Agriculture

There are more than 50 collections concerning a type of agriculture in Louisiana and Mississippi, plus one from Guatemala and one from Mexico. These collections are mainly the personal and business records of ante- and post-bellum cotton and sugar plantations and contain private letters concerning plantations, inventories, acts of sale, daybooks and ledgers. In addition, there are more than 60 collections which have information concerning slavery.

Where the agricultural unit becomes more mechanized and less labor intensive and where incorporation becomes more common, the agricultural unit is listed in the "Business" section; for example, the Adeline Sugar Refining Company.

• Barrow Family Papers, LA planters, ca.9 cu. ft. (1779-1961)

 

• Cross Keys Plantation, Tensas Parish, Louisiana, plantation, 6 linear feet (1829-1983). Correspondence, diaries, financial records, scrapbooks, and other papers documenting the Cross Keys Plantation of Tensas Parish, Louisiana, and the Watson, McCall, and Cook families. The plantation was run by women during most of its existence. Topics documented include soldiers' views of the Civil War and World Wars I and II, plantation life, the role of women in the South, southern agriculture, social life in the rural South, the homefront during World Wars I and II, and other subjects.
• Dieseldorff Collection, Guatemalan planter, 85,061 items plus 722 volumes (1898-1945)
• Andrew Durnford, LA Black planter, 54 items plus 1 volume (1829-1868)
• Benjamin Farar Papers, MS planter, 58 items (1820-1826)
• Alexis Ferry Journal, LA planter, 5 volumes (1842-1883)
• Charles Colcock Jones Papers, GA planter, 5,345 items (1817-1904)
• Lestan Prudhomme Papers, LA planter, 978 items (1826-1854)
• David Rees Papers, LA planter, 110 items (1804-1835)

See also Business Collections and Artificial Collections.