From the AAEC Editorial Cartoon Collection. Cartoon by Clyde Wells. The earth is shown five times against a white background. Each schpere has the year above it, a flagpole, and a flag with lettering. The first is 1850, and the flag is labeled "1...
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 Map Collection. A reprint of a Mississippi map featuring counties and roads originally published in 1850. Contains a table of steamboat routes and their distances.
From the de Grummond Children's Books collection. Published in New York by James Wrigley, between 1850 and 1870. Cover title. In wrappers with col. ill. on cover and publisher's advertisements on back wrapper.
From the de Grummond Children's Books collection. Published in New York by William Mather, between 1840 and 1860. Cover title. Imprint from back wrapper.
From the McLoughlin Brothers Papers. Color proof for cover Ding Dong Bell (New York: McLoughlin Bros., 18-- ) Ding dong bell series #1143, from the books series of the McLoughlin Brother Papers. The McLoughlin Brothers Papers contain manuscripts,...
One letter written by Augusta Evans Wilson in Mobile, Alabama, to Major E. C. Walthall, expressing Evans' appeciation of Walthall's compliments on her novel Infelice, recently translated into Italian, and her opinions on contemporary political...
From the Foote (Henry Stuart) Letter and Autograph. Letter by Henry Stuart Foote, written in response to George H. Morrow's request for information about the relationship between Linn Boyd and Henry Clay, who died in 1852. Foote discusses Clay's...
Letter from John Anthony Quitman, governor of Mississippi to the governor of Connecticut, Thomas Hart Seymour (unnamed in the document), dated 10 June 1850. Two copies of the laws passed in the last Mississippi legislative session were being...
A letter, dated 7 April 1850, from Mississippi Congressman Winfield Scott Featherston to an unidentified person on the subject of the appointment of a cadet. The addressee had recommended Mr. Brownrigg as had Isham Harrison, but Featherston had...
From the Lewis (Levi) Letters; Levi Lewis, born October 16, 1841, was reared on the family farm in Luzerne County, Pennsylvania. The oldest son of Robert S. and Mary Lewis, he had an older sister, Lydia Rugar, and two younger brothers, Robert T....
From the de Grummond Children's Books collection. Published in New York by John McLoughlin, Publisher, 24 Beekman Street, between 1850 and 1858. Stereotyped by Vincent Dill, No. 29 & 31 Beekman Street. Cover title. Page numbering is...
From the de Grummond Children's Books collection. Published in London by Dean & Son, sometime between 1830 and 1854. Cover title. Date range based on publication dates of other titles in series. Part of the Children's Popular Tales series [7].
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...
Oral history.; Interview conducted on November 6, 1979 with Dr. Arthur Lewis, emeritus professor of mathematics, emeritus professor of physics and astronomy, and emeritus Dean of the College of Liberal Arts at the University of Mississippi. Lewis...
Oral history.; Interview conducted on August 26, 1975 with Mr. Charles Johnson at his home in Jackson, Mississippi. Johnson was born in 1911 in Amory, Mississippi. After receiving a degree in Science from Mississippi State University, he began...
Oral history.; Interview conducted on May 11, 1977 with the Honorable Horace Buckley at his home in Jackson, Mississippi. Buckley was born on July 14, 1941 in Jackson, Mississippi. He obtained his undergraduate degree from Mississippi Valley...
Oral history.; Two interviews conducted on November 12, 1981 and February 6, 1982 with Judge J. P. Coleman. Coleman was born on December 9, 1914 in Fentress, Mississippi. After attending the University of Mississippi, he was invited to work in...
Oral history.; An interview with A.J. Holloway conducted on January 18, 2007. Mayor of Biloxi, Holloway describes the impact of Hurricane Katrina on the city, as well as volunteer efforts in recovery.
Transcribed copy of a document detailing the curriculum of Freedom Schools. Begins with a Table of Contents showing the major curriculum divisions: academic, citizenship, and recreational and artistic. Also gives details of activities and materials...
