A calendar describes individual documents in detail.
The small images at the left represent documents described by the calendar entry.
You can see a larger image by clicking on any of the small ones. You can see
a much more detailed image by clicking on the number under the small image --
this will load a TIFF file. If you have Windows, you can read and print this
file with the Imaging Accessory. If not, you can use almost any photo editing
or graphics display program.
Using the search form at the bottom, you can find documents that contain the
key words you put in.
Calendar Format
(1) 1758 Nov. 15
(2) Rochemore, Vincent Gaspard Pierre de, Chevalier, Councilor of
the King in Council, Commissaire general of the Marine, Ordinateur
of Louisiana.
(3) New Orleans, (Louisiana)
(4) Appoints Monsieur (Louis Alexandre) Dolaunay, church warden
of the church of St. Louis in New Orleans to examine and finish
the accounts of the old churchwardens and to examine old matters
concerning the property of the same church.
(5) IV-4-a (6) A.D.S. 1p. 8vo. (French)
(7) 3
1. Date of the Document
Either the date appearing in the text of the document or,
in the absence of such a date, a date (in parentheses) based on some other evidence
and supplied by those who calendared the document. A document dated simply
by month and year appears before other documents for that month, and
one dated simply by year appears before other documents for that
year. In the case of a large dossier, set off by long horizontal lines,
a date in this
position indicates the date under which particular
dossier will be found. Subsequent dates, set off by short horizontal lines, refer to documents
within the dossier.
2. Author of the Document
Parentheses indicate
information supplied by the person who
calendered the document. In the example, the signature "Dolaunay" appears on the original document and an archivist has supplied his Christian names.
3. Point of Origin
Parentheses indicate
information supplied by the person who
calendared the document. In the example, the original document reads "New Orleans" and an archivist has supplied "Louisiana".
4. Summary of the Text
In the case of a document sent from one person to another, the name and
geographical location of the recipient appear at the head of the summary.
5. Location of the Document
Where in the Notre Dame Archives this document will be found. The document in
the example used to reside in box a on shelf four of cabinet four. Although we
no longer use the same cabinets and boxes, we have preserved the numbering
system so as not to render the calendar obsolete.
6. Information about the Document
The nature of the particular item:
the language in which it is written, the number of pages, and the
size of those pages. The example is a signed autograph
document, written in French, and consisting of one octavo size page.
If the document had been written in English, rather than French or
some other foreign language, no language indication would have been
given. The abbreviation A.D. indicates an autograph document
which had not been signed. D.S. indicated simply a signed
document. A.L.S. indicates an autograph letter signed, A.L.
indicates an autograph letter, and L.S. indicates a signed
letter.
7. Number of Cross References
The number of duplicate copies
made of the calendar entry, filed in the card-catalog version of
the calendar.
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