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The Louisiana Purchase and American Expansion:
Research Resources on the University of Texas Campus
The Center for American History at the University of Texas at Austin is a special collections library, archive, and museum that facilitates research and sponsors programs on the historical development of the United States. The Center supports research and education by acquiring, preserving, and making accessible research collections and by sponsoring exhibitions, conferences, symposia, oral history projects, publications, fellowships, and grant-funded initiatives. The Center's research collection strengths are the history of Texas, the South, the Southwest, and the Rocky Mountain West, the history of the University of Texas, congressional history, and specific national-in-scope topics, including media history and the history of the professional touring entertainment industry.
Address:
Sid Richardson Hall 2.101General Telephone:
512-495-4532Contacts:
Dr. Don E. Carleton, Director
d.carleton@mail.utexas.edu
512-495-4515Ralph Elder
Assistant Director for University Archives and Facilities
r.elder@mail.utexas.edu
512-495-4538Holdings:
Parsons Collection:
30 decrees and orders, 1731-1773, issued by Louis XIV and Louis XV
A letter from Thomas Jefferson to Bernardo de Galvez, 1779, concerning common interests and mutual aid between Spain and the U.S. along the Mississippi River.
A series of one letter to Andrew Jackson, 1806, concerning the Burr Conspiracy, and five by Jackson, written 1814-1815 from New Orleans, concerning U.S. military intelligence, strategy, and troop movements.
34 letters and administrative documents by Baron de Carondelet, 1791-1797, concerning conditions in Louisiana, regulating slaves, issuing passports, and prohibiting "foreign Negroes and creoles" from entering New Orleans.
Major documents of French Louisiana governors, including Pierre Clement de Laussat, the last colonial Prefect of Louisiana (1803). The regime of the Spanish government of Louisiana (1762-1803) is covered by letters, proclamations, and procès-verbal of official acts by all the Spanish governors.
34 letters written from Paris, December 1801 to May 1803, by Robert R. Livingston, U.S. Minster to France, to Rufus King, Minister Plenipotentiary of the U.S., relating to negotiations that resulted in the Louisiana Purchase
An address from the inhabitants of the District of St. Charles to James Wilkinson, expressing hope for the law and order of wise government, dated 1805.
A holograph copy of the Convention between France and the U.S. outlining details of the purchase of the Louisiana Territory, signed by John Armstrong, U.S. Minister to France
The first printing of the first executive announcement to the Nation of the proposed and impending acquisition of the Louisiana Territory (October 17, 1803).
Letters from Jean Lafitte, 1814-1820 disclaiming acts, knowledge of, or protection for banditry by himself or his family in the Gulf area.
23 letters, 1807-1816, from William C.C. Claiborne; correspondents include James Wilkinson, Jean Lafitte, and Nicholas Girod and Augustus McCarty, mayors of New Orleans.
Isaac Briggs:
1803-1805: Letters between Isaac Briggs, surveyor, and Thomas Jefferson concerning conditions in Mississippi and Louisiana and Jefferson's report on Congressional action concerning appropriations for Briggs. 1935: Other papers/letters.French Louisiana Papers:
Moses Austin Documents, 1803
Simeon English Clark Papers, 1847-1964Spanish Louisiana Papers:
Archivo General de Indias, Papelas de Cuba, Legajo 1799-1806
Charles A. Bacarisse Narrative, undated
Felipe Enrique Neri Baron de Bastrop Documents, 1795-1824Louisville, New Orleans, and Texas Railway Company:
Willard C. Parish Papers, 1874-1926
Andrew Jackson:
John R. Burke Papers, 1828, 1832, 1851
Anthony Burke Papers, 1810-1846
John C. Calhoun Letters, 1829-1844
Lorenzo De Zavala Papers, 1818-1936
William A. Donelson Family Papers, 1883-1937
Madge Williams Hearne Collection, 1817-1850
Sam Houston Hearne Collection, 1820-1900, 1929
Andrew Jackson Letters, 1813-1844Thomas Jefferson:
Isaac Briggs Letters, 1803-1805, 1935
David H. Henkel Papers, 1855, 1861-1864
Thomas Jefferson Papers, 1797-1824James Madison:
Robert Williams Letter, 1805George Washington:
Paul C. Crusemann Collection, 1788-1898, 1932
George Washington Items, 1786, 1926James Wilkinson:
Adair v. Wilkinson Case Records, 1809-1820
James Wilkinson Letters, 1793, 1825John C. Calhoun:
Calhoun Letters, 1829-1844
Patrick Noble Papers, 1779-1846
Thomas Jefferson Rusk Papers, 1824-1859
Isaac Van Zandt Papers, 1835-1865, 1948Southern Newspaper Collection:
Newspapers of every state of the Confederacy from the 1790s through the early 1900s. Significant holdings include extensive runs of early newspapers in hard copy from Charleston, South Carolina (1795-1942), Augusta, Georgia (1806-1885), New Orleans, Louisiana (1837-1914) and Little Rock, Arkansas (1819-1863). Many issues are scarce or rare, including the copies of several important ante-bellum Louisiana and Mississippi newspapers.Various Papers:
Barnes-Willis Family Papers, 1783-1840
John Dutton Papers, 1789-1890
Louisiana Records, 1806-1831, ca. 1930-ca. 1945
Ben Caldwell Prather Papers, 1781-1973
Pugh Family Papers, 1807-1907
James Campbell Wilkins, 1801-1852Natchez Trace Collection:
Colonial and Territorial Archives (1759-1810):
Correspondence, land surveys, marriage contracts, legal proceedings, slave sales, wills, ordinances, petitions, civil records for posts at Natchez, Point Coupee, Ouachita, Iberville, and Opelousas, and other legal and administrativeSlaves and Slavery Collection (1793-1864):
Primarily legal documents relating to Blacks and the institution of slavery in the Southern U.S., particularly in Louisiana and Mississippi; organized into 11 series: 1) runaway slaves, 2) free Blacks, 3) individual emancipations, 4) sales of slaves and slave ownership, 5) estates and sale of land, personal property, and slaves, 6) court cases, criminal and civil, 7) entry of slaves into Louisiana, 8) lists of slaves and slave holders, 9) hire of slaves, 10) financial and other papers, 11) guard and picket passes for colored persons.Steamboat Collection (1806-1925):
Receipts, bills, legal records, correspondence, printed materials, and ledgers documenting steamboat activity on the Mississippi River and its tributaries. Various personal and family papers relating to slavery, agriculture, and daily life in Louisiana and Mississippi.Map Collection:
A collection of 50 manuscript maps and 88 printed maps owned or prepared by individuals, families, and organizations represented in NTC. The bulk of the maps depict Louisiana and Mississippi during the 19th century, especially prior to 1861. Cartographic types include land surveys and plat maps, atlases, pocket maps and city guides, and specialty maps, such as Civil War battle maps and railroad route maps. These maps constitute documents drawn or consulted by Natchez District residents as a means of delineating property, planning and guiding travels, recording and depicting natural or man-made structures in their physical environment, and studying the history and geography of their locale, region, and country. Maps of Louisiana date from 1541.Broadside Collection:
Approximately 140 broadsides and handbills published mainly in Louisiana and Mississippi, 1795-1900, announcing or advertising events and services relating to politics, real estate, law, education, agriculture, and economic and cultural affairs.Ephemera Collection:
Hundreds of tickets, ballots, advertisements, business cards, menus, programs, invitations, funeral announcements, and dance cards documenting daily life in 19th-century Louisiana and Mississippi.
Harry Ransom Humanities Research CenterThe Harry Ransom Humanities Research Center at The University of Texas at Austin has as its major emphasis the study of the literature and culture of the United States, Great Britain, and France. The Center's collections contain some 30 million leaves of manuscripts, over one million rare books, five million photographs, three thousand pieces of historical photographic equipment, and 100,000 works of art, in addition to major holdings in theater arts and film. It is one of the world's preeminent institutions for literary and cultural research. The principal rare books and manuscripts library of The University of Texas at Austin, its special collections contain approximately 35 million manuscripts, 1 million books, 5 million photographs, over 100,000 works of art, and an important collection on performing arts. Since its inception in the mid-1950s, the major emphasis of its acquisitions has been on twentieth-century literature and fine arts, principally American, British and French.
Campus Address:
Humanities Research Center 3.210General Telephone:
512-471-8944Contacts:
Travis Willmann, Public Affairs Specialist
twillmann@mail.utexas.edu
512-471-8945Holdings:
Some books from the E. A. Parsons Collection (very few manuscripts, maps, or other documents).
Edward Larocque Tinker Collection: Bibliography of French newspapers and periodicals of Louisiana.
French history section of the HRC:
Manuscript letters by Napoleon Bonaparte and an original edition of the Code Civil (1804), as well as a large number of Napoleonic books, engravings, and sculptures.Compiled by Seth A. Miller
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Last Updated: February 18, 2003