Photograph of an aerial view of campus. The view is from the southeast, with the Administration Building a little left of center. Photograph is marked with the photographer's name: "Bob Waller, Photographer, Hattiesburg, Miss." [Photograph was...
From the Hattiesburg Historical Photographs; Photograph of several small single-engine planes in rows, possibly at Camp Shelby. A Standard Oil Company fuel truck is parked nearby.
From the Maud and Miska Petersham Papers. Proofs for cover, page 9, 19, 29, 37, and 47 of AN AMERICAN ABC by Maud and Miska Petersham (New York: Macmillan, 1941). AN AMERICAN ABC is a 1942 Caldecott Honor Book.
From the Political Campaign Collection. Campaign handout for Annie Flo Wilkins, candidate for re-election for Postmaster of the Legislature in Jackson, Mississippi.
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 the Army Administration School at Mississippi Southern College, with uniformed students marching in formation. The administration building can be seen in the background.
From the Political Campaign Collection. Poster encouraging people to register to vote. The poster declares, "You have no voice in your City, County, or State, or Nation's Government unless you are a Qualified Voter!
Photograph of C.L. "Dipsy" Dews, senior halfback. Also found on page 92 of Chester M. Morgan's Dearly bought, deeply treasured, published in 1987, and in the 1942 Southerner yearbook on page 82.
From the Hattiesburg Historical Photographs. Photograph of of Second Avenue at Camp Shelby featuring a wooden buildings and tents, with a lone soldier walking down the street.
From the Hattiesburg Historical Photographs; Photograph of the camp for German prisoners of war detained at Camp Shelby during WWII, with well-tended gardens around them; 5 x 7
From the Hattiesburg Historical Photographs; A collage of images depicting training activity at Camp Shelby during World War II, circa 1941-1945. 5" x 7"
