From the Map Collection. Map of a stretch of the Mississippi River from Sargent's Bend to Grand Gulf that shows changes in the course of the river from the Davis Cut Off in 1867 to 1874. Surveys were completed in 1866 by Green, Porter, etc., with...
Oral history.; Interview conducted on August 13, 1993 with Mr. Erle Johnston at his home in Forest, Mississippi. Johnston was born on October 10, 1917 in Garyville, Louisiana. In 1941, he moved Forest, Mississippi and bought the fledgling...
Photograph taken at the Washington Monument in Washington D.C. The band was enroute with the "Know Mississippi Better" train through the eastern states and Canada August 12-31, 1926. A.F. Fugitt was the band director. Image featured in Dearly...
Oral history.; Interview conducted on May 1, 1972 with Dr. Aaron Henry in his drugstore in Clarksdale, Mississippi. Henry was born on July 2, 1922 in Clarksdale, Mississippi. After serving in World War II, he went to Xavier College (now Xavier...
Oral history.; Two interviews conducted on May 21, 1974 and January 26, 1976 with the Honorable Mildred Wells Norris. Norris was born in Ovett, Mississippi. She studied for one year at Mississippi State College for Women. Norris started working...
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...
From the United States Forest Service, Harrison Experimental Forest Station Collection. Photograph of the opening of the Southern Forest Experiment Station in Gulfport. Pictured left to right, A.F. Verral, Senator John Stennis, B.W. Henry, R.E....
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
