Topic Guide to American Authors

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Significant Dates

1803 - Ralph Waldo Emerson born in Boston, Massachusetts
1809 - Edgar Poe is born in Boston, Masschusetts
1809 - Edgar Poe is adopted by Mr. and Mrs. John Allan
1811 - Harriet Beecher is born in Litchfield, Connecticut
1819 - Walt Whitman is born in Long Island, New York
1827 - Edgar Allan Poe prints "Tamerlane and other Poems"
1832 - Harriet Beecher and her family move to Cincinnati and become involved with the anti-slavery movement
1835 - Samuel Clemens born in Florida, Missouri
1836 - Harriet Beecher marries Calvin Ellis Stowe
1836 - Principles of transcendentalism introduced in Ralph Waldo Emerson's Nature
1837 - Ralph Waldo Emerson gives "The American Scholar" address at Harvard
1838 - Ralph Waldo Emerson criticizes formal religion and encourages personal spiritual exploration in his "Divinity School Address"
1839 - Samuel Clemens moves to Hannibal, Missouri
1839 - Edgar Allan Poe publishes The Fall of the House of Usher
1841 - Edgar Allan Poe publishes The Murders in the Rue Morgue
1841 - Ralph Waldo Emerson's first series of Essays, including "Self-Reliance" is published
1842 - Ambrose Bierce born in Horse Cave, Ohio
1842 - Ralph Waldo Emerson takes over editorship of the transcendentalist magazine The Dial
1843 - Edgar Allan Poe publishes The Pit and the Pendulum
1844 - Ralph Waldo Emerson delivers the first of many lectures against slavery
1845 - Edgar Allan Poe publishes The Raven and Other Poems
1846 - Walt Whitman becomes editor the Daily Eagle
1847 - Ralph Waldo Emerson publishes his first collection of poems in The Dial
1848 - Walt Whitman's association with the Daily Eagle ends; relocates to New Orleans with his brother to briefly edit the Daily Crescent before returning to Brooklyn where he sets up the Freeman, a "free-soil" newspaper
1849 - Edgar Allan Poe dies in Baltimore, Maryland
1852 - Harriet Beecher Stowe publishes the antislavery novel Uncle Tom's Cabin
1855 - First edition of Walt Whitman's Leaves of Grass is published
1865 - Samuel Clemens establishes his Mark Twain persona with the incrediby successful The Celebrated Jumping Frog of Calaveras County
1866 - Walt Whitman publishes Drum-Taps
1873 - Ambrose Bierce publishes The Fiend's Delight, Nuggets and Dust, and Cobwebs from an Empty Skull while living in England
1876 - Mark Twain publishes The Adventures of Tom Sawyer
1876 - John Griffith "Jack" London born in San Francisco, California
1878 - Upton Sinclair is born in Baltimore, Maryland
1880 - Ambrose Bierce returns to San Francisco and begins work on The Devil's Dictionary
1882 - Ralph Waldo Emerson dies in Concord, Massachusetts
1883 - Mark Twain's autobiographical Life on the Mississippi published
1884 - Mark Twain publishes The Adventures of Huckleberry Finn
1891 - Ambrose Bierce publishes Tales of Soldiers and Civilians
1892 - Walt Whitman dies in Camden, New Jersey; Ninth edition of the expanded Leaves of Grass is published
1896 - Harriet Beecher Stowe dies in Hartford, Connecticut
1900 - Jack London's first short story collection, The Son of the Wolf, is published
1903 - Jack London publishes The Call of the Wild
1906 - Upton Sinclair publishes The Jungle
1908 - Jack London publishes The Iron Heel
1910 - Samuel Clemens dies at "Stormfield" in Redding, Connecticut
1913 - Ambrose Bierce ventures into Mexico and is never heard from again
1916 - Jack London dies in Glen Ellen, California
1968 - Upton Sinclair dies in Bound Book, New Jersey

Suggested Search Terms

Samuel Clemens, Mark Twain, Walt Whitman, Ralph Waldo Emerson, Harriet Beecher Stowe, Mrs. Stowe, Edgar Allan Poe, Edgar A. Poe, Ambrose Bierce, Jack London, Upton Sinclair

Sample Articles: Ralph Waldo Emerson

• "The True Mark of Genius" The Planters' Banner, July 17, 1852, Image 2
• "We Thought So" New Orleans Daily Crescent, November 29, 1859, Image 1
• "The Future of America" The Louisiana Democrat, June 25, 1879, Image 4
• "Lincoln as Others Saw Him" The Progress, February 12, 1898, Image 16
• "Emerson Centenary" The Caucasian, April 05, 1903, Image 7
• "Honor Emerson" The Caucasian, May 28, 1903, Image 4

Sample Articles: Edgar Allan Poe

• "Edgar A. Poe" The New Orleans Crescent, February 14, 1869, Image 2
• "Edgar A. Poe's Boyish Days in Richmond" Claiborne Guardian, May 08, 1878, Image 3
• "An Embittered Poet" The Lafayette Advertiser, June 01, 1889, Image 3
• "The Romance of Genius" The Banner-Democrat, June 08, 1895, Image 3
• "The Tragic Element in Literature - Methods of Using It" The Banner-Democrat, October 19, 1895, page 3
• "Mysticism" The Banner-Democrat, January 23, 1897, Image 3
• "Arp Sustains Reed" St. Landry Clarion, April 03, 1897, Image 1
• "Scored Edgar Allan Poe" Le Meschacébé, June 30, 1900, Image 3
• "To Honor Edgar Allan Poe" St. Tammany Farmer, July 18, 1908, Image 6
• "Razing an Old Residence of Poe" Tensas Gazette, August 16, 1912, Image 8
• "New Yorkers Honor Poet" The Rice Belt Journal, January 31, 1920, Image 5

Sample Articles: Harriet Beecher Stowe

• "Mrs. Harriet Beecher Stowe's Charity" The Opelousas Courier, May 14, 1853, Image 2
• "Harriet Beecher Stowe" The Opelousas Courier, June 18, 1853, Image 2
• "Mrs. Stowe in Paros" New Orleans Daily Crescent, July 12, 1853, Image 1
• "A Sequel to Uncle Tom's Cabin" Feliciana Sentinel, June 21, 1879, Image 4
• "Harriet Beecher Stowe" The Ouachita Telegraph, March 30, 1889, Image 4
• "Uncle Tom's Cabin" The Colfax Chronicle, December 24, 1892, Image 1
• "Uncle Tom's Cabin" The Meridional, April 01, 1893, Image 1
• "Death of Mrs. Stowe" The Louisiana Democrat, July 08, 1896, Image 2
• "Mrs. Stowe's Character" The Louisiana Democrat, August 19, 1896, Image 2
• "Mrs. H.B. Stowe Was Puzzled" Tensas Gazette, October 13, 1911, Image 3
• "Condensed Classics: Uncle Tom's Cabin" The Concordia Sentinel, July 02, 1921, Image 3

Sample Articles: Walt Whitman

• "Walt Whitman" The New Orleans Crescent, March 05, 1869, Image 4
• "Walt Whitman" The Morning Star and Catholic Messenger, November 14, 1875, Image 7
• "How Walt Whitman Writes" The Opelousas Courier, May 08, 1880, Image 2
• "Walt Whitman is Feeling the Weight of Years" The Louisiana Democrat, February 14, 1885, Image 3
• "With the Veterans" The Jennigs Daily Record, MArch 28, 1902, Image 4
• "News In Brief" The Caucasian, February 26, 1905, Image 8
• "Queer Occupation for Poet" The Rice Belt Journal, July 04, 1913, Image 7

Sample Articles: Mark Twain

• "A Letter From Mark Twain" The Donaldsonville Chief, November 16, 1872, Image 1
• "Mark Twain and the Spelling Bee" The Morning Star and Catholic Messenger, May 30, 1875, Image 7
• "Mark Twain's Latest" The Ouachita Telegraph, November 02, 1877, Image 2
• "Mark Twain Back Again" The Ouachita Telegraph, September 12, 1879, Image 1
• "Mark Twain on the Art of War" The Ouachita Telegraph, June 17, 1881, Image 2
• "Misfortunes of Mark Twain" The Colfax Chronicle, March 27, 1897, Image 3
• "Long Used to Earthquakes" The Lafayette Advertiser, April 25, 1906, Image 9
• "Mark Twain" The Caucasian, April 24, 1910, Image 1
• "Mark Twain's Infinite Jest" The Caucasian, April 26, 1910, Image 2
• "Mark Twain's Wit" The Caucasian, May 01, 1910, Image 2
• "Reminisences of Mark Twain" The Caucasian, May 03, 1910, Image 4
• "Sayings of Twain" The Caucasian, May 08, 1910, Image 6
• "Afraid of 'Innocents Abroad'" Tensas Gazette, September 09, 1910, Image 8
• "Not Original 'Mark Twain'" The Herald, July 07, 1921, Image 3

Sample Articles: Ambrose Bierce

• "A Comfortable Creed for Some" The Louisiana Democrat, July 06, 1891, Image 4
• "Whys for the Printer" The Lafayette Gazette, July 06, 1901, Image 3
• "A Substitute for Snakes" St. Tammany Farmer, November 02, 1901, Image 2
• "Western Paper Quick to Notice Author's Presence 'In Our Midst'", November 10, 1903, Image 7
• "Dog Worship" The True Democrat, July 03, 1909, Image 2
• "Our Statesmen" The Caldwell Watchman, July 17, 1914, Image 4

Sample Articles: Jack London

• "Chat About Authors" The Caucasian, January 25, 1903, Image 3
• "How Jack London Arrived" The Colfax Chronicle, August 06, 1904, Image 3
• "Jack London Among the Lepers" St. Tammany Farmer, February 22, 1908, Image 3
• "The Alleged Social Revolt" The Lafayette Advertiser, April 14, 1908, Image 2
• "Jack London - Gentleman" The Voice of the People, July 14, 1914, Image 3
• "The Sea Wolf" Tensas Gazette, June 23, 1916, Image 2
• "Jack London's Ashes to be Scattered Alled over Ranch" The Era-leader, November 30, 1916, Image 3
• "In a Far Country" Tensas Gazette, January 25, 1918, Image 3
• "The Son of the Wolf" Tensas Gazette, February 15, 1918, Image 3
• "The Men of Forty Mile" Tensas Gazette, February 22, 1918, Image 3
• "To The Man on Trail" Tensas Gazette, March 01, 1918, Image 3
• "The Wisdom of thr Trail" Tensas Gazette, March 08, 1918, Image 3
• "Jack London Tale of Gold Stampede in Screen Drama" St. Landry Clarion, July 17, 1920, Image 2

Sample Articles: Upton Sinclair

• "The Unspeakable Beef Monopoly" The Lafayette Advertiser, May 16, 1906, Image 7
• "Evaporated Fiction. 'The Jungle"- by Upton Sinclair." The Colfax Chronicle, July 21, 1906, Image 2
• "Two Sides to the Trouble" The Caucasian, May 21, 1907, Image 1
• "Sympathy for the Fish" St. Tammany Farmer, July 06, 1907, Image 2
• "The Book and the Big Stick" The Caucasian, April 04, 1909, Image 6
• "We Eat Too Much" The Cauasian, June 26, 1910, Image 7
• "Sinclair Wants Divorce" St. Tammany Farmer, September 02, 1911, Image 6
• "Mrs. Upton Sinclair" The Caucasian, September 17, 1911, Image 7

Topic Guide to Colfax Riot (1873)

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Significant Dates

1872 - Reconstructionist republicans won a hotly contested Louisiana governor's race
1873 - March 28, a group of white Democratic leaders organized a militia to "take back" the Grant Parish Courthouse from white and black Republican leaders
1873 - April 2, fighting erupts in Colfax Parish
1873 - April 13, a group of over 300 whites including those from supremacist groups such as the Knights of White Camellia and the Ku Klux Klan attack the courthouse armed with a cannon and rifles. Three whites and approximately 60 black men were killed in the conflict
1873 - April 14, the state militia under Governor William Kellogg arrive. 97 white men were arrested and charged with the violation of the 1870 U.S. Enforcement Act, of which only a few were convicted
1875 - Those convicted were acquitted when the U.S. Supreme Court declared the Enforcement Act of 1870 applied only to state governments and not individuals
1921 - April 13, a monument erected in memory of the three white men killed in the Colfax Riot is unveiled in the Colfax cemetary

Suggested Search Terms

Colfax Riot, Colfax Affair, Colfax Race Riot, Grant Parish, William Kellogg, race riot

Sample Articles

• “The Colfax Riot” The Louisiana Democrat, April 16, 1873, Image 2
• “Peace in Grant Parish”The Ouachita Telegraph, April 19, 1873, Image 2
• “The Troubles in Grant Parish”The Morning Star and Catholic Messenger, April 20, 1873, Image 1
• “The Colfax Fight”The Louisiana Democrat, April 23, 1873, Image 2
• “Speech of Gov. McEnery” The Ouachita Telegraph, April 26, 1873, Image 2
• “Colfax Again” The Louisiana Democrat, April 30, 1873, Image 2
• “The Grant Parish Troubles” The Ouachita Telegraph, May 10, 1873, Image 1
• “Boston Pilot” The Morning Star and Catholic Messenger, May 11, 1873, Image 4
• “Statement of Colfax Fight” The Louisiana Democrat, May 14, 1873, Image 2
• “Facts about Colfax” The Ouachita Telegraph, May 31, 1873, Image 1
• “The Grant Parish Outrage” The Oupelousas Courier, November 08, 1873, Image 1
• “The Outrage in Grant Parish” The Louisiana Democrat, November 12, 1873, Image 3
• “Too Careless” The Louisiana Democrat, May 13, 1874, Image 2
• “Another Colfax Outrage” The People's Vindicator, June 19, 1875, Image 2
• “The Colfax Chronicle on the Muscle” The People's Vindicator, October 28, 1876, Image 2
• “Negroes Killing One Another” Louisiana Capitolian, June 22, 1880, Image 1
• “Relics of the Colfax Riot” The Ouachita Telegraph, April 01, 1882, Image 2
• “39th Anniversary of the Colfax Race Riot” The Colfax Chronicle, April 27, 1912, Image 4
• “History of the Colfax Riot” The Colfax Chronicle, March 14, 1914, Image 1
• “Colfax Riot Monument Unveiled” The Colfax Chronicle, April 16, 1921, Image 2

Topic Guide to Darwinism & Eugenics

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Significant Dates

1859 – Charles Darwin's On the Origin of Species by Means of Natural Selection, or the Preservation of Favoured Races in the Struggle of Life was published
1860 – T.H. Huxley coins the term "Darwinism"
1864 – Herbert Spencer coins the phrase "survival of the fittest"
1869 – Charles Darwin adds the phrase "survival of the fittest" in the fifth edition of On the Origin of Species
1870s – "Survival of the fittest" is adapted to theories related to sociology, economics, and politics.  These theories would later be described as "Social Darwinism"
1871 – Charles Darwin's The Descent of Man, and Selection in Relation to Sex is published
1883 – Francis Galton misappropriates Darwin's theories to promote eugenics as a means of "perfecting the human race"
1890-1930s – Darwinism and "survival of the fittest" continues to be misapplied as a rationalization for movements related to eugenics, racism, imperialism, fascism, and Nazism
1900-1920s – Eugenics-based laws related to sterilization, marriage, and reproduction of certain people are passed in various states, including Louisiana

Suggested Search Terms

Darwinism, Natural Selection, Charles Darwin, Eugenics, Survival of the Fittest, Origin of Species

Sample Articles

• "Population and Natural Selection" The New Orleans Crescent, January 19, 1868, Image 4
• "Darwinism" Semi-Weekly Louisianian, June 25, 1871, Image 1
• "A Fact Against Darwinism" Semi-Weekly Louisianaian, September 24, 1871, Image 4
• "Was Your Grandfather a Monkey?" Richland Beacon, February 22, 1873, Image 4
• "Mystic Crewe's Subject for Mardi Gras was Darwinism" The Ouachita Telegraph, March 08, 1873, Image 3
• "Man's Place in Nature" St. Tammany Farmer, June 13, 1873, Image 3
• "Darwinism and Politics" The Donaldsonville Chief, June 14, 1873, Image 2
• "As Old as the World" The Ouachita Telegraph, September 14, 1889, Image 1
• "About Evolution" St. Tammany Farmer, September 14, 1898, Image 1
• "Men Lived Before Apes" St. Landry Clarion, January 12, 1901, Image 1
• "The Origin of Species" The Colfax Chronicle, April 14, 1906, Image 3
• "Sex Control is Practical" St. Landry Clarion, August 01, 1908, Image 6
• "Eugenics" Tensas Gazette, July 03, 1914, Image 10
• "The Centenary of Darwin" The Rice Belt Journal, February 12, 1909, Image 6
• "Baby Contest at Fair" St. Landry Clarion, August 30, 1913, Image 6
• "Law of Eugenics Are Often Put Out of Joint" Tensas Gazette, November 14, 1913, Image 2
• "Dr. Pierson's Suggestions to the Legislature" The True Democrat, May 02, 1914, Image 1
• "Eugenics Under State Law" The Era-Leader, September 29, 1921, Image 1
• "Darwinites Flayed by Bryan as Ape Men" Tensas Gazette, March 24, 1922, Image 1

Topic Guide to Early 20th Century Astronomy

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Significant Dates

1894 - Lowell Observatory is established in Flagstaff, Arizona by Percival Lowell
1894-1908 - Lowell publishes details about life on Mars
1899 - William Henry Pickering discovers Saturn's ninth moon
1900 - Max Planck lays the foundation for quantum physics
ca. 1900 - Spectroscopy expands with the advent of quantum physics
1904 - Mount Wilson Observatory founded in Los Angeles, California by George Elergy Hale
1905 - Albert Einstein introduces his "Theory of Relativity"
1906 - Percival Lowell begins his search for Planet X (Pluto)
1910 - Great January Comet of 1910 appears in the southern hemisphere
1910 - First photograph of Halley's Comet
1912 - Vesto Slipher's discovers galactic redshifts
1917 - The 100-inch telescope at Mount Wilson's Observatory is completed
1922 - Alexander Friedmann proposes the idea of an expanding universe

Suggested Search Terms

Origin Earth, Planets, Universe, T.J.J. See, Percival Lowell, W.H. Pickering, Lowell Observatory, Naval Observatory, V.M.Slipher, Andromeda, Nebula, Halley's Comet

Sample Articles

• "Measured Planet Mercury" St. Tammany Farmer, January 25, 1902, Image 2
• "Moon Cut from Earth" Le Meschacébé, December 16, 1905, Image 2
• "Neighbor Mars is Inhabited" The Caucasian, January 06, 1907, Image 5
• "Is Mars Inhabited?" The Rice Belt Journal, May 31, 1907, Image 6
• "Beware End of the World Only 12,000,000 Years Away" The Rice Belt Journal, July 31, 1908, Image 2
• "Estimates of the World’s Age" St. Tammany Farmer, September 12, 1908, Image 6
• “Moon Captured by Earth” St. Tammany Farmer, July 07, 1909, Image 6
• "Earth Beings Cannot Live in Climate of Mars" St. Tammany Farmer, August 14, 1909, Image 6
• "Halley’s Comet in Sight" The Colfax Chronicle, November 20, 1909, Image 6
• "A New Canal on Mars" The Caucasian, March 03, 1910, Image 2
• "Condensed Facts About Halley’s Comet" The Weekly Messenger April 02, 1910, Image 4
• "Comet is a Harmless Hobo" The Colfax Chronicle, April 22, 1911, Image 2
• "Dark Dead Stars" The Herald, June 05, 1913, Image 5
• "Moving 186 Miles a Second" The Caldwell Watchman, February 20, 1914, Image 2
• "Comets and Solar System" The Caldwell Watchman, January 22, 1915, Image 8
• "Earth Rube of Solar System" The Madison Journal, June 25, 1921, Image 2
• "Our Earth a Speck in the Universe" The Madison Journal, July 30, 1921, Image 6
• "Explains Earth’s Origins" The Concordia Sentinel, July 09, 1921, Image 2

Topic Guide to Hurricanes

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Significant Dates

1855 - September, Middle Gulf Shore Hurricane (category 3)
1886 - August, Last Island Hurricane (category 4)
1860 - Louisiana hit with hurricanes in August, September, and October
1865 - September, Sabine River Hurricane (category 2)
1867 - October, Galveston Hurricane hits Louisiana as category 2 storm
1877 - September, category 1 storm recorded
1879 - August, category 1 storm recorded; September, category 3 storm recorded
1893 - Cheniere Caminada Hurricane (category 4), also known as The Great October Storm, devastates Cheniere Caminada and surrounding areas, resulting in approx. 2,000 deaths
1909 - September, Grand Isle Hurricane (category 3) batters Gulf Coast
1915 - September, New Orleans Hurricane (category 4) makes landfall near Grand Isle bringing widespread destruction to southern Louisiana; an estimated 275 killed
1918 - Lake Charles and surrounding areas struck by intense category 3 hurricane

Suggested Search Terms

hurricane, storm, new orleans hurricane, october storm, september storm

Sample Articles

• "Disasterous Effects of the Storm" Daily Gazette and Comet, August 17, 1860, Image 2
• "The Great Storm last Tuesday" Gazette and Sentinel, October 06, 1860, Image 2
• “The Blow of '77” The New Orleans Daily Democrat, September 20, 1877, Image 8
• "Ravages of the Storm" Feliciana Sentinel, September 06, 1879, Image 2
• "The Storm at Other Places" Feliciana Sentinel, September 06, 1879, Image 2
• “The Late Storm” The New Orleans Daily Democrat, September 08, 1879, Image 1
• “Storm Ravages in Iberville” The Donaldsonville Chief, September 13, 1879, Image 2
• "The Storm" The Opelousas Courier, September 13, 1879, Image 1
• "The Storm of Death" The Colfax Chronicle, October 07, 1893, Image 1
• "A New Danger" The Lafayette Advertiser, October 14, 1893, Image 7
• "The Worst Feared" The Caucasian, August 18, 1901, Image 7
• "September Storm of 1909" Lower Coast Gazette, September 25, 1909, Image 2
• "Entire Gulf Coast is Swept By a Hurricane" The True Democrat, September 25, 1909, Image 3
• "Havoc Wrought by Tropical Hurricane" St. Landry Clarion, September 25, 1909, Image 1
• “The Passing of the Storm” Lower Coast Gazette, October 02, 1909, Image 2
• "Storm Does Great Damage in South Louisiana" St. Tammany Farmer, October 02, 1915, Image 1
• "Worst Storm Since 1909 Hits Louisiana" The True Democrat, October 02, 1915, Image 3
• "Houses, Levees and Buildings Swept Away" Bogalusa Enterprise, October 07, 1915, Image 3
• "Eastern Gulf Coast Swept By Hurricane" Abbeville Progress, July, 15, 1916, Image 1
• "Lake Charles Almost Razed by Terrific Hurricane" St. Tammany Farmer, August 10, 1918, Image 1

Topic Guide to Leprosy in Louisiana

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Significant Dates

1850 - US Census lists four Louisiana deaths as result of leprosy (now known as Hansen's Disease)
1888 - Data leaked from New Orleans Charity Hospital reveals leprosy is endemic
1880s - Rate of incidence for leprosy rises
1894 - Louisiana Leper Home opens in Carville, LA at former sugar plantation known as Indian Camp, becomes center for research and treatment of lepers from throughout United States
1905 - State purchases Leper Home and assumes custody of patients
1909 - Leper Home damaged by hurricane; Repairs cost an estimated $8,000
1917 - US Senate passes legislation to found National Leprosarium
1921 - Leper Home selected as site for National Leprosarium to be administered by the US Public Health Service, and renamed US Marine Hospital No. 66: The National Leprosarium; Funding for research and treatment is increased

Suggested Search Terms

leprosy, leper, leper home, louisiana leper home, leper colony, Carville

Sample Articles

• "Leprosy" The Ouachita Telegraph, December 13, 1878, Image 2
• "Leprosy in LaFourche" The Colfax Chronicle, January 04, 1879, Image 1
• "Back to Leper's Land" The Louisiana Democrat, March 03, 1886, Image 1
• "The Panic of Leprosy " The Weekly Messanger, May 07, 1887, Image 1
• "Leprosy in Louisiana" Colfax Chronicle, May 28, 1887, Image 1
• "Leprosy in North America" The Banner-Democrat, July 21, 1894, Image 2
• “Leper Hospital” St. Tammany Farmer, September 15, 1894, Image 2
• "Will Ignore All Proposals" St. Tammany Farmerl, January 19, 1895, Image 2
• “We Congratulate the People of Iberville Parish” The Louisiana Democrat, July 08, 1896, Image 2
• “The Leper Home” The Lafayette Gazette, June 11, 1898, Image 1
• "Senator Babbington Volunteered" St. Tammany Farmer, June 30, 1900, Image 2
• "Leper's Home Damaged" The Opelousas Courier, October 02, 1909, Image 1
• "Leper Family Taken to Lepers' Home" The Lafayette Advertiser, March 07, 1911, Image 1
• "Insane Leper" The Lafayette Advertiser, November 12, 1912, Image 1
• "Escape Insane Leper In Terror" The Era-Leader, November 14, 1912, Image 4
• "This Leper Had No Welcome" Abbeville Progress, August 16, 1913, Image 4
• "Several Lepers are Discharged as Cured" St. Landry Clarion, February 28, 1914, Image 6
• "Providing for the Lepers" The Rice Belt Journal, March 13, 1914, Image 2
• “Improvements of Leper Home Planned” The Caldwell Watchman, March 20, 1914, Image 1
• "Four Lepers Cured in Louisiana Home" The Colfax Chronicle, January 13, 1917, Image 3
• "Escaped Leper Located in Ascension" The Donaldsonville Chief, April 06, 1918, Image 3
• "Algiers Man Transferred to National Leprosarium" The Herald, February 17, 1921, Image 1
• "National Leper Home in Carville" The Herald, September 07, 1922, Image 13

Topic Guide to Louisiana Lottery (1868-1895)

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Significant Dates

1868 - Louisiana State Lottery Company authorized a 25 year charter by the Louisiana General Assembly
1870s - Anti-lottery leagues and religious groups campaign to end lotteries
1878 - Louisiana Lottery remains the last legal lottery in the U.S. with over 90% of its revenue coming in from other states
1890 - Federal law prohibits using the mail system to transport tickets and advertisements across state lines, effectively ending national participation in state lotteries
1893 - Louisiana Lottery holds its final drawing when its charter expires

Suggested Search Terms

Louisiana Lottery, Louisiana Lottery Company, Louisiana State Lottery Company, Anti-Lottery League

Sample Articles

• “Letters From Old Tim” The Louisiana Democrat, February 17, 1869, Image 2
• “The Lottery” The Morning Star and Catholic Messenger, March 11, 1877, Image 4
• “The Louisiana Lottery” Feliciana Sentinel, April 27, 1878, Image 1
• “Taxing the Lottery” The New Orleans Daily Democrat, May 09, 1878, Image 4
• “The Lottery Company Seeks to Crush the N. O. Democrat” Feliciana Sentinel, May 25, 1878, Image 2
• “The Bee on the Lottery” The New Orleans Daily Dmeocrat, May 25, 1878, Image 4
• “Outrageous” The People's Vindicator, June 01, 1878, Image 2
• “The Lottery Ticket Question” The Morning Star and Catholic Messenger, June 02, 1878, Image 5
• “A Distinguished Defense of the Lottery” The New Orleans Daily Democrat, June 14, 1878, Image 4
• “Politics, Monopolies, and Lotteries” The New Orleans Daily Democrat, June 15, 1878, Image 4
• “Lottery Earnings” The New Orleans Daily Democrat, June 16, 1878, Image 2
• “The Charity Hospital and the Library” The New Orleans Daily Democrat, September 11, 1878, Image 4
• “The Louisiana Lottery North” The New Orleans Daily Democrat, December 04, 1878, Image 4
• “The Louisiana Lottery Co.” Feliciana Sentinel, January 11, 1879, Image 2
• “The Lottery Bill” The People's Vindicator, February 08, 1879, Image 1
• “The Lottery Bill Signed” The People's Vindicator, April 12, 1879, Image 1
• “It is Discouraging” Louisiana Capitolian, May 01, 1880, Image 2
• “The Lottery Question” The Daily Telegraph, November 04, 1883, Image 2
• “The Louisiana Lottery” The Weekly Messenger, January 01, 1887, Image 4
• “The Lottery’s Donation” The Louisiana Democrat, March 19, 1890, Image 2
• “Two Officials” St. Tammany Farmer, March 22, 1890, Image 2
• “The Governor's Refusal” The Weekly Messenger, March 22, 1890, Image 1
• “The Shirt of Nessus” The Lafayette Advertiser, April 26, 1890, Image 4
• “The Louisiana State Lottery is Doomed” The Lafayette Advertiser, August 23, 1890, Image 4
• “A Mexican Lottery Saint” The Louisiana Democrat, August 27, 1890, Image 2
• “An Anti-Lottery Blunder” The Louisiana Democrat, September 10, 1890, Image 2
• “Lottery Largesse” St. Landry Clarion, April 04, 1891, Image 2
• “The Anti-Lottery Mass Meeting” The Meridional, June 18, 1891, Image 2
• “'Lottery' Not the Question” The Opelousas Courier, August 15, 1891, Image 1
• “Anti-Lottery League” The Meridional, August 29, 1891, Image 2
• "Democratic White Primaries Proposed by the Anti-Lotteryites” St. Landry Clarion, October 17, 1891, Image 2
• “Anti-Lottery League Convention” St. Landry Clarion, October 24, 1891, Image 2
• “Is McEnery Opposed to the Lottery?” St. Landry Clarion, November 21, 1891, Image 4
• “The Plain Situation” The Louisiana Democrat, November 25, 1891, Image 2
• “Curious Lottery Ancestry” The Opelousas Courier, February 27, 1892, Image 3
• “U. S. Mails and Lotteries” The Banner-Democrat, January 20, 1894, Image 2

Topic Guide to Louisiana State University

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Significant Dates

1853 - Seminary of Learning of the State of Louisiana is established with legislation for a state institution of higher education
1860 - Seminary opens at Pineville with Col. W. T. Sherman as superintendent, name changes to Louisiana State Seminary of Learning & Military Academy
1861 - Louisiana secedes from Union, and students and faculty (including Col. W.T. Sherman) resign in order enlist as soldiers; Seminary closes June 31
1862 - Seminary reopens
1863 - Seminary closes after invasion of Red River Valley
1865 - Civil War ends and Seminary reopens with David F. Boyd as superintendent
1869 - Fire burns Pineville campus, prompting move to Baton Rouge where the Seminary is re-established at the Louisiana School for the Deaf, Dumb, and Blind
1870 - Seminary is renamed The Louisiana State University
1874 - Louisiana State Agricultural & Mechanical College is established in New Orleans
1876 - Louisiana State University merges with Louisiana Agricultural and Mechanical College
1877 - Louisiana State University and A&M College becomes a land-grant institution
1884 - William Carter Stubbs hired as director of the Sugar Experiment Station in Kenner
1886 - LSU campus moves to the federal garrison grounds in Baton Rouge
1893 - LSU plays first football game, losing 34-0 to Tulane
1897 - Audubon Sugar School becomes integrated into an LSU degree program requiring two years in Baton Rouge, and two years at New Orleans
1904 - Olivia Davis becomes LSU’s first female student, graduating in 1905
1906 - Seventeen women enroll as freshmen; Law school opens
1918 - Gartness Plantation is purchased by a group of LSU affiliates, later becomes site of present day campus

Suggested Search Terms

louisiana state university, l.s.u., louisiana seminary of learning, louisiana seminary of learning and mechanical college, louisiana state university and a&m, D.F. Boyd

Sample Articles

• “Title VII Public Education” New Orleans Daily Crescent, August 12, 1852, Image 1
• “The Louisiana State Seminary” Sugar Planter, November 19, 1859, Image 2
• “State Seminary of Learning” New Orleans Daily Crescent, June 16, 1859, Image 4
• “Louisiana State Seminary of Learning and Military Academy” New Orleans Daily Crescent, March 30, 1866, Image 2
• “Closing Exercises at the State Seminary” The Louisiana Democrat, July 07, 1869, Image 2
• “The Destruction of the State Seminary” The Ouachita Telegraph, October 30, 1869, Image 1
• “The State Seminary” The Louisiana Democrat, May 25, 1870, Image 2
• “Louisiana State University” The Louisiana Democrat, November 02, 1870, Image 3
• “Laws of the State of Louisiana” New Orleans Daily Democrat, June 01, 1877, Image 6
• “Concerning a Public University” The New Orleans Daily Democrat, July 26, 1879, Image 13
• "Louisiana State University Agricultural and Mechanical College"The Opelousas Courier, August 07,1897, Image 1
• “Louisiana State University” The Southern Sentinel, September 14, 1903, Image 4
• “Farmers at College” The Donaldsonville Chief, December 17, 1910 Image 1
• “The Summer School is a Disctinctive Feature at L.S.U.” The Era-Leader, September 07, 1911, Image 10
• "How L.S.U. Teaches 'Practical Things'"The Comrade, September 8, 1911, Image 2
• "Positions for Graduates"The Madison Journal, June 14, 1913, Image 1
• “Variety of Subjects on Program”The True Democrat, December 26, 1914, Image 1
• “Good Drainage is Important Factor in Crop Production” The Donaldsonville Chief, March 03, 1917, Image 4
• “University Session Opens”The Era-Leader, August 17, 1917, Image 2
• “Louisiana Club Members Learn New Lesson”Tensas Gazetter, October 26, 1917, Image 6
• “Co-eds Part at the Louisiana State University” Woman's Enterprise, November 18, 1921, Image 18
• “Choosing a Profession” Woman's Enterprise, June 01, 1922, Image 12

Topic Guide to Mardi Gras

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Significant Dates

1856 - Mistick Krewe of Comus formed
1857 - First modern Mardi Gras organization in New Orleans
1862-1865 - Parades cancelled during Civil War
1869 - First formal Mardi Gras ball and parade in Lafayette
1872 - Krewe of Rex formed 1872 - Carnival King is established
1872 - First organized daytime parade
1875 - The State of Louisiana declared Mardi Gras a legal holiday
1882 - Krewe of Proteus formed
1918-1919 - Parades cancelled during WWI

Suggested Search Terms

Mardi Gras, Carnival, Krewe, Mistick, Mystick, Nereus, Momus, Rex, Proteus, Comus, Fat Tuesday

Sample Articles

• "Festival of the Mistick Krewe" New Orleans Daily Crescent, March 10, 1859, Image 4
• "The Mardi-Gras Fesivities: Turnout of the Mistick Krewe" New Orleans Daily Crescent, February 23, 1860, Image 2
• "The Festivities of Mardi-Gras Night: Festival of the 'Mistick Krewe'" New Orleans Daily Crescent, February 14, 1861, Image 1
• "A. Head Unmasks the 'Mystic Krewe of Komus'" The New Orleans Crescent, February 23, 1868, Image 2
• “Old Tim At The Carnival” The Louisiana Democrat, March 11, 1868, Image 2
• “Mardi-Gras” The New Orleans Crescent, February 14, 1869, Image 4
• “Mardi Gras: A Tale of Ante Bellum Times” The Morning Star and Catholic Messenger, February 26, 1871, Image 1
• “Mardi Gras” Semi-Weekly Louisianian, February 04, 1872, Image 2
• "Mardi Gras in Covington" St. Tammany Farmer, January 10, 1880, Image 3
• “The Modern Bacchanalia” The Banner-Democrat, February 11, 1893, Image 1
• "Mardi Gras" The Weekly Messenger, January 12, 1895, Image 3
• “King Kommerce” The Weekly Messenger, March 02, 1895, Image 2
• "Mardi Gras" The Lafayette Advertiser, March 02, 1895, Image 3
• “Bill Arp’s Weekly Letter” The Banner-Democrat, April 15, 1899, Image 1
• "Carnival Low Rates" The Opelousas Courier, February 24, 1900, Image 4
• "Mardi Gras 1900" The Meridional, February 24, 1900, Image 4
• “King Sucrose Grand Carnival” The Weekly Thibodaux Sentinel, February 23, 1901, Image 1
• "The Thib'x Carnival" The Weekly Thibodaux Sentinel, January 18, 1902, Image 1
• "Carnival! Carnival!" The Weekly Thibodaux Sentinel, February 08, 1902, Image 1
• "What Becomes of the Floats Every Year" The Lafayette Advertiser, March 07, 1906, Image 6
• "Mardi Gras at New Orleans" The Lafayette Advertiser, January 30, 1907, Image 3
• "New Orleans Letter" The Donaldsonville Chief, February 16, 1907, Image 1
• "Abita Springs Carnival" St. Tammany Farmer, February 27, 1909, Image 4
• "The Carnival Celebration and Ball" St. Tammany Farmer, February 27, 1909, Image 1
• “Mardi Gras” Lower Coast Gazette, February 12, 1910, Image 2
• “Significance of the Carnival” The Colfax Chronicle, February 12, 1910, Image 1
• "The Abita Carnival" St. Tammany Farmer, February 12, 1910, Image 1
• "The Herald Prize Contest for Gay Maskers" The Herald, February 02, 1911, Image 1
• "The Mardi Gras Ball" The Caucasian, February 06, 1913, Image 1
• “No More Negro Mardi Gras” The Madison Journal, March 14, 1914, Image 8
• "Mardi Gras Celebration" The Weekly Messenger, February 06, 1915, Image 2
• “Magnificent Pageant” The Weekly Messenger, February 20, 1915, Image 2
• "Was it a Carnival?" The Herald, February 19, 1920, Image 2
• "Mardi Gras Will Surpoass Celebrations Before War" The Era-Leader, January 27, 1921, Image 2
• "Carnival Plans for Mardi Gras are Completed" The Donaldsonville Chief, December 09, 1922, Image 1

Topic Guide to the Oil & Gas Industry (1901- )

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Significant Dates

1901 - First oil well drilled in Jennings
1906 - Caddo-Pine Island Field discovered
1906 - Louisiana legislature passed the first oil and gase conservation law
1908 - First natural gas pipeline in the state built to transport gas from Caddo-Pine to Shreveport
1909 - Standard Oil Company builds refinery in Baton Rouge
1910 - First over-water oil platform constructed on Caddo Lake
1910 - Major pipeline transporting gas from Caddo-Pine Island Field to the refinery in Baton Rouge completed
1913 - Bull Bayou Field discovered
1916 - State Federation of Labor organized
1916 - Discovery of the Monroe Gas Field
1919 - Discovery of the Homer Field
1921 - Haynesville Field discovered

Suggested Search Terms

Oil well, oil field, oil industry, oil workers, natural gas, gas well, drilling rig

Sample Articles

• "The First Oil Well Derrick" The Weekly Messenger, May 04, 1901, Image 1
• "New Oil Field on the Tangipahoa River" St. Tammany Farmer, July 20, 1901, Image 1
• “Oil in Louisiana” The True Democrat, September 28, 1901, Image 4
• "Mamou Oil Well Spouts High Into Space" The Meridional, October 19, 1901, Image 1
• “Jennings Gusher Gushes Skyward” The Jennings Daily Record, January 02, 1902, Image 4
• “Oil Well Fire Still Raging” The Jennings Daily Record, July 17, 1902, Image 1
• "Well Gushes 300 Feet High" The Jennings Daily Record, July 21, 1902, Image 1
• "An Important Land Deal" The Rice Belt Journal, July 25, 1902, Image 1
• "Wild Gusher Brought In" The Rice Belt Journal, August 15, 1902, Image 1
• "Stealing the Oil Field" The Weekly Messenger, August 16, 1902, Image 2
• "Martin Oil Co." The Lafayette Advertiser, September 06, 1902, Image 1
• "Oil and Gas in Town" The Lafayette Advertiser, September 13, 1902, Image 1
• "To Sink New Well" The Rice Belt Journal, October 17, 1902, Image 1
• “A Genuine Gusher” The Rice Belt Journal, November 21, 1902, Image 1
• "At the Oil Well" The Southern Sentinel, April 24, 1903, Image 1
• "No Doubt About Oil" The Lafayette Advertiser, July 22, 1903, Image 1
• "Notes From the Oil Field" The Rice Belt Journal, October 30, 1903, Image 1
• "To Sink Well in City Limits" The Rice Belt Journal, September 09, 1904, Image 1
• "Three Hundred Barrel Well" The Rice Belt Journal, April 14, 1905, Image 1
• "Winnfield Oil Well" The Southern Sentinel, June 15, 1906, Image 1
• "Renewed Activities in Welsh Oil Field" The Rice Belt Journal, November 02, 1906
• "Component Parts of Huge Oil Trust" St. Tammany Farmer, December 08, 1906
• "Other Oil Well to be Drilled in Winnfield Territory" The Southern Sentinel, June 18, 1907, Image 1
• "Drilling at Welsh" The Rice Belt Journal, November 22, 1907, Image 1
• "Eunice-Jennings Oil Field Its Future and Resources" The Opelousas Courier, February 15, 1908, Image 1
• "Burning Lake of Oil" The Southern Sentinel The Southern Sentinel, July 24, 1908, Image 8
• "An Oil Well at Anse-La-Butte" The Southern Sentinel, January 15, 1909, Image 8
• “Good Report on Gas Supply” Lower Coast Gazette, February 05, 1910, Image 1
• “Natural Gas Illuminates a Park” Lower Coast Gazette, July 23, 1910, Image 1
• “Natural Gas in Louisiana” Lower Coast Gazette, August 06, 1910, Image 1
• "Machinery for Oil Well" St. Landry Clarion, August 06, 1910, Image 6
• "Natural Gas in Louisiana" Le Meschacébé, August 13, 1910, Image 2
• "Oil Field at Colfax is Proven" The Colfax Chronicle, august 13, 1910, Image 1
• "Marksville People Booming Up Oil Well" St. Landry Clarion, June 21, 1913, Image 5
• "Oil Well Fire" The Caucasian, August 14, 1913, Image 1
• "To the Workers in the Oil Field" The Voice of the People, September 11, 1913, Image 2
• “Call to Southern Oil Workers” The Voice of the People, February 12, 1914, Image 1
• "To the Oil Workers of Louisiana, Texas, Oklahoma" The Voice of the People, February, 26, 1914, Image 1
• "Oil Field Workers if You Are 'Satisfied' Don't Read This" The Voice of the People, July 07, 1914, Image 2
• "History and Description of Oil and Gas Fields" The Weekly Messenger, May 22, 1915, Image 6-8
• “New Oil Well Brought In” The Rice Belt Journal, June 04, 1915, Image 1
• "Gas in Abundance at Colfax - Oil Developments to Follow" The Colfax Chronicle, July 24, 1915, Image 1
• "Oil at Bayou Boullion" The Weekly Messenger, November 04, 1916, Image 2
• "Paying Oil Wel Brought in at Bayou Bouillon" The Weekly Messenger, November 11, 1916, Image 2
• "Natural Gas for New Orleans" The Herald, January 10, 1918, Image 3
• “New Houma Gas Well Biggest in the World” The Rice Belt Journal, August 08, 1919, Image 1
• “North Louisiana Wealth Increases” Abbeville Progress, March 13, 1920, Image 2

Topic Guide to Robert Charles Riots

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Significant Dates

1900 – July 23, in an altercation with New Orleans police, African American laborer Robert Charles shoots three policemen, killing two of them; he flees the scene and a citywide manhunt ensues
1900 – July 24, rioting breaks out among white citizens of New Orleans; Violence against blacks is rampant
1900 – July 25, violence intensifies, with three blacks killed, five whites hospitalized, and over fifty people injured
1900 – July 27, deadly clash between Robert Charles and New Orleans police at 1208 Saratoga St. leads to the shooting death of Robert Charles, after he kills seven men and injures twenty-seven
1900 – In response to the riots, Bostonian Lillian Jewett starts the Anti-Lynching League; New Orleanians respond by forming the Green Turtle Club, and threaten Jewett’s life
1900 – The name “Robert Charles” is later associated with other African Americans accused of violence in Louisiana newspapers

Suggested Search Terms

Robert Charles, John Day, Lillian Jewett, riot

Sample Articles

• “Charles Killed” The Lafayette Gazette , July 28, 1900, Image 1
• “Murder and Riot”St. Landry Clarion, July 28, 1900, Image 3
• “John T. Day and Peter J. Lamb Shot to Death”St. Tammany Farmer, June 02, 1855, Image 1
• “Notice”The Banner-Democrat, August 04, 1900, Image 2
• “The New Orleans Riot” The Weekly Thibodaux Sentinel, August 08, 1900, Image 2
• “Foolish Talk About the Democratic Party” St. Landry Clarion, August 04, 1900, Image 2
• “End of the Tragedy: Robert Charles Killed” St. Tammany Farmer, August 04, 1900, Image 2
• “The New Orleans Boxer” The Meridional, August 04, 1900, Image 2
• “A Dangerous Desperado Killed” The Meridional, August 11, 1900, Image 1
• “Condemned Robert Charles Crimes” The Weekly Thibodaux Sentinel, August 11, 1900, Image 2
• “Daily Item” The Weekly Messenger, August 11, 1900, Image 4
• “A Cordial Invitation” St. Tammany Farmer, August 11, 1900, Image 2
• “Bad Coon's Fate” St. Landry Clarion, August 11, 1900, Image 3
• “Lillian Jewett” The Lafayette Gazette, August 18, 1900, Image 1
• “The Poisoned Chalice” The Weekly Thibodaux Sentinel, August 25, 1900, Image 3
• "Members of the Green Turtle Club" The Lafayette Gazette , August 25, 1900, Image 2

Topic Guide to Spiritualism

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Significant Dates

1840s - Spiritualism movement gains traction as disconent with traditional religious organizations grows
1848 - The Fox sisters of Hydesville, New York attract thousands of followers and spark the modern spiritualist movement by claiming the ability to communicate with the dead. Hundreds of clairvoyants, palmists, and spirit guides begin popping up across America as the spiritualist movement’s popularity spreads.
1888 - The Fox sisters confess to fraud but later recant their confessions
1890 - Approximately 45,000 Americans identify themselves as affiliatesd with a spiritualist society

Suggested Search Terms

spiritualism, spiritism, spirit guides, clairvoyant, modern spiritualism, spiritual rappings

Sample Articles

• "Spiritual Rappings" New Orleans Daily Democrat, June 19, 1852, Image 3
• "Spiritual Rappings" The Planters' Banner, July 17, 1852 Image 2
• "The Rappers" The Planters' Banner, April 21, 1853, Image 1
• "Marrying a Corpse" The South-western, September 03, 1856, Image 1
• "Spiritualism Drooping" The South-western, August 12, 1857, Image 1
• "Exodus of Fanatics" New Orleans Daily Crescent, November 12, 1859, Image 1
• "Madame Caprell" New Orleans Daily Crescent, January 12, 1860, Image 4
• "Heavy Confidence Game" New Orleans Daily Crescent, February 28, 1860, Image 1
• "Madame LaBlanch" New Orleans Daily Crescenty, March 19, 1860, Image 1
• "Know Thy Destiny" The Louisiana Democrat, April 17, 1867, Image 1
• "A Visit to the Spirit Land" Sugar Planter, June 22, 1867, Image 4
• "Is Ghost-Seeing All Imagination?" The Louisiana Democrat, July 12, 1871, Image 1
• "Scientists on Spiritualism" The Colfax Chronicle, November 11, 1876, Image 1
• "Jugglery vs. Spiritualism" The Morning Star and Catholic Messenger, November 26, 1876, Image 6
• "Spiritualism" The New Orleans Daily Democrat, April 20, 1878, Image 8
• "Fair Play is a Jewel" Claiborne Guardian, July 10, 1878, Image 1
• "Reply to Equal Rights" Claiborne Guardian, September 11, 1878, Image 1
• "Philosophy of Spiritism" The Opelousas Courier, April 26, 1879, Image 2
• "A Mind-Reader's Trick" The Claiborne Guardian, September 01, 1880, Image 1
• "Clairvoyance Fraud" Madison Times, November 29, 1884, Image 1
• "Spread of Spiritualism" Richland Beacon, May 16, 1885, Image 1
• "Five Hundred a Spirit" Madison Times, June 13, 1885, Image 4
• "Spiritual Phenomena" The Weekly Messenger, August 09, 1890, Image 1
• "Religion of Ghosts" St. Tammany Farmer, March 31, 1900, Image 1
• "A Strange Prophecy" St. Landry Clarion, May 25, 1901, Image 2
• "Mr. Piper a Telepath" The Banner-Democrat, March 22, 1902, Image 1
• "Dr. Hyslop and the Spirit World" The Caucasian, February 24, 1907, Image 7
• "Facts, Fads, and Fallacies" The Colfax Chronicle, February 29, 1908, Image 2
• "Madame DeLule" The Lafayette Advertiser, March 10, 1908, Image 3
• "Church and Spiritualism" St. Landry Clarion, January 23, 1909, Image 6
• "Law Considers Spiritualists Vagrants" The Caldwell Watchman, October 18, 1912, Image 1
• "To Study Spooks" Tensas Gazette, April 11, 1913, Image 3
• "Mind Reader World's Famous Clairvoyant St. Clair" The Lafayette Advertiser, May 23, 1913, Image 3
• "Family of 11 Insanse" The Concordia Sentinel, June 18, 1921, Image 1

Topic Guide to Sugarcane Industry

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Significant Dates

1834 - Norbert Rillieux, a free man of color from New Orleans, invents first triple-effect evaporator, which significantly reduces fuel consumption in manufacture of sugarcane
1860 - Sugarcane is a major industry in Louisiana, bolstered by an enslaved labor force of 300,000
1861-1865 - Louisiana sugar production plummets during US Civil War
1864 - There are only 175 sugar plantations, reduced from the 1,200 sugar plantations in existence in 1861
1877 - Louisiana Sugar Planters' Association (LSPA) is founded for the purposes of research and technological innovation
1880s & 1990s - Louisiana sugarcane industry faces increasing competition from Cuba, Hawaii and Philippines; Plantation culture declines as sugarcane cultivation and processing become separate enterprises
1885 - Sugar Experiment Station at Kenner is founded by LSPA with William Carter Stubbs as director
1890 - Sugar Experiment Station moves to Audobon Park
1891 - Audubon Sugar School is founded at the Sugar Experiment Station offering two-year curriculum in chemistry, agriculture, and mechanical engineering
1896 - Audubon Sugar School Closes due to financial difficulties
1897 - Audubon Sugar School is incorporated into a degree program at Louisiana State University and Agricultural & Mechanical College
1900s - Louisiana sugar production suffers due to sugarcane mosaic virus, which is not fully remedied until the late 1920s
1922 - The Louisiana Sugar Planters’ Association merges with the American Cane Growers’ Association and the Producers’ and Manufacturers’ Protective Association

Suggested Search Terms

sugar cane, cane, sugar experiment station, W.C. Stubbs, sugar mills, sugar refinery, sugar factory, sugar trusts, mosaic disease, mosaic virus

Sample Articles

• "Important to Sugar Planters" The Planters' Banner, December 06, 1849, Image 1
• "Sugar Farm for Sale" The Planters' Banner, January 08, 1853, Image 3
• "The Spirit of Incendiarism" Feliciana Sentinel, October 06, 1877, Image 2
• "Sugar Cane: Its Origin and History" The New Orleans Daily Democrat, June 23, 1878, Image 10
• "Sugar-House Party" The Donaldsonville Chief, November 03, 1883, Image 3
• "State Department of Agriculture" St. Tammany Farmer, January 25, 1890, Image 2
• “A Move for a Central Sugar Factory” The Meridional, February 13, 1892, Image 3
• "Sugar Legislatioin" The Lafayette Gazette, November 03, 1894, Image 1
• “Sugar House Fires” The Weekly Messenger, February 02, 1895, Image 4
• “Molasses as a Fertilizer” The True Democrat, December 05, 1896, Image 6
• "Sugar Cane as a Farm Crop" The Weekly Messenger, January 18, 1896, Image 3
• "A Sample Trade" The Colfax Chronicle, July 10, 1897, Image 3
• "The Condition of the Cane Crop" The Weekly Messanger, September 30, 1899, Image 1
• "The Sugar Industry Defended" The Donaldsonville Chief, October 31, 1908, Image 2
• "Sugar Crop Short" Lower Coast Gazette, November 13, 1909, Image 1
• "Two Clases of Men" The Caucasian, July 23, 1911, Image 1
• "The Cold and the Cane" The Era-Leader, January 19, 1911, Image 1
• "Providing for the Lepers" The Rice Belt Journal, March 13, 1914, Image 2
• “Attention Capitalists” The Lafayette Advertiser, November 14, 1911, Image 1
• "Sugar Refinery is Sold for $10,000" St. Landry Clarion, September 27, 1913, Image 1
• "Small Sugar Cane Mills" Lower Coast Gazette, April 26, 1913, Image 1
• "Planters May Get at Sugar Trust" The Lafayette Advertiser, November 11, 1913, Image 1
• "Free Sugar Up to Wilson" The Donaldsonville Chief, February 22, 1913, Image 1
• "Parasites to Fight Cane Borers" The Donaldsonville Chief, October 03, 1914, Image 2
• "Condition of Sugar Cane" The Weekly Messanger, October 23, 1915, Image 1
• "Sugar Cane Disease Spreads in Louisiana" St. Landry Clarion, August 16, 1919, Image 8
• "Station Removal Angers Planters" The Rice Belt Journal, April 10, 1920, Image 2
• "Investment in Sugar Cane" The Donaldsonville Chief", August 12, 1922, Image 1
• "Sugar Interests Merge" The Donaldsonville Chief", September 30, 1922, Image 1

Topic Guide to the Temperance & Prohibition

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Significant Dates

1826 – American Temperance Society is formed in Boston
1842 – Sons of Temperance is formed in New York City
1861-1865 – The Civil War becomes the prime focus of the nation; major temperance activities are put on hold
1874 – National Woman's Christian Temperance Union (W.C.T.U.) is founded in Cleveland
1893 – Anti-Saloon League forms in Oberlin, Ohio with the aim of promoting legislation for nationwide prohibition
1918 – Louisiana state legislature ratifies the 18th Amendment by a narrow margin as north and central "dry" areas defeated the "wet" votes of southern Louisiana and New Orleans
1919 – The production, transport, and sale of alcohol becomes illegal on January 16, when Nebraska becomes the 36th of 48 states to ratify the 18th Amendment
1919 – The National Prohibition Act (also called the Volstead Act), which provided enforcement to the 18th Amendment, is passed by Congress on October 28
1919 – Woodrow Wilson vetoes the National Prohibition Act
1919 – Congress immediately votes to override Wilson's veto
1920 – The 18th Amendment takes effect on January 17
1933 – The 18th Amendment is repealed

Suggested Search Terms

Temperance, Prohibition, Teetotalism, Anti-Saloon, 18th Amendment, Volstead Act, National Prohibition Act, Prohibition Party, Sons of Temperance

Sample Articles

• "Sons of Temperance in Louisiana" The Planters' Banner, January 24, 1850, Image 2
• "The Interest of St. Mary" The Planters' Banner, May 09, 1852, Image 2
• "Temperance" The Planters' Banner, July 24, 1852, Image 1
• "The Pope on Catholic Temperance" The Morning Star and Catholic Messenger, March 08, 1874, Image 1
• "Liquor Laws" The Louisiana Democrat, August 01, 1885, Image 1
• "The Effects of Prohibition in Rapides" The Louisiana Democrat, April 28, 1886, Image 2
• "Why I Leave the Democratic Party" Homer Guardian, November 09, 1888, Image 4
• "Work for Temperance" The Jennings Daily Record, March 18, 1902, Image 3
• "Enforced Temperance" The Banner-Democrat, April 05, 1902, Image 1
• "Temperance" The Jennings Daily Record, June 11, 1902, Image 2
• "Total Abstainers Will Lead" The Jennings Daily Record, September 04, 1902, Image 2
• "The War on Saloons" The Lafayette Advertiser, November 29, 1907, Image 3
• "Prohibition Movement" The Louisiana Democrat, December 10, 1907, Image 1
• "Prohibition Proven a Monster Humbug" The Opelousas Courier, March 28, 1908, Image 4
• "Prohibitionists Sweep Empire Saint Landry" St. Landry Clarion, April 25, 1908, Image 1
• "Anti-Saloon League Organized Sunday" St. Lafayette Advertiser, April 30, 1908, Image 1
• "Liquor Questions Before Louisiana Legislature" The True Democrat, May 23, 1908, Image 4
• "Wm. Jennings Bryan is Opposed to Prohibition" St. Landry Clarion, June 20, 1908, Image 2
• "More Facts Showing Prohibition Does Not Prohibit More Drunkenness in Prohibition States" The Lafayette Advertiser, July 31, 1908, Image 6
• "Temperance Rally" The Rice Belt Journal, October 02, 1908, Image 1
• "Shreveport Saloon" The Caucasian, May 16, 1909, Image 1
• "The Folly of Prohibition" St. Landry Clarion, September 18, 1909, Image 4
• "A Question of Profit and Loss" The Colfax Chronicle, October 23, 1909, Image 5
• "Urged Prohibition" The Caucasian, November 24, 1910, Image 1
• "Baptists Meet in New Orleans" St. Tammany Farmer, November 26, 1910, Image 7
• "Webb Bill Revives Anti-Saloon League" The Rice Belt Journal, March 21, 1916, Image 1
• "License for Near Beer Saloons Fixed at $1000" Bogalusa Enterprise, July 22, 1915, Image 3
• "Lieut. Gov. Barret Denies He is Recent Prohibition Convert" Bogalusa Enterprise, November 18, 1915, Image 1
• "Those Pleasant Prohibitionists" The True Democrat, December 11, 1915, Image 2
• "Prt Jeff. Davis Parish W.C.T.U. Convention" The Rice Belt Journal, June 23, 1916, Image 4
• "Nation Dry Only After Long Fight" The Madison Journal, January 25, 1919, Image 2
• "Prohibition Rests in Public's Hands" St. Landry Clarion, December 27, 1919, Image 6
• "Prohibition Law to be Held Valid" The Concordia Sentinel, January 17, 1920, Image 2
• "Drys Lay Siege to Both Parties" St. Landry Clarion, April 24, 1920, Image 3
• "Do You Want Prohibition Continued?" St. Tammany Farmer, May 29, 1920, Image 1
• "Ruling is Made on Storing of Liquor" Le Meschacébé, November 20, 1920, Image 2
• "Petition Legislature for Volstead Act" The Rice Belt Journal, August 06, 1921, Image 1
• "Reason Will Prevail" The Donaldsonville Chief, September 10, 1921, Image 1
• "Beneficial Effects of Prohibition" Woman's Enterprise, June 01, 1922, Image 6
• "Prohibition vs. John Barleycorn" The Herald, October 12, 1922, Image 1

Topic Guide to Yellow Fever (1853-1905)

The information and links below include search tips and a selection of articles covering this topic in the digitized Louisiana newspapers. The dates and suggested search terms can help to further explore this topic on Chronicling America. For the most search results, try the search terms in different combinations, in proximity, and as phrases.

Significant Dates

1769 - First case of Yellow Fever to strike Louisiana
1796 - First epidemic transpired, 638 perish
1853 - The worst year of the epidemic, nearly 8,000 die in New Orleans
1873 - Shreveport loses almost 25% of its population
1878 - Epidemics again spread throughout the Lower Mississippi Valley, killing thousands
1878 - Quarantines established in many southern cities
1905 - Last outbreak in North America; New Orleans has 452 deaths

Suggested Search Terms

Yellow Fever, Yellow Jack, Black Vomit, Bronze John

Sample Articles

• "Yellow Fever -- Its Consequences, &c." The Planters' Banner, September 29, 1853, Image 1
• "Yellow Fever Record" The New Orleans Daily Democrat, August 23, 1878, Image 6
• "The Yellow Fever" The New Orleans Daily Democrat, September 08, 1878, Image 1
• "The Fever in Memphis, Vicksburg, and Other Southern Towns" The Morning Star and Catholic Messenger, September 08, 1878, Image 1
• "Fever Roll for Assumption" Pioneer of Assumption", September 14, 1878, Image 2
• "The Yellow Fever" The New Orleans Daily Democrat, September 15, 1878, Image 1
• “Yellow Fever” Feliciana Sentinel, September 21, 1878, Image 2
• “Bronze John and his Saffron Steed” The Louisiana Democrat, November 27, 1878, Image 1
• "A Tale of Two Cities" The People's Vindicator, November 30, 1878, Image 8
• "The Fever Committee" The New Orleans Daily Democrat, January 08, 1879, Image 5
• “The Yellow Fever Epidemic” The Ouachita Telegraph, January 10, 1879 Image 1
• "Yellow Fever Experts" The Weekly Messenger, September 18, 1897, Image 2
• “Dr. Tebault Talks of Fever Prevention” The Lafayette Gazette, September 25, 1897, Image 1
• "Yellow Fever Situation" St. Landry Clarion, October 16, 1897, Image 2
• “The 1873 Death Roll – Those Who Died of Yellow Fever During the Great Epidemic” The Progress, October 23, 1897, Images 1-2
• "What is Yellow Fever" The Meridional, October 23, 1897, Image 2
• “Dengue and Yellow Fever” The Colfax Chronicle, November 06, 1897, Image 1
• "The Fear of Yellow Fever" The Meridional, October 15, 1898, Image 2
• "Special Council Meeting" The Lafayette Advertiser, July 26, 1905, Image 1
• "Quarantine Yellow Fever" The Lafayette Advertiser. August 02, 1905, Image 6
• “Yellow Fever Breeders” The Rice Belt Journal, August 04, 1905, Image 1
• “Please Heed, Fellow Citizens!” The Weekly Messenger, August 05, 1905, Image 2
• "The Mosquito Theory" The Lafayetter Advertiser, August 08, 1905, Image 6
• "Rules to Observe in Yellow Fever and Suggestions as to Treatment" The Lafayette Advertiser, August 09, 1905, Image 2
• "Major Reed's Work in Havana" The Rice Belt Journal, August 11, 1905, Image 1
• "Biology Practically Applied" The Weekly Messenger, August 12, 1905, Image 2
• "A Criminal Policy" The Weekly Messenger, August 12, 1905, Image 2
• "Yellow Fever Items" St. Tammany Farmer, August 19, 1905, Image 1
• "Yellow Fever Epidemics" The Lafayette Advertiser, August 23, 1905, Image 8
• “The Usual Monday’s Increase” The Rice Belt Journal, August 25, 1905, Image 2
• “The Fever Again” The Weekly Messenger, September 09, 1905, Image 2
• "Kill All Mosquitoes" The Meridional, September 16, 1905, Image 3
• "What Opponents of Mosquito Doctrine Say" The Rice Belt Journal, September 22, 1905, Image 1
• “Yellow Fever is Wiped Out” The Rice Belt Journal, November 17, 1905, Image 1