cartoon by Allen Johnson; A distinguished looking man sits in a plush chair behind a desk. A second man has pulled up to the desk and offers the first man a cigarette, which he declines. Behind the desk is a huge window that looks onto a series...
From the Maud and Miska Petersham Papers. Promotional material for new Petersham story books including THE STORY BOOK OF WHEELS, SHIPS, TRAINS, AND AIRCRAFT, THE STORY BOOK OF EARTH'S TREASURES, and THE STORY BOOK OF THINGS WE USE.
From the de Grummond Children's Books collection. Published in Otley, UK, by Yorkshire J.S. Publishing & Stationery Co., circa 1840. Cover title. Publisher from back wrapper. Approximate date from Osborne Coll. "Printed for the...
From the de Grummond Children's Books collection. Facsimile created by Library of Congress in Washington, D.C., in 1985. Verse adaptation of Little Red Riding Hood written and designed by Lydia L.A. Very. Title from illustrated paper cover. Toy...
From the de Grummond Children's Books collection. By the Brothers Grimm, and pictured by John R. Neill. Published in Chicago by Reilly and Britton, in 1908. Book has a dust jacket. Part of the Children's red books series.
From the de Grummond Children's Books collection. Published in London by George Routledge and Sons, circa 1870s. Number 52 in the series Routledge's shilling toy books. Cover title.
From the Kate Greenaway Papers. Kate Greenaway's Almanack & Diary for 1897 by Kate Greenaway (London: J.M. Dent & Co., [1896]). illustration, watercolor (18.5 x 11.5 cm.) Signed KG. used for January page.
From the Adickes (Sandra E.) Papers. Copy of a typewritten letter from Sandra Adickes to Ella Baker, dated April 2, 1971. Adickes discusses the outcome of a lawsuit she filed against S.H. Kress and Company, and her desire to give her portion of the...
From the Map Collection. A map of Louisiana, Mississippi, and Arkansas counties and cities. Also marked are battlefields, important places, and state capitals. Scale of 50 geographical or 57.63 statute miles to one inch. "Entered according to Act...
From the Thigpen (S.G.) Papers. Photograph of H. Weston Lumber Company. Caption included with the photograph reads, “H. Weston Lumber Company, Logtown, Mississippi. Mill shown on the right was built in 1900. Picture furnished by Kim Russ,...
From the Thigpen (S.G.) Papers. Photograph of a north facing view of U. S. Highway 11 in Picayune. Cars line the right side of the street. People are walking down the sidewalk and across the street. Thigpen Hardware Co. is on the right, halfway...
From the Thigpen (S.G.) Papers. Photograph of Thigpen Hardware Co. storefront partial view. A display window of large appliances is to the left. A man is walking in the door to the right.
From the Robert C. Waller Photographs. Photograph (positive image of a negative) of the Magnolia State building on West Pine Street. The building housed Fowler Hardware as late as 1950, but in this picture, the JC Penney department store occupies...
Photograph of Hugh Lowery, VP of Indurall Paint Co. of Birmingham and Powell G. Ogletree, Director of Alumni Affairs at the University of Southern Mississippi, standing in front of the bridge over highway 49. Also found in the January 1976 Alumni...
From the AAEC Editorial Cartoon Collection; Cartoon by Vic Runtz. Uncle Sam uses a pick ax to climb the face of a steep cliff labeled "Vietnam" toward a sign at the top of the cliff labeled "Victory." He carries a backpack labeled "U.S." on his...
From the AAEC Editorial Cartoon Collection; Cartoon by Jack Jurden. An elephant labeled GOP is sitting in a pool of water next to a small sign labeled "Election year." A black cloud labeled "ITT" is overhead, and from it, rain is falling on the...
Oral history.; Interview conducted on October 13, 1993 with Mr. Kenneth O. Williams at the new state capitol building in Jackson, Mississippi. Williams was born on January 18, 1924 in Clarksdale, Mississippi. He received a BA in political science...
From the de Grummond Children's Books collection. Edited by Watty Piper. Published in New York by Platt & Munk Co. Inc., in 1922. Some illustrations signed by Lois Lenski, Eulalie, and Elizabeth Colborne. Contents: Cinderella; The frog prince;...
