Showing Collections: 101 - 110 of 367
William Young Dixon speech
Collection
Identifier: SC-Cent. Misc. Mss. 16
Scope and Contents
“Intemperance – the Demon of Desolation” speech by Centenary College of Louisiana student William Young Dixon. Dixon, a member of the college’s Franklin Institute student literary society, delivered this speech at Centenary’s commencement exercises in 1866. Includes original manuscript and typescript copy.
Dates:
1866
Collection of James B. Dodd materials
Collection
Identifier: SC-Cent. Misc. Mss. 17
Scope and Contents
This collection primarily consists of photocopied material about James B. Dodd. It includes a letter
appointing him professor of mathematics at Centenary College (Brandon Springs, Miss.) dated 1841.
Also included are the following publications by Dodd: “Address, delivered at the opening of the
Centenary College, on the 9th of November, 1841,” (Jackson, MS: Southron Office, 1841); “An essay
on the nature of arithmetical science and the proper method of teaching this science, in opposition...
Dates:
1841 - circa 1970
Downsville United Methodist Church (Downsville, La.) records
Collection
Identifier: LACUMC-2024-018
Scope and Contents
This collection documents the activities of Downsville United Methodist Church (Downsville, La.). The collection includes membership records, charge conference and audit records, administrative council and board records, administrative records, and Sunday School records. The administrative board records from the 2000s includes some church bulletins.
Dates:
1927 - 2023
William Winans Drake, Jr. papers
Collection
Identifier: SC-Mss. Coll. 56
Scope and Contents
William Winans Drake, Jr. papers primarily consist of his writings. Also included are a small
amount of clippings and correspondence. Much of the material relates to Drake’s activities with the
Methodist Episcopal Church, South in Louisiana during the twentieth century. His writings largely
consist of sermons about biblical verses; other topics include temperance and gambling. Many of
Drake’s writings were handwritten on the back of scrap sheets of paper. The reverse side of these
papers...
Dates:
1888 - 1933
William Winans Drake letter
Collection
Identifier: SC-Cent. Misc. Mss. 18
Scope and Contents
Letter from Centenary College of Louisiana student William Winans Drake to his father, Rev. Benjamin Michael Drake, who served on Centenary’s board of trustees. Also includes a postscript to his sister, Jane. Letter discusses upcoming meeting of Centenary’s trustees, activities of the college’s literary societies and French Society, student enrollment and attendance, and classroom assignments.
Dates:
1859
Winbourne Magruder Drake family papers
Collection
Identifier: SC-Cent. Misc. Mss. 193
Scope and Contents
The Winbourne Magruder Drake family papers consist of material about the family and their
connections to Centenary College of Louisiana (Jackson, La.). A typescript copy of William Hezekiah
Nathaniel Magruder’s letter (1845) to Benjamin Michael Drake concerns the move of Centenary
College (Brandon Springs, Miss.) to the site of the defunct College of Louisiana (Jackson, La.). A
photocopy of William Winans Drake’s memoir appeared in the “Annual of the Louisiana Conference of
the Methodist...
Dates:
1845 - 1983
Dryades Street Methodist Episcopal Church South (New Orleans, La.) records
Collection
Identifier: LACUMC-Dryades
Scope and Contents
This collection documents the activities of Dryades Street Methodist Episcopal Church South (New Orleans, La.). It includes quarterly conference records (1891-1899), registers (1871-1907), and Sunday School records (1853-1902).
Dates:
1853 - 1907
Dulac Community Center (Dulac, Louisiana) collection
Collection
Identifier: LACUMC-2023-048
Scope and Contents
This collection documents the activities of the Dulac Community Center (Dulac, La.). It includes administrative reports, institutional histories, newspaper clippings and magazine articles, photographs, printed items and newsletters, property records, information about directors and employees, and four photograph albums.The four photograph albums have been disassembled due to preservation concerns. Their contents have been removed from the albums and placed in folders retaining...
Dates:
1934 - 2013
Ebenezer United Methodist Church (Ebenezer, La.) records
Collection
Identifier: LACUMC-2023-085
Scope and Contents
This collection documents the activities of Ebenezer United Methodist Church. It consists of a photocopy facsimilie membership record book and administrative board minutes.
Dates:
1927 - 2023
John Bennett Entrikin papers
Collection
Identifier: SC-Mss. Coll. 51
Scope and Contents
John Bennett Entrikin papers include clippings, correspondence, photographs, and writings that primarily document his time as professor of chemistry at Centenary College of Louisiana (1929-1966).
Dates:
1911 - 1975
Filter Results
Additional filters:
- Subject
- Minutes (administrative records) 141
- Administrative records 95
- Financial records 80
- Clippings (information artifacts) 74
- Correspondence 68
- Photographs 57
- Church bulletins 46
- Property records 44
- Membership lists 38
- Church records and registers -- Louisiana 33
- Scrapbooks 33
- Histories (literary works) 28
- Sunday schools 25
- Certificates 21
- Programs (documents) 21
- Architectural drawings (visual works) 13
- Newsletters 13
- Football 11
- Church records and registers -- Louisiana -- Caddo Parish 10
- Church records and registers -- Louisiana -- Ouachita Parish 10
- Diplomas 10
- Speeches (documents) 10
- Church records and registers -- Louisiana -- Bienville Parish 8
- Church records and registers -- Louisiana -- Webster Parish 8
- Church records and registers -- Louisiana -- Lincoln Parish 7
- Church records and registers -- Louisiana -- Orleans Parish 7
- Church records and registers -- Louisiana -- Sabine Parish 7
- Church records and registers -- Louisiana -- Saint Tammany Parish 7
- Church records and registers -- Louisiana -- Morehouse Parish 6
- Church records and registers -- Louisiana -- Rapides Parish 6
- Literature -- Societies, etc. 6
- Women -- Societies and clubs 6
- African American Methodists -- Louisiana 5
- Cemeteries -- Louisiana 5
- Church records and registers -- Louisiana -- Calcasieu Parish 5
- Church records and registers -- Louisiana -- East Baton Rouge Parish 5
- Church records and registers -- Louisiana -- Franklin Parish 5
- Church records and registers -- Louisiana -- Jefferson Parish 5
- Church records and registers -- Louisiana -- Richland Parish 5
- Church records and registers -- Louisiana -- West Carroll Parish 5
- Diaries 5
- Temperance 5
- Audiocassettes 4
- Church records and registers -- Louisiana -- Acadia Parish 4
- Church records and registers -- Louisiana -- Catahoula Parish 4
- Church records and registers -- Louisiana -- Claiborne Parish 4
- Church records and registers -- Louisiana -- Concordia Parish 4
- Church records and registers -- Louisiana -- DeSoto Parish 4
- Church records and registers -- Louisiana -- La Salle Parish 4
- Church records and registers -- Louisiana -- Natchitoches Parish 4
- Church records and registers -- Louisiana -- Saint Helena Parish 4
- Church records and registers -- Louisiana -- Terrebonne Parish 4
- Church records and registers -- Louisiana -- Vernon Parish 4
- Church records and registers -- Louisiana -- Washington Parish 4
- Commencement ceremonies 4
- Education -- Louisiana -- History 4
- Legal documents 4
- Memoirs 4
- Negatives (photographs) 4
- Women -- Education (Higher) 4
- Church records and registers -- Louisiana -- Avoyelles Parish 3
- Church records and registers -- Louisiana -- Beauregard Parish 3
- Church records and registers -- Louisiana -- Bossier Parish 3
- Church records and registers -- Louisiana -- Evangeline Parish 3
- Church records and registers -- Louisiana -- Grant Parish 3
- Church records and registers -- Louisiana -- Jackson Parish 3
- Church records and registers -- Louisiana -- Jefferson Davis Parish 3
- Church records and registers -- Louisiana -- Lafayette Parish 3
- Church records and registers -- Louisiana -- Livingston Parish 3
- Church records and registers -- Louisiana -- Saint Landry Parish 3
- Church records and registers -- Louisiana -- Tangipahoa Parish 3
- Genealogy 3
- Obituaries 3
- Research notes 3
- Sermons 3
- Slavery 3
- Slaves 3
- Yellow fever 3
- Biographies 2
- Brochures 2
- Charters 2
- Church records and registers -- Louisiana -- Caldwell Parish 2
- Church records and registers -- Louisiana -- Iberia Parish 2
- Church records and registers -- Louisiana -- Iberville Parish 2
- Church records and registers -- Louisiana -- Lafourche Parish 2
- Church records and registers -- Louisiana -- Red River Parish 2
- Church records and registers -- Louisiana -- Tensas Parish 2
- Church records and registers -- Louisiana -- Vermilion Parish 2
- Examinations (documents) 2
- Fliers (printed matter) 2
- Judges -- Louisiana 2
- Louisiana -- Shreveport 2
- Slides (photographs) 2
- Sound recordings 2
- World War, 1939-1945 2
- Writings (documents) 2
- Abolitionists 1
- Alcoholism 1
- Autobiographies (literary works) 1
- Autograph albums 1 ∧ less
- Language
- English 366
- German 2
- Names
- United Methodist Church (U.S.). Louisiana Conference 173
- Methodist Church (U.S.). Louisiana Conference (South Central Jurisdiction) 138
- Centenary College of Louisiana 123
- Methodist Episcopal Church, South. Louisiana Conference 120
- 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 Church (U.S.). Louisiana Conference (Central Jurisdiction) 5
- Methodist Episcopal Church. Louisiana Conference 5
- Methodist Protestant Church (U.S. : 1830-1939). Louisiana Conference 5
- Miller, John Copeland, 1822-1878 5
- United Methodist Women (U.S.). Louisiana Conference 5
- Centenary State Historic Site (Jackson, La.) 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
- 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
- Cooper's Chapel United Methodist Church (Loranger, La.) records 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
- Kentwood United Methodist Church (Kentwood, La.) 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. Gulf Conference 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
- Palmetto United Methodist Church (Palmetto, La.) 2
- Scales, John Lytle, 1871-1968 2
- Shreveport District of the Louisiana Conference of the Methodist Church (South Central Jurisdiction) 2
- Waldheim United Methodist Church (Waldheim, La.) 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
- Bayou Scie United Methodist Church (Bayou Scie, La.) 1
- Beekman United Methodist Church (Beekman, La.) 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 ∧ less
∨ more
∨ more