Louisiana -- New Orleans
Subject
Subject Source: Fast
Found in 3 Collections and/or Records:
Charles P. Leverich business letters
Collection
Identifier: MS 0222
Overview
The Leverich letters recount the trading and financial conditions in the New Orleans branch of the family owned business controlled by William S. and J.H. Leverich. The letters give information on the cotton trade, shipping, insurance, banking, and the character and standing of various merchants.
Dates:
1833 - 1851; Majority of material found within 1836 - 1843
Kuntz Louisiana Civil War collection
Collection
Identifier: MS 0256
Abstract:
Correspondence, military documents, posters, receipts, and clippings chiefly relating to the Civil War in New Orleans and Louisiana. Includes bills of sale and lists of slaves, correspondence to Thomas Overton Moore, governor of Louisiana, and from Jefferson Davis.
Dates:
1811 - 1959
Ray Watkin Hoagland Strange personal papers
Collection
Identifier: MS 0506
Overview
The collection consists of the personal papers of Houston philanthropist Ray Watkin Hoagland Strange (1915-2011). The collection includes correspondence, financial, business and estate records and personal memorabilia of Ray Strange. Her father, William Ward Watkin, was Supervising Architect during the construction of the original Rice Institute campus and later the Dean of Architecture at Rice. Mrs. Strange was a friend and generous donor to Rice University for many years. The papers and...
Dates:
1912-2009