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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Bernice Historical Society
University Archives and Special Collections, Prescott Memorial Library, Louisiana Tech University
Newsletters and other printed material of the Bernice (Louisiana) Historical Society.
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Bessie Hutchinson Walsworth Collection
University Archives and Special Collections, Prescott Memorial Library, Louisiana Tech University
Issues of the Advance Advertiser, 1930's-1940's, and the Advance Bulletin, 1965-1970, of Hodge, Louisiana.
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Bessie Mays McDonald Papers
University Archives and Special Collections, Prescott Memorial Library, Louisiana Tech University
Papers related to Bessie Mays McDonald, 1917 graduate of Louisiana Industrial Institute.
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Bessie Talbert Price Purdy Papers
University Archives and Special Collections, Prescott Memorial Library, Louisiana Tech University
Photographs, obituary, and will.
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B.F. and J.O. Holliday Papers
University Archives and Special Collections, Prescott Memorial Library, Louisiana Tech University
Records and papers of medical practices of two brothers, B.F. Holliday of Parkdale, Arkansas and J.O. Holliday of Louisville, Kentucky.
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Bienville Parish Records
University Archives and Special Collections, Prescott Memorial Library, Louisiana Tech University
Parish court records, 1866-1874; "Enumeration of ex-Confederate soldiers and widow of deceased soldiers," Bienville Parish, 1911.
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Bill Cox Collection
University Archives and Special Collections, Prescott Memorial Library, Louisiana Tech University
L.P.I. Blue Jackets uniform.
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Bubenzer-Cheatham Bible Records
University Archives and Special Collections, Prescott Memorial Library, Louisiana Tech University
Family Bible of the Christian Bubenzer and Marcus O. Cheatham families.
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Burnelle Brantley Collection
University Archives and Special Collections, Prescott Memorial Library, Louisiana Tech University
Louisiana Tech University memorabilia.
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Burt Family Genealogy
University Archives and Special Collections, Prescott Memorial Library, Louisiana Tech University
Record of the Burt family and collateral families (Goode, Mills, Huff, Bell, Nesmith, Madden, Lomax, Trussell, Gullatt, Duty, Madden, Robison, Sims, Strain, Kolb) of Virginia, South Carolina, Alabama, Louisiana, Texas.
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Calcote Family Genealogy
University Archives and Special Collections, Prescott Memorial Library, Louisiana Tech University
Genealogy primarily of the descendants of John Calcote, Sr. of Franklin and Amite Counties, Mississippi; some of the Calcote family settled in Lincoln Parish, Louisiana.
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Camp Ruston Archaeological Dig Artifacts
University Archives and Special Collections, Prescott Memorial Library, Louisiana Tech University
Artifacts from archaeological dig at Camp Ruston.
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Camp Ruston Archaeological Survey
University Archives and Special Collections, Prescott Memorial Library, Louisiana Tech University
Records of archaeological survey of site of U.S. World War II prisoner of war camp, Camp Ruston, including photographs and artifacts.
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Camp Ruston Artifacts
University Archives and Special Collections, Prescott Memorial Library, Louisiana Tech University
Artifacts from American section of Camp Ruston found by metal detection.
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Camp Ruston Artifacts - American Section
University Archives and Special Collections, Prescott Memorial Library, Louisiana Tech University
Artifacts from American section of Camp Ruston.
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Camp Ruston Artifacts, Memorabilia, and Records
University Archives and Special Collections, Prescott Memorial Library, Louisiana Tech University
Artifacts, memorabilia and materials related to the World War II Prisoner of War Camp.
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Camp Ruston Collection of Ed Edmunds
University Archives and Special Collections, Prescott Memorial Library, Louisiana Tech University
Photograph and U.S. Army uniform of Ed Edmunds, guard at Camp Ruston; paintings by Camp Ruston POWs.
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Camp Ruston Correspondence
University Archives and Special Collections, Prescott Memorial Library, Louisiana Tech University
Correspondence relating to Camp Ruston Documentation Project, a joint project of the Ruston Developmental Center and Louisiana Tech University to document the U.S. World War II prisoner of war camp located near Ruston, Louisiana.
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Camp Ruston Custodial Agreement
University Archives and Special Collections, Prescott Memorial Library, Louisiana Tech University
Custodial agreement between Louisiana Tech University and Ruston Developmental Center to create Camp Ruston Documentation Project in order to document the U.S. World War II prisoner of war camp located near Ruston, Louisiana.
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Camp Ruston Federal Republic of Germany Certificate
University Archives and Special Collections, Prescott Memorial Library, Louisiana Tech University
Certificate signed by the Honorary Consul of the Federal Republic of Germany.
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Camp Ruston Former P.O.W. Correspondence
University Archives and Special Collections, Prescott Memorial Library, Louisiana Tech University
Primarily correspondence between Camp Ruston Foundation President Vince Spione and former prisoners from U.S. World War II prisoner of war camp Camp Ruston, including letters from Otto Fernholz and Hans Stollenwerk, and records and photographs of Franz Stich.
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Camp Ruston Literary Collection
University Archives and Special Collections, Prescott Memorial Library, Louisiana Tech University
Collection of books from former prisoner of war camp, located in Ruston. Texts primarily in German. All stamped “Censored" PW Camp, Ruston, La. and initialed. Housed in the rare book collection of the Department of University Archives and Special Collections (formerly SCMA).
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Camp Ruston Maps
University Archives and Special Collections, Prescott Memorial Library, Louisiana Tech University
Maps of U.S. World War II prisoner of war camp Camp Ruston, including contemporary maps and maps of current archaeological survey.
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CAmp Ruston National Archives Records
University Archives and Special Collections, Prescott Memorial Library, Louisiana Tech University
Copies of records concerning Camp Ruston from the Office of the Provost Marshal General, Enemy Prisoner of War Information Bureau in the National Archives, Washington DC, including P.O.W. Labor Reports, 1944-1946; Red Cross/Swiss Field and Inspection Reports, 1944-1945; and P.O.W. transfers, personnel comments, and correspondence with the Eighth Service Command (Dallas, Texas).
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Camp Ruston National Register of Historic Places
University Archives and Special Collections, Prescott Memorial Library, Louisiana Tech University
Materials concerning application for nomination of U.S. World War II prisoner of war Camp Ruston to the National Register of Historic Places.