Here you can find a listing of our archival collections. Finding aids are currently available for the Joseph H. Fichter, S.J., Papers, Lafcadio Hearn Correspondence, Robert Hayne Tarrant Papers, and Moon Landrieu Collection. Additional finding aids will be made available as they are processed.

Social & Environmental Justice

• Louis J. Twomey, S.J., Papers. Documents the post-World War II social reform work of the founding director of Loyola's Institute of Human Relations.
• Joseph H. Fichter, S.J., Papers. Details the life's work of the great Jesuit sociologist.
• William Quigley Papers. Traces recent legal struggles in such areas as the death penalty, the School of the Americas, and environmental racism.
• Archives of the Ecology Center of Louisiana. Documents environmental activism in Louisiana.
• Darryl Malek-Wiley Papers. Personal papers of the Louisiana environmental activist.

Literary Archives

• Patrick Samway S.J., Walker Percy Collection. Research materials for Fr. Samway's biography of Percy.
• Robert Giroux Papers. Correspondence, annotated proof copies, photographs, and other memorabilia of one of America's foremost 20th century literary figures.
• Lafcadio Hearn Correspondence. Letters to Page Baker, managing editor of the New Orleans Times-Democrat, describing Louisiana, the West Indies, and Japan.
• H.L. Menken Letters. Letters to Lou Wylie, a New Orleans journalist.
• New Orleans Review Collection. Archives of the Loyola-based literary magazine.

Visual & Performing Arts

• Joseph-Aurélien Cornet, F.S.C., Collection. Research materials including field notebooks and more than 20,000 photographs documenting Br. Cornet’s internationally acclaimed work on the artistic traditions of the Congo region
• Archives of the New Orleans Opera Association. Artist files (including photographs and contracts), programs, financial records, scrapbooks, and educational materials
• Archives of the Concert Choir of New Orleans. Programs. Scrapbooks, and financial records
• Stephen Dankner Collection. Manuscript compositions of distinguished composer and Loyola professor
• Robert Hayne Tarrant Papers. Programs, photographs, and printed material documenting New Orleans cultural activities between the World Wars, from the collection New Orleans impresario Tarrant.
• Papers of distinguished Loyola alumni including Norman Triegle, Marguerite Piazza, Lorena Dureau, and others.

Public Policy, Public Affairs & Journalism

• Moon Landrieu Collection. Documents Landrieu’s career as mayor of the City of New Orleans.
• Janet Mary Riley Papers. Covers the career of Loyola’s distinguished law professor, who crafted much of contemporary Louisiana law regarding property and gender
• WWL-AM-FM-TV Collection. Documents that history of one of the oldest broadcast operations in the nation, which first aired on radio in 1922 from the Loyola University Department of Physics.
• Phil Johnson Collection. Contains manuscripts of WWL-TV editorial commentaries, spanning 37 years, and award winning documentary scripts.
• Nash Roberts Hurricane Papers. Contains hurricane tracking charts and related material from the long career of New Orleans’ renowned television meteorologist
• Press Club of New Orleans Papers. Includes both written and photographic documentation of the professional association from 1957 to the present.