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Audrey Chandler Birdhill Scrapbooks

Collection 136

Birdhill, Audrey Chandler (c.1903– ). Scrapbooks, 1939–1942 [Microform]

2 reels (35 mm, negative and positive)

The scrapbooks contain newspaper clippings, mainly from New Orleans papers, concerning Louisiana and New Orleans politics. The compiler, who emphasized corruption, entitled her scrapbooks, "Louisiana Political Corruption."

There were originally 13 volumes in the series of which only 7 were microfilmed. Mrs. Birdhill was a resident of Houma, Louisiana.

Microfilmed by USL University Libraries Microfilm Department in 1974. Reel 1 is negative, Reel 2 is positive. A negative copy of reel 2 is stored with archival negatives making the total number of reels three.

Inventory:

Reel 1  
  Indexes: Several versions: by volume; by title
  Detailed Index of Volumes 1, 3, 4, 7, 8, 10, 11
  Volume 1 June 21 - August 1, 1939
  volume 2 Index only
  Volume 3 April 2 - May 20, 1940
  Volume 4 May 21 - September [30], 1940
  volume 5 February 4 - May 3, 1941
     
Reel 2  
  Volume 10 May 3 - July 19, 1941
  volume 11 July 20 - October 20, 1941
  Unnumbered Volume January 1 - [8], 1942
  Unnumbered Volume Cartoons