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
Photograph of Ben Gantt and Ken Fortenberry going for a rebound during a basketball game in 1959. Featured in the 1959 Southerner yearbook on page 127.
Photograph of Yellow Jackets. Caption: "Yellow Jackets and freshmen show proceeds from a wonderful 'Help Day.'" This photo is featured in the 1959 Southerner yearbook on page 66.
Photograph of students in the dining hall with the caption "Ya' mean I gotta dance up here?" This photo is featured in the 1959 Southerner yearbook on page 198.
Photograph of Linda Grantham. President William D. McCain and Jesse Morrison. Also found in Dearly Bought, Deeply Treasured on page 98, and in the 1959 Southerner yearbook on page 18, and in the 4/6/1982 Student Printz; 7 x 5
Yearbook page with photographs from the first summer stock theatre productions by Mississippi Southern College, including Gigi, The kids, and See how they run. Performances were at the Paspoint Little Theatre in Pascagoula. From the 1960 Southerner...
From the Zhenya Gay Papers.; Signed pencil and crayon (?) illustration (variation of cover illustration) from Zhenya Gay's The Dear Friends (1959). 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...
A collection of ten 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...
From the Campbell (Will D.) Papers; Copy of a typewritten letter from Will Campbell to Dr. McLeod (misspelled as MacLeod in the letter) Bryan of Wake Forest College regarding Campbell's dismissal from the University of Mississippi in October 1956. ...
From the Political Campaign Collection. Campaign poster for Ford Vance, candidate for Circuit Clerk of Forrest County, Mississippi. The poster declares that "The fight for segregation in Forrest County will be made at the Polls."
From the United States Forest Service, Harrison Experimental Forest Station Collection. Photograph of damage caused by repeated defoliation by town ants to a 4-year-old loblolly pine. Entrance holes to the ant nest can be seen to the left and...
From the United States Forest Service, Harrison Experimental Forest Station Collection. Photograph of a town ant fungus garden. It resembles a gray sponge and is made of bits of vegetation cut and carried to the nest.
