From the Hattiesburg Historical Photographs. The Spring Festival King and Queen and their court are gathered around a pond. All are wearing elaborate costumes.
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...
From the Political Campaign Collection. Campaign handout for T. Hendrix Byrd, candidate for State Senator for the 41st district. Byrd previously served ten years as a representative of George County in the Mississippi Legislature.
From the Margret and Hans Augusto Rey Papers.; Color pencil illustration with handwritten text (p. 19) from H.A. Rey's unpublished book, The Cigar Tree [ca. 1935-1945]. 7" x 8.5"
From the Political Campaign Collection. Campaign handout for Forrest Simmons, candidate for State Highway Commissioner, Southern District. His qualifications are listed on the back.
From the Margret and Hans Augusto Rey Papers.; Color illustration from book dummy for H.A. Rey's unpublished book, The Onion Lover [ca. 1935-1940]. 8.5" x 12"
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 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 Hattiesburg Historical Photographs; Photograph showing an aerial view of a train wreck near a rural residential area. Smoke billows from a pile of wrecked rail cars. Circa 1930s-1940s. 10" x 8"
