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...
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...
From the McCain (William D.) Pamphlet Collection; The pamphlet reveals that Communism's ultimate goal is "Black Supremacy,"a Soviet South," and "then a Soviet America."
From the Thigpen (S.G.) Papers. Photograph of a boat on the East Pearl River. Caption included reads “Boating on the East Pearl River in 1900. Shown in the picture are Willie Peterman, Mrs. John Peterman, Mrs. Katie Ahrens, New Orleans,...
From the Thigpen (S.G.) Papers. Photograph of a warehouse in old Gainesville. Caption included reads “Box factory warehouse on East Pearl River in Old Gainesville in 1900. shown in the picture are Julius Peterman, Mrs. John Peterman, Mrs. Katie...
From the Hattiesburg Historical Photographs. Bynum Lumber Company locomotive #346 at work in the woods hauling logs. The company was located in Lamar County, Mississippi.
From the de Grummond Children's Books collection. Published in Springfield, Mass. by McLoughlin Bros., Inc., circa 1890-1930. With numerous illustrations. Contents: Cinderella, or, The little glass slipper; Dick Whittington and his cat; Story of...
From the de Grummond Children's Books collection. Illustrated by Richard André. Published in New York by Merrimack, circa 1900. From the Little folks series. Donated wtih the Floyd C. and Stella T. Dickman Collection.
From the Hattiesburg Historical Photographs; Photograph of a formal portrait of Dr. Theophilus Erskine "T. E." Ross, Sr., owner of the Ross Building. Dr. Ross practiced medicine in Hattiesburg from 1892-1935.
From the Hattiesburg Historical Photographs; Photograph of a book page with a picture of the Gulf & Ship Island Railroad Hospital in Hattiesburg, circa early 1900s, which later became the Methodist Hospital.
From the Thigpen (S.G.) Papers. Photograph of H. Weston Lumber Company. Caption included with the photograph reads, “H. Weston Lumber Company, Logtown, Mississippi. Mill shown on the right was built in 1900. Picture furnished by Kim Russ,...
From the Hattiesburg Historical Photographs; Photograph of Hattiesburg Grocery Company on Second Street, with several men standing on the front porch, and another pulled up front in a horse and buggy. Reproduced in McCarty on page 24. Retouched:...
From the Hattiesburg Historical Photographs; From the Hattiesburg Historical Photographs; Photograph of Hattiesburg Grocery Company on Second Street, with several men standing on the front porch, and another pulled up front in a horse and buggy....
From the Hattiesburg Historical Photographs; Photograph of two unidentified young ladies in a horse-drawn carriage in front of a large house. The location may be Bay Street in Hattiesburg.
From the Hattiesburg Historical Photographs; Photograph of a formal portrait of Dr. J. D. Donald, Mayor of Hattiesburg from 1907-1911. Dr. Donald was one of Hattiesburg's early physicians. This version from In Hattiesburg: A Pictorial History, page...
From the Hattiesburg Historical Photographs; Photograph of a formal portrait of Captain J. P. Carter, former Lt. Governor of Mississippi and Second President of The National Bank of Commerce in Hattiesburg.
