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Scope and Contents Personal and business finances of the Stubbs Family. Includes accounts, ledgers, invoices, receipts, legal documents, taxes and correspondence on farms and mill operations in Virginia; William C. Stubbs real estate, loan and insurance businesses; genealogy book publications, orders and sales; household accounts; and other financial transactions. Some work related material may be mixed in with the family finances.

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Scope and Contents Reports as Director of the Louisiana Sugar Experiment Station on subjects such as the history of the shoreline of Louisiana and the Lake Shore reorganization plan.  Handwritten report on Hawaii by W.C. Stubbs, as a Special Agent of the Department of Agriculture.

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Scope and Contents Records describing soil in fields, crop planted and results, probably in Louisiana, circa 1888.  Leather, bound notepad.

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Scope and Contents Ledger records of soil chemical analysis at different locations. 121 pages.  Circa 1882.  Includes partial letter from Peck & Bishop General Ticket Office in New Haven, Connecticut with suggestions of chemicals to use and how to set up experiment.  Includes "Circular in Reference to Pyrethrum," circa 1882.

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Scope and Contents Maps of Louisiana and Alabama. Some have plats with which probably relate to William Stubb's real estate business and a few maps note soil makeup of the land. Architectural drawing by Edward de Armas of front elevation of a house.

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Scope and Contents Typed and handwritten speeches and lectures given by William C. Stubbs.  Topics include Eugenics and Euuthenics, agriculture and farming from both a scientific and social aspect.

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Scope and Contents Commissions, appointments and resignation certificates related to Dr. William C. Stubbs' professional life.

Scope and Contents Scope and Contents Floor Plan of the Exposition, complimentary admission ticket for Mrs. W.C. Stubbs as Hostess Louisiana State Building, 3 letters from Robert Glenk to William Stubbs about the arrangements for the Louisiana Exhibit at the Jamestown Exposition, newspaper article "Inadequate Car Service" about the slow trolley service between Norfolk and the Jamestown Exposition, and a cash expense book. Includes "Rates, Rules and Regulations" sheet for the exhibit, invitations and copies...

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Scope and Contents Dr. William C. Stubbs was the Executive Commissioner of the Jamestown Exposition Commission of the State of Louisiana. Correspondence with Louisiana officials, Jamestown Exposition Officials and others.  Topics include hiring of secretaries, landscaping, planning events, building and owning the building, and the fallout from the money shortfall of the Jamestown Exposition.  Robert Glenk was part of the Louisiana commission planning.

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Scope and Contents Dr. William C. Stubbs was the Executive Commissioner of the Jamestown Exposition Commission of the State of Louisiana. Correspondence with Louisiana officials, Jamestown Exposition Officials and others. Topics include hiring of secretaries, landscaping, planning events, building and owning the building, and the fallout from the money shortfall of the Jamestown Exposition. Robert Glenk was part of the Louisiana commission planning.

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Scope and Contents Invoices and receipts related to the Louisiana exhibit at the Jamestown Exposition.

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Scope and Contents Invoices and receipts related to the Louisiana exhibit at the Jamestown Exposition.

Scope and Contents Scope and Contents Letter to Mrs. Stubbs from the Daily Picayune asking her to be a patroness at the "The Picayune Table" at the Fair Grounds to be benefit the Newsboys' Home.  Correspondence about the World's Panama Exposition in New Orleans, Louisiana in 1904.  Certificate from the "Cotton States and International Exposition" in Atlanta, Georgia in 1895 to the Agricultural Experiment Stations of Louisiana.  Partial letter to the Governor and General Assembly of Louisiana about the...

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Scope and Contents Plat, probably a residential map, with numbered grids with numbers along each side of the page. Each grid numbered with sixteen squares. Handwritten notation "Range" along top of plat with some squares marked "O," "R," or "X." (possibly owned, rented and vacant).

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Scope and Contents "Map of Tchoupitoulas Plantation, subdivided into three tracts, Jefferson Parish Lt.Bk." by Sidney F. Lewis, Surveyor and Civil Engineer, New Orleans, January 19, 1889. Includes handwritten notes with names of a few owners and transactions.

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Scope and Contents New Orleans Lake Shore Land Company, Plan of Groves.  Map of neighborhoods along Lake Pontchartrain with a handwritten note "This soil although close to lake is much like the other 4 groves, largely peat."

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Scope and Contents Grid map showing current use of land, whether lived on, coal lands or vacant. Notations along side of grid lists owners.

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Scope and Contents Map of City of Mobile [Ala.] published by Wm. A. Flamm & Co., Baltimore, Md., 1890. Inset shows Mobile in 1815.

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Scope and Contents Corrected survey of Apelousas, Louisiana, Se. 25 T5S-R3W, dated May 25, 1889.  Survey of land of Arthur Manuel, John Chaumont and Aug. Trugee, and heirs of Marcel Daire.

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Scope and Contents Grid map showing patents on the island, Township No. 3, Range No. 8, Lawrence, Ala..