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...
From the Harris (Merry B.) Papers. Letter from W. E. Wormell in Aiken, South Carolina, to Merry B. Harris in Gallatin, Mississippi. Mr. Wormell describes the festivities celebrating the secession of South Carolina from the Union. Harris was a...
From the Harris (Merry B.) Papers. Color enhanced computer scanned image of a photograph of Merry B. Harris in his Confederate Army uniform. Harris was a resident of Copiah County, Mississippi. He served as a captain and later colonel of the Pettus...
From the Harris (Merry B.) Papers. letter from the "Copiah County Military Aid Society" (Mrs. S. J. Morehead, President and Mollie Brown, secretary), to Captain M.B. Harris. It is sent via a Mr. Johnston, along with various clothing articles for...
From the Harris (Merry B.) Papers. This letter is an order from W.H. Brown to muster the Westville guard of Simpson County, Mississippi. Harris was a resident of Copiah County, Mississippi. He served as a captain and later colonel of the Pettus...
From the Harris (Merry B.) Papers. Letter from Julia Thompson Chrisman in Hazlehurst, Mississippi, to Captain M.B. Harris, dated May 3, 1861, asking Harris to accept "this simple gift" in token of her appreciation for his service in his country's...
From the de Grummond Children's Books collection. Published in London by John Harris, corner of St. Paul's Church-Yard, circa 1825. Bound in mauve paper covers. Illustrations are hand colored. Contents: Courtship, merry marriage, and pic-nic...
From the Harris (Merry B.) Papers. This document contains 15 articles dealing with the organization of the company, election of officers, procedural questions, and responsibilities of members. Harris was a resident of Copiah County, Mississippi. He...
From the Harris (Merry B.) Papers. Letter to Confederate President Jefferson Davis from W.H. Brown, Madison MaAfee, and A.B. Dilworth recommending Harris to Davis, and expressing Harris' desire to raise a volunteer regiment. Harris was a resident...
From the AAEC Editorial Collection. Cartoon by Eldon Pletcher. Santa Claus flies a biplane and waves. A wreath is on the plane's rudder. The cartoon caption is "Merry Christmas," formed from the plane's exhaust.
Oral history.; Two interviews conducted on April 3, 1995 and June 8, 1995 with Constance Baker (born 1912). Mrs. Baker has spent her life working for civil rights and in teaching. She was involved in the Head Start program from its inception and...
From the McLoughlin Brothers Papers. Book dummy (no materials contained inside, but there are glue residue marks) of The Merry Mother Goose [publication status unknown] from the books series of the McLoughlin Brother Papers. The McLoughlin Brothers...
From the AAEC Editorial Cartoon Collection. Cartoon by John Stampone. The U.S. Capitol building has been renovated into an amusement park or carnival. A carousel labeled "Merry go around" and observation telescopes have been added to the dome,...
cartoon by John Riedell; A lion with a sad face and a tail shaped like a British pound sign is sitting in front of a bowl labeled with the same sign. The lion's ribs are showing through his skin, and there is only a bone in the bowl in front of...
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...
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...
Oral history.; An interview conducted on February 22, 2007 with Anne Petty, a retired schoolteacher, who describes hearing about Hurricane Katrina from her hospital bed in Washington and learning of its damage to her home in Pascagoula.
Oral history.; An interview conducted on December 29, 2006 with Letitia Willams, Director of the Hancock County Chamber of Commerce, who describes escaping to Jackson, Mississippi, before Hurricane Katrina's landfall and working with state and...
Oral history.; Interview conducted on September 20, 1993 with Brad Dye concerning Mississippi Governor Paul Johnson Jr. Dye was born on December 20, 1933 in Charleston, Mississippi. In 1957, he received his bachelor of business administration...
