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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Camp Ruston Newspaper Clippings

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

Newspaper clippings concerning U.S. World War II prisoner of war camp Camp Ruston.
Camp Ruston Photograph Copies

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

Positive and negative photographs of photographs and documents in other Camp Ruston collections.
Camp Ruston Records and Excavation Documents

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

Photographs and slides of archaeological excavation at Camp Ruston site, copies of records concerning Camp Ruston from the Real Property Disposal Case Files in the National Archives, Southwest Region, Fort Worth, Texas. Captured German and Related Records in the National Archives on microform.
Camp Ruston Symposium Collection

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

Videotaped lectures of Camp Ruston Symposium.
Camp Ruston Symposium Records

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

Materials concerning Camp Ruston Symposium, programs correspondence, publicity and records.
Camp Ruston U-505 Collection

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

Booklet and tape about World War II German submarine U-505 housed since 1954 in Museum of Science and Industry, Chicago, Illinois.
Carol Ross Waller Collection

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

Collection includes three scrapbooks memorabilia from student days at Louisiana Polytechnic Institute in the 1960s. Includes materials of Pi Kappa Alpha.
Carrie Belle Lee Camp Collection

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

Mainly articles from the Ouachita Citizen on early settlers in Ouachita Parish; notes from journals and a term paper on the history of Monroe, Louisiana.
Carrol Gordon Jones Papers

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

Papers of attorney; includes correspondence, financial and legal papers, law school notes, "Book of Memorabilia."
Carswell Family Collection

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

Collection of primarily genealogical material concerning the family of E.W. "Judge" Carswell, alumnus of Louisiana Tech University and recipient of the University's Tower Medallion in recognition of distinguished alumni.
Castor Methodist Church Register

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

Register of pastors, members, marriages, deaths, and disposals of the Castor Methodist Church in Castor, Louisiana.
Catherine J. S. Duhon Collection

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

Material collected and written by students of Duhon, teacher at Pelican High School, Pelican, Louisiana; articles cover the high school, the town of Pelican, villages in the area, and a history of DeSoto Parish, Louisiana.
Cecil P. Campbell Collection

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

History of the Old Castor Methodist Church in Bienville Parish, Louisiana, from about 1852 to 1926; by a descendant of several of the founding families of the church.
Cesare Puelli Collection

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

Artifacts, journal, correspondence, and drawings of Cesare Puelli, Italian prisoner of war at Camp Ruston, including drawings of scenes of camps Como, Monticello, and Ruston, the tennis racket he used at Camp Ruston, and the journal he kept during his return voyage home.
C. E Youngblood Papers

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

Collection of tax receipts, notes, a letter, and poetry of various individuals in Union Parish, Louisiana.
Charles A. Oxford L. I. I. Collection

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

Material associated with Carlisle Oxford's student days at Louisiana Industrial Institute.
Charles Cox Collection

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

Catalogs of Mount Lebanon University and Mount Lebanon Female College, both founded in 1853, in Bienville Parish, Louisiana by the Louisiana Baptist State Convention.
Charles Feinberg Walt Whitman Portraits

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

Two framed engraved portraits of the American poet Walt Whitman (1812-1892)
Charles H. Lyles Collection

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

NDSP (Nazi) flag and collection of foreign and domestic coins.
Charles Jimerson John F. Kennedy Collection

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

Newspaper clippings and magazines concerning the assassination of President John F. Kennedy.
Charles L. Tannehill Collection

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

The Rosinbelly, a mimeographed publication created and printed in Urania, Louisiana, for distribution to servicemen from the area.
Charles Penuell H.C. Gentry Store Ledger Collection

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

Newspaper clippings of south Arkansas paper and general store ledger. of H.C. Gentry.
Charles Penuell Recorded Sound Collection

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

Victrola records including gospel, jazz, blues, swing and popular music from the late nineteenth and early to mid-twentieth centuries.
Charles Wiley Montgomery Collection

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

Diploma from Louisiana Polytechnic Institute, 1922; autographed 1922 Lagniappe; clippings about the career of Montgomery as a teacher and coach in North Louisiana schools.
Choudrant Baptist Church Records

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

Photocopies of church ledger, membership roll, and minutes of church committee meetings.