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 Political Campaign Collection. Campaign handout for Ross Collins, candidate for U.S. Senate. Collins ran unsuccessfully for the U.S. Senate in 1934 against Theodore Bilbo and in 1941 against Wall Doxey.
From the Political Campaign Collection. Campaign handout for Ross Collins, candidate for U.S. Senate. Collins ran unsuccessfully for the U.S. Senate in 1934 against Theodore Bilbo and in 1941 against Wall Doxey.
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 Map Collection. Map showing predominant types of trees, prepared by the Forest Survey Staff of the Southern Forest Experiment Station of the U.S. Department of Agriculture Forest Service. Includes range and section lines.
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
From the United States Forest Service, Harrison Experimental Forest Station Collection. Photograph of the laboratory, water tower, power house and equipment depot at the Harrison Experimental Forest.
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...
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.
