supplies and cotton sales; ledger of accounts, 1882-1883 and 11 loose items documenting supplies purchased, cotton stored and other transactions with share croppers and other customers in the Burch’s Bend area.
Dates:
1883 - 1886
Found in:
Manuscripts
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C.D. Benton and Company Collection
Edith Follett King collection
Collection
Identifier: MSS-218
Scope and Contents
Account of life on a plantation (Iona) in Madison Parish, Louisiana, during latter part of the 19th century. Also includes clippings and article about Dr. Edward L. King.
Dates:
1956
Found in:
Manuscripts
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Edith Follett King collection
Pickens Collection
Collection
Identifier: MSS-245
Scope and Contents
Materials collected and donated by Sue (Fannie Sue) Waller (1880-1968) include scattered documentation of the activities of her uncle, J. O. (John Oliver) Pickens (1814-1886), owner of sugar plantations in Rapides Parish, Louisiana, and Mississippi. Materials documenting Pickens include two Civil War receipts for money and coupons, accounts concerning assets in Texas (1867, 1885), New Orleans Sanitary and Fertilizing Company stock certificate (1872), patent for a cotton bale tie invented by...
Dates:
1864-1908, 1961 and undated
Found in:
Manuscripts
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Pickens Collection
Zenas Preston Diary
Collection
Identifier: MSS-252
Scope and Contents
Plantation on Lake St. Peter across river from Natchez, Mississippi. Refers to plantation life of the period: enslaved persons, crops, levees and floods, diseases, prescriptions, taxes, road work, weather.
Dates:
1850 - 1853
Found in:
Manuscripts
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Zenas Preston Diary