Schedule of events for the Fine Arts Festival, part of the 75th anniversary activities. Includes performances and exhibitions by musicians, dancers, actors, and artists.
From the AAEC Editorial Cartoon Collection. Cartoon by Eldon Pletcher. Louisiana governor Dave Treen and a man labeled, "Legislature," appear as Stan Laurel and Oliver Hardy. They stand at the top of a knoll (levee, wall?) with stairsteps down to...
From the Map Collection. A map of the island. Marked are The East Bay, The Spout, Cumberland Bay, The West Bay, and Sugar-loaf Bay, Monkey Key, and Goat Island. Areas of fine sand and fine dark sand are indicated. Scale of two leagues.
Transcribed copy of a report by the General Legislative Committee of Mississippi based on findings from an investigation of the occupation of the University of Mississippi in 1962 by the United States Department of Justice. Action was taken in...
From the Map Collection. A map of the coastline surrounding Cumberland Bay. Also marked are The East Bay, The Spout, The West Bay, and Sugar-loaf Bay. An area of fine sand is indicated. Scale of 2 miles.
From the Gordon (Albert F.) Freedom Rider Collection.; Copies of an arrest record for Albert F. Gordon and offense reports from the Jackson, Mississippi, police department dated July 9, 1961. The offense report lists names and addresses of eight...
From the AAEC Editorial Cartoon Collection. Cartoon by Eldon Pletcher. A young man wearing a shirt labeled, "1 year prime exposure" is swimming in a fish bowl labeled, "Draft lottery." A second young man stands outside the bowl looking on; his...
From the Dahl (Kathleen) Freedom Summer Collection. Complimentary ticket for performance of a play, Freedom Riders, written by Jacie Knight and Lester Purry, to be performed by Youth Performance Company at Howard Conn Fine Arts Center, Minneapolis,...
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 Robert C. Waller Photographs. Photograph (positive image of a negative) of a Fine Bros. billboard advertising "Botany Brand 500" suits and coats.
From the Robert C. Waller Photographs. Photograph (positive image of a negative) of the interior of the Fine Bros. store on Main Street, during a sale.
From the Robert C. Waller Photographs. Photograph (positive image of a negative) of the interior of the Fine Bros. store on Main Street, during a sale.
From the Robert C. Waller Photographs. Photograph (positive image of a negative) of the Fine Bros. storefront window display on Main Street, featuring fur coats.
From the Robert C. Waller Photographs. Photograph (positive image of a negative) of the Fine Bros. storefront window display on Main Street, featuring Barbary Coast wools.
From the Robert C. Waller Photographs. Photograph (positive image of a negative) of the Fine Bros. storefront window display on Main Street, featuring an evening dress.
From the Robert C. Waller Photographs. Photograph (positive image of a negative) of the Fine Bros. storefront window display, on Main Street, featuring women's hats.
