Weeks family papers, 1771-1979 | Louisiana Research Collection

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Box and Folder Listing

Box 1: Almanac and correspondence

Folder 1: The Virginia Almanac, 1776

Blank pages were used as a journal by Charles Mynn Thruston, a Weeks ancestor, to record gun, dry goods, and other transactions.  Earliest inscriptions date to 1776, and use the £ notation, but later additions were made by William and/or David Weeks and date to 1816.  These record cotton prices and other accounts in dollars.

Folder 2: Correspondence, 1771

copy, typescript

Folder 3: Correspondence, 1782-1799

copies, translations

Folder 4: Correspondence, 1800-1804

copies, translations

Folder 5: Correspondence, 1805-1807

copies, translations

Folder 6: Correspondence, 1808-1817

copies, translations

Folder 7: Correspondence, 1818-1819

copies, typescript

Folder 8: Correspondence, 1820-1825

copies, typescript

Folder 9: Correspondence, 1826-1829

Folder 10: Correspondence, 1830-1833

Folder 11: Correspondence, 1834-1839

Folder 12: Correspondence, 1840-1848

Folder 13: Correspondence, 1852-1865

Folder 14: Correspondence, 1870-1877

Folder 15: Correspondence, 1882-1888

Folder 16: Correspondence, 1889-1895

Folder 17: Correspondence, 1896-1899

Folder 18: Correspondence, 1900

Folder 19: Correspondence, 1901-1906

Folder 20: Correspondence, 1907-1908

Folder 21: Correspondence, 1909-1925

Folder 22: Correspondence, 1926-1929

Folder 23: Correspondence, 1930-1932 June

Folder 24: Correspondence, 1932 July-September

Folder 25: Correspondence, 1932 October

Folder 26: Correspondence, 1932 November

Folder 27: Correspondence, 1932 December- 1933 January

Folder 28: Correspondence, 1933 February-March

Folder 29: Correspondence, 1933 April

Folder 30: Correspondence, 1933 May-July

Folder 31: Correspondence, 1933 August-September

Folder 32: Correspondence, 1933 October

Folder 33: Correspondence, 1933 November-December

Folder 34: Correspondence, 1934 January

Folder 35: Correspondence, 1934 February

Folder 36: Correspondence, 1934 March

Folder 37: Correspondence, 1934 April

Folder 38: Correspondence, 1934 May

Folder 39: Correspondence, 1934 June-August

Folder 40: Correspondence, 1934 September-October

Folder 41: Correspondence, 1934 November-December

Folder 42: Correspondence, 1935 January

Folder 43: Correspondence, 1935 February

Folder 44: Correspondence, 1935 March-April

Folder 45: Correspondence, 1935 May-August

Box 2: Correspondence, genealogies, land and financial records

Folder 1: Correspondence, 1935 September-October

Folder 2: Correspondence, 1935 November-December

Folder 3: Correspondence, 1936 January-February

Folder 4: Correspondence, 1936 March-April

Folder 5: Correspondence, 1936 May-August

Folder 6: Correspondence, 1936 September-October

Folder 7: Correspondence, 1936 November

Folder 8: Correspondence, 1936 December

Folder 9: Correspondence, 1937 January-February

Folder 10: Correspondence, 1937 March-April

Folder 11: Correspondence, 1937 May

Folder 12: Correspondence, 1937 June-December

Folder 13: Correspondence, 1938

Folder 14: Correspondence, 1939

Folder 15: Correspondence, 1940

Folder 16: Correspondence, 1941

Folder 17: Correspondence, 1942 January-June

Folder 18: Correspondence, 1942 July-December

Folder 19: Correspondence, 1943-1944

Folder 20: Correspondence, 1945-1946

Folder 21: Correspondence, 1947

Folder 22: Correspondence, 1948-1949

Folder 23: Correspondence, 1950-1952

Folder 24: Correspondence, 1953-1954

Folder 25: Correspondence, 1955-1959

Folder 26: Correspondence, 1960-1965

Folder 27: Correspondence, 1966-1976

Folder 28: Correspondence, 1977-1979

Folder 29: Correspondence, undated

Folder 30: Greeting cards, undated

Folder 31: Land claims, law suits, surveys: Weeks Island, photostatic copies, 1852-1894

Folder 32: Financial Register, L.D. McLean, 1912-1917

Folder 33: Financial Register, 1968

Folder 34: Genealogies: Collins, Conrad

Folder 35: Genealogies: Duperier, Glassell

Folder 36: Genealogies: Gorham, Leigh, Palfrey

Folder 37: Genealogies: Swayze, Thruston

Folder 38: Genealogies: Weeks

Folder 39: Genealogies: related families

Box 3: Manuscripts, clippings, ephemera, correspondence and photographs

Folder 1: Reminiscences, by Weeks family members and others, about New Iberia and other topics

Folder 2: Reminiscences, by Weeks family members and others, about New Iberia and other topics

Folder 3: Printed ephemera: calling cards, stationery

Folder 4: Hand-written recipes, undated

Folder 5: Published recipes, undated

Folder 6: Poetry, speeches, handwritten copies, undated

Folder 7: Poetry, newspaper clippings, published, undated

Folder 8: Sheet-music, by Mary B. Weeks, 1923-1928

Folder 9: Newspaper clippings, social/biographical, Weeks family, 1871-1957

Folder 10: Newspaper clippings, W.G. Weeks and Homestead/Building and Loan Associations, 1898-1948

Folder 11: Newspaper clippings, general information, Weeks family, 1830-1971 and undated

Folder 12: Newspaper clippings (non-Weeks articles)

Folder 13: Programs, articles, pamphlets with Weeks family members mentioned, 1889-1914

Folder 14: Programs, articles, pamphlets with Weeks family members mentioned, 1915-1960

Folder 15: Programs, articles, pamphlets with Weeks family members mentioned, 1961-1969

Folder 16: Debutante invitations, 1968 July-November

Folder 17: Debutante invitations, 1968-1969 December

Folder 18: Carnival invitations, 1961-1965

Folder 19: Carnival invitations, 1966-1969

Folder 20: Carnival invitations, 1970-1975

Folder 21: Carnival Ball programs, A-L, 1960s-1970s

Folder 22: Carnival Ball programs, M-Z, 1960s-1970s

Folder 23: Photographs, William T. Palfrey, circa 1857

Folder 24: Print of New Iberia, 1865

Folder 25: Photographs, W.G. Weeks home and family members, pre-1908

Folder 26: Photographs, Thruston home in Virginia, artifacts, scrapbooks; S. Locke Breaux home, New Orleans, 1911-1912

Folder 27: Photographs, Thruston home in New Iberia, silver, china; New Iberia: shadows, oak tree, W. G. Weeks and family; E. T. Weeks; McIlhenny family, 1916

Folder 28: Photographs, Edward Thruston II home, Virginia, will; Malachy Thruston will; Frances Hodges will (mother-in-law of Edward Thruston II), 1919

Folder 29: Photographs, Magill children coffins; Shadows-on-the-Teche postcards, circa 1930

Folder 30: Photographs, Roanoke College, Virginia, 1949 and undated

Folder 31: Correspondence, originals, 1782-1799

Folder 32: Correspondence, originals, 1800-1804

Folder 33: Correspondence, originals, 1805-1807

Folder 34: Correspondence, originals, 1808-1817

Folder 35: Correspondence, originals, 1818-1819

Folder 36: Correspondence, originals, 1820-1825

Oversize folder 1: Other items

Genealogy of Thruston family

150th Aniversary of Avery Island, commemorative booklet, 1968.

Land grant to Harvey Chamberlain, 40 acres in Ouachita, Louisiana, 1844.

Notary Public Certificate, W.G. Weeks, 1896.

Design for "Rose Princess" in Dorians' 1962 Carnival ball, Barbara McLean's dress.

Souvenir photograph of an early pharmacy, undated.

Report of the Treasurer of the State of Louisiana, 1847.

Oversize folder 2: Newspapers

New Orleans Democrat, 1876 February 2

Sunday Democrat, 1976 December 24

New Orleans Daily Democrat, 1878 December 24

Attakapas Gazette, 1843 October 21

Le Courrier Du Teche, 1861 August 17

Weekly New Iberian,  1861 April 13

Daily Picayune, 1906 June 24

New Iberia Enterprise, 1895 February 2; 1936 November 13; undated

The Courier Journal, 1898 January 30

The World Magazine, 1908 April 12

Times Register (Roanoke College Centennial), 1942

National Tribune, 1884 February 7, 14; March 13, 20, 27; April 10