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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Mooreland Family Genealogy

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

Genealogy of the Sidney S. Moreland and Phillips families.
Mount Lebanon Historical Society

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

Newsletters and other printed material from the Mt. Lebanon (Louisiana) Historical Society,
Mrs. David Lyons Collection

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

Gift by prisoner to donor's father, G.H. Cole, a member of the U.S. staff at the camp.
Mrs. John Oest Collection

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

Historical memorabilia from the student years of the donor's aunt Annie Leila Nobles at Louisiana Industrial Institute.
Mrs. Paul F. Stinson Collection

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

Stinson family history and genealogical newspaper articles.
Murphy A. Tannehill Collection

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

Photographs of Urania Lumber Company camp, 1929; forestry student sketches.
Murrell Family Letters

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

Personal letters from John and Isaac Murrell and other descendants of John Murrell, pioneer settler of Claiborne Parish, Louisiana, to various family members.
Myrtis Orr Collection

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

The collection contains a number of items written by Mrs. Orr. Included in the collection are a publication entitled, A Giant Step-Together and a newsletter article entitled, “Economics in the Kindergarten?”
Naomi Sisson Collection

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

The 1915 Louisiana Industrial Institute Bachelor of Industry diploma of Naomi Sisson.
National Society of Colonial Dames Monroe Committee Textile Collection

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

Collection transferred to Textile Museum.
Nelda Caldwell Channell Collection

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

Photograph of Louisiana Industrial Institute football team, 1907
New Hope Baptist Church Collection

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

Records include lists of church members, minutes, registers of members, sketch of land holdings, abstract of faith, rules of decorum and Census of Sept. 1, 1881. Materials relating to 140th Anniversary, 1995
Nick Medica Collection

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

Copies of newspaper clippings concerning donor's Tech basketball career and the Tech bulldog mascot.
Nicola Mattiace Camp Ruston Collection

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

Material concerning Nicola Mattiace, Italian prisoner of war at Camp Ruston.
Nolan Anders Collection

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

Photo materials relating to Louisiana Tech University.
North Central Louisiana Folklife Project Collection

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

Items from the North Central Louisiana Folk life Project and Susan RoachLankford. pictorial representations of contemporary North Louisiana folk-culture, arts and crafts.
North Louisiana Historical Consortium Microfilm Collection

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

Microfilm of original manuscripts, printed documents and photographs in collections of member organizations of the North Central Louisiana Historical Consortium.
O. A. Newsome Collection

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

Three periodical articles on the Union Parish legend of "In the Gloaming," a Marion High School operetta of the same title, and a history of Dubach compiled by the Dubach High School faculty.
O. Landon Miles, III Collection

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

Tech varsity football sweater presented to donor in his freshman year.
Olive True Collection

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

Printed booklet of photographs of the Louisiana Industrial Institute campus, including exterior and interior photographs of buildings, undated but analogous to picture postcards produced c.1913
Ona Smith Cookbook Collection

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

Memorabilia and cookbooks from local organizations and churches collected during 1950-1970 while living in South Louisiana.
Ona Smith L. P. I. Collection

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

Scrapbook by Ona Smith, LPI graduate and Home Economics instructor at LSU for 40 years
Oneill J. Richard Collection

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

Abstract of title of land purchased from Richard for construction of Louisiana Polytechnic Institute Assembly Center.
Otto Fernholz Collection

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

Contemporary identified pfotographs of Camp Ruston buildings, model castles, statues, and of the grave of a German soldier; maps of Camp Ruston annotated by donor, a German former prisoner at Camp Ruston; donor's list of former POWs in Louisiana.
"Our Living and Our Dead"

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

Publication of the North Carolina Branch, Southern Historical Society. Concerns post-bellum history.