From the Robert C. Waller Photographs. Photograph (positive image of a negative) of the Polk house in Hattiesburg. Front view from across the street, circa 1947-1956.
From the Robert C. Waller Photographs. Photograph (positive image of a negative) of an aerial view of Mississippi Southern College campus and stadium taken by Robert Waller.
From the Robert C. Waller Photographs. Photograph (positive image of a negative) of an aerial view of Woodley School in Hattiesburg taken by Robert Waller, circa 1950s.
From the Robert C. Waller Photographs. Photograph (positive image of a negative) of Paul B. Johnson, Jr., putting his ballot in a box during an election.
Photograph of Billy Farrell in the No. 10 jersey carrying the ball during a game in the 1952 football season. Photograph featured in the 1953 Southerner yearbook on page 149.
Photograph of the 1952 Mississippi Southern College baseball team and coach. This photo was supposed to be featured in the 1952 Southerner yearbook, but it was in the 1953 Southerner yearbook on page 166. First row: Davenport, White, Revon, Clark,...
From the University of Southern Mississippi Art Museum collection. Oil on canvas painting of the ocean and a sandy shore or sandbank, by an unknown artist.
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...
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.; Interview conducted on August 26, 1975 with Mr. Charles Johnson at his home in Jackson, Mississippi. Johnson was born in 1911 in Amory, Mississippi. After receiving a degree in Science from Mississippi State University, he began...
Oral history.; Two interviews conducted on February 7 and 21, 1992 with Mr. Thomas Knight Sr. at the University of Southern Mississippi. Knight was born on July 9, 1920 near Hattiesburg, Mississippi. In 1941, he began working at the Reliance...
Oral history.; Two interviews conducted on October 28 and November 2, 1976 with Professor Charles G. Marx at the University of Southern Mississippi Campus in Hattiesburg, Mississippi. Marx was born on November 23, 1932 in McComb, Mississippi. ...
Oral history.; Zella McNair Weathersby was born January 1, 1929, in Mt. Olive, Mississippi. Mrs. Weathersby graduated from high school from Depriest (now known as Earl Travillion) in Hattiesburg. She attended Jackson State College and later did...
Photograph of General Nat and his horse. In 1953, General Nat (for Gen. Nathan Bedford Forrest) was approved as the Southerners’ mascot. The first General Nat was Archie Hughes, and Nat’s horse was named Son of Dixie. This photo is featured in...
