Photograph of the Sunken Garden, later the site of McLemore Hall. The garden was built in 1932 as a jobs project during the early part of the Depression. Lake Byron is located just to the right of this picture. Both areas were part of a campus...
From the AAEC Editorial Cartoon Collection. Cartoon by Ed Valtman. Lyndon Johnson and Nguyen Van Thieu are each on a tree branch which almost, but do not quite, meet in the middle of the cartoon. Johnson has climbed far out on his branch, and is...
A collection of eight interviews with participants in the Mississippi civil rights movement. The people interviewed discuss how they came to participate in the civil rights movement, their various activities, including voter registration, Freedom...
Oral history.; An interview conducted on November 20, 1998 with Jason York, marketing manager for Silver Star Resort and Casino. Born in Philadelphia, Mississippi, York describes his experience of Choctaw culture in the context of American society.
Oral history.; Interview conducted on June 26, 1979 with Mr. William J. Simmons at his office in Jackson, Mississippi. Simmons was born in 1916 in Utica, Mississippi. He attended Millsaps College and Mississippi College, graduating from the...
Oral history.; Interview conducted on May 14, 1996 with Frances Thornton Smith (born 1916). In 1971, the year that elementary schools were integrated, Smith volunteered to teach at Fair Elementary School, an African-American school in Pascagoula,...
From the Zachary Ball Papers.; A typescript page (p. 126) from Zachary Ball's The Conquerers (ca. 1971), with a letter from Ball's literary agent Ralph Autry on the reverse dated November 17, 1961; 8 x 11
From the Mircea Vasiliu Papers.; Pencil sketch on tracing paper for Christmas card featuring wreath of birds, created by Mircea Vasiliu [ca. 1981]. 12" x 11"
From the de Grummond Children's Books collection. By Madame d'Aulnoy. Published in New York by McLoughlin Bros., Inc., circa 1877. Cover title. Includes publisher's advertisement. Part of Aunt Louisa's big picture series.
From the de Grummond Children's Books collection. Published in Boston by DeWolfe, Fiske & Co., circa 1890. Title and imprint from cover. Figure of Red Riding Hood on cover folds out.
From the de Grummond Children's Books collection. Collected and revised by Benjamin Tabart. Published in London by Sir Richard Phillips and Co., Bride Court, Bridge Street, circa 1818. "Contains twenty-six choice pieces of fancy and fiction, by...
From the de Grummond Children's Books collection. Published in Otley, UK, by Yorkshire J.S. Publishing & Stationery Co., circa 1840. Cover title. Publisher from back wrapper. Approximate date from Osborne Coll. "Printed for the...
From the de Grummond Children's Books collection. Published in New York by McLoughlin Bros., Inc., circa 1880. Cover title. Caption title: Old fables in a new dress. In verse. Includes publisher's advertisement.
Flyer from the Campbell (Will D.) Papers; Flyer that reads,"Ku Klux Klan Rides Again," posted to gain support for the Aryan Knights of the Ku Klux Klan. According to the flyer, all inquiries were to be directed to Horace Sherman Miller of Waco,...
Photocopy of a two-page typed letter from Nancy Ellin that is undated and not addressed to a particular person. Nancy writes of a visit from Joe's friend, Yale professor Dick Bernstein, and Nancy teaching her Freedom School students about the...
Photocopy of a two-page typed letter to Susan written by Joe Ellin on [August 17, 1964?]. SNCC, Friends of SNCC, and ties with Michigan are each discussed. Integration, WMU faculty, and schools are spoken of in the same paragraph. Joe suggests a...
