Oral history.; Interview conducted on November 7, 1979 with Mrs. Minnie Ripley on the street named after her, Ripley Street, in Mayersville, Mississippi. Ripley was born on August 22, 1900 in Vicksburg, Mississippi. She attended public schools in...
Oral history.; Interview conducted on 1995 November 21 with Dr. Peter Orris (born 1945). Dr. Orris participated in his first civil rights demonstration when he was only eleven. In 1964, he was recruited to participate in the Summer Project in...
Oral history.; Dr. John Paul Quon was born June 11, 1942, in Moorhead, Mississippi. His parents emigrated from China to Mississippi to participate in a family-owned grocery store. Dr. Quon was in the first public school class in Mississippi that...
Oral history.; Interview conducted on April 2, 1972 with Mr. R. Jess Brown in Jackson, Mississippi. Brown was born in Coffeeville, Kansas, on September 2, 1912, and was raised in Oklahoma. He received a Bachelor of Science degree from Illinois...
Oral history.; Three interviews conducted on April 28, 30 and May 7, 1981 with Mr. Claude Ramsay at his office in Jackson, Mississippi. Ramsay was born in 1916 in Ocean Springs, Mississippi. He served briefly in the Civilian Conservation Corps...
Oral history.;Mr. F.W. Bishop was born on December 11, 1897, near Shaw, Mississippi. His family farmed in the Skene community before moving to Cleveland, Mississippi, in 1911. Mr. Bishop began his education in a one-room schoolhouse in Skene and...
Oral history.; Interview conducted on July 12, 1973 with Mr. Jerry Clower at his office in Yazoo City, Mississippi. Clower was born in 1926 at Route Four, Liberty, Mississippi. After graduating from high school, he joined the U.S. Navy. On...
Oral history.; Interview conducted on October 22, 1996 with Mrs. Josephine Clemons Bell (born 1909). Her teaching career in elementary education in the public school of Natchez-Adams County spans twenty-nine and a half years. After retiring in...
From the Emilie and Marie Stapp Collection. Amelia Siedler was 10 years when she created this diary documenting her family's move from Iowa to Arkansas in a covered wagon from 28 December 1895 - 27 February 1896.
From the Emilie and Marie Stapp Collection. Amelia Siedler was 10 years when she created this diary documenting her family's move from Iowa to Arkansas in a covered wagon from 28 December 1895 - 27 February 1896.
From the Berta and Elmer Hader Papers. Thumbnail dummy in graphite of THE BIG SNOW by Berta and Elmer Hader (New York: Macmillan, 1948). THE BIG SNOW is the winner of the 1949 Caldecott Medal.
From the Berta and Elmer Hader Papers. Thumbnail dummy in graphite of THE BIG SNOW by Berta and Elmer Hader (New York: Macmillan, 1948). THE BIG SNOW is the winner of the 1949 Caldecott Medal.
From the de Grummond Children's Books collection. A new version, to which is added Little Jane and her mother. Published in Boston by Wm. J. Reynolds and Company, in 1848. Page numbering is inconsistent. Three parts issued in one, each with...
From the de Grummond Children's Books collection. Illustrated by John R. Neill. Published in Chicago by Reilly & Britton Co., in 1908. Part of the Children's red books series.
From the de Grummond Children's Books collection. Published in Springfield, Mass. by McLoughlin Bros., Inc., circa 1890-1930. With numerous illustrations. Contents: Cinderella, or, The little glass slipper; Dick Whittington and his cat; Story of...
From the de Grummond Children's Books collection. Edited by Watty Piper. Published in New York by Platt & Munk Co. Inc., in 1922. Some illustrations signed by Lois Lenski, Eulalie, and Elizabeth Colborne. Contents: Cinderella; The frog prince;...
From the de Grummond Children's Books collection. Written by Clement C. Moore ; made into a book and illustrated by W.W. Denslow in 1902. Published in Chicago by M.A. Donohue, in 1902.
From the de Grummond Children's Books collection. Includes other stories based on the tales in the "Blue fairy book". Edited by Andrew Lang and illustrated by H.J. Ford. Published in London by Longmans, Green, in 1890. Bound in deep blue cloth...
From the de Grummond Children's Books collection. Published in Chicago by Rand McNally, copyright 1921. Edited by Katharine Lee Bates; with pictures by Margaret Evans Price. Contains: Little Red Riding-Hood; Dancing shoes; Beauty and the beast;...
