From the Margret and Hans Augusto Rey Papers.; Ceramic medium-sized brown bowl with star-flower design inside. Labeled "IS" on bottom. Made by Margret Rey, circa 1965-1980; 7" x 2" x 7"
From the Margret and Hans Augusto Rey Papers.; Ceramic small green glazed plate with black criss-cross and wave patterns. Made by Margret Rey, 1973. 7.5" x .5" x 7.5"
From the Margret and Hans Augusto Rey Papers.; Ceramic medium-sized bowl, unglazed and charcoal colored. Made by Margret Rey, January 1966. 7" x 2" x 7"
From the T.P. Scott Papers. Letter, dated 7 March 1910, from T.P. Scott to "a few of the leading teachers in the state" asking them to invest $.25 each to help establish the Mississippi Normal College.
Oral history.; An interview conducted on June 21-22, 2007 with Carter Bise, Chancery Court Judge on the Mississippi Gulf Coast. Judge Bise describes his experience in Gulfport during and after Hurricane Katrina.
Oral history.; An interview conducted on June 14, 2006 with Steve Grimm, CEO of what was then known as Crosby Memorial Hospital in Picayune, MS. Mr. Grimm discusses preparations for the hospital and the recovery effort after Hurricane Katrina.
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 Kate Greenaway Papers. Pencil, pastel and watercolor. Three women with flower garlands. Titled "Welcome." Signed and dated KG 7 May 1885; 8.5 x 4.5
From the Zwerling (Matthew) Freedom Summer Collection. Typewritten letter from Senator Jacob K. Javits to Dr. Israel Zwerling, dated July 7, 1964. Javits thanks Zwerling for his letter about the safety of civil rights workers James Chaney,...
From the Adams (Victoria Gray) Papers. Typewritten letter from Robert Z. Lewis to John J. Burns, dated March 7, 1966, in which Lewis explains the illegal actions of white supremacists in the Democratic Party of Mississippi. Lewis encourages...
From the Adams (Victoria Gray) Papers. Report dated May 7 from a Southern Christian Leadership Conference (SCLC) workshop held in Sunflower, Mississippi, led by Victoria Jackson Gray (Adams). Lists those in attendance and the issues and...
From the Adams (Victoria Gray) Papers. Typewritten letter from Anne Braden to Victoria Jackson Gray (Adams), dated April 7, 1966, in which Braden requests permission to nominate Gray to the board of directors of the Southern Conference...
From the Belcher (Granville W. and Mary Caroline) Letters. Granville W. Belcher, a farmer from Martinsville, Henry County, Virginia, served in company F, 57th Virginia Infantry during the Civil War. Belcher writes to his wife, Mary Caroline, on...
A letter, dated 7 April 1850, from Mississippi Congressman Winfield Scott Featherston to an unidentified person on the subject of the appointment of a cadet. The addressee had recommended Mr. Brownrigg as had Isham Harrison, but Featherston had...
From the Ellin (Joseph and Nancy) Freedom Summer Collection; Memo from Virginia Steele, co-coordinator of the Mississippi Summer Project libraries, to librarians, dated August 7, 1964. Steele requests the attendance of library workers at a meeting...
From the Sullivan-Kilrain Fight Collection. Photocopy of a handwritten letter from John Sullivan to Jake Kilrain, dated 7 December 1888. Sullivan challenges Kilrain to a fight.
Photograph of Ray "Two-Bits" Crawford at a football game. Crawford is a 1966 graduate of the University of Southern Mississippi who began leading the crowds at football games in the "two-bits" cheer. Photograph also found in the 1988 Southerner...
Mississippi Southern College commemorative Wedgwood plate. The Administration Building in the center is bordered by a repeated image of Lake Byron and the bridge, pinecones, camellias, azaleas and magnolias.
