From the Hattiesburg Historical Photographs; Photograph of the Human Relations Committee, whose purpose was to promote voting rights and media use of titles when identifying African American citizens. Included in the photo are: (l-r, front row)...
One-page document dated December 4, 1871 and drafted by the Mississippi State Legislature requesting return of Federal lands first granted in 1856 for the purpose of building the Gulf and Ship Island Railroad. The Gulf and Ship Island Railroad was...
From the Beauregard (Pierre Gustave Toutant) Papers. A response to Brigadier General John H. Winder in Richmond, Virginia, written by and at the command of General Pierre Gustave Toutant Beauregard from Charleston, South Carolina, headquarters of...
Memoir written by Jack E. Pitts, a private soldier in Company K, First Virginia Cavalry, Confederate Army, of his experiences in General J.E.B. Stuart's raid around the Army of the Potomac outside of Richmond, Virginia, in the summer of 1862. Pitts...
Copy of a typewritten letter from P.D. East to friends, dated November 12, 1962. East discusses legal negotiations between his attorney, H.B. Cubley, and William Harelson, attorney for his ex-wife.
Copy of a typewritten newsletter written in Hattiesburg, Mississippi, from Rabbi Charles and Anna Mantinband to friends, dated December 1954. Discusses their efforts to build a Jewish life in the South, the impact of the May 1954 Supreme Court...
Transcribed copy of a list of suggestions for teaching methods for teachers in the Mississippi Freedom Project. Suggestions include an emphasis on teaching the students to clearly express their ideas as opposed to an emphasis on grammar and...
Twenty-page typescript of the diary of Jinny Glass, dated August 7, 1964, through August 25, 1964. Glass was a Freedom Summer volunteer from California who worked at the Palmer's Crossing Community Center, south of Hattiesburg, Mississippi.
Rough draft of an article by Terri Shaw submitted to The Antiochian, the alumni publication of Antioch College. It recounts Shaw's experiences as a Freedom Summer volunteer in Hattiesburg, Mississippi, in 1964. Shaw discusses the training session...
Transcribed copy of a three-page letter from Jinny Glass to Zoya Zeman. Glass writes about her decision to go to Mississippi to work on the Mississippi Summer Project and discusses how the decision to go was hard to make because of her family....
From the United States Forest Service, Harrison Experimental Forest Station Collection. Photograph of the opening of the Southern Forest Experiment Station in Gulfport. Pictured left to right, A.F. Verral, Senator John Stennis, B.W. Henry, R.E....
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 United States Forest Service, Harrison Experimental Forest Station Collection. Photograph of William H. McKee, Jr., SO Agronomist, and James Lee Barr of Neighborhood Youth Corps study plants in a greenhouse.
From the Map Collection. Map of Mississippi from 1850. Published on page 23 of an unnamed publication: Philadelphia : Thomas, Cowperthwait & Co. Map shows counties, towns, and roads. Includes table of steam boat routes and distances from Natchez to...
From the Map Collection. Map of Mississippi from 1833 by H.S. Tanner. From Tanner's universal atlas, published over 1833-1836, page 19. Map shows counties, towns, and roads. Includes table of steam boat routes with distances from Natchez to New...
From the Map Collection. A map of South America. Scale of 500 Geographical miles and 500 British miles. Areas are categorized by British, French, and Dutch colonies as well as Native States.
From the Map Collection. A map showing the segment of the Mississippi River. Text on map reads, "Reconaissance for the use of the Mississippi Squadron Rear Admiral D.D. PORTER U.S.N. Comdg. By F.H. GERDES, Assistant UNITED STATES COAST SURVEY A.D....
A Bill: To be entitled, "An Act to compensate Charles E. Stuart, Israel C. Owings and J.H. Taylor for the use of an improvement in instruments for sighting cannon." By Mr. Funsten, from a Special Committee; Read first and second times, placed on...
A Resolution: Relating to overtures of peace. By Mr. H.W. Bruce; Referred to Committee on Foreign Affairs and ordered to be printed by the Congress of the Confederate States of America on 19 December 1864.
