Oral history.; An interview conducted on June 18, 1980 with Charles Hudson Griffin (born 1926). Griffin served in the office of U. S. Congressman John Bell Williams until 1968 when he campaigned for the position himself. He served three terms...
Oral history.; Two interviews conducted on April 14, 1972 and January 25, 1973 with Mississippi civil rights activist Fannie Lou Hamer (1917-1977). Hamer was a leading figure in the MFDP. She is best known for her 1964 national television...
Oral history.; Interview conducted on November 16, 1977 with George Rogers (born 1927). Mr. Rogers, a Rhodes Scholar, was elected to the Mississippi House of Representatives, where he served for more than twenty years. He became well known for his...
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...
Oral history.; An interview with Pete Hansen conducted on August 11, 2006. Mr. Sloan is an operating room technician in Gulfport, Mississippi. He describes being at the hospital as Hurricane Katrina arrived.
Oral history.; Interview conducted on February 26, 1974 with Mr. Brodie Crump at his home in Greenville, Mississippi. Crump was born in 1898 in Greenville, Mississippi. After attending Mississippi A&M College, now Mississippi State University,...
Envelope drawing (architectural drawing) of proposed future development of the Mississippi Normal College campus. Drawing by R. H. Hunt, architect. Also found in Chester M. Morgan's book, Dearly bought, deeply treasured on the inside cover.
Oral history.; Interview conducted on March 7, 1991 with Miss Emma Ruth Corban in her home in Meridian, Mississippi. Corban was born in Fayette, Mississippi, on September 18, 1907. She completed a BA degree in English in 1929 and her Masters...
Oral history.; Interview conducted on March 26, 1974 with Rabbi Julian B. Feibelman in his office at the Temple Sinai in New Orleans, Louisiana. Feibelman was born on March 23, 1897 in Jackson, Mississippi. He remained in Jackson for the first...
From the Circus, Minstrel and Traveling Show. Stationary for A.G. Allen's Big Minstrel Show. The back contains a typed expense account of J.M. Beach, dated September 4 to September 16, 1917w Collection.
From the de Grummond Children's Books collection. Attributed to Clement Clarke Moore. Published in New York by McLoughlin Bros., Inc., circa 1910s. Title and imprint from cover. P. [2] and [3] of cover included in pagination. "159." Acquired...
From the de Grummond Children's Books collection. Illustrated by Clara Powers Wilson. Published in Chicago by M.A. Donohue & Co., circa 1910s. Title, imprint, and series statements taken from cover. P. [2] and [3] of cover included in...
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 de Grummond Children's Books collection. Published in New York by McLoughlin Bros., circa 1910. Title and imprint from cover. P. [2] and [3] of cover included in pagination. Book cut in the shape of standing Santa Claus. "270". ...
From the de Grummond Children's Books collection. Published in New York by McLoughlin Bros., Inc., circa 1910. Title and imprint from cover. P. [2] and [3] of cover included in pagination. Some illustrations are signed Noble Ives. Acquired...
From the de Grummond Children's Books collection. Published in New York by McLoughlin Bros., Inc., circa 1910s. Title and imprint from cover. P. [2] and [3] of cover included in pagination. "166". Acquired from Justin G. Schiller, Ltd.
From the de Grummond Children's Books collection. Published in New York by McLoughlin Bros., Inc., circa 1910s. Title and imprint from cover. P. [2] and [3] of cover included in pagination. "250". Some illustrations in black and red ink;...
From the de Grummond Children's Books collection. Published in New York by McLoughlin Bros., Inc., circa 1910s. Title, imprint, and series statements from cover. "202." Also includes: Tom Thumb, p. [26]-[32]. Acquired from Justin G. Schiller,...
From the de Grummond Children's Books collection. Published in New York by McLoughlin Bros., Inc., circa 1910s. Title, imprint, and series statements from cover. "2215". Includes additional story: The old woman and her pig. Part of the Little...
