Container LIst - MSS 254 - Eads Poitevent Collection - Library Guides at University of New Orleans

Container List

Series I. Journals of Vessels

Subseries I.1: Journals of Individual Steamers

254-155 Steamer W. G. Henderson: charges for cargo and passengers, 1885-1888.

254-154 Unidentified steamer: charges for cargo and passengers, 1890-1891.

254-152 Unidentified steamer: charges for cargo and passengers, 1890-1891.

254-153 Steamer S. R. Poitevent: expenses, January 1891-March 1894.

254-150 Steamer Pearlington: debits and credits, March 23, 1891-February 23, 1892.

254-151 Steamer Earl: charges for cargo and listings of cargo destinations, January 8, 1897-April 1, 1898.

254-142 Steamer Pearlington: charges for cargo and passengers, September 26, 1900-September 4, 1901.

Subseries I.2: Journals of Multiple Steamers, Schooners, and Barges

Including cash and journal transactions; freight charges; shipping destinations, quantities, sizes, grades, and prices of lumber orders.

254-149 February 1892 - April 1893.

254-148 January 1897 - July 1901.

254-169 July 1900 - August 1901.

254-147 February 1902 - February 1905.

Subseries I.3: Journals Recording Lumber Sizes under the Names of Vessels

254-55 volume, [n.d.]

254-136 volume, [n.d.]

254-135 volume, [ca. 1896]

254-134 volume, [n.d.]

254-133 volume, [n.d.]

254-132 volume, [n.d.]

254-137 volume, [n.d.]

Subseries I.4: Journals Recording Lumber Orders for Various Customers

Listings include species, quantities, sizes, grades, and means of transporting same.

254-56 July 26, 1887 - April 15, 1893

254-57 July 1892 - May 1895

254-58 May 23, 1893 - August 11, 1898

254-59 March 5, 1899 - October 11, 1902

254-60 September 1899 - February 1902

254-169 July 19, 1900 - August 31, 1901

254-170 November 1, 1902 - June 18, 1906

Subseries I.5: Journals of Logs Purchased and/or Processed

254-68 volume, [n.d.]

254-69 volume, 1894-1895

254-70 volume, 1895-1896

254-71 volume, 1898

254-72 volume, 1900-1903

Subseries I.6: Miscellaneous

254-61 Business and personal notations, addresses, engagements, contained in three notebooks, [n.d.] and 1929-1930.

254-80 John Poitevent Estate: volume labeled “Acct. Estate John Poitevent $22,000.00 to Oct-12-21.” June 14, 1920 - October 10, 1921.

254-62 U.S. passport for June Poitevent and wife, February 20, 1866.

254-182 “Standard Trial Balance and Recapitulation” volume: general ledger, April 30, 1906-February 28, 1907, April 30, May 31, 1907, January 31, 1908; personal ledger, April 30, 1906-May 31, 1907, January 31, 1908; suspense accounts, April 30, 1906-March 31, 1907; recapitulation, April 30, 1906-May 31, 1907, January 31, 1908.

Series II. Payroll Journals

Subseries II.1: General

254-79 March 1887 - April 1888

254-78 April 1890 - March 1891

254-77 June/July 1891 - April/May 1892

254-76 June 1895 - May 1896

254-75 September 1895 - October 1906

254-74 June 1897 - May 1898

254-73 June 1899 - April 1900

Subseries II.2: Payroll Journals for Boat Crews

254-91 September 1891 - August 1892

254-92 January 1896 - March 1897

254-93 May 29, 1897 - October 10, 1898

254-94 December 8, 1899 - July 9, 1900

254-95 July 1900 - September 1901 (Also: J.A. Favre Co.)

Series III. Miscellaneous

254-138 List of workmen by craft or type of labor, together with a list of job applicants, 1905.

254-140 Blank business forms, [ca. 1890-1910].

254-81 Reminiscence of Civil War events in unknown hand, presumably by a Confederate veteran (104 pages numbered consecutively 74 through 177), [n.d.]

254-139 University of Virginia file: essay in unknown hand, entitled “The University of Virginia and its Student Life,” [n.d.]; halftone bird's-eye view of the school annotated in unknown hand, [n.d.]; musical programs, 1931, 1932; constitution, bylaws, and minutes of Washington Literary Society, 1932; debating notes and miscellany, [n.d.]

254-141 Clippings, [n.d.], and 1895-1985.

Series IV. Debit and Credit Journals

254-178 February 2, 1891-January 7, 1893; entry for January 30, 1892 includes a profit and loss summary, an inventory, and an analysis of assets and liabilities. Note: volume is severely damaged with entries for 1893 largely obliterated.

254-173 April 13, 1891 - July 16, 1892

254-177 March 25, 1893 - October 31, 1900

254-145 February 21, 1894 - April 4, 1896

254-144 July 18, 1898 - July 27, 1899

254-146 September 7, 1899 - June 26, 1900

254-169 February 1903 - January 1905

254-179 1905 - 1907

254-143 Debit and credit journal for commissary, 1903-1904.

254-156 Journal of supplies used on boats, and at mill, kiln, and planer, 1897-1899.

254-157 Journal of daily cash transactions, May 1, 1904 - October 2, 1905.

254-158 Journal of logs processed for various companies by mills at Logtown and Pearlington, April 1891-April 1892; quantities, modes of shipment, and destinations of lumber processed by Logtown Mill and Lumber Co., April 1891 - April 1892.

254-159 Journal listing insurance companies, properties insured, amounts of coverage, expiration dates, 1893-1902.

Series V. Maps

254-63 Colton (J. H.) and Company, New York. J. H. COLTON'S ½ MAP OF THE STATE OF ½ LOUISIANA ½ AND ½ EASTERN PART OF TEXAS ½ COMPILED FROM UNITED STATES SURVEYS, AND OTHER AUTHENTIC SOURCES, ½ SHOWING THE ½ COUNTIES, TOWNSHIPS, SECTIONS. ½ Fractional Sections, Settlement Rights, ½ RAILROADS, &C. New York (172 William St., New York): Published by J.H. Colton, 1864.

254-64 Jackson County, Mississippi, Information Map [with] Street Maps of Pascagoula, Moss Point, Ocean Springs.... Pascagoula, Miss.: Geo. L. Ely, 1940. With annotations in unknown hand.

254-65 Map of Mandeville, La. [S.l.: s.n., 19--?] “Donated Lands of Poitevent & Favre Lumber Company in Town of Mandeville, La. marked Red on Map.”

254-186 Official Map of the State of Mississippi. “Published in accordance with an act of the State Legislature. Approved, March 8th, 1882. By the State Board of Immigration and Agriculture....” Engraved and printed in colors by Rand, McNally & Co., Chicago. With annotations in unknown hand.

254-66 Oil and Gas Map of Louisiana. [Baton Rouge]: Louisiana Department of Conservation, 1953.

254-67 Scott's Map of Jackson Co. Mississippi....Also a Business Directory of the County. Compiled and Published by Scott Map Company, New Orleans, La., [ca. 1915]. With annotations in unknown hand.

254-186 Photocopy of map showing property ownership in areas adjacent to the Pascagoula River. [S.l.: s.n., 19--?]

Series VI. Other Publications

254-82 American Hardwood Manufacturers' Association. Inspection Rules and Sales Code. Effective September 1st, 1919. Memphis, 1919.

254-187 Concerts-Rouge...Programme du Lundi 1er Juillet 1901. [Paris?], 1901.

254-83 Country Visitor's Summer Magazine. May 1881. New Orleans, 1881.

254-187 Cunard Steamship Company, Ltd. List of Saloon Passengers per R. M. S. “Umbria” ...Liverpool to New York, 3rd August, 1901. [Liverpool?], 1901.

254-84 Dan Payne's Louisiana Oil Reporting Service. Report #759, Vol. IX, Wed., December 20, 1950.

254-187 Facts of Interest, The Lake Shore Club. [St. Tammany Parish, La.?, 19--]

254-85 Fischer, Millie. This Was Our Town, Mandeville. Mandeville, La., [19--]

254-187 “Formal Dedication of the Stone Marker celebrating the original establishment of Fort Maurepas by Pierre Le Moyne Sieur d'Iberville in 1699 on August 31, 1952, Ocean Springs, Mississippi.” Biloxi, Miss., 1952.

254-86 The Gulf Coast Classification of Pitch Pine Resawn Lumber. Rev. ed. Also Mobile and Pensacola Classifications of Sawn Timber. Mobile, 1902.

254-87 Gulf Coast Lumber Exporters Association. The Gulf Coast Classification of Pitch Pine Resawn Lumber and Sawn Timber. Rev. ed. [Mobile, 1910].

254-88 Harrison, James Henry. Pearl Rivers, Publisher of the Picayune. Ed. by George Evans Simmons. New Orleans, 1982.

254-187 Hoernle, R. F. Alfred. Must Biological Processes Be Either Purposive or Mechanistic? [Johannesburg?], [19--?]

254-89 The Home Mission Messenger of West Hanover Presbytery. Vol. 6, No. 12, April 1918 [Charlottesville, Virginia].

254-90 The Journal of Mississippi History. Vol. 39, No. 4, November 1977.

254-96 Louisiana 1927-1928. Baton Rouge, La.: Louisiana Department of Agriculture and Immigration, [1927?]

254-97 Maxson, Etienne William. The Progress of the Races. Washington, 1930. Photocopy.

254-98 Moore, Robert K. Projectile Point Types of the American Indian. [Athens, AL?], 1973.

254-187 Northrop, F. S. C. The Relation Between Time and Eternity in the Light of Contemporary Physics. [New Haven, CT?, 19--]

254-99 Physics and Hydraulics of the Mississippi River. Report of the U.S. Levee Commission. Reviewed by James B. Eads, C.E., St. Louis, February 19, 1876. New Orleans, 1876.

254-100 Publications of the Louisiana Historical Society 1.3 (1896).

254-101 St. Tammany Parish, Louisiana, Heart of the Ozone Belt. Promotional pamphlet with map. [S.l.: St. Tammany Chamber of Commerce?, 19--] (2 copies).

254-102 Scribner, J. M. Scribner's Enlarged Lumber and Log Book 1919. Rochester, NY, [1919].

254-103 Scribner, J. M. Scribner's Enlarged Lumber and Log Book 1921. Rochester, NY, [1921].

254-187 The Sifter. Official Publication, Rotary Club of Biloxi, Miss. September 8, 1931.

254-104 Taylor, J. Troup. The Prophetic Families; or, The Negro: His Origin, Destiny and Status. Atlanta, 1895.

254-105 Trade Winds, The Log of International House. Vol. 6, No. 22, June 17, 1953 [New Orleans]. Contains an article on James Buchanan Eads.

254-106 The Trinity Record. Vol. 50, No. 10, September 1944.

254-107 The Virginia Military Institute, Its Service in Time of Peace. [S.l., ca. 1920]

254-108 Yellow Pine Manufacturers' Association. Standard Specification. Grading and Dressing Rules for Yellow Pine Car Material. Recommended by Railway Storekeepers' Association and Accepted as Recommended Practice by Master Car Builders' Association and Master Mechanics Association, June 15 - 22, 1910; in Effect January 1, 1911. [S.l., 1913?]

Series VII. Miscellaneous Documents

Miscellaneous documents, original and copies, including an abstract of title; bank statements; bills of sale for land and other property; cancelled checks; Confederate States of America money and clothing inventory; contracts; credit records on real estate purchases; deeds; division of property record; essays on historical topics; genealogical compilations; a handbill on lumber grading; income tax returns; insurance advertisements; insurance policy; inventories of timber holdings, stock shares, and native American artifacts; leases; marriage certificates; membership cards; memoranda; profit and loss statements; promissory notes; quit claims; receipts; reports; speeches; stock certificates; timber appraisals; wills; miscellanea. [n.d.], 1849-1982.

254-110 [n.d.]

254-111 January 13, 1849 - February 8, 1876

254-112 July 4, 1876 - February 25, 1882

254-113 June 22, 1888 - May 31, 1893

254-114 1895 - December 4, 1901

254-115 December 31, 1901 - February 17, 1906

254-116 September 4, 1906 - September 4, 1908

254-117 November 22, 1909 - October 5, 1915

254-118 December 1, 1915 - November 14, 1916

254-119 September 6, 1917 - October 1, 1921

254-120 November 22, 1921 - January 1, 1929

254-121 April 25, 1929 - February 22, 1930

254-122 June 25, 1930 - December 31, 1933

254-123 January 1, 1934 - November 6, 1940

254-124 December 16, 1941 - June 19, 1944

254-125 August 29, 1944 - September 15, 1944

254-126 January 7, 1946

254-127 May 15, 1946 - January 10, 1951

254-128 January 23, 1951 - July 25, 1956

254-129 September 15, 1962 - January 24, 1967

254-130 August 1967

254-131 January 19, 1972 - June 18, 1982

Series VIII. Mexican Business Operations

Subseries VIII.1: Journals of Debits and Credits

254-174 volume, 1902-1905.

254-175 volume, 1902-1905.

254-171 volume, 1902-1911.

Subseries VIII.2: Manuscript

254-109 Manuscript in unknown hand of a novel set in Mexico during the early years of the twentieth century.

Subseries VIII.3: Correspondence, Business and Personal, 1888-1984

254-1 [n.d.]

254-2 June 22, 1888 - December 16, 1899

254-3 August 21, 1902 - August 20, 1908

254-4 August 26, 1908 - March 21, 1913

254-5 April 10, 1913 - August 6, 1913

254-6 August 19, 1913 - May 5, 1914

254-7 May 10, 1914 - December 15, 1921

254-8 February 22, 1923 - November 8, 1923

254-9 February 18, 1924 - May 25, 1926

254-10 July 30, 1926 - December 1, 1928

254-11 March 29, 1929 - September 10, 1929

254-12 March 30, 1930 - June 26, 1930

254-13 January 5, 1931 - November 10, 1932

254-14 January 31, 1933 - November 20, 1933

254-15 November 21, 1933 - December 12, 1933

254-16 January 1, 1934 - February 9, 1934

254-17 February 11, 1934 - June 21, 1934

254-18 September 29, 1934 - May 18, 1937

254-19 June 16, 1937 - August 3, 1937

254-20 August 10, 1937 - August 18, 1937

254-21 August 25, 27, 1937

254-22 February 24, 1938 - December 19, 1938

254-23 June 27, 1939 - September 15, 1939

254-24 January 1, 1940 - October 2, 1941

254-25 November 19, 1941 - July 10, 1942

254-26 July 24, 1942 - January 12, 1943

254-27 February 9, 1943 - April 5, 1943

254-28 May 17, 1943 - July 16, 1943

254-29 July 20, 1943 - September 1, 1943

254-30 September 4, 1943 - October 9, 1943

254-31 October 12, 1943 - November 7, 1943

254-32 November 10, 1943 - December 6, 1943

254-33 December 8, 1943 - January 19, 1944

254-34 January 24, 1944 - March 1, 1944

254-35 March 5, 1944 - March 20, 1944

254-36 March 21, 1944 - April 27, 1944

254-37 May 2, 1944 - June 2, 1944

254-38 June 12, 1944 - July 16, 1944

254-39 February 7, 1945 - May 13, 1945

254-40 June 22, 1945 - August 11, 1945

254-41 August 12, 1945 - October 2, 1945

254-42 October 11, 1945 - October 28, 1945

254-43 October 30, 1945 - December 27, 1945

254-44 June 21, 1946 - July 2, 1946

254-45 January 14, 1947 - January 25, 1947

254-46 January 30, 1947 - April 7, 1947

254-47 April 11, 1947 - August 31, 1952

254-48 April 4, 1955 - December 27, 1966

254-49 May 31, 1967 - July 19, 1967

254-50 August 10, 1967 - November 24, 1967

254-51 January 18, 1972 - January 13,1981

254-52 January 30, 1981 - July 21, 1981

254-53 August 12, 1981 - April 7, 1982

254-54 September 24, 1982 - October 12, 1984

Subseries VIII.4: Correspondence, Letterpress Copies

254-176 Sampling only from discarded volume, August 2 - September 23, 1901.

Subseries VIII.5: Checking Account Entries and Balances

254-160 March 1890 - December 22, 1891

254-161 August 12, 1890 - September 25, 1891

254-162 November 17, 1891 - November 3, 1892

254-163 January 18, 1897 - July 20, 1899

254-166 January 27, 1897 - December 8, 1897

254-164 February 25, 1897 - November 18, 1898

254-167 October 10, 1898 - August 5, 1899

254-165 August 7, 1899 - June 30, 1900

254-168 September 12, 1903 - August 9, 1904; December 8, 1903 - July 5, 1906

Series IX. Photographs

Mainly prints but including a few negatives and one halftone, [ca. 1865-1940].

Subseries IX.1: Identified Persons

254-188 Judge and Mrs. O. D. Davidson

James Buchanan Eads

Mr. and Mrs. James J. A. Fortier

Captain R. J. Hancock

May Hodges

P. A. Lelong III

Schuyler Poitevent, Jr.

Virginia F. Poitevent

Dr. Powell

Louise Richardson

Mary Richardson

Captain and Mrs. F.A. Schrieber

B. Thompson

Subseries IX.2: Unidentified Persons

254-190 Unidentified Persons

Subseries IX.3: Views

254-185 Views of company mills, boats, trains; dredging operations; landscapes; family residences; miscellany.

Series X: Miscellaneous

254-172 Volume recording supplies and prices of same, [n.d.]; two inventories of supplies with quantities and prices of same, January 31, 1904 and January 7, 1905.

254-183 Pelican Mill sales journal listing customers and lumber footage purchased by same, July 18,1900-August 5, 1903.

254-181 Journal of bills payable, 1887(1897-1901)1901.

254-180 Miscellany, [n.d.]

254-191 Artifacts: Native American bead probably collected and labeled by Schuyler Poitevent, Sr.; Shearwater paperweight replica of 1699 marble tablet found at site of Fort Maurepas at Ocean Springs, Miss.; United Confederate Veterans hat badge.

Carnival invitations, admit cards, and dance cards; some with envelopes.

254-189 Krewe of Proteus, 1886, 1889, 1890, 1892, 1896, 1897, 1902-1904, 1906-1913, 1915; Atlanteans, 1907.

254-184 Diplomas awarded to Schulyer Poitevent, Senior and Junior, 1893, 1896, 1925.