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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.

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...

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

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Receipt to S. H. Shipley for his salary as a teacher in Matthews Academy, which operated as a preparatory department at the College of Louisiana. Shipley may be Samuel Herman Shipley (1815-1849).

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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).

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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.

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...

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Printed form letter on mourning stationery from Ida Saxton McKinley regarding death of her husband, United States President William McKinley. Envelope addressed to John Magruder Sullivan, Professor of Natural Science at Centenary College of Louisiana.

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

Scope and Contents Typescript of letter about Centenary College (Brandon Springs, Mississippi). Thornton writes of travelling with her family from Virginia and arriving in Jackson, Mississippi, in November 1841. She describes Centenary College’s campus, dormitory, cottages, and a nearby medicinal spring. One of the college’s buildings is the home of her son, Thomas Chapman Thornton, who serves as the president of Centenary. She also mentions people enslaved by her family that have traveled with the Thorntons;...