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Centenary College of Louisiana

 Organization

Found in 123 Collections and/or Records:

John Lytle Scales memoirs

 Collection
Identifier: SC-Cent. Misc. Mss. 367
Scope and Contents Typescript of John Lytle Scales’ memoirs covering his life from the 1870s until approximately 1960. The memoirs were originally handwritten from approximately 1949 to 1960. They include details about his childhood in Mansfield (Louisiana), attending Centenary College of Louisiana (Jackson, La.) from 1889 to 1892, teaching private school near Barbreck (Saint Landry Parish, La.) in 1893, medical education at the University of Nashville from 1894 to 1897, working as a doctor in northern Caddo...
Dates: 2012
Found in: Centenary College of Louisiana Archives and Special Collections / John Lytle Scales memoirs

Carrie Virginia Schwing graduation certificate

 Collection
Identifier: SC-Cent. Misc. Mss. 85
Scope and Contents

Carrie Virginia Schwing's Centenary College of Louisiana graduation certificate for Bachelor of Science (1900). Note: starting with its first female graduates in 1900, Centenary awarded women a certificate of completion rather than a diploma. In June 1905, the board of trustees approved granting diplomas to future and past female graduates.

Dates: 1900
Found in: Centenary College of Louisiana Archives and Special Collections / Carrie Virginia Schwing graduation certificate

Robert Samuel See collection

 Collection
Identifier: SC-Mss. Coll. 109
Scope and Contents The Robert Samuel See collection consists of photograph negatives, photograph prints, and drawings, all of which depict Centenary College of Louisiana. The photograph negatives (1938-1945) and photograph prints (1939-1945) primarily document student groups, campus events, athletics, and buildings. Many of the images were published in Centenary’s yearbook, the Yoncopin, when See served as the faculty advisor. A sample of the original photograph negative envelopes are also included with the...
Dates: 1932 - 1945
Found in: Centenary College of Louisiana Archives and Special Collections / Robert Samuel See collection

Thomas Jefferson Shaffer autograph album

 Collection
Identifier: SC-Cent. Misc. Mss. 47
Scope and Contents

This collection consists of pages removed from an autograph album belonging to Thomas Jefferson Shaffer when he attended Centenary College of Louisiana. Shaffer’s classmates at Centenary signed most of the autographs in 1861. Lengthier messages were written by Henry E. Cockerham, J. P. Hudson, and J. S. Leoron.

Dates: 1861 - 1865
Found in: Centenary College of Louisiana Archives and Special Collections / Thomas Jefferson Shaffer autograph album

David Olcott Shattuck correspondence

 Collection
Identifier: SC-Cent. Misc. Mss. 48
Scope and Contents Collection consists of letters addressed to David Olcott Shattuck, who served as president of Centenary College of Louisiana (Jackson, La.) from 1844 to 1848. Correspondence from J. L. Riddell and William Marbury Carpenter, both professors at the Medical College of Louisiana (New Orleans, La.), recommend Norman K. Leslie as a science professor at Centenary. Letter from W. H. Potter and John Caldwell Doremus relates to their employment operating Centenary College of Louisiana’s...
Dates: 1846
Found in: Centenary College of Louisiana Archives and Special Collections / David Olcott Shattuck correspondence

Arthur Marvin Shaw scrapbooks

 Collection
Identifier: SC-Mss. Coll. 23
Scope and Contents

Arthur Marvin Shaw scrapbooks (1941-1949) contain newspaper clippinings and pictures of Centenary College of Louisiana students and alumni in World War II.

Dates: 1941 - 1949
Found in: Centenary College of Louisiana Archives and Special Collections / Arthur Marvin Shaw scrapbooks

Robert Edward Smith papers

 Collection
Identifier: SC-Mss. Coll. 24
Scope and Contents

Robert Edward Smith papers contain correspondence, speech material, pamphlets, and printed material about the Shreveport Local Option Election of 1952, temperance, and the Four Square Bible Class (1937-1954).

Dates: 1920 - 1964
Found in: Centenary College of Louisiana Archives and Special Collections / Robert Edward Smith papers

William Angie Smith scrapbook

 Collection
Identifier: SC-Mss. Coll. 101
Scope and Contents

Collection consists of one scrapbook and loose material detailing the ministry and life of William Angie Smith. It includes correspondence, newspaper clippings, photographs, and printed items. The material primarily relates to Smith serving as acting president of Centenary College of Louisiana from August 1932 to June 1933.

Dates: 1931 - 1934
Found in: Centenary College of Louisiana Archives and Special Collections / William Angie Smith scrapbook

Lenora Waller Street papers

 Collection
Identifier: SC-Cent. Misc. Mss. 323
Scope and Contents The Lenora Waller Street papers consist of scrapbooks documenting her high school and college days as well as her marriage. The Girl Graduate scrapbook covers her time at Shreveport High School during the years 1920 to 1923. It includes autographs and notes from classmates and teachers, newspaper clippings, photographs, tickets and event programs (football games and plays), invitations to graduations and parties, and a stamp collection. The My Memory Book scrapbook documents Waller’s time at...
Dates: 1920 - 1946
Found in: Centenary College of Louisiana Archives and Special Collections / Lenora Waller Street papers

Samuel Milton Thomas obituary

 Collection
Identifier: SC-Cent. Misc. Mss. 394
Scope and Contents

Collection contains facsimile newspaper clipping of Samuel Milton Thomas’s obituary as published in the Bossier Banner (Bellevue, La.), December 22, 1910.

Dates: 1910
Found in: Centenary College of Louisiana Archives and Special Collections / Samuel Milton Thomas obituary

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