Picnic given by the citizens of East Carrol, Madison, and Tensas Parishes as a thanksgiving for the levees holding the flood waters of the Mississippi River in 1922. Courthouse, Tallulah (La.).
Picnic given by the citizens of East Carrol, Madison, and Tensas Parishes as a thanksgiving for the levees holding the flood waters of the Mississippi River in 1922. Courthouse, Tallulah (La.).
Picnic given by the Levee Board to the negroes of East Carrol, Madison, and Tensas Parishes for their work on the Levee during the flood of 1922. Courthouse, Tallulah (La.).
Tensas Parish (La.)--History.; Natchez (Miss.)--History.; Waterproof (La.)--History.; Saint Joseph (La.)--History.; Plantation life--Louisiana--History--19th century.; Slavery--United States--History--19th century.; Levees--Louisiana.;...
Diary kept by plantation owner Zenas Preston from 1850-1853. Preston's plantation, Leftwich, was situated on Lake St. Peter in Tensas Parish, Louisiana, and Preston describes frequent trips to Waterproof, Saint Joseph, and Natchez via the...
Vicksburg (Miss.); Paris (Ill.); Steamboats; Women; Social history; Bird, Mary Ellen TenBrook, b. 1843; Lamon, Lucy Malindia Alexander, b. 1843; Judson, Jacintha Alexander, 1828-1903; Judson, Willet Harmon, 1823-1890; Judson, Jennie Shields, b....
Letter from 17-year-old Ellen Mary 'Nell' TenBrook to her 17-year-old aunt, Lucy Malindia Alexander, in Paris, Illinois, January 1860. Nell is visiting her aunt (Lucy's sister), Jacintha 'Cinty' Alexander Judson, in Vicksburg, Mississippi, and...