Annotated copy of the publication Recueil de divers tombeaux composes ou executes dans les cimitières de Paris. 24 planches dessinées par Demont, architect. Paris: Bernard, [1852]. This copy contains notations in an unknown hand concerning the genealogy of the Beron family and original drawings, probably by George Beron, of funereal monuments.

News articles, feature stories, business correspondence, and related memorabilia produced by James F. Bezou while acting as New Orleans correspondent and business agent for France-Amérique, le Journal Français des Etats-Unis.

Records and manuscripts created and/or compiled by Henry Conrad Brote (1894-1984), a United States merchant marine officer. Brote’s almost-half-century career at sea took him to many parts of the globe. The bulk of the records forming this collection pertain to voyages between New Orleans and ports in the West Indies and on the east coast of South America. Included are correspondence, logs, voyage narratives, navigation work books, night orders, cargo plans, financial statements, reports, and photographs.

Materials received and generated by Beatrice Rodriguez Owsley in the production of a radio program on Carnaval Interamericano and Latin American music in New Orleans. The broadcast was featured on “Gallery” on June 15, 1991, on WWNO radio. Also included in the collection are programs, newsclippings, and videocassettes on subsequent festivals. In 1992 the name of the festival was changed to “Carnaval Latino.” The New Orleans Hispanic Heritage Foundation, a nonprofit organization which seeks to promote Hispanic heritage in the city, initiated the first Carnaval in 1989. Over a period of several years it grew from a single event to a three-day-long festival held in downtown New Orleans.

Papers and memorabilia of Pierre Crabitès (1877-1943), a judge on the Cairo International Mixed Tribunals for twenty-five years (1911-1936), a member of the faculty of the Law School of Louisiana State University in Baton Rouge, Louisiana (1936-?), and author of ten books and numerous journal articles.

Ship manifests and freight lists of the Delta Steamship Lines, Inc., including manifests of the Mississippi Shipping Company. The vessels chiefly plied the waters between New Orleans and South America, but some few traveled between New Orleans and Europe or between New Orleans and West Africa.

Mainly correspondence from family members in Alsace, Germany, to Charles Ebert (1856-1910), an Alsatian who immigrated to New Orleans in 1873; also miscellaneous documents, photographs, and genealogical material pertaining to the Ebert family.

Correspondence, publications, séance registers and translations thereof, photographs, travel brochures, maps, journal notes and notebooks, taped interview, volume on genealogy, and miscellany of the family of René Grandjean (b. 1889). A native of France, Grandjean resided in New Orleans from 1911 until his death. An important aspect of Grandjean’s life lay in his preserving and translating the records of a group of Creole-of-color spiritualists. The collection contains essays, 1910-1912, and a limited quantity of other materials pertaining to Cuba, Jamaica, Haiti, and France.

Records and memorabilia of eleven Italian fraternal organizations, including various account books, bank records, constitutions and by-laws, correspondence, membership lists, reports, broadsides, and miscellany. The collection also contains approximately 150 books in Italian that were part of the Dante Alighiere Society library.

Issues of L’Italo-Americano (1894-1922) and La Voce Coloniale (1918-1964), two newspapers published in New Orleans for Italian-Americans residing in the area. Beginning in 1962, the latter added material of interest to the Latin American community.

“Etat des petites acquisitions faites par le Citoyen Le Couteulx Du Moley depuis qu’il est Propriétaire de la Terre de la Malmaison.” Original manuscript on paper, the title deed of the territory of La Malmaison belonging to Citoyen Le Couteulx Du Moley and ceded by him to Josephine on the 2nd of Floréal 1799. Each leaf is initialed by Le Couteulx Du Moley and by Josephine Bonaparte with her initials L. B. (Lapagerie Bonaparte). On the last page are the signatures of both in full.

Tapes and transcripts of interviews with members of the New Orleans Hispanic community, as well as Anglos who work with Hispanics. Countries of origin include Ar­gentina, Bolivia, Colombia, Costa Rica, Cuba, Ecuador, Guatemala, Honduras, Mexico, Nicaragua, Panama, and Venezuela. Related research files accompany the collection.

Charles Perrier (1891-1956), a native of Vera Cruz, Mexico, attended schools in France and Switzerland. He worked as an official of the French Vice-Consulat in Verz Cruz (ca. 1910-1921), eventually rising to the position of gerant (managing officer). In 1923 Perrier came to New Orleans, where he found employment as a waiter in Galatoire’s and other restaurants. The collection mainly contains personal correspond­ence (1909-1934) and official correspondence (1910-1923), as well as various personal documents pertaining to the Perrier family in Vera Cruz, Mexico, and Geneva, Switzer­land, as well as New Orleans.

Records of the Societa Italiana di Mutua Beneficenza Cefalutana di Nuova Orleans, an organization composed of natives of Cefalu, Sicily, and their descendants. Founded in 1887, the society was dedicated to meeting the medical and other needs of its members, including burial in the organization’s tomb after 1921. The collection contains newspaper clippings; seven bound ledgers (ca. 1912-1938) detailing finances, minutes of meetings, and membership; constitution and by-laws (1924); handwritten and typewritten correspondence; a blueprint of the society’s tomb; broadsides; certificates; and miscellany. A few items of Sicilian origin are included.