From the University of Southern Mississippi Art Museum collection. Framed donation certificate of Walter Anderson paintings to the University of Southern Mississippi by John Dryden Davenport.
From the Randall (Herbert) Freedom Summer Photographs; Local residents and Freedom Summer volunteers at a voter registration meeting held in Hattiesburg, Mississippi, during the summer of 1964. Earline Boyd, Marie Blalock, Lenon E. Woods, and...
From the Joseph Anderson Cook Family Papers. Large aluminum tomato canning pot, a cone-shaped aluminum strainer and stand, an aluminum funnel, and a small wooden pestle. These items are said to have been used by the Tomato Club at Mississippi...
From the AAEC Editorial Cartoon Collection. Cartoon by Eldon Pletcher. Independent presidential candidate John Anderson stands near two trees labeled "Reagan" and "Carter." Both trees are tapped to collect sap, with a bucket hanging from each tap....
From the Walter Anderson Papers.; Unused black and white block print illustration of Robinson and his mistress at the zoo from Walter Anderson's Robinson: The Pleasant History of an Unusual Cat; 11 x 13 1/2
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...
Photograph from the Johnston (Erle E., Jr.) Papers; Black-and-white photograph of Justice Reuben Vincent Anderson, taken in the 1980s. Anderson was the first African American to serve on the Mississippi Supreme Court.
Playbill for the production of Elizabeth the queen, presented during the 1977-1978 season. Dayna A. Anderson directed the play in partial fulfillment of the requirements for the Master of Fine Arts degree.
Oral history.; An interview conducted on June 1, 2007 with Dr. Ethelyn Patricia ""Pat"" Joachim. Associate Provost for the University of Southern Mississippi Gulf Coast, Dr. Joachim describes the impact of Hurricane Katrina on her own home as well...
Oral history.; An interview conducted on September 4, 2008 with John Hairston, Chief Executive Officer of Hancock Bank, Gulfport, Mississippi. Mr. Hairston discusses his family history, experience during Hurrican Katrina, and the economic impact...
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 25, 1971 with Erskine Caldwell (1903-1987). Mr. Caldwell was a prominent American author whose works include Tobacco Road, (1932) and God's Little Acre (1933).