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
Photograph of the Sunken Garden, later the site of McLemore Hall. The garden was built in 1932 as a jobs project during the early part of the Depression. Lake Byron is located just to the right of this picture. Both areas were part of a campus...
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...
Photograph of J. Fred Walker and some of his anatomy students in class. Dr. Walker joined the faculty in 1926 and remained for almost half a century. Photograph also found in Chester M. Morgan's book, Dearly bought, deeply treasured, on page 45.
Photograph of football coach Allison "Pooley" Hubert. Photograph also found on page 64 of Chester M. Morgan's Dearly bought, deeply treasured, published in 1987.
Photograph of Dr. Byron Green, President of the Forrest County Board of Supervisors and veterinarian. Dr Green assisted USM's class of 1934 in the construction of Lake Byron, which was named in his honor; 5 x 7
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...
