1. Allain-Swigart Family (775)
1786-1968
3 linear feet

Genealogical research of Elise Allain Swigart.

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2. Amoss, Berthe (808)
1966-1979
1,030 items (1 record storage box, 1 oversized box, 1 oversized folder)

Sketches, watercolor washes, mock-ups, manuscript and typed drafts, paste-ups, and publisher's and galley proofs of books by Berthe Amoss. Also includes manuscript and typed drafts, along with sketches and watercolors of The Mysterious Prowler, text by Joan Lowery Nixon, illustrated by Amoss. Also, some correspondence from publishers.

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3. Anderson, Laura (601)
1929-1936
25 items

Research notes in botany and biology made while Anderson was an MS candidate at Tulane University in 1935.

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4. Avis à une dame de qualité (M 1069)
n.d.
1 manuscript volume, 17 cm, 521 pages

Manuscript composed and written by Mme. la Duchesse de Ligneville, mistress of Emperor Francis, husband of Empress Maria Theresa of Austria. The duchess gave the manuscript to the Emperor, who had it bound and presented to their son, the Duke of Ligneville. The imperial crown, mounted on the double cross of the Holy Roman Empire, appears in gold tooling on the four corners of each cover.

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5. Baginsky, Helene (no number)
Papers, c. 1950-1975
c. 5 linear feet

Scripts of the WDSU children's television show Let's Tell a Story, produced by the New Orleans Council of Jewish Women, and other records of the council.

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6. Baillio, Marie (664)
1786, 1825-1829
45 items

Papers and records pertaining to the dispute between the heirs of Marie Baillio and three buyers of property.

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7. Barrow, Robert R., Family (654A)
1749-1965
4,461 items

Notebooks, school papers, correspondence and other documents pertaining to a number of women, particularly Jennie Lodoiska Tennent Barrow and her daughters living in Terrebonne Parish, Louisiana, where Robert R. Barrow managed large land holdings. The collection also includes U.S. Daughters of 1812 papers, documents about trips to Europe, and other papers.

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8. Bartlett-Basore Family (87)
1860-1884
82 items

Letters written mainly between 1866 and 1884 to Mary Bartlett Weller from her brothers.

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9. Baynard, William Tait (99)
1896-1941
912 items

Letters to and from Baynard's mother, sister, and niece dealing with family matters and local affairs in Alexandria, Louisiana.

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10. Becnel-Armant Family (296)
1849-1981
125 items

Primarily Civil War correspondence of Lezin Becnel and his wife Amelia Armant. Also includes letters written in 1852 between Amelia Armant and her mother, while the former attended Sacred Heart Convent.

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11. Beer, William (18)
1892-1924
3,608 items

Correspondence with a number of women, particularly 78 letters from Mollie E. Moore Davis. Beer, librarian at Howard-Tilton Memorial Library of Tulane University, New Orleans, was heavily involved in the literary circles of his day. Other correspondents include scholars, writers, and librarians.

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12. Behan Family (78)
1857-1940
98 items

Correspondence, autograph books and other papers of Katie Walker Behan. Five letters are from Mary Custis Lee and five are from Varina Davis to Mrs. Behan concerning the activities of Confederate organizations in New Orleans.

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13. Bieber, Margarete (410)
1907-1974
25 boxes

Personal and professional correspondence, short story manuscripts, poetry, books, galley proofs, reviews, photographs, student records, student recommendations, newspaper clippings, offprints and restricted autobiography. Bieber was a classicist, archaeologist, and art historian.

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14. Binford, Elizabeth Harrison (M 1029)
1917-1918
6 typescript items

Writings of Elizabeth Binford, journalist and writer of children's stories. Two of the stories were published in book form: A Peddler of Dreams about Edgar Allan Poe and The Little Boy of Good Children Street about New Orleans.

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15. Blakemore, Elizabeth McFarland (565)
1877-1927
4 items

Letters and scrapbook about the New Orleans Exposition of 1884. Also includes documents pertaining to the activities of Confederate organizations.

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16. Blanc, Marie Thérèse (M 1059)
Les Americaines chez elles
1939
Typescript, 22 pages

Translation of portion of Les Americaines chez elles by Marie Thérèse Blanc (1840-1907, pseud. Th. Bentzon), troizieme edition Paris, Ancienne Maison Michel Levy Freres, 1896. Translated by Mrs. F. Peterson for Federal Writers Project, WPA. Mentions Carnival, women authors, Holy Family nuns, and cemeteries.

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17. Bordeaux, Hazel (M 1016)
Irish fulva
1938
1 item

Color plate and two pages concerning the tawny or copper-colored iris found in Louisiana. Text copied by Hazel Bordeaux October 10, 1938 from Curtis' Botanical Magazine, volume 36, 1812, p [1496].

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18. Boudreau, Amy (689)
1935-1978
383 items

Poems written by this poet laureate; also church bulletins, journals, and programs in which her poems appear. Boudreau was the author of The Story of the Acadians and The Story of the Christian Year.

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19. Bristow, Gwen (166)
n.d.
2,037 items

Research notes used by Gwen Bristow in writing her historical novel Celia Garth (1959), set in Charleston, South Carolina, during the Revolutionary War. The notes are arranged chronologically and cover the years 1732-1783. Many are in Bristow's hand.

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20. Brosman, Catherine (685)
1962-1988
1,191 items

Correspondence, poems, literary manuscripts, and other papers of Brosman, poet and professor of French at Tulane University. Includes correspondence with American and French writers, poets, and publishers.