Abigail Townsend Kent Collection

 

Box 1

Loose Items in box:

  1. Southeast Louisiana Historical Association Papers, vol. 6, 1979
  2. Southeast Louisiana Historical Association Papers, vol. 8, 1982
  3. Louisiana Plantation Homes
  4. Souvenir of Mt. Olivet Church, New Orleans, La 1864-1903
  5. Souvenir Album Hammond, Louisiana, 1897
  6. Once Upon A Bayou by: Howard Jacobs & Jim Rice
  7. Centennial, March 23-29, 1969

 

Folder 1

  1. Bond issued by the Confederate States of America, February 17, 1864

 

Folder 2

  1. Xeroxed copy of The Railroad Man’s Magazine, August 1910
  2. Handwritten notes on the Edwards family (2 pages)
  3. Notes from the Edwards Family Bible
  4. Xerox map I.1.S.R.7.E. Greensburg District, 1827; memorandum by Doris Kent
  5. Newspaper clippings concerning the Edwards family

 

Folder 3 – Genealogy

  1. Various newspaper clippings, documents, family history, memorandums on the Kent family

 

Folder 4

  1. The Great Days of the Garden District and the Old City of Lafayette
  2. The Last Views of the Kentwood Mills: The Brooks-Scanlon Co., Kentwood, LA, 1922
  3. 4- 4×6 postcard photographs
  4. 1- 8×10 photo of pine logs being loaded on train (2 copies)
  5. 1- 8×10 photo of the 1902 train wreck, Kentwood
  6. 1- 8×10 photo of early skidder Banner LBR Co., Mr. E.V. Preston
  7. 1- 8×10 photo of Mass Skidder wreck Cutrer
  8. 1- 8×10 photo of Mass-logger wreck C. Cutrer
  9. 1- 8×10 photo of Mt. Herman Bank
  10. 1-8×10 photo of Banner LBR Co., Kentwood
  11. Brooks Scanlon Corporation newsletter
  12. Brooks-Scanlon Corporation newsletter, October 1944, vol. 14 no. 10
  13. Brooks-Scanlon Corporation newsletter, December 1948, vol. 18, no. 12
  14. Buckeye Fiberscope Newsletter, March 1975, vol. 1, no. 1
  15. Various documents concerning Kent family genealogy (12 pages

 

Folder 5 – Photographs and Letters

  1. 10 cent ticket for Genesee Lumber Co.
  2. Clipping of Amos Kent
  3. Postcard and letter to Amos Kent
  4. Envelope labeled Amos Kent with various pictures, newspaper clippings, and notes
  5. 1-8×10 photograph of Kent Mills and Brick Yard, Kents Mill, LA
  6. 1-8×10 photograph of Brick Kilns- Kent Mills
  7. 1-8×10 photograph Kentwood, Greensburg, & Southwestern Kents Mill Logging R.R. “Maud”
    “Eva” “Amos”
  8. 1-8×10 photograph Kentwood, Greensburg, & Southwestern Locomotives “Margaret”
  9. 1-4×6 photograph of Kentwood, Greensburg & Southwestern Locomotive “Maud”
  10. 1-8×10 photograph of H.E. Byrd, Logging Contractor, Logging Latham & Smith Tract,
    Amos Kent LBR. & Brick Co.
  11. 1-8×10 photograph Kentwood, Greensburg & Southwestern Bob O’Steen, Engineer in White
  12. 1-8×10 photograph “Amos” at Freilertown
  13. 1-8×10 photograph Wreck of a Shay on Kentwood, Greensburg, & Southwestern R.R.
  14. 1-8×10 photograph Sawmill. Isabella LBR. Co. Kentwood, LA. E.V. Preston on left
  15. 1-8×10 photograph Banner LBR Co. (Formerly Isabelle) after the Enochs and Lamptons
    had improved it.
  16. 1-8×10 photograph Log shipped by Banner LBR. Co. to Tennessee Centennial at Nashville,
    Tennessee
  17. 1-8×10 photograph Kentwood & Eastern Narrow Gauge “Zoe Preston”
  18. 1-8×10 photograph E.V. Preston Family and Friends on outing on K & E.R.R.
  19. 1-8×10 photograph E.V. Preston and Cruiser “Mariquita” purchased with W.C. Kent for
    use at the “Owl Roost”, their hunting and fishing camp at Pass Manchac
  20. 1-8×10 photograph “Mule Skidder” Banner LBR. Co. E.V. Preston, Superintendant
  21. 1-8×10 photograph Hackley Station on K& E. Narrow Gauge
  22. 1-8×10 photograph Wreck on ICRR in 1902, Near Terry’s Creek, North of Kentwood
  23. 1-8×10 photograph Locomotive “Tom Leake” on Nalty Operation at Present Day, Fluker,
    LA
  24. 1-8×10 photograph of man standing by train engine
  25. 1- 5×7 photograph railroad worker standing next to train
  26. 1-4×6 “Maud” Engine
  27. 1-8×10 photograph R.B. C. & N engine with two men standing beside
  28. 1-8×10 photograph of family
  29. 1-8×10 photograph of J.P. and Roberta Morris, 1904
  30. 1-8×10 photograph of 3 men
  31. 1-8×10 photograph of 3 men
  32. 1-8×10 photograph Engine “Margaret
  33. 1-8×10 photograph of men working on railroad bridge
  34. 1-8×10 photograph of Kent Sawmill taken 1902-1912