A collection of interviews with African-Americans of the Mississippi Gulf Coast, circa twentieth and early twenty-first centuries, who knew Colonel John Robinson, an African-American pilot who was tapped by Ethiopian Emperor Haile Sellassie in the...
Photograph of an aerial view of the Homochitto Lumber Company in Bude, Mississippi (Franklin County). The company was organized in 1912 by Fenwick L. Peck of the U. S. Lumber Company, and began operation in 1913.
From the Ingram-Day Lumber Company Photographs Collection. Photograph of a logger standing next to a long leaf pine log approximately four feet in diameter. Other logs in the photo are somewhat smaller. The original caption reads, "A Ramp of...
From the Robert C. Waller Photographs. Photograph (positive image of a negative) of lumber equipment for Joe N. Miles and Sons Lumber of Lumberton, Mississippi.
From the Major-Sowers Saw Mill Photographs Collection. Photograph of a storage shed piled high with lumber at the Major-Sowers Sawmill Company, Tallahala site in Perry County.
Oral history.; Interview conducted on July 22, 1981 with Mr. Charlie Parker at his home in Laurel, Mississippi. Parker was born in the early 1890s in Enterprise, Mississippi. After his family moved to Laurel around the turn of the century, Parker...
From the Major-Sowers Saw Mill Photographs Collection. Photograph of the planing mill at the the Major-Sowers Sawmill Company, Tallahala site in Perry County.
From the Major-Sowers Saw Mill Photographs Collection. Photograph of three workers in the planing mill at the the Major-Sowers Sawmill Company, Tallahala site in Perry County.
From the Major-Sowers Saw Mill Photographs Collection. Photograph of a ground view of a portion of the Major-Sowers Sawmill Company, Tallahala site in Perry County.
From the Major-Sowers Saw Mill Photographs Collection. Photograph of eight workers in front of the boiler shed at the Major-Sowers Sawmill Company, Tallahala site in Perry County.
From the Robert C. Waller Photographs. Photograph (positive image of a negative) of logs on a truck for Joe N. Miles and Sons Lumber of Lumberton, Mississippi.
From the Robert C. Waller Photographs. Photograph (positive image of a negative) of men standing next to a truck of logs for Joe N. Miles and Sons Lumber of Lumberton, Mississippi.
From the Robert C. Waller Photographs. Photograph (positive image of a negative) of a tree that has been cut for Joe N. Miles and Sons Lumber of Lumberton, Mississippi.
From the Robert C. Waller Photographs. Photograph (positive image of a negative) of logs being loaded onto a truck for Joe N. Miles and Sons Lumber of Lumberton, Mississippi.
From the Robert C. Waller Photographs. Photograph (positive image of a negative) of logs being loaded onto a truck for Joe N. Miles and Sons Lumber of Lumberton, Mississippi.
From the Robert C. Waller Photographs. Photograph (positive image of a negative) of a group of loggers standing by a fallen tree for Joe N. Miles and Sons Lumber of Lumberton, Mississippi.
From the Robert C. Waller Photographs. Photograph (positive image of a negative) of logs being loaded onto a truck for Joe N. Miles and Sons Lumber of Lumberton, Mississippi.
From the Robert C. Waller Photographs. Photograph (positive image of a negative) of men standing next to a truck of logs for Joe N. Miles and Sons Lumber of Lumberton, Mississippi.
From the Robert C. Waller Photographs. Photograph (positive image of a negative) of loggers cutting down a tree for Joe N. Miles and Sons Lumber of Lumberton, Mississippi.
Oral history.; Interview conducted on July 2, 1974 with Mrs. Ellie J. Dahmer at her home in Hattiesburg, Mississippi. Dahmer was born in Jasper County, Mississippi in 1925. After completing high school at Jasper County Training School she...
