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 de Grummond Children's Books collection. Published in New York by McLoughlin Bros., Inc., circa 1869. Title, imprint, and series statements from cover. Illustrations signed "JH 69" (i.e., Justin Howard, 1869?). Part of Aunt Friendly's...
From the de Grummond Children's Books collection. Published in New York by McLoughlin Bros., Inc., circa 1870. Title, imprint, and series statements from cover. Part of the Fairy Moonbeam's series.
From the de Grummond Children's Books collection. By Grace C. Floyd. Published in London and New York by Raphael Tuck & Sons, in 1895. Cover title. "Printed in Bavaria"--Cover. Donated with the Harer Collection. Part of the Father Tuck's...
From the Adams (John Q.) Letters. Letter from John Quince Adams to his wife, Sarah Adams, dated 1 July 1862, written from Camp Big Springs, Mississippi. Adams, who served in Co. E., 60th Regiment of the Illinois Volunteers during the Civil War,...
From the Adams (John Q.) Letters. Letter from John Quince Adams to his wife, Sarah Adams, dated 27 May 1862, written from a camp near Farmington in Tishomingo County, Mississippi. Adams, who served in Co. E., 60th Regiment of the Illinois...
Letter, dated March 8, 1864, was written by W.L. Chatham to "sis," who the donor has identified as Nancy Elizabeth Searcy. Chatham is writing from the mountains of Jefferson County, Tennessee, where he is in the Confederate Army guarding Bull's...
From the Camp (David A.) Letters. Letter from David A. Camp, captain in Company D of the 16th Battalion of Georgia Calvary (also called the Georgia Partisan Rangers), to his wife Anna Camp. In his letter dated 11 March 1863, Camp writes from...
From the Hattiesburg Historical Photographs; Photograph of Hattiesburg Mayor Paul Grady with Commissioners Ford Vance (right) and Walter Parker (left), circa 1960s.
A report written from Vicksburg, Mississippi, by Captain A. H. Robinson to Lieutenant Colonel John C. Cox, Acting Chief of Commissary of Subsistence, Department of the Tennessee, outlining the sale and distribution of rations to local citizens. The...
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. ...
From the Weston (John) Letters. Letter from John Weston to Gersham B. Weston of Duxbury, Massachusetts, dated 16 June 1845, includes a listing of Weston family names obtained from Commer Weston of Plymouth.
From the Weston (John) Letters. Letter from John Weston to Ezra Weston of Boston, Massachusetts, dated 24 November 1845, contains the text of a letter John Weston had received from Edmund Weston of Randolph, Vermont.
A document issued in Richmond announcing Virginia Governor Letcher's appointment of Joseph C. Lawrence of New York City to a two-year term as a New York State Commissioner for the Commonwealth of Virginia.
A letter, dated 2 December 1849, from Albert Sidney Johnston in Brazoria County, Texas, to General R. Jones, Adjutant General, United States Army. The letter concerns Johnston's appointment as a paymaster in the Army. Johnston planned to await...
Pamphlet entitled Personal, printed in 1888 by Jones S. Hamilton following his acquittal for the murder of Roderick Dhu Gambrell in a duel. The pamphlet is a collection of telegrams and letters received by Jones Hamilton congratulating him on his...
From the Adams County Police & Miscellaneous County Records. Warrant requesting payment for services rendered by Constable Peter Laurence, signed and authorized on 20 January 1841, by Justice of the Peace, William Purdue. Mississippi vs Martin...
