Oral history.; Mrs. Sarah Harris Ruffin was born on April 15, 1914. Her parents came to Hattiesburg in the early 1900s. When young, Mrs. Ruffin did domestic and warehouse work. In 1949, she began working at the Brooklyn Jewish Hospital as a nurse's...
Oral history.; Interview conducted on November 7, 1979 with Mrs. Minnie Ripley on the street named after her, Ripley Street, in Mayersville, Mississippi. Ripley was born on August 22, 1900 in Vicksburg, Mississippi. She attended public schools in...
Oral history.; Four interviews conducted on October 1, 2, and 23 of 1975, and July 1, 1976 with Mr. Hugh Clegg at his home in Anguilla, Mississippi. Clegg was born on July 17, 1898 in Mathiston, Mississippi. Clegg graduated from Millsaps...
Materials in this collection were donated by William M. Colmer: First accession-1970. Additional information online at: http://www.lib.usm.edu/legacy/archives/m024.htm
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. 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 Ingram-Day Lumber Company Photographs Collection. Photograph of a particularly thick stand of yellow pine trees. A small child can barely be seen in the middle of the photograph. The original caption reads, "Dense Close Grained Long Leaf...
From the Ingram-Day Lumber Company Photographs Collection. Photograph of two men posing in a stand of large hardwood trees. The original caption reads, "White Oak and Red Gum at Woodbluff, Alabama".
From the Ingram-Day Lumber Company Photographs Collection. Photograph of a stand of tall, slender long leaf pine trees. A child standing among the trees dramatizes their enormous height. The original caption reads, "Small Long Leaf at Lyman,...
From the Ingram-Day Lumber Company Photographs Collection. Photograph of a thick stand of yellow pine trees. The original caption reads, "Long Leaf Yellow Pine".
From the Ingram-Day Lumber Company Photographs Collection. Photograph of a stand of very tall, skinny pine trees. The original caption reads, "Pitch Pine Poles at Lyman, Mississippi".
From the Ingram-Day Lumber Company Photographs Collection. Photograph of a grove of red and white oak trees. The original caption reads, "A Red Oak and A White Oak at Woodbluff, Alabama."
From the Ingram-Day Lumber Company Photographs Collection. Photograph of a little girl standing next to a huge yellow pine tree. The original caption reads, "A 24" x 24" x 70' Dense Heart Long Leaf Yellow Pine Stick in the Tree".
From the Ingram-Day Lumber Company Photographs Collection. Photograph of a stand of tall, thin, moss-laden trees. The original caption reads, "Spanish Moss and Mixed Upland Timber at Woodbluff, Alabama."
From the Ingram-Day Lumber Company Photographs Collection. Photograph of long leaf pine tress. The original caption reads, "Tall Straight Long Leaf in a 'Flat' at Yarbo, Alabama".
From the Ingram-Day Lumber Company Photographs Collection. Photograph of a stand of tall, slender pines. The original caption reads, "Heavy Sticks of Long Leaf Pilling, 100' and Longer".
From the Ingram-Day Lumber Company Photographs Collection. Photograph of two men standing among tall hickory trees, dwarfed by their size. The original caption reads, "Tall Clear-Bodied Hickory Trees at Woodbluff, Alabama."
From the Ingram-Day Lumber Company Photographs Collection. Photograph of a man standing in front of a huge white oak tree in a forest. The original caption reads, "A Stick of White Oak Bigger Than Anyone Can Use".
