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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Georgia Payne Pinkston Collection

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

Literary achievements of Georgia Payne Pinkston.
Gerda Cornelisse Collection

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

Materials regarding Nazi-occupied Netherlands.
Gertrude Mayfield Brown Interview

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

Transcripts of oral history interview with Tech's first woman graduate Gertrude Mayfield Brown, who graduated in 1898 with a major in Domestic Science.
Gladys Brand Stinson Collection

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

Materials donated by former U.S. Army nurse who worked at Camp Ruston P.O.W. camp.
Glen T. Bays Collection

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

Collection contains September, 1935 issue of The American Progress newspaper. A Memorial Edition containing the last speech that Senator Huey P. Long made on the floor of the United States Senate and his assassination.
Glynn R. Kinnimer Collection

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

Photograph of donor as a teenager sitting on ruins of model castle constructed by Camp Ruston prisoners of war.
Graham Family Artifacts

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

Artifacts from a prominent North Louisiana family.
Gustaf H. and Ursula Panula U.N. Philatelic Collection

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

A United Nations Stamp Collection consisting of 39/58 stamps issued by the U.N. from 1951-1957. These are full sheets, each consisting of 50 stamps, with a total of 172 sheets.
Guthrie Jarrell Collection

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

Student memorabilia of Louisiana Polytechnic Institute.
G. W. McGinty - Francis T Nicholls Papers

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

Notes on Nicholls by G.W. McGinty; several notes refer to correspondence by Nicholls; collection contains only the notes and quoted passages compiled by McGinty.
G. W. McGinty Papers

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

Papers of history professor and administrator at Louisiana Polytechnic Institute; includes manuscripts of McGinty's thesis, "Louisiana Redeemed," and "Louisiana History."
G. W. McGinty Supreme Court of Louisiana Brief

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

Printed booklet of brief, case number 35.308.
Hank Fraser Interview

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

Interview of Hank Frasier.
Hardtner Lumber Company Collection

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

Hardtner Lumber Company papers and records.
Harley B. Bozeman Papers

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

Papers of longtime resident of Winn Parish, Louisiana, state politician and friend of Huey P. Long and family; in later years became known as the historian and genealogist of Winn Parish.
Harlie L. Beagle Collection

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

Memorabilia from the donor's student days at Louisiana Polytechnic Institute.
Harold L. Johnson Collection

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

Picture postcards showing scenes of Louisiana Industrial Institute.
Harold Pace Collection

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

Miscellaneous collection of historical memorabilia from the desk of a former Tech Registrar, including 1915 list of students, photographs of registrations, slides of Tech buildings, and floor plans of 1973 Keeny Hall renovations.
Harrell R. Smith L.P.I. Commencement Invitation

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

Commencement invitation, Louisiana Polytechnic Institute, including class roll.
Harry Clayton Sanders Papers

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

Genealogical and historical records of the ancestors of Harry Clayton Sanders of Claiborne Parish, Louisiana.
Hazel Coyne Papers

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

Genealogical materials relating to the McCormack, Fontaine and Bruton families.
Hazel Meadows Collection

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

Historical memorabilia from donor's student days at Louisiana Industrial Institute and Louisiana Polytechnic.
H.B. Bozeman Collection

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

Specimen of petrified palm wood found by Estes B. Bozeman in 1962-63 on the southeast flank of the Sikes Salt Dome, Winn Parish, Louisiana. Palm trees grew in the Winn Parish area 30-40 million years ago during the Tertiary Period of the Cenozoic Era.
H.D. Wilson Musical Score

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

"Tenting on the Old Camp Ground" musical score.
H.D. Wilson Papers

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

Letter dated 1946 from family members to Ruston resident H.D. Wilson.