From the Margret and Hans Augusto Rey Papers.; Matted ink illustration, "This Skyscraper Age," from H.A. Rey's unpublished book, Evolution Amongst the Animals [ca. 1930-1940]. 12.5" x 11.5"
From the Margret and Hans Augusto Rey Papers.; Watercolor cover illustration for book dummy from H.A. Rey's unpublished German language book, Der Schlangentoter [ca. 1930-1940]. 8.5" x 12"
From the Margret and Hans Augusto Rey Papers.; Watercolor illustration (p. 2) from book dummy for H.A. Rey's unpublished book O Vegitariano Covertido [ca. 1925-1935]. 12.5" x 9.5"
From the Margret and Hans Augusto Rey Papers.; Crayon illustration w/handwritten text (and overlay) sequence (p. 1) from bound dummy of H.A. Rey's unpublished book, Brazilian Fairy Tales (As Lendas Do Jaboty), written in English and Portuguese,...
From the Thigpen (S.G.) Papers. Photograph of an unidentified man and S. G. Thigpen standing next to a delivery truck in front of the Thigpen-Whitfield Hardware Co. building.
From the Thigpen (S.G.) Papers. Photograph of a train delivering tung oil paint. Two men inside a train car behind rows of paint hold a sign reading, “Thermolyzed Tung Oil Paint, made by the O’brien Varnish Co, South Bend, Ind. Shipped to...
From the Thigpen (S.G.) Papers. Photograph of S. G. Thigpen Co. storefront. Standing near an automobile are four men identified as S. G. Thigpen, E. H. Stevens, L. O. Crosby, Sr. and R. J. Williams.
From the Thigpen (S.G.) Papers. Photograph of sixteen people lined up against a wall, thirteen men and three women. A sign in the back left reads “Feed & Seed Department.”
From the University of Southern Mississippi Art Museum collection. Oil on canvas painting of a man in a boat on a lake, by Baurd. German label, versteigerungshavs. Matth. Pronath sail house of matthew pronath munchechen Augustenstrasse 54...
Oral history.; Mr. Alvin L. Fielder Sr. was born December 7, 1900 in Newton County, Mississippi. Mr. Fielder moved to Meehan Junction, Mississippi in 1913 and remained there until 1918, when he moved to Meridian. In 1918 he was a lumberyard saw...
Oral history.; Angela Georgian was born in Greece in 1920 and emigrated to the United States in 1937. She and her mother and sister joined her father in Hattiesburg, Mississippi, where he had opened a small restaurant, Gus's Caf*. In 1947, Mrs....
A collection of eight interviews with participants in the Mississippi civil rights movement. The people interviewed discuss how they came to participate in the civil rights movement, their various activities, including voter registration, Freedom...
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...
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 conducted on August 25, 1971 with Erskine Caldwell (1903-1987). Mr. Caldwell was a prominent American author whose works include Tobacco Road, (1932) and God's Little Acre (1933).
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,...
Oral history.; An interview conducted on February 22, 2007 with Harry McDonald, Sr., a retired engineer at Ingalls Shipbuilding in Pascagoula, Mississippi, who discusses Hurricane Katrina's effect on his neighborhood, his experience with FEMA, and...
