Cammie G. Henry Research Center

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Click on the collection name for Biographical, Scope and Content and inventories Click here to see a full list of CGHRC Collections  Mildred Hart Bailey   Materials related to history of Natchitoches Parish and the city of Natchitoches Including photographs, correspondence and printed materials, scrapbooks and oral histories on Clementine Hunter's life and art.    Chamber of Commerce   examples online     Photographs used promote Natchitoches, and Natchitoches Parish. The images document industry, prominent structures and everyday life in the region.     Sterling Cook    Correspondence sent by Francois Mignon to Sterling Cook from 1957 through 1979.  Robert DeBlieux    Papers of interrelated Natchitoches families spanning over two hundred years.  Among these are Brezeale, Cloutier, Huppe, Hyams, Janin, Lambre, Metoyer, Prudhomme and Walmsley.  Joe Dellmon   examples online    finding aid in pdf format   History Collection  Regular Collection     Approximately 8000 photographs (mostly identified), documenting facets of life, history and development in Rapides Parish, Louisiana, with specific emphasis on Alexandria, Louisiana.  Included in the collection is Dellmon's personal photographic equipment, some dating to the early nineteenth Century.  Caroline Dormon  examples online     The collection covers Dormon's many activities accomplished as naturalist, botanist, conservationist, gardener, writer, illustrator, landscape artist and clubwoman.  Materials include photographs, pamphlets, scrapbooks and paintings.  Also included is personal correspondence with individuals on such topics as botany, forestry, politics, Native Americans, archaeology and anthropology.  Egan Family  This massive collection contains information, letters and other materials to research regarding medicine, suffrage, The Civil War, slavery, Reconstruction, Louisiana Seminary (L.S.U.),  and life in Louisiana spanning the years between 1787 through the 1930's. Federal Writers Project     Correspondence by Federal Writers Project Director of Louisiana, Lyle Saxon dated from 1935 through 1943.  The bulk of the collection is typed accounts based on hundreds of interviews conducted with residents between the years of 1937 and 1941.  Ghost Moving     Items regarding the university- sponsored program to officially move Isabella, a ghost believed by some to live on the Campus of Northwestern State University of Louisiana.  Among the items are newspaper clippings, press releases, speeches and a background history.  Joe Henry     Materials reflecting Mr. Henry's interest in the history of Natchitoches Parish and the city of Natchitoches.  Specific to the collection are items related to the origins and more recent history of what is now Melrose Plantation.  Melrose Collection  (Cammie G. Henry)  examples online    Correspondence, photographs, leaflets, pamphlets, journal articles, magazine articles, newspaper clippings, cards, telegraph messages, and Cammie G. Henry's notations pertaining to the artists and writers who visited or corresponded with her and Louisiana’s heritage. These items are housed in scrapbooks, folders and boxes, newspaper boxes, and bound volumes. Materials are arranged by subject,  then chronologically.     Francois Mignon     The collection concerns Mignon's interest of the American South, and more specifically the Cane River area of Natchitoches Parish, Louisiana.  Included are materials documenting his research, writing and artistic impressions of the region.  Correspondence, both social and professional, offers an insight into daily plantation life and events.     Giles Millspaugh   collection online     Included in the collection are 127 photographs assembled by Giles Millspaugh.  These photographs offer a rare glimpse into the everyday life, growth and change of Natchitoches Parish, Louisiana and the city of Natchitoches, Louisiana.  Postcard    examples online     Included in the collection are 305 postcards documenting locations of interest in Arkansas, Louisiana, Mississippi and Texas.  The bulk of the cards are not written on, and appear to have been produced in the early twentieth century.  The materials were artificially collected.  James Register     This collection divides into three parts.  The first pertains to Billie Stroud, and includes articles, correspondence, photographs, lists of paintings sold and receipts for painting supplies.  The second concerns Register's activities with Clementine Hunter.  The last segment of the collection concerns Register's own personal accomplishments; specifically those related to copyrights of his own published works.   James Register Estate     The papers from the estate of James Register contain information on his careers as a writer, poet, photographer and painter.