Oral history.; Interview conducted on September 14, 1977 with Mr. Semmes Luckett, attorney at law, at his office in Clarksdale, Mississippi. Luckett was born on October 28, 1905 in Yazoo City, Mississippi. He entered the University of Mississippi...
Oral history.; Mr. Sank Powe was born in the Delta in Elizabeth, Mississippi, on April 20, 1942. Growing up, Mr. Powe often worked in the cotton fields for meager wages. Mr. Powe attended Mound Bayou High School, Jackson State University and Delta...
From the Map Collection. Map of Mississippi from 1836 by H.S. Tanner. From Tanner's universal atlas, page 23. Published: Philadelphia : Carey & Hart, [1844 or 1845?]. Map shows counties, towns, and roads. Includes table of steam boat routes with...
From the Map Collection. Map of Mississippi in 1842, showing counties. Longitude given in degrees west from Washington and Greenwich, England. Map by J. Greenleaf; map no. 54 from Greenleaf’s A new universal atlas. Published: Brattleboro, Vt. :...
From the Map Collection. Map of Mississippi from 1846. Published: Philiadelphia : S. Augustus Mitchell. Map shows counties, towns, and roads. Includes table of steam boat routes with distances from Natchez to New Orleans and Natchez to Pittsburg....
From the Kate Greenaway Papers. Almanack for 1885 by Kate Greenaway (London: George Routledge and Sons, [1884]). illustration, brown ink (11.5 x 9 cm.) Signed KG. used on May page (close to design)
From the de Grummond Children's Books collection. Published in New York by Frederick A. Stokes Company, 1892. With new pictures by Maud Humphrey. Illustrated title page. Contents: Little red riding hood ; Cinderella ; The three bears ; Aladdin...
From the Kate Greenaway Papers. Autograph letter signed. 3 pp. on 1 folded leaf. (18 x 11.5 cm.) To Dolly from Kate Greenaway at Hampstead, dated 28 September 1895.
From the Kate Greenaway Papers. Kate Greenaway's Almanack & Diary for 1897 by Kate Greenaway (London: J.M. Dent & Co., [1896]). illustration, watercolor (18.5 x 11.5 cm.) Signed KG. used for January page.
From the Kate Greenaway Papers. Pencil sketch (11.5 x 9 cm.) Side view of young girl with hat. Signed and dated KG 1896. Illustration not used in a publication.
From the de Grummond Children's Books collection. Illustrations by Arpad Schmidhammer. Published in Mainz, Germany, by Verlag von Jos. Scholz, sometime between 1900 and 1920. Text in Sütterlin font. Part of the Scholz' Künstler-Bilderbücher...
From the Meridian Light and Railway Company Minute Book Collection. Photograph of a one volume, four hundred page Secretary's Record book detailing the minutes of the Meridian Light and Railway Company from February 18, 1901 to July 18, 1910....
From the de Grummond Children's Books collection. Written by Clement C. Moore ; made into a book and illustrated by W.W. Denslow in 1902. Published in Chicago by M.A. Donohue, in 1902.
From the de Grummond Children's Books collection. Adapted and illustrated by W.W. Denslow. Published in New York by G.W. Dillingham, in 1903. Cover title. "W.W. Denslow ... has improved [this story] by elimination of all coarseness, cruelty,...
From the Weston Lumber Company Photographs; This collection consists of two oversized, panoramic views of the H. Weston Lumber Company in Logtown, Mississippi, which show the mill in full operation. The photographs were taken sometime between 1920...
From the Margret and Hans Augusto Rey Papers.; Matted ink illustration, "This Skyscraper Age," from H.A. Rey's unpublished book, Evolution Amongst the Animals [ca. 1930-1940]. 12.5" x 11.5"
From the Margret and Hans Augusto Rey Papers.; Watercolor illustration from the book dummy (p. 2) for H.A. Rey's How the Flying Fishes Came Into Being (1938). 8.5" x 11.5"
From the McLoughlin Brothers Papers. Black & white illustration with color overlay for cover, title page, and one interior page of Picture Puzzle Book by Marion Merrill (after 1941) [publication status unknown] from the books series of the...
From the Margret and Hans Augusto Rey Papers.; Watercolor illustration of the Pyramids (folded and unfolded) from the book dummy (p. 4) of H.A. Rey's How Do You Get There (1941). The first image is 4.5" x 11.5" and the second image is 4.5" x 14."
From the McLoughlin Brothers Papers. Blank book mock-up, black and white cover of the book ABC: An Alphabet Book in Rhyme, inside reads "#2610, 32 pages, 25 item," from the books series of the McLoughlin Brother papers. The McLoughlin Brother...
