Louisiana -- New Orleans
Subject
Subject Source: Fast
Found in 4 Collections and/or Records:
Correspondence, Miscellaneous
Item — Box 1: [Barcode: 0000006997], Folder: 8, Box: data_value_missing_ac3415315ab764338af0eb1f54a599ce
Scope and Contents
Items of note include a small travel brochure about New Orléans in French which includes a map and a professional dispute with the University of Florida. Other personal and professional correspondence from various years can be found here as well.
Dates:
translation missing: en.enumerations.date_label.Creation: 1910 - 1965
John Jay Stevens Diaries
Collection
Identifier: WLU-Coll-0621
Content Description
The John Jay Stevens Diaries consist of two diaries written by Stevens between September 4, 1863 and October 31, 1863 while commissary officer of the 110th New York Infantry Regiment during the American Civil War. Diary one entries commence as the 110th embarked on its cruise from New Orleans, La. to what would be known as the Battle of Sabine Pass, Texas at the mouth of the Sabine River. Stevens details eight days aboard the troop transport steamer 'Thomas Winthrop' in the Gulf of Mexico...
Dates:
1863 September (Diary #1); 1863 September - October (Diary #2); 1875 May 20 (Correspondence #1)
New Orleans Volunteer Trip for Hurricane Katrina Cleanup Collection
Collection
Identifier: WLU-Coll-0159
Scope and Contents
This collection of materials relates to the February 2007 trip organized by Marguerite McClinton, Director of Elrod Commons and Campus Activities, in conjunction with the Office of Disaster Response for the Episcopal Diocese of Louisana, in which W&L students travelled to New Orleans to help with disaster relief efforts after Hurricane Katrina. It contains information about New Orleans, original volunteer agreements and releases, a letter from the Diocese to McClinton thanking her for...
Dates:
2007
Warren Newcomb to Robert E. Lee, 1866-04-12
Item — Box 7A, Folder: 54
Scope and Contents
The Washington College benefactor Warren Newcomb explains his Colonial era Massachusetts ancestry and requests a photograph of Lee.
Dates:
1866-04-12