From the de Grummond Children's Books collection. By Clement C. Moore and illustrated by Thomas Nast. Published in New York by McLoughlin Bros., Inc., ca. 1860. Cover title. Running title: A visit from St. Nicholas. Contains six full-page...
From the de Grummond Children's Books collection. Published in Paris by Edmond Schoemaeker, Libraire-éditeur and Imprimé par Ogden et Cie., in London, circa 1870. Cover title. Printer from p. 6. Illustrations signed "Kronheim and Co.,...
From the de Grummond Children's Books collection. Published in New York by McLoughlin Bros., Inc., circa 1880. Title, imprint, and series statements from cover. P. [2] and [3] of cover included in pagination. "New picture books for little...
A letter from Milton W. Shaw, a corporal with the 5th Iowa Volunteers, to his friend Alf Giague in Birmingham, Iowa. Shaw was on board the naval transport Von Phul with Grant's troops who, in early 1863, entered the Yazoo Pass and attempted to...
A message sent by George G. Garner, Assistant Adjutant-General of Bragg's Second Corps from Jackson, Tennessee, to Brigadier General Daniel Ruggles at Corinth, Mississippi, dated 9 March 1862, ordering General John King Jackson to command the Third...
Letter written from Natchez, Mississippi, on 11 December 1864, by Thomas C. Prescott, a member of the 8th New Hampshire Infantry, and one of the more than 4500 Federal troops occupying Natchez. The letter contains personal comments on living...
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...
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.
