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• Biographical and Historical Memoirs of Louisiana: Embracing an Authentic and Comprehensive Account of the Chief Events in the History of the State, a Special Sketch of Every Parish and a Record of the Lives of Many of the Most Worthy and Illustrious Families and Individuals (2 volumes; Chicago: Goodspeed Pub. Co., 1892) (page images at HathiTrust)
• Louisiana: Comprising Sketches of Parishes, Towns, Events, Institutions, and Persons, Arranged in Cyclopedic Form (biographical edition, 3 volumes; Century Historical Assn., 1914), ed. by Alcée Fortier
  • Volume I (A-K): multiple formats at archive.org
  • Volume II (L-Z): multiple formats at archive.org
  • Volume III (Biographies): multiple formats at archive.org
• Louisiana leaders, 1830-1860. (Journal printing co., 1935), by Mary Lilla McLure (page images at HathiTrust)
• The story of Louisiana. (J.F. Hyer pub. co., 1960), by Edwin Adams Davis (page images at HathiTrust)
• Louisiana; comprising sketches of parishes, towns, events, institutions, and persons, arranged in cyclopedic form (Century historical association, 1914), by Alcée Fortier (page images at HathiTrust)
• "Louisianians and their state"; a historical and biographical text book of Louisiana; its notable men and leading institutions. ([New Orleans?, 1919), by Louisiana Historical and Biographical Association and Daniel Decatur Moore (page images at HathiTrust)
• Southwest Louisiana, biographical and historical (Gulf Publishing Co., 1891), by William Henry Perrin (page images at HathiTrust)
• A history of who's who in Louisiana politics in 1916, including state officials, senators, representatives, clerks, together with a sketch of all the governors from 1697 to the present date. Brief history of the various locations of the state capital of the state of Louisiana. (Coste & Frichter co., inc., printers, 1916), by Dave H. Brown and Louisiana chronicle democrat (page images at HathiTrust)
• Sketches of life and character in Louisiana : the portraits selected principally from the bench and bar (Ferguson & Crosby, 1847), by J. S. Whitaker (page images at HathiTrust)
• Who's who in Louisiana and Mississippi : biographical sketches of prominent men and women of Louisiana and Mississippi. (The Times-Picayune, 1918) (page images at HathiTrust)
• Biographical and historical memoirs of northwest Louisiana. Comprising a large fund of biography of actual residents, and an interesting historical sketch of thirteen counties. (The Southern Publishing Co., 1890), by Southern Publishing Company (page images at HathiTrust)
• Louisiana; comprising sketches of parishes, towns, events, institutions, and persons, arranged in cyclopedic form (Century Historical Association, 1909), by Alc�ee Fortier (page images at HathiTrust)
• Men of Louisiana cartooned. (New Orleans Item, 1906) (page images at HathiTrust)
• The story of Louisiana. (J.F. Hyer, 1963), by J. F. Hyer and Edwin Adams Davis (page images at HathiTrust; US access only)
• Nos Hommes et Notre Histoire: Notices biographiques accompagnées de reflexions et de souvenirs personnels (in French), by Rodolphe Lucien Desdunes (Gutenberg ebook)

• Club men of Louisiana in caricature (The Roycrofters, 1917), by William Keevil Patrick (page images at HathiTrust)

• Plantation life on the Mississippi (Pelican Publishing Co., 1952), by William Edwards Clement (page images at HathiTrust)

• History of New Orleans (3 volumes; Chicago and New York: Lewis Pub. Co., 1922), by John S. Kendall
  • Volume I, and Volume II through Chapter 47: HTML at Chicago
  • Volume II: page images at HathiTrust
  • Volume III: page images at HathiTrust
• Nos hommes et notre histoire; notices biographiques accompagnées de reflextions et de souvenirs personnels, hommage à la population créole, en souvenir des grands hommes qu'elle a produits et des bonnes choses qu'elle a accomplies. (Arbour & Dupont, 1911), by Rodolphe Lucien Desdunes (page images at HathiTrust)
• "Strange to say-"; recollections of persons and events in New Orleans and Chicago. (A. Kroch, 1949), by Edith Ogden Harrison (page images at HathiTrust)
• "Louisianians and their state"; a historical and biographical text book of Louisiana; its notable men and leading institutions. ([New Orleans?, 1919), by Louisiana Historical and Biographical Association and Daniel Decatur Moore (page images at HathiTrust)
• Some notables of New Orleans : biographical and descriptive sketches of the artists of New Orleans, and their work (The Author, 1896), by May W. Mount (page images at HathiTrust)
• Cohen's New Orleans directory including Jefferson City, Gretna, Carrollton, Algiers, and McDonogh. (Picayune., 1854) (page images at HathiTrust)
• Men of Louisiana cartooned. (New Orleans Item, 1906) (page images at HathiTrust)

• Sherwood Anderson and other famous Creoles (Pelican Bookshop Press, 1926), by William Spratling and William Faulkner (page images at HathiTrust)
• Club men of Louisiana in caricature (The Roycrofters, 1917), by William Keevil Patrick (page images at HathiTrust)

• History of Sabine Parish, Louisiana (Brookhaven Press, 2001), by John G. Belisle (page images at HathiTrust)
• History of Sabine Parish, Louisianna, by John G. Belisle (The Sabine banner press, 1912), by John G. Belisle (page images at HathiTrust)

• Early Feliciana politics (St. Francisville democrat, 1936), by Elrie Robinson and Clark Woodruff (page images at HathiTrust)

• History of Louisiana Negro Baptists from 1804-1914 (National Baptist Pub. Board, 1914), by William Hicks (page images at HathiTrust)
• History of Louisiana Negro Baptists : from 1804 to 1914 (Nashville, Tenn. : National Baptist Pub. Board, [1914?], 1914), by William Hicks, W. B. Purvis, and National Baptist Publishing Board (page images at HathiTrust)

• History of Louisiana Negro Baptists from 1804-1914 (National Baptist Pub. Board, 1914), by William Hicks (page images at HathiTrust)
• History of Louisiana Negro Baptists : from 1804 to 1914 (Nashville, Tenn. : National Baptist Pub. Board, [1914?], 1914), by William Hicks, W. B. Purvis, and National Baptist Publishing Board (page images at HathiTrust)

• Life and History of William O'Neal; or, The Man Who Sold His Wife (St. Louis: A.R. Fleming, 1896), by William O'Neal (HTML and TEI at UNC)

• Mémoires sur ma vie, à mon fils : pendant les années 1803 et suivantes, que j'ai rempli des fonctions publiques, savoir : à la Louisianne, en qualité de commissaire du gouvernement français pour la reprise de possession de cette colonie et pour sa remise aux Etats-Unis ; à la Martinique, comme préfet colonial ; à la Guyane française, en qualité de commandant et administrateur pour le roi (L'imprimerie de Navarre, 2001), by Pierre-Clément de Laussat (page images at HathiTrust)

• Nos Hommes et Notre Histoire: Notices biographiques accompagnées de reflexions et de souvenirs personnels (in French), by Rodolphe Lucien Desdunes (Gutenberg ebook)

• Buried Alive (Behind Prison Walls) for a Quarter of a Century: Life of William Walker (Saginaw, MI: Friedman and Hynan, 1892), by William Walker, ed. by Thomas S. Gaines (illustrated HTML and TEI with commentary at UNC)
• Life and History of William O'Neal; or, The Man Who Sold His Wife (St. Louis: A.R. Fleming, 1896), by William O'Neal (HTML and TEI at UNC)
• Out of the Ditch: A True Story of an Ex-Slave (Houston: Rein and Sons Co., printers, 1910), by J. Vance Lewis (illustrated HTML and TEI at UNC)
• Twelve Years a Slave: Narrative of Solomon Northup, a Citizen of New-York, Kidnapped in Washington City in 1841, and Rescued in 1853 (fifth thousand; Auburn, NY: Derby and Miller, et al., 1853), by Solomon Northup
  • HTML and TEI with commentary at UNC
  • multiple formats at archive.org
  • Gutenberg text and illustrated HTML

• Aaron Lopez and Judah Touro: A Refugee and a Son of a Refugee (with the address of George Washington to the Hebrew congregation in Newport, RI; New York: Behrman's Jewish Book House, 1939), by Morris A. Gutstein, contrib. by George Washington (multiple formats at archive.org)

• "Honest" Judge William Miller, commissioner and agent, on the part of the Republics of France and of the United States, to receive possession of the post and depending territory of Rapides, Louisiana, in 1804, commissioned a judge under the new re gime (Este, 1892), by William Miller Este (page images at HathiTrust)

• Sketches of life and character in Louisiana : the portraits selected principally from the bench and bar (Ferguson & Crosby, 1847), by J. S. Whitaker (page images at HathiTrust)

• Reference biography of Louisiana bench & bar, 1922 (Cox Print. and Pub. Co., 1922), by Henry Plauché Dart and William M. Deacon (page images at HathiTrust)
• Edgar Howard Farrar : a sketch of his life and times ([s.n.], 1922), by Henry Plauché Dart (page images at HathiTrust)

• Original contributions of Louisiana to medical sciences : a biographic study (s.n., 1915), by Edmond Souchon (page images at HathiTrust)

• Destruction and reconstruction: personal experiences of the late war. (D. Appleton and Company, 1879), by Richard Taylor (page images at HathiTrust)

• Autobiographical Sketches and Recollections, During a Thirty-Five Years' Residence in New Orleans (Boston: Phillips, Sampson and Co., 1857), by Theodore Clapp (multiple formats at archive.org)
• Autobiographical Sketches and Recollections, During a Thirty-Five Year's Residence in New Orleans (fourth edition; Boston: Phillips, Sampson and Co., 1859), by Theodore Clapp (page images at HathiTrust)

• Old Times in Dixie Land: A Southern Matron's Memories, by Caroline E. Merrick (illustrated HTML and TEI at UNC)

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