Guide to French language archival material in Louisiana and North America

• American Antiquarian Society
  • Louisiana Papers, 1779-1937

• Amistad Research Center
  • A.P. Tureaud papers, 1798-1977

• Bancroft Library, University of California, Berkeley
  • Louisiana Papers, 1767-1816

• Catholic Archdiocese of Mobile
  • Department of the Archives

• Catholic Archdiocese of New Orleans
  • Office of the Archives

• Catholic Diocese of Houma-Thibodaux
  • Office of Archives and Historical Research center [records begin 1817]

• Catholic Diocese of Lafayette in Louisiana
  • Office of Archives

• Catholic Diocese of Baton Rouge
  • Department of the Archives

• Cornell University Library, Division of Rare and Manuscript Collections
  • Guide to the Arthur H. and Mary Marden Dean Lafayette Collection, 1245-1931

• Louisiana Parish Courthouses
  • Courthouse records

• Louisiana State Museum
  • The Louisiana Historical Center (New Orleans)

• Louisiana State University, Louisiana and Lower Mississippi Valley Collection
  • Andry (Michel Thomassin) and Family Papers
  • William Arceneaux Papers
  • Norbert Badin Papers
  • Léona Queyrouze Barel Papers
  • Leonce P. Bordelon Diaries
  • Boucry Family Papers
  • Maximilien E. Boudreaux family papers
  • John B. Breaux Papers
  • Louis A. Bringier and Family Papers
  • Nita Sims Breazeale Family Papers
  • Brother Arsène Brouard Papers
  • Brown (James) Papers
  • Jules M. Burguière, JR. Papers
  • Andrew Cannon Family Papers
  • Chatsworth Plantation Store Records
  • Gladys Clark Papers
  • Close (John) Papers
  • Conner (Lemuel P. And Family) Papers
  • Anita G. Day Digital Prints
  • Alexandre E. Declouet and Family Papers
  • Deslsarte (Francois) Papers
  • Doussan Family Papers
  • Jean-Baptiste Drouillard Family Papers
  • Hazel and Nellie Hellis Family Papers
  • J. Bruce Evans Papers
  • Girod (Joseph) Papers
  • George Otis Hall an Family Papers
  • J. Fair Hardin Collection
  • Hart-Bonnecaze-Duncan Family Papers
  • Louis Hasselmans Papers
  • Hebert (Raphael and Family) Papers
  • Helluin (Pierre Firmin) Letters
  • Hero (Andrew, Jr. and George) Papers
  • Huguet (Adolphe H. and Family) Papers
  • William T. Johnson and Family Papers
  • Alfred Grima Johnson Family Papers
  • Joseph Kleinpeter and Family Papers
  • George Kleinpeter and Family Papers
  • Sidonie de la Houssaye Papers
  • Lambremont (John D.) Family Papers
  • Landry Family Papers
  • Landry (Theodore E. and Lou Bird) Papers
  • Theodule Leonard Papers
  • Louisiana Leper Home Records
  • McKowen-Lilley-Stirling Family papers
  • Minor (William J. and Family) Papers
  • Moyse-Gottlieb-Sommer Family Papers
  • Opelousas Post Record
  • Palfrey Family Papers
  • Pecquet du Bellet de Verton and Kariouk Family Papers
  • Jean Charles de Pradel Family Papers
  • Joseph Reynès and Family Papers
  • Rosenbaum (Max) Family letters and photographs
  • Gertrude B. Saucier and Family Papers
  • Joseph Savoy Family Papers
  • Emma T. Stafford. Sidonie de la Houssaye Collection
  • Marcelin Tauzin and Family papers.
  • Benjamin Tureaud Family Papers
  • Vallas (Antal and Family) Papers
  • W.P.A. Collection Historical Records Survey- Transcriptions Of Louisiana Police Jury Records
  • Pierre Gabriel Wartelle Family Papers

• Louisiana Tech University
  • M-086 Joseph J. Corneille (1838-?), Record Book, 1861-1899.

• Loyola University, New Orleans, J. Edgar and Louise S. Monroe Library
  • Correspondance à l'arrivée en provenance de la Louisiane. Série C13 1678-1819. (microfilm)
  • New Orleans. St. Louis Cathedral. "Conseil des Marguiliers de l'eglise St. Louis de la Nouvelle-Orleans." 1842. (microfilm)
  • "Records of the Diocese of Louisiana and the Floridas, 1576-1803." (microfilm)

• McNeese State University
  • Edward A.Seton Collection

• New Orleans Notarial Archives
  • Guide to the French Colonial Records (1733-1767)

• New Orleans Public Library, Louisiana Division/City Archives and Special Collections
  • Introduction to the Early Records (1760-1861) in the New Orleans City archives
  • MS-147. Mc Donogh and Payne
  • MS-02. Caire, Louis Thimele
  • Miscellaneous Spanish and French records of New Orleans, 1789-1816.
  • Miscellaneous Record Book of New Orleans, 1760-1830
  • Record of the Orleans Parish Police Juries
  • Records Relating to Legal and Judicial Matters
  • Records of Correctional Institutions
  • Records Relating to the Public Safety of New Orleans
  • Records Relating to the Port of New Orleans
  • Records Relating to Public Health
  • Records Relating to Public Property and Public Works
  • Records of the Public Schools and Libraries
  • Records of the Financial Administration of New Orleans
  • Records of the City Councils
  • Records of the Office of the Mayor

• New-York Historical Society
  • Diary, 1732 Apr. 28-1732 Aug. 10.
  • New Orleans collection, 1770-1904 (bulk 1804-1836).

• Newberry Library (Chicago)
  • Relation ou annalle de ce qui s'est passé dans le paÿs de la Louisiane pendant vingt-deux années consecutives [manuscript] : depuis le commencement de l'establissement des françois dans ce paÿs, par Mr. Dhiberville, et Mr. le comte de Surgere en 1699
  • Documents on French colonial Louisiana, Acadia, the Antilles, and the Yucatan [manuscript] [ca. 1760]

• Northwestern State University of Louisiana, Cammie G. Henry Research Center
  • Wayne Martin Collection
  • Coralie Buard-Cloutier Collection
  • George Williamsong Collection
  • Dr. Corinne Saucier Collection
  • Mrs. Raymond Rodriguez Collection
  • Lucille Carnahan Collection
  • Sainte Augustine Church Register
  • Deniese Palmer-Huggins Collection
  • Melrose Collection
  • Compagny of the Indies Collection
  • Immaculate Conception Church Records
  • Jack Holmes Collection
  • Winston DeVille Collection
  • Robert Deblieux Collection
  • Courthouse Records Collection
  • P.E. Cloutier Collection

• The Historic New Orleans Collection
  • Elie Fonbene Passport
  • Faubourg Marigny Survey Collection
  • Joannes Nicolaus Dieterich Travel Permit
  • Legal description of property belonging to Elisha Winter
  • Baron de Carondelet Letter
  • French Slave Sale Deed
  • Douanes Royales de France, Acquit de Paiement de Droits de Sortie
  • John Genin Receipt
  • Louise Marie Philippi de LePoly Funeral Notice
  • Louis Joseph Rene Legier Certificate
  • St. John the Baptist Parish Documents
  • Charles Trudeau Letters
  • St. Charles Parish Police Patrol Collection
  • Louisiana: Records relating to the colony and sale of Louisiana in the Archives of the French Ministry of Foreign Affairs.
  • French Consul General records
  • Villars Family Papers
  • Memoire de L- D-, Officer, ingenieur contenant les enenements qui se sont passis a la Louisiane dupuis 1715 jusqu'a present, (microfilm)
  • Travel document and Inheritance document
  • "Memoire Historique et Politique sur la Louisiane"
  • de Brueys and Newman Family papers
  • Pontchartrain letter
  • Lettres Patentes du Roy, portant reglement pour le commerce des colonies Françoises
  • Inventory of Community Property of Jean Lacou Dubourg and Marie Jeanne Isambar, 1781
  • E. Paillet Letter
  • James de Puech letters
  • Eugenie Rodrigue St. Joseph School Papers
  • Au Nom De La République Francaise. Proclamation.
  • Proclamation by Admiral Sir Alexander Cochrane to the people of Guadeloupe
  • Jean Caire, corespondance avec mon fils en Amerique
  • P. A. Desdunes ledger
  • Certificate de Nationalité
  • Villamil Letter
  • David Oliver Document
  • Monasterio Land Transfer Documents
  • Vers françois et latins sur le départ du Révérend Père Dongé pour le Mississipi, par les écoliers de son quartier
  • William C. C. Claiborne II letter to Mrs. Julia D. Clay
  • Arthur F. Simon Diary
  • Jean DuHart ledger
  • Pétition d'une partie des habitants de Baton Rouge
  • Letter to Joseph Destinval
  • Albert Delpit note
  • Pierre Paul, marquis d'Ossun letter concerning the rebellion in Louisiana
  • Jacques Philippe Villeré Papers
  • Saint John the Baptist Parish Records, 1813-1829
  • Acadian Parishes Records
  • L. Durand Letter
  • Jean Baptiste de Bienville Survey
  • Dominique You Papers
  • Pierre and Jean Laffite Collection
  • Villeré Family Papers
  • Grima Family Papers, 1788-1814
  • Claude Perrin Victor Papers
  • Paul Lanusse Letters
  • Louisiana Commercial Memoranda
  • Ste-Gême Family Papers
  • Dauberville-Bouligny Family Papers
  • William Henry Couret Music Collection
  • Archbishop Antoine Blanc Letter
  • Pierre Clément de Laussat Papers
  • Memoires sur ma vie, à mon fils, pendant les Années 1803 et suivantes ... en qualité de Commisaire du Gouvernment Francais pour la reprise de possession de cette Colonie ...
  • Mission Politique à la Louisiane, la Martinique et la Guyane en 1803 et année suivantes. Tom.1.
  • Bercier Family Papers
  • Société Médicale de la Nouvelle-Orléans Records
  • Constitution ou Forme de Gouvernement de l'Etat de la Louisiane
  • Journal de la Navigation de la Fregate du Roy L'Opale
  • Consulat de France à la Nouvelle-Orléans Index to Records
  • Acts of the Royal French Administration concerning Louisiana
  • Carl Kohn Letterbook
  • Consulat de France à la Nouvelle-Orléans Records
  • Tremé Family Papers
  • Louis Moreau Gottschalk Letter
  • French Louisiana Documents, 1729-1765
  • Barthélémy Lafon Contract Book, 1804-1821.
  • Boyd Cruise City of New Orleans Collection
  • Barthélémy Lafon Letter, 1812.
  • Marquis de Lafayette Bond.
  • François Esnould de Livaudais Appointment
  • Jean François Merieult Power of Attorney
  • "Etat des Bois" Report
  • Barthélémy Lafon Land Tenure Records
  • Santo Domingo Refugee's Letter, 1802.
  • Nicolas des Verbois Collection
  • Catharine Toupard Estate Inventory
  • Champel Letters
  • Déclaration du Roy conçernant les ordres religieux et gens de main morte établis aux colonies françois de l'Amerique.
  • City of New Orleans Mandats de Payement Collection
  • Observations sur la Colonie de la Louisiane de 1796 à 1802
  • Macarty Letter
  • Francois Fleuriau Papers
  • Barthélémy Lafon Survey Books
  • Barthélemi Duverjé Cemetery Records
  • Mossy Papers
  • Raymond Pelanne passport
  • Last Will and Testament of Marie Elizabeth Durand de St. Romes
  • Godchaux Family Papers
  • French Army Letters Collection
  • Destrehan Family Papers
  • Iberville Prospectus
  • Bernard Family Papers
  • Late Colonial and Territorial Louisiana Collection
  • Destrehan Family Papers
  • The Victor Séjour Collection
  • Chevalier de Pradel Papers
  • Manuscript "Relation du Voyage de la Louisianne ou Nouvelle France fait par Sr. Caillot en l'Annee 1730"
  • John Law Collection
  • Étienne Viel manuscript
  • Jean Baptiste Longpré correspondence, 1829-1842
  • Jean Baptiste Longpré archive, 1798-1841

• The Huntington Library, Art Collections and Botanical Gardens
  • Papers of Pierre de Rigaud, marquis de Vaudreuil, 1740-1753.

• The University of Texas at Austin, Briscoe Center for American History
  • A Guide to the Edward Alexander Parsons Collection, 1678-1928, 1951
  • The Natchez Trace Collection

• Tulane University, Louisiana Research Collection
  • Artigues and Riecke families papers, 1809-1985
  • L'Athénée Louisianais records, 1834-1987
  • Audubon, John James Papers
  • Augustin, Wogan, and Labranche families papers, 1803-1936
  • Barrow Family Archives
  • Joseph Roger Baudier papers, 1935-1961
  • Berthelot Family Papers
  • Besthof, Franck M. Collector Louisiana Commercial Papers
  • Bouligny-Baldwin Papers
  • Bouny and Sanchez families papers, 1828-1907
  • Bres Family Papers
  • Louis Placide Canonge collection, 1890-1941
  • Eugène Chassaignac music scores, 1867-1873
  • Chesnier Duchesne and Smith families papers, 1780-1972
  • Fanny Leverich Eshleman Craig collection, 1765-1958
  • Cruzat Family Papers
  • Cucullu Family Papers
  • Cuvillier family papers, 1814-1877
  • Denis-Debuy Papers
  • De Blanc St. Denis, Louis Charles Papers
  • DeGas-Musson Papers, 1837-1937
  • De la Vergne Papers, 1741-1971
  • Delavigne Family Papers
  • de la Villesbret family papers, 1534-1975
  • Louis de Soto papers, 1778-1825
  • Destrehan estate litigation papers, 1824-1826
  • Doussan Honoré Papers
  • Dufilho, Louis Papers
  • Earnest Herminia
  • Farm Journal
  • Foy, Prosper Papers
  • Freemason Lodges in Louisiana Records
  • Freemasonry Collection
  • French law
  • John Valery Gaudet Family Papers
  • M.D. Girard papers, 1774-1902
  • Grima family papers, 1781-1923
  • Hemard family papers, 1857-1889
  • Kramer Family Papers
  • The Rosemond E. and Emile Kuntz Collection
  • André Lafargue papers, 1908-1949
  • LaFargue Family papers
  • Lambert family papers, 1798-1905
  • Land Surveys and Application for Louisiana
  • Land transactions series
  • Property auctions
  • Land Sale Documents
  • Land Sales (Wehrman collector)
  • Sidney Lanier papers, 1875-1886
  • Laussat Proclamations
  • Le Gardeur and Montegut families papers, 1728-1968
  • Lemann family papers, 1801-1968
  • Charles A. Lesueur Sketches
  • Les Causeries du Lundi Records
  • Louisiana Purchase Documents
  • McLellan family papers, 1839-1884
  • Manouvrier-Vilamil Family Papers
  • Mailhes family papers, 1863-1967
  • Marchand-Loubat family papers, 1807-1966
  • Jean Baptiste Meullion papers, 1798-1889
  • Morel Family Papers
  • New Orleans Municipal Papers
  • Warren C. Ogden collection of Civil War letters, 1863
  • Personal Documents collection, 1671-1959
  • Petitpain-Fazende Papers
  • Plantations series
  • Pontalba family papers, 1796-1914
  • Prairie Parishes legal documents
  • François Dominique Rouquette
  • Adrien Emmanuel Rouquette papers, 1842-1942
  • St. Martin family papers, 1732-1950
  • Sedella, Antonio de, Collection
  • Slavery Manuscripts Series
  • Société française records, 1849-1937
  • Swiss Society of New Orleans records, 1855-2010
  • Provosty and LeDoux families papers, 1822-1949
  • Marie Lydia Standish Papers
  • Paul Tulane papers, 1791-1974
  • War of 1812 collection, 1813-1965

• University of Louisiana at Lafayette
  • Lucille Mouton Griffin Collection
  • Alexandre Mouton Papers
  • Paul Debaillon Collection
  • Voorhies Family Papers
  • Guide to Collections in the University Archives and Acadiana Manuscripts Collection
  • Guide to Manuscripts in the University Archives

• University of New Orleans
  • Athénée Louisianais Collection
  • Marcus Christian Collection
  • Edmond Dédé Letter
  • René Grandjean Collection
  • Monnot/ Lanier Family Papers
  • Owen Creole Songs Collection
  • Société d'Economie et d'Assistance Mutuelle Collection
  • Société des Francs-Amis Collection
  • Société des Jeunes Amis Collection
  • Thiberge Collection
  • John Perrett Collection

• Xavier University of Louisiana
  • Guide to the Heartman manuscripts on slavery
  • New Orleans Black benevolent associations collection, 1872-1940