Oral history.; An interview conducted on March 19, 2008 with Vincent Creel. An employee of the City of Biloxi, Mr. Creel discussesthe city's preparation, response and recovery from Hurricane Katrina.
Oral history.; An interview conducted on February 22, 2007 with Paige Roberts, Director of Southeast Mississippi's Chapter of the Red Cross, who discusses the hurricane season of 2005, especially Hurricane Katrina's lingering devastation.
Oral history.; An interview conducted on September 23, 2009 with Robert Weaver, the Sand Beach Director and Roads Manager for Harrison County, who describes the 2005 hurricane season's destruction across the American South.
Oral history.; An interview conducted on September 19, 2007 with Rich Westfall, Director of Community Development at Isle of Capri Casino in Biloxi, who describes Hurricane Katrina's devastating impact on the casino, the region, and the positive...
Oral history.; An interview conducted on March 28, 2006 with Alison Bass, a manager at Biloxi Grand Casino. She describes her experience before, during, and after Hurricane Katrina.
Oral history.; An interview conducted on August 31, 2009 with David Elliott. A newscaster at WLOX-TV, Mr. Elliott describes his experiences during and after Hurricane Katrina.
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...
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...
Oral history.; Interview conducted on January 5, 1978 with Miss Florence Mars at her home in Philadelphia, Mississippi. Mars was born on January 1, 1923 in Philadelphia, Mississippi. She studied at Millsaps College and University of Mississippi,...
Oral history.; Interview conducted on September 10, 1993 with Herman Cowan Glazier Jr. (born 1918). Glazier's service record in Mississippi government spans forty-five years from 1946 to 1987. This includes his serving as exectutive assistant to...
cartoon by Ben Wicks; A mother is shown sitting on the edge of a bed with a baby in her lap. There are toys surrounding them and the baby is holding an ABC book. The mother is looking at a television screen where a man is speaking. She is...
Oral history.; Percy Brooks was born on November 15, 1911 to a family of farmers. His grandfather had been freed from slavery during the Civil War, and afterwards sharecropped and rented land to save money to buy eighty acres in 1909. Mr. Brooks...
Oral history.; Mr. Spain was born in 1927 in Ohio and moved with his family to Mississippi in 1930. While still a high school student, he helped build and operate a local AM radio station. Having graduated with honors from Mississippi State...
From the Flavia Gag Papers.; Flavia Gag's illustrations on dummy page featuring "B is for Bananas" from Belva Norene Slate's The ABC's of Food (1958). 8" x 10.5"
From the Jan Pienkowski Papers.; First two pages of hardcover "sketch dummy" from Jan Pienkowski's ABC Dinosaurs and Other Prehistoric Creatures (1993). 22.5" x 8" x 10"
From the Jan Pienkowski Papers.; Page (p. 2) from hardcover dummy with hand-colored spreads and pasted text from Jan Pienkowski's ABC Dinosaurs and Other Prehistoric Creatures (1993). 22" x 6.5" x 11"
From the Margret and Hans Augusto Rey Papers.; Early crayon and watercolor illustration with handwritten text marked with the letters of the alphabet from H.A. Rey's unpublished books, Nonsense ABC; Nonsense Rhymes; and Rhyming Pictionary [ca....
From the Margret and Hans Augusto Rey Papers.; Watercolor illustration with handwritten text from H.A. Rey's unpublished books, Nonsense ABC; Nonsense Rhymes; and Rhyming Pictionary [ca. 1941]. 10" x 11"
