Oral history.; An interview conducted on February 19, 2009 with George Bass, Chief of Long Beach Fire Department. He talks about losing his home and his other experiences in Long Beach during and after Hurricane Katrina.
Excerpt from the football program for the game between Mississippi Southern College and Carswell Air Force Base, Fort Worth, Texas, played on 29 September 1951.
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...
From the Herbert S. Zim Papers.; A three-page letter written by Herbert Zim on June 29, 1965 to George Fichter discussing the book, Spiders and Their Kin; 8 1/2 x 11
From the Kate Greenaway Papers. Autograph letter signed. 2 pp. on 1 folded leaf. (15 x 10 cm.) To Lady Lindsay from Kate Greenaway at Witley Surrey, dated 29 April 1892.
From the Ellin (Joseph and Nancy) Freedom Summer Collection; Typewritten letter from Dick [Richard Bernstein] to Joe Ellin, dated July 29, 1964. Discusses time spent in Hattiesburg, Mississippi, and commends Joe on his contribution to the civil...
Letter from Senator David Holmes of Mississippi to the Secretary of the Navy, dated 29 December 1822. The letter endorses the recommendation made by Judge Thurston Speaks of Missouri that Hamilton E. V. Robinson, also of Missouri, be appointed as a...
From the Harris (Merry B.) Papers. Bond dated 29 January 1861, and signed by Captain Merry B. Harris in the amount of $900 is for the purchase of 60 muskets. Harris was a resident of Copiah County, Mississippi. He served as a captain and later...
A printed copy of an address by Thomas Smith Grimk’e at a religious meeting in Charleston, South Carolina on 29 March 1831. In his comments Grimk’e focuses upon the resolution of the American Sunday School Union on the issue of Sunday Schools...
A printed copy of a report from the Committee on the Public Lands, dated 29 May 1812, issuing from their inquiry into the expediency of confirming claims to land in the Mississippi Territory founded on Spanish Warrants of Survey.
Letter, dated 29 November 1863, from Brigadier General Boggs in Shreveport, Louisiana, to Major General James B. McPherson, commander at Vicksburg, Mississippi, requesting assistance in helping the family of a Dr. Catlett travel from Kentucky to...
From the Ellin (Joseph and Nancy) Freedom Summer Collection; Memo from the Mississippi Freedom Democratic Party (MFDP) to Northern supporters of the MFDP, dated March 29, 1965. Discusses the potential of the voter registration bill and the...
Materials in this collection were donated by William M. Colmer: First accession-1970. Additional information online at: http://www.lib.usm.edu/legacy/archives/m024.htm
A Bill: Declaring the mode of ascertaining the value of the deliverable to the Government under existing laws. By Mr Semmes, from the Committee on Finance; Read first and second times and ordered to be placed upon the calendar and printed by the...
A Bill: To be entitled, "An Act for the further Organization of the Field Artillery of the Confederate States." By Mr. Miles; Read first and second times; postponed; special order (continuing) after existing special orders; to be printed by the...
A Bill: To be entitled, "An Act to organize the Supreme Court." By Mr. Chilton, from Committee on Judiciary; Read first and second times, and made special order after Currency and Tax bills, and from day to day, and ordered to be printed by the...
