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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Dorothy Clinton Genealogical and Ruston Historical Collection

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

Materials related to genealogy of Kidd-Mayfeild-Howard families and history of Ruston, Louisiana..
Dorothy Jewell Performing Arts Collection

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

Programs from performances donor attended in the field of performing arts, including Louisiana Tech Concert Association, University Theatre, Ruston Civic Symphony, and Ruston Community Theatre, North Central Louisiana Arts Council, Twin City Ballet and other miscellaneous items. Ms. Jewell is a resident of Ruston, who began her career at Prescott Memorial Library, Louisiana Tech University, in 1967 and retired in 1998.
Dorothy Le Guin Collection

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

Historical memorabilia from student days of Louisiana Industrial Institute student Lucy Guill Washington, including photographs and scrapbook,
Dorothy Moore Lawrence Papers

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

Materials including scrapbook from donor's student days at Bernice High School and at Louisiana Tech University plus sheet music and photographs of composer Jimmy C. Williams.
Dorothy Mueller Spencer Collection

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

Historical memorabilia from donor's student days at Louisiana Polytechnic Institute, including homecoming football mum ribbon and ticket.
Dorothy Pipes Cross Collection

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

Memorabilia donated from 1941-1943. Mrs. Cross graduated Tech in 1944.
Dr. and Mrs. Marvin T. Green, Sr. Family Papers

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

Materials concerning the life of Dr. and Mrs. Marvin T. Green.
Dr. Morris Griffin, Jr. Collection

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

A wool scarf from Virginia Colvin, who worked at the Holiday Inn, and whose mother sat with Coach L.P. (Eddie) McClane during his last two years.
Earl K. Long Newspaper Clippings

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

Clippings of Long's career from 1938 to 1960; additional clippings included from 1961 to 1963.
Eddie Blick Collection

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

Audiotape of nine speeches by Harry S Truman and 2 speeches on the death of Truman.
Edith Kavanaugh L.I.I. Collection

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

Tech scholarship awards, including pins awarded for excellence in debate by the early Tech literary society The Agatheridan.
Edna Liggin - "History of the Concord Institute, 1876-1885."

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

Article written for author's newspaper column "Shiloh Sketches"; an account of an early North Louisiana Baptist institute of learning.
Eliza Roberts Cowper Papers

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

Materials on Cowper's relative, William Paul Roberts of North Carolina, Confederate general; materials of North Carolina United Daughters of the Confederacy; programs of meetings, theme papers regarding the "Lost Cause."
E. L. Walker Collection

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

Invitation to Louisiana Industrial Institute 1913 graduation ceremony.
E.M. Graham Furniture Factory

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

Part of grindstone used at furniture factory of E. M. Graham in the 1870's. The E.M. Graham furniture factory was located in Vienna, Louisiana, north of Ruston, Louisiana.
Emma Jean Allen Collection

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

Tech memorabilia from student days of donor and her father, W.H. McLaurin, Director of Administrative Affairs.
Emma McDonald Collection

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

Reminiscence of Women’s Army Corps training center at Camp Ruston by WAC stationed there.
Emmanuel J. Drechsel - "An Ethnohistory of Nineteenth-Century Louisiana Indians."

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

Report prepared for the National Park Service, includes bibliography.
Enzio Siena Camp Ruston Collection

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

Materials concerning Enzo Siena, Italian prisoner of war at Camp Ruston.
Ephesus Primitive Baptist Church Collection

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

Minutes of church conferences, constitution, articles of faith, and church roll; includes correspondence of church leaders, related papers and a few records of the Louisiana Association of Primitive Baptists.
Ephesus Primitive Baptist Church Records

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

Church record books of the Ephesus Primitive Baptist Church and New Bethel Baptist Church.
Epsy Bond Cunningham Collection

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

Manuscript of "Desert Interlude" by Epsy Bond Cunningham.
Ernell Montgomery Thrash - "A Historical Sketch of the Bistineau Baptist Church."

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

Paper prepared and read by Thrash, historian of the Bistineau Baptist Church, located in Webster Parish, Louisiana, for the centennial of the church
Eugenia Kennimer Welch Collection

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

Materials concerning U.S. World War II prisoner of war camp Camp Ruston.
Eulis L. "Joe" Carroll Camp Ruston Collection

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

Material concerning donor who was a guard in hospital stationed at Camp Ruston (1943-46).