1. American to 10. Burguieres | 11. Butler's to 20. Dart | 21. Davis to 30. Fort Bay | 31. Fort St. to 40. J. Aron
41. Joor to 50. Massie | 51. Mayo to 60. Pontalba | 61. Porter to 70. Ryan | 71. Ryan to 80. Sun King
81. The Mardi to 88. Young
11. Butler's Island Hospital (RG 100)
1838-1843
4 vols.
Records of a slave hospital located on Butler's Island, near Darien, Georgia. Records of admissions to plantation hospital. Gives names, plantations of origin, diseases, remarks, and dates of discharge.
12. Carroll Family (RG 72)
1800-1880
0.5 ft.
Within this collection are a number of items of and concerning women, among them the letters of F.W. Carroll to his mother, one letter from Martha Washington, a diary of a woman's trip abroad, love notes, and a scrapbook complied by a woman in the 1870s.
13. Chamberlain, Grace (RG 14)
1850-1918
1.5 linear ft.
These papers contain writings on women's suffrage in Louisiana, the National American Woman's Suffrage Association, and the Equal Rights for All Club. Also includes charter stock certificate in Chamberlain and Nexon, Ltd., a small retail confectionery business; health certificates used as passes during the 1897 yellow fever epidemic; a pledge to abstain from alcohol (as devised by the National Christian Temperance Organization, 1875); and material on Sophie B. Wright and the Ladies of the Maccabees.
14. Charity Hospital (RG 29)
1811-1912
1 ft.
Administrative and correspondence files of the Charity Hospital, including a certified copy of the act of cession by Micaela Almonaster to her hereditary rights as patroness of the hospital to the city of New Orleans, as well as certified copies of Acts of Sale of named female slaves to the hospital, 1817-1844.
15. Cohn, Marianne (RG 442)
1982-1986, 1995
1 linear ft and 1 oversized storage box
Correspondence, invitations, menus, programs, newspaper clippings, and magazine articles of Marianne Cohn, chair of the Friends of the Cabildo committee for the Sun King exhibition held at Louisiana State Museum in 1984.
16. Colonial Judicial Archive (RG 1-4)
1714-1803
ca. 300 ft.
The Louisiana colonial judicial archive houses the records of the French Superior Council (1714-1769) and the Spanish Judiciary (1769-1803). These criminal and civil records are an invaluable source for researching Louisiana's colonial history. They record the social, political and economic lives of rich and poor; female and male; slave and free; African, Native, European and American colonials. They are a rich resource for the history of women in the State. Although the majority of the cases deal with attempts by creditors to recover unpaid debts, the colonial collection includes many documents that contain a wealth of biographical information concerning Louisiana's colonial inhabitants.
17. Cope, Helene Robbins (RG 70)
1963-1978
1 ft.
Manuscript of, and correspondence concerning Helene Cope's book, They Saw Louisiana.
(see Pontalba)
19. Cusachs (RG 431)
1874-1908
1 volume
Includes a ledger kept by Marie Giraud, 1874-1908.
20. Dart, H.P. (RG 284)
1618-1776, 1878-1920
15 items
Among these papers are legal records concerning the property taxes for Contance Hearing in the late-nineteenth century and a typescript manuscript dedicated by Grace King to Dart.