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 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.
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...
From the Belcher (Granville W. and Mary Caroline) Letters. William H. Dickinson writes to his aunt Mary Caroline Belcher on 26 August 1864 about recent fighting in Virginia.
Copy of a typewritten letter from P.D. East to friends, dated November 12, 1962. East discusses legal negotiations between his attorney, H.B. Cubley, and William Harelson, attorney for his ex-wife.
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 Lewis (Levi) Letters; Levi Lewis, born October 16, 1841, was reared on the family farm in Luzerne County, Pennsylvania. The oldest son of Robert S. and Mary Lewis, he had an older sister, Lydia Rugar, and two younger brothers, Robert T....
From the Smith (William G.) Civil War Military Commissions. This military commissions for William G. Smith, dated 2 May 1862, promotes him to Second Lieutenant in the Ninth Infantry Regiment of Virginia Volunteers, in the service of the United...
From the Smith (William G.) Civil War Military Commissions. This military commissions for William G. Smith, dated 12 September 1863, was awarded by the state of West Virginia and officially promotes Smith to the rank of Captain in the Ninth...
From the Smith (William G.) Civil War Military Commissions. This military commissions for William G. Smith, dated 19 December 1862, promotes him to First Lieutenant in the Ninth Infantry Regiment of Virginia Volunteers in the service of the United...
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 Bill: To be entitled, "An Act to consolidate the public debt." By Mr. Russell; November 9th, 1864 - Read first and second times and referred to Committee of Ways and Means. Ordered to be printed by the Congress of the Confederate States of...
