From the AAEC Editorial Collection. Cartoon by Eldon Pletcher. Two men in business suits labeled "Commercial lenders" look at the signs of fast food shops that read "Ice cream 50 flavors...Kwicki-food...Burger beautiful." One man says to the other,...
Photograph of the campus radio station, WUSM. Caption: The station gives students opportunities for hands-on experience in broadcasting. News anchor, Brian Flynt, a senior, waits for a commercial break to end. Also found in the 1997 Southerner...
From the Ingram-Day Lumber Company Photographs Collection. Photograph of a man standing next to a huge white oak tree in a forest. The original caption reads, "A 30" x 30" x 50' White Oak Stick in the Tree at Woodbluff, Alabama".
Transcribed copy of a letter written by Nancy Ellin requesting help in building up the book collection in the Hattiesburg Freedom Library. Specific needs include books about African-American history, books about civil rights and the Freedom...
From the AAEC Editorial Cartoon Collection. Cartoon by John Stampone. Two North Vietnamese soldiers are shown in the outdoors talking to one another. One holds a newspaper with the headline, "U.S. plans 50% cut of forces in Vietnam by '71." The...
From the Camp McCain, Mississippi World War II Slides. Photograph (from a color slide) of the vehicle decontamination instruction at Camp McCain, near Grenada, Mississippi, in the Spring of 1943. Photograph taken by Lt. Omer Austin Heacox, who was...
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...
From the McLoughlin Brothers Papers. Pen and ink drawings, some with blue wash for (pp. title page, 10, 14, 16, 17, 18, 20, 21, 23, 63, 50, title page, 34, 59) of The Six Happy Goats illustrated by Robert A. Graef (Springfield: McLoughlin Bros.,...
From the University of Southern Mississippi Art Museum collection. Lithograph print based on a series done by Salvador Dali between 1951-1960 depicting Dante's Divine Comedy. This one depicts Purgatory, Canto 6.
From the Camp McCain, Mississippi World War II Slides. Photograph (from a color slide) of the telephone switchboard on Bivouac at Camp McCain, near Grenada, Mississippi, in the Spring of 1943. Photograph taken by Lt. Omer Austin Heacox, who was...
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...
From the Camp McCain, Mississippi World War II Slides. Photograph (from a color slide) of Sgts Foley and Davis and a third man cooking over a fire at Camp McCain, near Grenada, Mississippi, in the Spring of 1943. Photograph taken by Lt. Omer Austin...
From the Camp McCain, Mississippi World War II Slides. Photograph (from a color slide) of the sawdust pit used for training in Judo at Camp McCain, near Grenada, Mississippi, in the Spring of 1943. Photograph taken by Lt. Omer Austin Heacox, who...
From the Ellin (Joseph and Nancy) Freedom Summer Collection; Report describing the beginning of the Mississippi Freedom Labor Union (MFLU), which was founded in Shaw, Mississippi, to work for higher wages for cotton choppers and truck drivers. ...
From the Camp McCain, Mississippi World War II Slides. Photograph (from a color slide) entitled "Retreat -Attention" of the company at attention at Camp McCain, near Grenada, Mississippi, in the Spring of 1943. Photograph taken by Lt. Omer Austin...
From the Camp McCain, Mississippi World War II Slides. Photograph (from a color slide) of entitled "Retreat - Attention" of the company at attention at Camp McCain, near Grenada, Mississippi, in the Spring of 1943. Photograph taken by Lt. Omer...
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...
Holograph manuscript in black ink illustrating mathematical problems and solutions, with hand-drawn geometric figures. Richard Shepard's Book is a bound manuscript documenting a student's mathematics education from 1751-1756. This exercise book...
