Fun Fact Friday with Special Collections – Doris Broussard Bentley Collection
This week for Fun Fact Friday (#FFF), Special Collections is highlighting the Doris Broussard Bentley Collection.
Fun Fact Friday with Special Collections – Edwin Bennett Ogden Jr. Collection
The Edwin Bennett Ogden Jr. Collection consists of business records of Edwin B. Ogden, who was active in the rice brokerage field. He had close connections with the Godchaux Family and Louisiana State Rice Milling Company. The collection was donated by Mrs. Edwin Ogden, Jr. Please note that the collection is currently being reprocessed. This involves looking back at the already processed collection and bringing it up to current standards of archival practice.
Fun Fact Friday with Special Collections – Edwin L. Stephens Papers
Stephens Hall was constructed in 1940 dedicated as the Stephens Memorial Library and was named after Dr. Edwin Lewis Stephens, UL Lafayette’s first president. The building was solely dedicated to functioning as a library, before the building of the Edith Garland Dupré Library in 1960, where today it is now one of the University’s computing centers.
Fun Fact Friday with Special Collections – John Berlinger Breaux
The John B. Breaux Memorabilia Collection has just recently been reprocessed!
John Berlinger Breaux was born in Crowley in 1944. He graduated from the University of Southwestern Louisiana (now the University of Louisiana at Lafayette) with a B.A. in 1964, and from Louisiana State University, Paul M. Herbert Law Center with a LL.B. in 1967.
Fun Fact Friday with Special Collections – Legacy Class Banners
In honor of the University of Louisiana at Lafayette’s 125th Anniversary, we are sharing some newly found class banners of the years 1923 and 1924!
These banners have been recently discovered in the stacks of the Louisiana Collection and have now been processed. We have four decades of banners starting at 1910 through 1945. We sadly did not have a class banner dating back to the start of the university in 1898 so we are sharing banners from 100 years ago in celebration of the university’s anniversary.
Fun Fact Friday with Special Collections – Mardi Gras Collection
This week we will be celebrating Mardi Gras. Here in Special Collections, we have various Mardi Gras items including books, audio-visuals, posters, photographs, and artifacts.
Fun Fact Friday with Special Collections – Ollie Tucker Osborne Papers
Today we are highlighting the Ollie Tucker Osborne Papers, Collection 93. Ollie Tucker Osborne's papers detail the activities of one of Louisiana's leading advocates of women's rights during the 1970s.
Fun Fact Friday with Special Collections – Ora-Westley Schwemmer Cady Papers
Dr. Ora-Westley Schwemmer Cady (1935-2014) was from Philadelphia, Pennsylvania where she received her bachelor’s degree in history from Ursinus College in Collegeville, Pennsylvania, and received her doctorate in Latin American history from Tulane University. From 1963 until her retirement in 1996, she taught in the History Department at the University of Southwestern Louisiana. She was a known traveler to go almost anywhere. She has been to places such as, Mexico, Central America, The Caribbean, Africa, and China, just to name a few.
Fun Fact Friday with Special Collections – Sylvia Roberts Collection
This month is Women’s History Month! As part of celebrating all of those who have paved the way for women’s rights in America, we will be highlighting some notable women in our Special Collections who gave a huge contribution for those who came after them.
Gaines Center Accepting Applications for 2017 Summer Teaching Institute
The Ernest J. Gaines Center at the University of Louisiana at Lafayette is hosting the Ernest J. Gaines Summer Teaching Institute for the summer 2017 session. This institute offers an innovative package of professional development opportunities and experiences for classroom teachers and will be held from June 12-19, 2017. The Ernest J. Gaines Summer Teaching Institute is open to all K-12 educators in the Acadiana region.
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