Manuscript Finding Aids

The Manuscripts Collection is comprised of over 600 collections of personal and family papers, business and church records, photographs, diaries, maps, oral history tapes, and similar materials. Significant collections include the William King Stubbs Architectural collection, the Marshall Harvey Twichell papers, the Israel Shreve letters, and the different collections that comprise the Camp Ruston collection.

To view or request materials from any of the collections found in the Manuscript collections please contact the University Archives and Special Collections at specialcollections@latech.edu or 318-257-2935.

If citing one of the Manuscript Collections please use the following citation:

Name of collection, collection number, box number, folder number, University Archives and Special Collections, Prescott Memorial Library, Louisiana Tech University, Ruston, Louisiana

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Martin Wesley Corie Collection

University Archives and Special Collections, Prescott Memorial Library, Louisiana Tech University

Printed campus map of student activities at Louisiana Polytechnic Institute.
Mary Belle Holstead Family Papers

University Archives and Special Collections, Prescott Memorial Library, Louisiana Tech University

Papers from the family of Mrs. Mary Belle Holstead, Ruston resident, including business records, history, and photographs of the Arcadia Cotton Oil Mill founded by her father G.C. Taylor and uncle R.L. Taylor in Arcadia, Louisiana; writings for The Vienna Sentinel by her grandfather-in-law John B. Holstead; and inscribed copies of the Louisiana Polytechnic Institute yearbook the Lagniappe belonging to her husband John B. Holstead, II.
Mary Edith Thurmon Freudendorf and William Cann Thurmon Collection

University Archives and Special Collections, Prescott Memorial Library, Louisiana Tech University

Early Tech diploma awarded to donors' mother Edith Cann (Thurmon) and Tech Semi-Centennial program.
Mary Elizabeth Beagle Collection

University Archives and Special Collections, Prescott Memorial Library, Louisiana Tech University

Memorabilia from the donor's student days at Louisiana Polytechnic Institute.
Mary Goslin Harris Papers

University Archives and Special Collections, Prescott Memorial Library, Louisiana Tech University

"Faculty of Louisiana Tech, 1908-1913" (1980); recollections of Tech faculty including John Keeny, H.D. Wilson, Logan, Kathleen Graham, E.L. Lord, Helen Graham, etc.
Mary Margaret David Green Collection

Louisiana Tech University

The Mary Margaret Davis Green Collection (1931-1969; .25 linear feet) is composed of Mary Margaret’s Sigma Kappa group photos, her commencement program, and items of her father’s and mother’s. Those items are: her father’s diploma from L.P.I., a Tech Talk Special Commencement Edition, a commencement program of her mother’s, and a retrospective anniversarian booklet of Davis Brother’s Lumber Company. This collection is of special interest to anyone searching for material on the Davis Brother’s Lumber Company, Davis and Green family genealogies, the North Louisiana timber industry, and Louisiana Tech University history.
Mary Moffett "Portrait of Avon Wallace"

University Archives and Special Collections, Prescott Memorial Library, Louisiana Tech University

Framed oil portrait of Avon Wallace.
Mary Moffett War Training Course Diploma

University Archives and Special Collections, Prescott Memorial Library, Louisiana Tech University

A War Training Course Diploma granted to Mary Moffett.
Mary Simms Hope Collection

University Archives and Special Collections, Prescott Memorial Library, Louisiana Tech University

Deed of the sale of slave, Henry, age 13, to Isaac L. Leonard, 1858.
Mary Snelling Duchaney Camp Ruston Collection

University Archives and Special Collections, Prescott Memorial Library, Louisiana Tech University

Materials from U.S. World War II prisoner of war camp, Camp Ruston, acquired by donor while working as a camp laboratory technician.
Mary Virginia Taylor Collection

University Archives and Special Collections, Prescott Memorial Library, Louisiana Tech University

Papers related to the Blue Jackets pep squad at Louisiana Polytechnic Institute, 1939-1969.
Mattie Sue Martin "Baby" Hays Collection

University Archives and Special Collections, Prescott Memorial Library, Louisiana Tech University

Papers regarding "Baby" Hays, local artist of historical sketches, drawings, and paintings.
Mayfield-Howard Collection

University Archives and Special Collections, Prescott Memorial Library, Louisiana Tech University

Genealogy of the John Mayfield and H. H. Howard families.
McGinty Publications

University Archives and Special Collections, Prescott Memorial Library, Louisiana Tech University

McGinty Publications papers
McGinty Trust Fund Publications

University Archives and Special Collections, Prescott Memorial Library, Louisiana Tech University

Manuscripts and galley proofs of several books published by the McGinty Trust Fund Publications of Louisiana Tech University's History Department, including books written by Wiley Hilburn, Carl Brasseaux, Ernest Russ Williams, Hubert Davis Humphreys, Gary Mills, and William A. Poe and edited by Billy Gilley.
McKinney Collection

University Archives and Special Collections, Prescott Memorial Library, Louisiana Tech University

"Battles and Leaders of the Civil War," vols. 2, 3-7, 10-12.
M. E. McFadden, Sr. Collection

University Archives and Special Collections, Prescott Memorial Library, Louisiana Tech University

Ruston attorney Buddy Napper applied to the state legislature to establish the jurisdiction of the Louisiana Tech Campus Police department in the early 1950’s/ M.E. McFadden, Sr. was the first Chief of Security at Louisiana Tech University. He hired Prentiss Frasier and Clemon Speights. Mr. McFadden was working for the Louisiana State Police and kept his commission until the job here was well established. Collection contains photographs and memorabilia from McFadden’s time at Louisiana Tech.
Meridian Missionary Baptist Church Records

University Archives and Special Collections, Prescott Memorial Library, Louisiana Tech University

Original, photocopy, and microfilm of the records of the Meridian Missionary Baptist Church in Union Parish, Louisiana, 1856-1976 with notes and index compiled by James T. and Nancy Ballard.
Merlin W. Merrill Collection

University Archives and Special Collections, Prescott Memorial Library, Louisiana Tech University

After his death, E. S. Richardson’s daughter gave his mortarboard and commencement gown to Rev. Merrill, then pastor of the Trinity United Methodist Church in Ruston. Rev. Merrill wore the gown when he preached on Sundays until it became threadbare. He wore the mortarboard to receive his Ph.D. and in ceremonies at Centenary College, where he serves on the board of trustees.
Methodist Children's Home Records

University Archives and Special Collections, Prescott Memorial Library, Louisiana Tech University

Documents concerning the Methodist Children's Home including by-laws, financial statements, minutes and reports.
Mike Montgomery Collection

University Archives and Special Collections, Prescott Memorial Library, Louisiana Tech University

Materials concerning the creation and history of Bossier Parish in northwest Louisiana, including a copy of the legislative act creating the parish and the reminiscences of long-time resident Elizabeth Matlock Wise, the donor's grandmother. Research material on Pierre Bossier.
Mike Schofield Collection

University Archives and Special Collections, Prescott Memorial Library, Louisiana Tech University

Reminiscences and clippings from Tech alumnus about his student days as announcer for the Tech Radio Players in the 1940's and 1950's
Milton R. Johnson Collection

University Archives and Special Collections, Prescott Memorial Library, Louisiana Tech University

Materials from donor's student days at Louisiana Polytechnic Institute; and material from donor's tenure as professor in Tech's School of Engineering.
Mineral Springs Baptist Church Collection

University Archives and Special Collections, Prescott Memorial Library, Louisiana Tech University

Photocopy acquired June 1968 through Mrs. Eugenia (L.E.) Dawson, whose grandparents, Garland Hardwick Colvin and Cathrine Crosby Colvin, were charter members. Gerald Hardwick Colvin was the son of Jemimah Petrie Colvin. Original records at that time in possession of Mrs. (A.M.) Franklin, Mineral Springs Community, Ruston, La. Original records given to Tech Archives Feb. 19, 1971, by vote of the church body.
Missionary Baptist Church of Christ at Roaneville

University Archives and Special Collections, Prescott Memorial Library, Louisiana Tech University

Partial list of the members of the Roaneville Church, minutes of church conferences, rules of decorum.