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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Owen Wright Collection
University Archives and Special Collections, Prescott Memorial Library, Louisiana Tech University
Statement of condition of bank.
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Parnell Family Papers
University Archives and Special Collections, Prescott Memorial Library, Louisiana Tech University
Church records kept by Benjamin Franklin Parnell, steward of Mount Lebanon Circuit of the Methodist Episcopal Church, South, and trustee for the Mount Lebanon Methodist Episcopal Church, Bienville Parish, Louisiana, and related papers; business records and correspondence of his son, Rinaldo Franklin Parnell.
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Pearl Richardson Photograph Collection
University Archives and Special Collections, Prescott Memorial Library, Louisiana Tech University
Two photographs, Pearl Richardson (graduate of Louisiana Industrial Institute, 1911) and Beta Psi, Louisiana Industrial Institute; photographs reprinted in 1909 and 1910 Lagniappe.
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Peggy Risen Ford Collection
University Archives and Special Collections, Prescott Memorial Library, Louisiana Tech University
Photographs from student days of donor's father Pierce J. Rison, including photographs of football team and interior of engineering lab.
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Peggy Short Collection
University Archives and Special Collections, Prescott Memorial Library, Louisiana Tech University
Louisiana Polytechnic Institute commencement program.
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Pete Sterling Collection
University Archives and Special Collections, Prescott Memorial Library, Louisiana Tech University
Contemporary photographs of ships, planes, and personnel of U.S.S. Task Force Guadalcanal, which captured the German U-505 submarine, whose officers and crew were housed secretly at Camp Ruston. Donor served on U.S.S. Guadalcanal
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Plase E. Maxey Collection
University Archives and Special Collections, Prescott Memorial Library, Louisiana Tech University
U.S. Army uniform, sleeping bag, and service records of Winnfield, Louisiana native Sgt. Plase E. Maxey, who entered service at Camp Livingston, Louisiana; was separated at Camp Shelby, Mississippi; and served as an artillery gun crewman in the campaigns of Naples-Foggia, Rome-Arno, southern France, the Rhineland, and in central Europe.
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Pleasant Grove Baptist Church Records, 1881-1969
University Archives and Special Collections, Prescott Memorial Library, Louisiana Tech University
Church records
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Presbyterian Church, Vernon, Louisiana Records, 1891- 1899
University Archives and Special Collections, Prescott Memorial Library, Louisiana Tech University
Session minutes
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Ralph Bills Louisiana Polytechnic Institute Collection, 1950-1955.
University Archives and Special Collections, Prescott Memorial Library, Louisiana Tech University
Photographs of Louisiana Tech campus taken during donor's Air Force training period
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Raymond Clary Louisiana Industrial Institute Collection, 1913
University Archives and Special Collections, Prescott Memorial Library, Louisiana Tech University
Set of picture postcards featuring buildings at Louisiana Industrial Institute
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Reggie McCleroy,, "Living Legacies of Lincoln Parish"
University Archives and Special Collections, Prescott Memorial Library, Louisiana Tech University
Drawings by area artist of local NAACP leaders in Lincoln Parish, Louisiana: Clara Carr, E.D. Smith, C.C. McClain, Thalia Williams, J.K. Haynes
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Riley Joe Wilson Collection
University Archives and Special Collections, Prescott Memorial Library, Louisiana Tech University
"Crimefighters: Centennial History of the Ruston Police Department"
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Ringgold, Louisiana General Store Business Ledgers
University Archives and Special Collections, Prescott Memorial Library, Louisiana Tech University
Business ledger of a general store in Ringgold, Louisian
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Rita Krouse Papers
University Archives and Special Collections, Prescott Memorial Library, Louisiana Tech University
The collection contains research material pertaining to Germantown, Louisiana
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Rita M. Krouse Collection
University Archives and Special Collections, Prescott Memorial Library, Louisiana Tech University
Correspondence concerning the building of a military road between Fort Smith on the Arkansas River to Natchitoches, Louisiana
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Robert Edwin Russ Papers
University Archives and Special Collections, Prescott Memorial Library, Louisiana Tech University
Correspondence and his other writings reflecting Russ's life (1830-1902) as planter, community leader, and founder of Ruston, Louisiana; legal records and notes on the history of Ruston compiled by his descendants for the Diamond Jubilee in Ruston
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Robert J. Pfister Collection
University Archives and Special Collections, Prescott Memorial Library, Louisiana Tech University
Prints from the collection of Bob J. Pfister of photographic negatives from the inventories of the Ruston, Louisiana photographic studios of John Green Davis (1890's-?) and John Green Davis Jr. (?-1943), of the amateur photographers William Marbury (1930's-1940's) and J.E. Woodward (mid-1940's-1971), and of Louisiana Tech University photographer Bob J. Pfister (1950's), including index prepared by Pamela Pfister, who made the prints. Woodward accumulated the collection, which was given at his death to Pfister (some are photocopies). Prints funded by Ruston Building and Loan Association, President Benjamin Denny, in honor of the centennial of Louisiana Tech University, 1894-1994
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Rodney Ruby Family Papers
University Archives and Special Collections, Prescott Memorial Library, Louisiana Tech University
Civil War records and diary of members of the Ruby family of Farmerville, Union Parish, Louisiana
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Roland H. Ebel Latin American Political Structure Publications
University Archives and Special Collections, Prescott Memorial Library, Louisiana Tech University
Books and articles relating to the politics of Latin America
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Roland Jones Family Papers
University Archives and Special Collections, Prescott Memorial Library, Louisiana Tech University
Papers of prominent attorney, U.S. Congressman, district judge of Caddo Parish, Louisiana, and a pioneer resident of Shreveport; include mainly correspondence of Roland Jones (1813-1869) and his wife, Anne Neville Stokes, and that of their descendants in Louisiana. Letters cover political, professional, social and family matters.
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Roland Oliver Papers
University Archives and Special Collections, Prescott Memorial Library, Louisiana Tech University
Confederate letters of Oliver from Louisiana and Mississippi (including one from Vicksburg) during the Civil War.
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Rosa Colvin Barksdale Collection
University Archives and Special Collections, Prescott Memorial Library, Louisiana Tech University
Sketch based on records kept by Ainsley H. Colvin, the reminiscences of S.P. Colvin, C.C. Colvin, G.A. Colvin, and genealogical research conducted by Rosa Colvin Barksdale.
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Ross Hale Camp Ruston Collection
University Archives and Special Collections, Prescott Memorial Library, Louisiana Tech University
CAMP RUSTON DOCUMENTATION PROJECT
Various photographs from Camp Ruston of buildings, U.S. soldiers, staff, and their wives. Also included is the donor's letter to Vince Spione, October 1995
