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Elias Boatner letter
Collection
Identifier: SC-Cent. Misc. Mss. 9
Scope and Contents
Photocopy facsimile of a letter from Elias Boatner to his son, Mark Boatner, who was a student at the College of Louisiana (Jackson, La.) during the 1830s. Describes parents’ disappointment and advice about Boatner’s poor student behavior as reported from the college president.
Dates:
1837
Hayden LeMaire Boatner papers
Collection
Identifier: SC-Cent. Misc. Mss. 2
Scope and Contents
This collection contains material from Hayden LeMaire Boatner about Centenary College of Louisiana
(Jackson, La.). It includes a clipping (circa 1944) with an image of Centenary that has handwritten
notes about the layout of campus and location of particular rooms within buildings. Also included is
an excerpt about the college originally published as: Arthur Marvin Shaw, Jr., “Rampant Individualism
in an Ante-Bellum Southern College,” Louisiana Historical Quarterly 31 (October 1948):...
Dates:
circa 1944-1948
Boeuf Prairie United Methodist Church (Fort Necessity, La.) records
Collection
Identifier: LACUMC-2023-020
Scope and Contents
This collection documents the activities of Boeuf Prairie United Methodist Church (Fort Necessity, La.). It includes membership records, administrative records, and a church history. The membership records are typed facsimiles created in 2022.
Dates:
1847 - 2022
Henry Jefferson Boltz family papers
Collection
Identifier: SC-Mss. Coll. 103
Scope and Contents
The Henry Jefferson Boltz family papers primarily consist of documents and photographs related to the personal and
professional lives of the Boltz family. Henry Jefferson Boltz’s life history details his activities as an
itinerant minister in North Louisiana for the Louisiana Conference of the Methodist Episcopal Church,
South. This features his accounts of traveling and working in rural North Louisiana during the late 19th
century. Also included are items related to Emma Dubose, the...
Dates:
1878 - 1983
Nancy Fuqua Boone letter
Collection
Identifier: SC-Cent. Misc. Mss. 10
Scope and Contents
Photocopy facsimile of a letter from Nancy Fuqua Boone to her sister, Phebe Olds Fuqua Woods Peirce. Includes news about family and friends as well as information about the community of Jackson, Louisiana. Nancy writes that her nephew, Van Woods, stopped attending the College of Louisiana, and she does not recommend the school at present. Nancy also invites her sister to attend the college’s exhibition taking place in July 1844.
Dates:
1844
Mary Booth letter
Collection
Identifier: SC-Cent. Misc. Mss. 507
Scope and Contents
Letter from Mary Booth to her grandson, John C. White, dated 1848 November 9. At the time, White was enrolled as a student at Centenary College of Louisiana. The letter, written from Bayou Boeuf, Louisiana, mentions the family’s struggles with sugarcane production. Booth also offers advice about selecting a suitable woman for marriage. A typed transcript of the letter is included.
Dates:
1848
Joseph Henry Bowdon Sr. papers
Collection
Identifier: SC-Cent. Misc. Mss. 11
Scope and Contents
This collection includes a speech given by Joseph Henry Bowdon Sr. at Centenary College of Louisiana’s Founders Day address in 1964. Titled “Sidelights on the History of Centenary College,” it contains details about the college during the 19th century as well as Bowdon’s ancestors connected to Centenary. The collection also includes correspondence dated 1965 between Bowdon and Hugh D. McCool about the location of Centenary College in Brandon Springs, Mississippi, during the 1840s.
Dates:
1964 - 1965
Max Henry Bowerman papers
Collection
Identifier: SC-Cent. Misc. Mss. 535
Scope and Contents
The Max Henry Bowerman papers primarily document his activities as a student athlete at Centenary College of Louisiana from 1935 to 1940. The collection consists of loose items, football publications, football programs, a scrapbook, and newspaper clippings.The loose items include school certificates and report cards (1926-1940), Centenary football banquet program (1939), correspondence (1940), aviation cadet graduation program (1944), life insurance salesman certificate (1969),...
Dates:
1926 - 1969
Business Girls' Inn records
Collection
Identifier: SC-Mss. Coll. 41
Scope and Contents
Business Girls' Inn records include legal documents, correspondence, meeting minutes, financial records,
scrapbooks, photographs, and tape recordings. The legal documents include charters, articles of incorporation, changes effected in 1946-1971, and donation documents. The Account Book for Building Fund (1948) includes loose committee reports, financial reports, and miscellaneous notes found in the
volume. The photographic slides include an identification list. The scrapbooks contain...
Dates:
1928 - 1974
Caddo Heights United Methodist Church (Shreveport, La.) records
Collection
Identifier: LACUMC-Caddo Heights UMC
Scope and Contents
This collection documents the activities of the Caddo Heights United Methodist Church (Shreveport, La.). The collection includes membership and attendance records, committee records (Official Board, Woman’s Society of Christian Service, United Methodist Women), financial records, and historical records such as church bulletins, newspaper clippings, newsletters, photographs, and architectural drawings. Also included are guest registers.
Dates:
1943 - 2003
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- Minutes (administrative records) 95
- Clippings (information artifacts) 66
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- Financial records 51
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- Photographs 49
- Church records and registers -- Louisiana 33
- Church bulletins 29
- Property records 28
- Scrapbooks 28
- Programs (documents) 20
- Sunday schools 15
- Football 11
- Histories (literary works) 11
- Certificates 10
- Diplomas 10
- Speeches (documents) 10
- Church records and registers -- Louisiana -- Caddo Parish 8
- Newsletters 8
- Church records and registers -- Louisiana -- Orleans Parish 7
- Church records and registers -- Louisiana -- Bienville Parish 6
- Literature -- Societies, etc. 6
- African American Methodists -- Louisiana 5
- Church records and registers -- Louisiana -- Richland Parish 5
- Church records and registers -- Louisiana -- Sabine Parish 5
- Church records and registers -- Louisiana -- Webster Parish 5
- Diaries 5
- Temperance 5
- Women -- Societies and clubs 5
- Church records and registers -- Louisiana -- Franklin Parish 4
- Church records and registers -- Louisiana -- Lincoln Parish 4
- Church records and registers -- Louisiana -- Morehouse Parish 4
- Church records and registers -- Louisiana -- Natchitoches Parish 4
- Church records and registers -- Louisiana -- Rapides Parish 4
- Church records and registers -- Louisiana -- Vernon Parish 4
- Church records and registers -- Louisiana -- West Carroll Parish 4
- Commencement ceremonies 4
- Education -- Louisiana -- History 4
- Memoirs 4
- Women -- Education (Higher) 4
- Architectural drawings (visual works) 3
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- Church records and registers -- Louisiana -- Acadia Parish 3
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- Church records and registers -- Louisiana -- DeSoto Parish 3
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- Church records and registers -- Louisiana -- Evangeline Parish 3
- Church records and registers -- Louisiana -- Grant Parish 3
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- Church records and registers -- Louisiana -- La Salle Parish 3
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- Church records and registers -- Louisiana -- Ouachita Parish 3
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- Negatives (photographs) 3
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- Slavery 3
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- Audiocassettes 2
- Biographies 2
- Brochures 2
- Church records and registers -- Louisiana -- Catahoula Parish 2
- Church records and registers -- Louisiana -- Iberville Parish 2
- Church records and registers -- Louisiana -- Jefferson Davis Parish 2
- Church records and registers -- Louisiana -- Lafourche Parish 2
- Church records and registers -- Louisiana -- Red River Parish 2
- Church records and registers -- Louisiana -- Saint Landry Parish 2
- Church records and registers -- Louisiana -- Saint Tammany Parish 2
- Church records and registers -- Louisiana -- Tensas Parish 2
- Church records and registers -- Louisiana -- Washington Parish 2
- Examinations (documents) 2
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- World War, 1939-1945 2
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- Alcoholism 1
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- Child welfare -- Louisiana -- Periodicals 1
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- Church records and registers -- Louisiana -- Assumption Parish 1
- Church records and registers -- Louisiana -- Avoyelles Parish 1
- Church records and registers -- Louisiana -- Caldwell Parish 1
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- Centenary College of Louisiana 123
- United Methodist Church (U.S.). Louisiana Conference 107
- Methodist Episcopal Church, South. Louisiana Conference 95
- Methodist Church (U.S.). Louisiana Conference (South Central Jurisdiction) 94
- Centenary College of Louisiana (Jackson, La.) 76
- Centenary College (Brandon Springs, Miss.) 10
- College of Louisiana 9
- Methodist Church (U.S.). Louisiana Conference. Woman's Society of Christian Service 7
- Carpenter, William Marbury, 1811-1848 5
- Methodist Episcopal Church. Louisiana Conference 5
- Methodist Protestant Church (U.S. : 1830-1939). Louisiana Conference 5
- Miller, John Copeland, 1822-1878 5
- Centenary State Historic Site (Jackson, La.) 4
- Methodist Church (U.S.). Louisiana Conference (Central Jurisdiction) 4
- Rivers, R. H. (Richard Henderson), 1814-1894 4
- Shattuck, David Olcott, 1800-1892 4
- Union Literary Society 4
- First United Methodist Church (Shreveport, La.) 3
- Mansfield Female College (Mansfield, La.) 3
- Methodist Episcopal Church, South. Mississippi Conference 3
- Thornton, T. C. (Thomas C.), 1794-1860 3
- United Methodist Women (U.S.). Louisiana Conference 3
- Alexandria District of the Louisiana Conference of the Methodist Church (South Central Jurisdiction) 2
- Antioch United Methodist Church (Antioch, La.) 2
- Centenary College of Louisiana Faculty 2
- Chi Phi (Fraternity). Beta Chapter (Centenary College of Louisiana) 2
- Delta Kappa Epsilon. Zeta Zeta Chapter (Centenary College of Louisiana) 2
- Dixon, William Young, 1843-1874 2
- Four Square Bible Class (Shreveport, La.) 2
- French Mission District of the Louisiana Conference of the Methodist Episcopal Church South 2
- Joyner, Sarah Baker Austin, 1876-1968 2
- Keener family 2
- Keener, John Christian, 1819-1906 2
- Lafayette Society 2
- Law, Della Upton, 1892-1990 2
- Longstreet, Augustus Baldwin, 1790-1870 2
- Magruder, W. H. N. (William H. N.), 1815-1899 2
- Maroon Jackets 2
- McCormick Memorial Tubercular Sanatorium (Jackson, La.) 2
- McTyeire, Holland Nimmons, 1824-1889 2
- McVea, John, 1820-1876 2
- Methodist Episcopal Church, South. Louisiana Conference. Woman's Missionary Society 2
- Methodist Episcopal Church. Mississippi Conference 2
- Methodist Protestant Church (U.S. : 1830-1939). Arkansas Conference 2
- Mystic Seven. Temple of the Wreath (Centenary College of Louisiana) 2
- Scales, John Lytle, 1871-1968 2
- Shreveport District of the Louisiana Conference of the Methodist Church (South Central Jurisdiction) 2
- Young, John Smith, 1834-1916 2
- Academy of Natural Sciences of Philadelphia 1
- Alco Methodist Church (Alco, La.) 1
- Alexandria District of the Louisiana Conference of the Methodist Episcopal Church, South 1
- Alexandria District of the Louisiana Conference of the United Methodist Church 1
- Andrew Chapel Methodist Episcopal Church (New Orleans, La.) 1
- Andrews Chapel Methodist Episcopal Church South (Webster Parish, La.) 1
- Andrews, Stephen Pearl, 1812-1886 1
- Antioch United Methodist Church (Eros, La.) 1
- Arcadia Methodist Episcopal Church South (Arcadia, La.) 1
- Asbury United Methodist Church (West Monroe, La.) 1
- Athens Methodist Episcopal Church South (Athens, La.) 1
- Audubon, John James, 1785-1851 1
- Ball United Methodist Church (Ball, La.) 1
- Bannerman, Charles Moss, 1903-1981 1
- Barisas, Edith Bailey, 1915-2016 1
- Barksdale United Methodist Church (Bossier City, La.) 1
- Barnette, Chris Thomas, 1905-1982 1
- Barnette, William Chappelle, 1875-1939 1
- Bartholomew United Methodist Church (Morehouse Parish, La.) 1
- Basile United Methodist Church (Basile, La.) 1
- Baskin Methodist Church (Baskin, La.) 1
- Baton Rouge - Hammond District of the Louisiana Conference of the United Methodist Church 1
- Baton Rouge District of the Louisiana Conference A of the United Methodist Church 1
- Baton Rouge District of the Louisiana Conference of the Methodist Church (South Central Jurisdiction 1
- Baton Rouge District of the Louisiana Conference of the United Methodist Church records 1
- Bayou Blue Methodist Church (Bayou Blue, La.) 1
- Bayou Chicot Methodist Episcopal Church South (Bayou Chicot, La.) 1
- Bayou Chicot and White’s Chapel Circuit Methodist Episcopal Church South 1
- Belcher United Methodist Church (Belcher, La.) 1
- Belle Chasse United Methodist Church (Belle Chasse, La.) 1
- Bennett, Zollie G., 1905-1986 1
- Beta Pi Circle of Omicron Delta Kappa 1
- Bethel Methodist Episcopal Church South (DeSoto Parish, La.) 1
- Bethel United Methodist Church (Deville, La.) 1
- Beulah Methodist Episcopal Church South (Marthaville, La.) 1
- Beulah United Methodist Church (Marthaville, La.) 1
- Blue Mountain Female College 1
- Boatner, Annie Eliza Young, 1833-1896 1
- Boatner, Elias Jr., 1793-1839 1
- Boatner, Hayden LeMaire, 1900-1977 1
- Boeuf Prairie United Methodist Church (Fort Necessity, La.) 1
- Boeuf River Methodist Church (Goodwill, La.) 1
- Boggs, Waller Edward, 1859-1917 1
- Boltz, Henry Jefferson, 1855-1949 1
- Boone, Nancy Fuqua, 1787-1857 1
- Booth, Mary 1
- Bowden, Joseph Henry, Sr., 1896-1980 1
- Bowerman, Max Henry, 1917-1991 1
- Bridge Methodist Episcopal Church (Bossier Parish, La.) 1
- Business Girls' Inn 1
- Caddo Heights United Methodist Church (Shreveport, La.) 1
- Calcasieu Circuit of the Louisiana Conference of the Methodist Episcopal Church South 1 ∧ less
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