From the AAEC Editorial Cartoon Collection; Cartoon by Eddie German. The Apollo 11 spacecraft is returning to Earth from the moon. One astronaut is piloting the craft and extending his hand to Uncle Sam; a second sits on the craft holding a...
From the AAEC Editorial Cartoon Collection; Cartoon by Eddie Germano. The Ranger 7 spacecraft is shown with a face and arms. Ranger 7 is playing a guitar and singing as it approaches its final destination, the moon. Musical notes, stars, galaxies,...
From the AAEC Editorial Cartoon Collection; Cartoon by Jim Ivey. A black arm band labeled "Grissom, White, Chaffee" circles the moon, which is shown in a dark sky above the Earth. Astronauts Virgil "Gus" Grissom, Ed White, and Roger Chaffee died in...
From the AAEC Editorial Cartoon Collection; Cartoon by John Riedell. The moon is in the foreground and Earth is in the background. Uncle Sam is standing on Earth (in the United States). He extends his bent, elongated left leg toward the surface of...
From the AAEC Editorial Cartoon Collection; Cartoon by John Stampone. A giant shovel labeled "Benefits for all mankind" has been thrust partway into the soil of the surface of the moon. Against the backdrop of outer space, a spacecraft labeled...
From the AAEC Editorial Cartoon Collection; Cartoon by John Stampone. An astronaut is shown standing on the moon, and the moon rests in the palm of a giant hand. Clouds conceal all but the hand and forearm of the person holding the moon. The earth...
From the AAEC Editorial Cartoon Collection; Cartoon by John Stampone. The earth and the moon have been personified as an elderly bride and groom, labeled "Mother Earth" and "Man-in-the-moon," and are holding hands in a wedding ceremony. An...
From the AAEC Editorial Cartoon Collection; Cartoon by Jon Kennedy. In a casino, Uncle Sam carries his own top hat upside down filled to overflowing with coins. The overflowing hat is labeled "World-wide prestige." He is walking away from a...
From the AAEC Editorial Cartoon Collection; Cartoon by Vic Runtz. The Apollo 8 command module has just splashed into the ocean upon its return from the moon. Waves radiate out from the splashdown. Parachutes are deployed, and a Navy ship approaches...
From the AAEC Editorial Cartoon Collection; Cartoon by Vic Runtz. Uncle Sam kneels and folds his hands in a posture of prayer at the base of a ladder labeled "Prayers of the people." The ladder stretches far into the night sky toward the moon. The...
From the AAEC Editorial Cartoon Collection. Cartoon by Eldon Pletcher. Apollo 8 flies through space on its way from Earth to the moon. Many planets and other celestial bodies are shown against the expanse of space. In the upper foreground is a...
From the AAEC Editorial Cartoon Collection. Cartoon by Eldon Pletcher. Uncle Sam is dressed as an astronaut, and he holds up two small signs next to each other. One reads, "uccess of Apollo 7," without the "S." The other sign reads, "United States...
From the AAEC Editorial Cartoon Collection. Cartoon by Eldon Pletcher. Uncle Sam is holding a piece of paper that reads, "Recent U.S. space successes." He is looking at the moon, which has circles around it to resemble a target. The cartoon caption...
From the AAEC Editorial Cartoon Collection. Cartoon by Eldon Pletcher. Uncle Sam stands in front of a space shuttle ready for launch (attached to Saturn rocket and fuel assembly, upright on the pad). It is labeled "Columbia...First space cargo."...
From the Thigpen (S.G.) Papers. Photograph of a charcoal kiln burned at Gainesville in 1912. Charcoal was shipped to New Orleans by schooner to a wood yard by Oscar Dean. Two men holding shovels standing in front of a kiln. Photograph can be...
From the Thigpen (S.G.) Papers. Photograph of an old man with a pipe in his mouth holding a young child while standing in front of the Blue Ribbon School. According to the caption in the book A Boy in Rural Mississippi, “The Blue Ribbon School,...
From the Thigpen (S.G.) Papers. Photograph of Bill Farve holding a poll standing next to bulls pulling a wagon with logs. “Bill Farve” is handwritten on the bottom. NASA-MTO Photo released by Public Affairs Office. Mississippi Test...
From the Thigpen (S.G.) Papers. Photograph of Bud Frierson wearing overalls and holding a poll standing next to bulls pulling a wagon with logs. “Bud Frierson” is handwritten on the bottom. NASA-MTO Photo released by Public Affairs Office....
From the Thigpen (S.G.) Papers. Photograph of Cora “Aunt Blue” Davis. Caption on the back describes her history in Picayune. Can be found in the book Next Door to Heaven by S. G. Thigpen, with the caption, "Mrs. Cora Davis, widely known as...
From the Thigpen (S.G.) Papers. Photograph of the Carver/Peterman House. Caption included reads “The last of Old Gainesville. Home built in 1865 by the Carver family and later owned by J. H. Peterman. It was located on the Lower Gainesville...
