Schedule of events for the 75th anniversary and homecoming activities. Events include an academic fair, pep rally, performance by George Carlin, and the football game against Florida State University.
Schedule of events for the Fine Arts Festival, part of the 75th anniversary activities. Includes performances and exhibitions by musicians, dancers, actors, and artists.
From the Rare Books Collection. This antiphonal manuscript, circa 16th century, is believed to be of Spanish origin. An antiphoner is a Catholic liturgical book containing antiphons and responsories for the Daily Office, the set of eight daily...
From the Kate Greenaway Papers. Unsigned graphite sketch for the book "A Apple Pie," published in 1886. Cover or title page, preliminary. 25 x 28 cm. (15 x 21 cm.) Two girls under apple tree. "A Apple Alphabet Pie" lettered on illustration.
From the McLoughlin Brothers Papers. Color proof of jacket or cover (2 different versions) of A Child's Garden of Verses by Robert Louis Stevenson, illustrated by Sarah De Frehn (Springfield: McLoughlin Bros., 1939) Little color classics #818, from...
A Discourse before the General Assembly of South Carolina, on December 10, 1863, Appointed by The Legislature as a day of fasting, humiliation and prayer. By B.M. Palber, D.D., of New Orleans, LA.
One-page document dated December 4, 1871 and drafted by the Mississippi State Legislature requesting return of Federal lands first granted in 1856 for the purpose of building the Gulf and Ship Island Railroad. The Gulf and Ship Island Railroad was...
From the McAtee (William "Bill" G.) Civil Rights Collection; This collection contains an original curriculum packet given out at the SNCC-NCC training site in Oxford, Ohio, for Freedom Summer workers going to Mississippi. It is accompanied by...
From the Gail E. Haley Papers. Sketch in graphite and color pencil for A STORY, A STORY: AN AFRICAN TALE retold and illustrated by Gail E. Haley (New York: Atheneum, 1970). A STORY, A STORY is the winner of the 1971 Caldecott Medal.
From the Circus, Minstrel and Traveling Show. Stationary for A.G. Allen's Big Minstrel Show. The back contains a typed expense account of J.M. Beach, dated September 4 to September 16, 1917w Collection.
An Act Authorizing the Secretary of the Treasury to Borrow Specie to be Applied to the Redemption and Reduction of the Currency; approved by the Congress of the Confederate States of America on 13 March 1865.
From the Maud and Miska Petersham Papers. Proofs for cover, page 9, 19, 29, 37, and 47 of AN AMERICAN ABC by Maud and Miska Petersham (New York: Macmillan, 1941). AN AMERICAN ABC is a 1942 Caldecott Honor Book.
