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
Barbara Johnson (Laurie) and Billy Gerald Stewart (Curley) sing "People will say we're in love" in this scene from Oklahoma. Featured in the 1961 Southerner yearbook on page 290.
Laurie's friends, while getting ready for a picnic, sing and dance to "Many a new day" as Laurie dreams about Curly. Featured in the 1961 Southerner yearbook on page 290. See related file mus.yb1961.290.01 .
From the Marcia Brown Papers. Woodblock for pages 16-17 of ONCE A MOUSE retold and illustrated by Marcia Brown (New York: Scribner, 1961). ONCE A MOUSE is the winner of the 1962 Caldecott Medal.
From the Marcia Brown Papers. A signed woodblock print of pages 16-17 of ONCE A MOUSE retold and illustrated by Marcia Brown (New York: Scribner, 1961). ONCE A MOUSE is the winner of the 1962 Caldecott Medal.
From the Hattiesburg Historical Photographs; Photograph of an unidentified house in Hattiesburg showing water just inches below the front porch, during the Leaf and Bouie River flood of 1961.
Photograph of the front entrance of the Student Services Building, later named Kennard-Washington Hall. Photograph also found in Chester M. Morgan's book, Dearly bought, deeply treasured on page 111.
From the AAEC Editorial Cartoon Collection. Cartoon by John Knudsen. Uncle Sam kneels at the edge of a bridge labeled "Bridge To Moscow" and tries to attach a board with his claw hammer. Below him on the ground is Leonid Brezhnev (labeled...
From the McCain (William D.) Pamphlet Collection; To prevent the decline of civilization by racial mixing, the American people need to be educated against the twin evils of world Jewry and Communism, destroyers of the Nordic race.
From the United States Forest Service, Harrison Experimental Forest Station Collection. Photograph of an exterior view of the Southern Institute of Forest Genetics.
From the Gordon (Albert F.) Freedom Rider Collection.; Copies of an arrest record for Albert F. Gordon and offense reports from the Jackson, Mississippi, police department dated July 9, 1961. The offense report lists names and addresses of eight...
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...
