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
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.
One letter written by U. S. Brigadier General Boyle to his wife while he was in camp outside Jackson, Mississippi. The shelling of Jackson, the discovery of Jefferson Davis' papers, and events connected with the 3rd Texas Cavalry are detailed. ...
Photograph of the 1950 "M Club" featured in the 1950 Southerner yearbook on page 164. Pictured left to right, seated: Frank Spruell (President) Reese Snell (Secretary) Tom LeGros (Vice President) Jim Owen (Treasurer); 2nd row: Ed Langford, Brew...
Photograph of the 1971 Afro-American Cultural Society. Pictured left to right: 1st row: Dr. Robert D. Smith (advisor), Cynthia Barnes, Mattie Coleman (parliamentarian), John Price (president), Lettie Evans (secretary), Robert Williams, Samson Byrd;...
From the AAEC Editorial Cartoon Collection; Cartoon by Hy Rosen. Leonid Brezhnev stands on the 1st place platform of an Olympic-style awards podium wearing a medal labeled "50% more land-based missiles." An arm with a spike collar on the wrist...
From the AAEC Editorial Cartoon Collection. Cartoon by John Stampone. From the background, an American soldier in the Vietnam war zone watches an angel jogging in place in the foreground. The angel, sweating and tired, has been jogging in place...
Oral history.; An interview with Pete Hansen conducted on August 11, 2006. Mr. Sloan is an operating room technician in Gulfport, Mississippi. He describes being at the hospital as Hurricane Katrina arrived.
Oral history.; Interview conducted on September 20, 1979 with Dr. Dewey Lane at the Robinson Lane Surgical Clinic in Pascagoula, Mississippi. Lane was born on September 27, 1934 in Starkville, Mississippi. He attended Vanderbilt University from...
Oral history.; Interview conducted on March 3, 1976 with Dr. William A. Butts at his office on the campus of the University of Southern Mississippi. Butts was born in 1933 near Kilmichael, Mississippi. After graduating high school, he went on to...
Oral history.; Four interviews conducted on October 1, 2, and 23 of 1975, and July 1, 1976 with Mr. Hugh Clegg at his home in Anguilla, Mississippi. Clegg was born on July 17, 1898 in Mathiston, Mississippi. Clegg graduated from Millsaps...
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...
From the Isabel Wilner Papers.; Photograph of third graders reading poems from Isabel Wilner's The Poetry Troupe: An Anthology of Poems to Read Aloud (1977) to four year olds [circa 1978]. 5" x 4.5"
From the Hardy (William H. and Sallie J.) Papers. Left to right, 1st row: Ida Hardy, W.H. Hardy, Mattie Hardy Lott, son of Ida and W.H.H.; 2nd row: Mabel Hardy, Lizzie Hardy Huey, Jeff D. Hardy, Lamar Hardy; 3rd row: Edwin Huey, Blanche Hardy,...
From the Hardy (William H. and Sallie J.) Papers. Letter from William Hardy to Sallie Hardy; written from Doctor Jones's, three miles from Gordonsville, Virginia.
From Mrs. W's 1901 Diary. Mrs. W.'s diary paints a vivid portrait of the daily life of a middle class homemaker in 1901, and constitutes a daily account of the author's activities from April 1 - August 7, 1901.Very little biographical or historical...
Transcribed copy of a summary of the development of Mississippi Freedom Schools, lists of the number of schools and the number of students that attended each. Also includes an account of violent attacks against African Americans in Mississippi...
From the Margaret Thatch Hinton Collection. Booklet published for the 3rd annual tour of the "Know Mississippi Better" train. The tour, which visited 30 cities in the United States, ran from 25 August - 10 September 1927.
