Alba Heywood Papers

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1 Guide to the Alba Heywood Papers linear feet Collection Number 19 CITATION: The Alba Heywood Papers, Collection No. 19, Box number, Folder number, Archives and Special Collections Department, Frazar Memorial Library, McNeese State University. Archives and Special Collections Department Frazar Memorial Library McNeese State University

2 Biographical Sketch The Heywood Brothers established Louisiana's first oil well in Jennings area in Alba was actively involved in the oil business there. Before coming to Louisiana, he toured the country with the Alba Heywood Concert Company, an organization of 50 minstrels. After leaving Louisiana, he settled in San Benito, Texas, where he played an important role in the organization of that city. Scope and Content Note The Papers contain the legal and financial forms and correspondence from the Heywoods' various business ventures from The Papers also contain photographs and scrapbooks from Alba's early career as the leader of Alba Heywood's Concert Company and miscellaneous information from his son, Alba Heywood, Jr. Series 1 - Books Container List 1 The Sourdough Pot by Will Chase Farm Legends by Will Carleton As I Remember by Franklin Hildebrand History of Monroe and Shelby Counties, 1884 The Ballad of Reading Gaol by Oscar Wilde Ben King's Verse Buttered Toasts by Fred Emerson Brooks Christmas Books by Charles Dickens Les Trois Mousqufaire by Alexander Dumas Legislative Guide The School for Scandal by R. B. Sheridan Three Bibles Series 2 - Heywood Bros. Transportation Company Bills of sale from various steamboats purchased by Heywood Brothers 2 Business correspondence of the Heywood Brothers Transportation Company

3 Series 3 - Legal and Financial Forms 1 1 Certificates of stock and financial transactions Legal and Financial Forms Legal and Financial Forms Legal and Financial Forms Legal and Financial Forms Legal and Financial Forms Legal and Financial Forms Legal and Financial Forms Misc. records of bank deposits and certificates of share ownership 10 Elizabeth Heywood's balance sheets from Series 4 - Business Correspondence 1 1 Business Correspondence Business Correspondence Business Correspondence Business Correspondence Business Correspondence Business Correspondence Business Correspondence Business Correspondence Business Correspondence between Elizabeth, Josephine, and Gene B. Heywood Business Correspondence between Elizabeth, Josephine, and Gene B. Heywood Series 5 Miscellaneous 1 Charts, maps, surveys, map of USA, Jennings and Lake Arthur telephone directory 1957, recipe book from Jennings 2 Plays by Sarah Bernhardt, plays by Alba Heywood, poems by Alba Heywood, sheet music 3 Birth and marriage certificates, book on the 156th Infantry, correspondence, copy of Stars and Stripes 1945, correspondence 1800's Blueprint of Anse La Butte, La. "Printed Specially for Alba Heywood," 1904 (2) and Map Showing Actual Survey of the Anse La Butte Oil Field, St. Martin Parish, Louisiana,

4 Series 6 - Scrapbooks of Alba Heywood, Jr. and FaFa 1 1 "Saga of the Plantation Seekers" and photographs 2 The Mighty Fallen" by The Plantation Seekers and also photographs 3 "The Atmosphere of Louisiana" 2 1 "The Alpha and Omega of Isle Deniere" 2 "What goes on in the 'oil patch' vol. II", and photographs 3 "The Plantation Seekers" Series 7 - Photograph Albums 1 Two photo albums (Alba I) 2 Five photo albums (Alba I) Series 8 - Loose Photographs of Alba Heywood, Sr.; Alba Heywood, Jr.; and Alba Heywood, III 1 Photos of Alba Heywood's Concert Company 2 Photos of Alba Heywood's Concert Company 3 Photos of Alba Heywood's Concert Company 4 Photos of Alba Heywood's Concert Company 5 Photos of Alba Heywood's Concert Company 6 Misc. photos of Alba Sr. 7 Misc. photos of Alba Jr. 8 Misc. photos of Alba Sr. and Alba Jr. 9 Misc. photos of Alba III 7 oversize photograph: Alba Heywood Sr. and Jr.; Co. F 2nd Training Battalion (officers) Ft. Benning, Ga. May 1941; and Co. D 63 rd Infantry Regiment 6 th Infantry Division Ft. Ord, Calif. September Framed photograph of Alba Heywood Sr. (27 1/2"x32 1/2") Series 9 Scrapbooks 1 1 Contains five scrapbooks of Alba Sr. - newspaper clippings 2 Contains one scrapbook of Alba Jr. - newspaper clippings 4

5 Series 10 Postcards 1 Various postcards, correspondence on some postcards Series 11 - Glass Plate Negatives 1 1 Glass plate negatives of misc. photographs of the Alba Heywood family 5