Scope and Contents Papers include typewritten letters, 1942-1946, to Miss Perkins from various official agencies involved in her attempt to communicate with relatives captured by the Japanese during World War II. Also included is a typescript memoir of a 1908 trip to Guatemala, compiled from diaries and letters written at the time; a typescript collection of "boners," apparently accumulated during her years of teaching; and a scrapbook of Chinese Christmas and greeting cards, some from a mission school in...

Scope and Contents From the Sub-Series: The New Orleans Public Library Juvenile Division went out of existence in the mid-1980s. Mrs. Bernice G. Zilrech, the retiring division head, compiled the following materials to be preserved in the City Archives. The collection consists of newspaper publicity clippings, scripts from a local television show, scrapbooks, magazines, and books. Accompanying the collection is a preliminary inventory describing materials, much of which has been included in the following descriptions of...