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Louisiana Cemeteries
A resource for the study of Louisiana Cemeteries, with emphasis on the Greater New Orleans region
By Lisa Werling, MLIS
Contact: lwerling@uno.edu
Archival Collections
- Jacob Schoen & Son Collection Business records of a major mortuary in New Orleans
Consists of over 200 volumes of accounting books used to conduct their business, including journals, cash books, order books, and ledgers. Also contains some books relating to Schoen Realty & Investment Company, Hope Benevolent Association, Fire Company No. 10, and the Metropolitan Club. - Magnolia Cemetery Collection1 bound volume of minutes of the Board of Directors, and 1 folder of correspondences; also included are clippings, contractor bids, and miscellany. Inclusive dates: January 1866 - March 1913
- Save Our Cemeteries CollectionRecords produced and/or accumulated by Save Our Cemeteries, Inc., and organization dedicated to the preservation of New Orleans cemeteries; includes records of joint meetings with St. Louis Cemeteries Preservation Committee, an organization sponsored by the Catholic Archdiocese of New Orleans. Consists of photocopies of minutes, reports, memoranda, clippings, and miscellany. Inclusive dates: 1923, 1977 - 1978
- Weiblen Memorials Collection, Addendum 1Records of a marble and granite business, consisting mainly of advertising catalogs. Inclusive dates: ca. 1900-1972
Resources from the Catalog
"Cities of the dead"--New Orleans cemetery architecture
Call Number: LACOL NB1800.Z99 G56
"Gone but not forgotten": records from south Louisiana cemeteries
Call Number: LACOL F368 .C67 1983 V.1
ISBN: 0940984148
A cemetery in a church and other stories
Call Number: LACOL GT3211.N5 M3
An investigation into the ethnographic and historical significance of the Holt Cemetery
Call Number: LACOL THESIS 1998 .B73
Bossier Parish headstones : a complete inventory of all known cemeteries, family plots, and lone burials
Call Number: LACOL F377.B6 C36 1997
ISBN: 0963750720
Briley's memorial history & cemetery directory of Winn Parish, Louisiana
Call Number: LACOL F377.W6 B7 1998
Burial archaeology and osteology of Charity Hospital/Cypress Grove II Cementery New Orleans, Louisiana: report of investigations
Call Number: LACOL F371 .B87 1993 V.1 & V.2
Caddo Parish, Louisiana cemetery records
Call Number: LACOL F377 .C15 C33 2004 V. 1 & V. 2
ISBN: 1570881197
Cemeteries of central Lafourche Parish, La
Call Number: LACOL F377 .L25 H43 1984
Cemeteries of Houma, Louisiana: Terrebonne Parish
Call Number: LACOL F379.H7 C45 1989 V.1
Call Number: LACOL F379 .N562 A2 2005
ISBN: 0896586650
Call Number: LACOL F379.N562 S7356 1996
ISBN: 1887366024
Call Number: LACOL NB1856.N45 H83
ISBN: 0940984040
Concordia Parish cemetery records, 1786-1995
Call Number: LACOL F377.C7 C66 1998
Consecrated ground: funerary art of New Orleans
Call Number: LACOL NB1856 .N45 F55 1998
ISBN: 0965781305
Call Number: LACOL F379.N562 A2 1997
ISBN: 0807122289
Call Number: LACOL F387 .F56 2000
ISBN: 1574410857
Final report for the Office of the Mayor, City of New Orleans
Call Number: LACOL HT177 .N49 N48 1982
Ghost of stone [videorecording]
Call Number: VIDEO CASSETTE 00178
Documentary on Lafayette Cemetery No. 1, its history, preservation needs, and importance to the culture and community of New Orleans. Also features efforts of Save Our Cemeteries.
Call Number: LACOL GT3210 .L8 B76 2010
ISBN: 1450576451
Publication Date: 2010
Great cemeteries of the world. Episode twenty, New Orleans [videorecording]
Call Number: VIDEO CASSETTE 00322
This 26 part series explores the residents, history, art and mystique of the most renowned cemeteries of the world. The intriguing history of the cemetery itself is the backdrop to the exploration of its most fascinating residents. Episode twenty features the burial sites of Marie Laveau in St. Louis #1 and Jefferson Davis in Metairie Cemetery.
Call Number: TR654 .L364 1997
ISBN: 0821223615
History of St. Louis II Cemetery
Call Number: LACOL F379.N5 C285
In old New Orleans
Call Number: LACOL NX511.N39 I5 1983
ISBN: 0878051864
New Orleans cemeteries / Peggy McDowell
Lest we forget : a record of tombstone inscriptions : Red River Parish, Louisiana, and vicinity
Call Number: LACOL F377.R32 S43 1983
National register evaluation of the Bayou Jean Louis Cemetery (16SM89), Atchafalaya Basin Project, St. Martin Parish, Louisiana
Call Number: F371 .N373 1999
Call Number: LACOL F379 .N562 A2 2011
ISBN: 1463441339
Publication Date: 2011
Necrogeography : material cultural elements in modern Upland South cemeteries of Louisiana and Mississippi
Call Number: LACOL THESIS 1998 .M346
New Orleans architecture, Vol. III: The Cemeteries
ISBN: 0882890204
Call Number: LACOL F379.N562 A2 1999
ISBN: 0738501263
Call Number: LACOL F379 .N562 A2 1997B
ISBN: 0965708519
Nostalgic notes on St. James: St. James Church and cemeteries, the old chapel, the old rectory, St. James Parish, Louisiana
Call Number: LACOL F379.S134 C347 1977
Odd fellows rest: an original play
Call Number: LACOL PS3572.I375 O3 1996
ISBN: 1993285059
Out of sight, out of mind : a GIS study of changes in cemetery locations in southeastern Louisiana from an archaeological and geographical perspective, 1930-1997
Call Number: LACOL GT3210 .L8 N35 1999B
Preserving New Orleans' historic cemeteries
Call Number: LACOL MASTERS REPORT 1998 .C72
Call Number: LACOL NB1856 .N45 H88 2005
ISBN: 1411645367
Samuel Wilson, Jr. (1911-1993) [videorecording]
Call Number: DVD 0033
Includes a walking tour of St. Louis Cemeteries I and II, 1986 (28:30)
Sleeping by the bayous : a history of the cemeteries and tombstone inscriptions of the Houma, Louisiana, area including Gray, Schriever, Bayou Blue and Little Bayou Black
Call Number: LACOL GT3211.H6 R63
St. Bartholomew and St. Mary's Cemeteries
Call Number: LACOL F379 .N562 S728 2002
St. Philomena Catholic Church Cemetery, Assumption Parish, Labadieville, Louisiana
Call Number: LACOL F379 .L14 C38 2002
The cemetery as a cultural manifestation : Louisiana necrogeography
Call Number: LACOL GT3310.L8 N35
The Confederate generals buried in Louisiana
Call Number: LACOL E467 .M85 1987
The history of the Catholic Cemetery in Natchitoches, Louisiana
Call Number: LACOL F379 .N2 W53 2004
ISBN: 1591966612
The mortuary architecture of Jacques Nicolas Bussiere de Pouilly
Call Number: LACOL NA6152.N4 M38 1992A
The Natchitoches cemeteries : transcriptions of gravestones from the eighteenth, nineteenth, and twentieth centuries in northwest Louisiana
Call Number: LACOL F379.N3 P84
Call Number: LACOL TR654 .G743 1999
ISBN: 0807124133
The St. Louis Cemeteries of New Orleans, 5th ed.
Call Number: LACOL NB1527.N4 W5 1968
To glorious immortality; the rise and fall of the Girod Street Cemetery, New Orleans' first Protestant Cemetery, 1822-1957
Call Number: LACOL F379.N5 H8
renovation update
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