Cobb, Lois D. (Lois Dowdle), 1889-1987; Association of Southern Agricultural Workers; Agriculture; Farming; Speeches, addresses, etc.; Economics; Women
Good Living Our Goal,' address of Lois P. Dowdle, President of Association of Southern Agricultural Workers, February 1, 1933, New Orleans, Louisiana.
Courtship--United States--History.; Wit and humor--United States.; Louisiana. National Guard--History.
Letter to Cammie Williams from his cousin, George H. Douglas, in New Orleans, Louisiana. Douglas mentions joining the Vaudry Rifles, a division of the Crescent City Battalion.
Carnival--Louisiana--New Orleans--History.; Sunday school teachers.
Incomplete letter to Cammie Williams from Lizzie N. Douglas at Calvary Rectory in New Orleans, Louisiana. She writes about Mardi Gras and their local church.
Slavery; Slave trade; Slaveholders; Abolitionists; Christian literature; Artists; Annexation; Texas; Natchez (Miss.); Saint Louis (Mo.); New Orleans (La.); Mobile (Ala.)
Letter from an unidentified illustrator of Indians who is publishing a book, from Natchez, Mississippi, to his wife in Vermont, 1853. The writer criticizes the institution of slavery and believes that a civil war is the only hope of ending it. He...
Lincoln, Abraham, 1809-1865; Agriculture; New Orleans (La.); Fishing; Hinds County (Miss.); Women's clothing
Letter to Eudora Hobbs in Salem, North Carolina, from her father, Howell Hobbs, telling her about what he has planted in his garden. He mentions visiting New Orleans and eating oysters, and finishes with some local and family news. 1861.
Sykes family; Sale family; Slavery; African-Americans; Pioneer Express Company (Mobile, Ala.); Sale, John B., 1818-1876; Refugees; New Orleans (La.)
Letter, Luke J. Whitfield at the Pioneer Express Company in Mobile, Alabama, to James Sykes, regarding an unnamed slave (Zeke?) who belonged to Captain John B. Sale. The slave had been hired out by Sykes to a Mr. Sawyers, who apparently...
Agriculture; Association of Southern Agricultural Workers; Cobb, Lois D. (Lois Dowdle), 1889-1987
Program for the 34th annual convention of the Association of Southern Agricultural Workers, held at the Roosevelt hotel in New Orleans, Louisiana from February 1-3, 1933.
