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.
A Bill: To distribute bounty, granted as a reward to the officers and men serving on board of the Virginia, Patrick Henry, Jamestown, Raleigh, Beaufort and Teazer, for their gallantry and courage in the naval engagement with the enemy's vessels in...
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...
An order written by Confederate General Robert E. Lee, dated 3 February 1864, to a division commander, General Jubal Anderson Early. Lee commends units of the Army of the Tennessee that have re-enlisted in the Confederate Army, specifically Hart's...
From the Robert C. Waller Photographs. Photograph (positive image of a negative) taken at a parade for the 8th Victory War Loan drive for World War II.
From the Robert C. Waller Photographs. Photograph (positive image of a negative) taken at a parade for the 8th Victory War Loan drive for World War II.
From the Robert C. Waller Photographs. Photograph (positive image of a negative) taken at a parade for the 8th Victory War Loan drive for World War II.
From the Robert C. Waller Photographs. Photograph (positive image of a negative) taken at a parade for the 8th Victory War Loan drive for World War II.
From the Robert C. Waller Photographs. Photograph (positive image of a negative) taken at a parade for the 8th Victory War Loan drive for World War II.
From the Robert C. Waller Photographs. Photograph (positive image of a negative) taken at a parade for the 8th Victory War Loan drive for World War II.
From the Robert C. Waller Photographs. Photograph (positive image of a negative) taken at a parade for the 8th Victory War Loan drive for World War II.
From the Robert C. Waller Photographs. Photograph (positive image of a negative) taken at a parade for the 8th Victory War Loan drive for World War II.
From the Robert C. Waller Photographs. Photograph (positive image of a negative) taken at a parade for the 8th Victory War Loan drive for World War II.
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...
Letter written from Natchez, Mississippi, on 11 December 1864, by Thomas C. Prescott, a member of the 8th New Hampshire Infantry, and one of the more than 4500 Federal troops occupying Natchez. The letter contains personal comments on living...
Newspaper article about the 8th annual Football Run to Mississippi Memorial Stadium in Jackson, sponsored by the Army ROTC Golden Eagle Brigade and various Greek organizations.
Transcribed copy of a letter from Zoya Zeman to her family dated May 23, 1964, in which she writes about preparations for her summer participation in the Mississippi Freedom Project. She also asks for input from her family about her summer schedule...
