Fun Fact Friday with Special Collections
Did you know that in our rare book collection, we have a copy of The Domesday Book?
Fun Fact Friday with Special Collections
This week we will be highlighting Collection 218, Amanda S. Hanks collection.
Amanda Hanks was an educator in Vermilion Parish for 43 years. She began her teaching career in 1934 in a two-room schoolhouse. She also wrote on the local history of southern Vermilion Parish.
Fun Fact Friday with Special Collections
We are highlighting Collection 219, Dudley J. LeBlanc Collection.
LeBlanc was an entrepreneur. He started an ironing business in college, which by graduation (from SLII) was a flourishing tailor shop. He later sold tobacco, shoes, patent medicine, launched a very successful burial-insurance company and a headache-remedy company. He was probably most famous for the invention, distribution and promotion of HADACOL, a vitamin/mineral supplement.
Fun Fact Friday with Special Collections
This week we will be highlighting Collection 50, the Owen J. Southwell Papers.
Southwell was an architect and artist. He first worked as an instructor at Carnegie Tech and continued his work at the University of Illinois from 1916-1918. Southwell received several honors, including the Carnegie Tech Medal of the American Institute of Architects in 1915 and the Certificate of the Beaux Arts Institute of Design in 1919.
Fun Fact Friday with Special Collections
This week we will be highlighting Collection 101, Sibille Store (Britol, La) Collection.
The Sibille Bros. Cotton Gin was established in 1845 up until 1973. The Sible Bros. Store however, ran from 1890-1985. The Sibille Store was a plantation, store, and cotton gin, located in Bristol, Louisiana.
This collection is made up of ledgers, journals, day books, short stories, newspaper, clippings, photographs, and certificates.
Fun Fact Friday with Special Collections
Special Collections will be at Vermilionville this Saturday, Nov. 18, celebrating Native American Culture Day.
In honor of this, we will be highlighting Collection 147, Robert S. Neitzel Collection. Neitzel made major contributions to archaeological work in Louisiana, Mississippi, and Georgia.
Fun Fact Friday with Special Collections
This week we will be highlighting Collection 69, American Association of University Women (AAUW), Lafayette, LA Branch Records.
The purpose of the AAUW was to unite alumnae of different institutions of higher education to advance the economic, political, and educational opportunities for women.
Fun Fact Friday with Special Collections
Today we will be highlighting various Louisiana waterway resources that can be found in the Jefferson Caffery Reading Room, in Special Collections.
Did you know that a third of Louisiana is made up of water? Because water is such a prominent resource in our state, it is important to keep documentation of various changes that have been made throughout the years.
Here are just a few of the various items that can be found relating to the different ways water impacts our state.
Fun Fact Friday with Special Collections
Today we are highlighting Collection 153, The Billeaud Sugar Mill Collection.
The Billeaud Sugar Mill was built in Broussard, Louisiana by Martial Billeaud in 1872. The factory was located where present-day Walmart (in Broussard) and St. Julien Park are today.
Fun Fact Friday with Special Collections
Today we will be showcasing Collection 204, Marie J. Mamalakis “Mario” Papers.
Ms. Mamalakis attended Southwestern Louisiana Institute, graduating with a degree in English in 1933. From 1934 to 1940, she taught public school in St. Landry Parish. In 1941, she entered Louisiana State University for graduate work, and upon earning her master’s degree in library science, she returned to Lafayette as head of the circulation department at Edith Garland Dupré Library at SLI.
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