From the AAEC Editorial Cartoon Collection. Cartoon by Richard Wallmeyer. A dove carrying an olive branch in its beak coughs as it flies past mushroom clouds of smoke labeled "Inflammatory rhetoric." The clouds have been generated from the bodies...
From the AAEC Editorial Cartoon Collection. Cartoon by Roy Carless. The prow of a ship labeled "U.S. oil" has broken through thick ice on a body of water and pulled up to an igloo that flies a Canadian flag. A man wearing a fur-lined parka and...
From the AAEC Editorial Cartoon Collection. Cartoon by Vic Runtz. A ticker tape machine sits on a table near an open window. It has dispensed yards of punched tape, which are in a pile on the floor. Above it are the words...
From the AAEC Editorial Collection. Cartoon by Eldon Pletcher. A man dressed in an oversized superhero costume labeled "Soviet military" flies down toward a telephone phone booth in the upper half of the cartoon. In the lower half, the man walks...
From the AAEC Editorial Collection. Cartoon by Eldon Pletcher. A witch flies on a giant broom above buildings of New Orleans, with a huge moon in the background. Billboards and placards on the buildings are political advertisements for local...
From the AAEC Editorial Collection. Cartoon by Eldon Pletcher. Santa Claus flies a biplane and waves. A wreath is on the plane's rudder. The cartoon caption is "Merry Christmas," formed from the plane's exhaust.
From the Margret and Hans Augusto Rey Papers.; Colored pencil illustration (pp. 56-57) from H.A. and Margret Rey's Curious George Flies A Kite (1958). 8.5" x 13"
From the Margret and Hans Augusto Rey Papers.; Preliminary sketch/line drawing for H.A. and Margret Rey's Curious George Flies A Kite (1958). 5.5" x 8.5"
From the Margret and Hans Augusto Rey Papers.; Preliminary sketch/line drawing from H.A. & Margret Rey's Curious George Flies A Kite (1958). 5.5" x 8.5"
From the Belcher (Granville W. and Mary Caroline) Letters. Granville W. Belcher, a farmer from Martinsville, Henry County, Virginia, served in company F, 57th Virginia Infantry during the Civil War. Belcher writes to his wife, Mary Caroline, on...
Oral history.; Mr. Ray William (Buck) Wells was born August 21, 1916, on a dairy farm three-fourths of a mile southwest of Mississippi Normal College (now The University of Southern Mississippi). Sometime around 1920 or 1921 he moved into...
Oral history.; Two interviews conducted on November 12, 1981 and February 6, 1982 with Judge J. P. Coleman. Coleman was born on December 9, 1914 in Fentress, Mississippi. After attending the University of Mississippi, he was invited to work in...
Oral history.; Two interviews conducted on August 23 and October 30, 1974 with Mr. Joe Reyer at his home in Poplarville, Mississippi. Reyer was born in 1893 in Pearl River County, Mississippi. He attended an agricultural high school, now Pearl...
Oral history.; Two interviews conducted on February 7 and 21, 1992 with Mr. Thomas Knight Sr. at the University of Southern Mississippi. Knight was born on July 9, 1920 near Hattiesburg, Mississippi. In 1941, he began working at the Reliance...
Oral history.; Three interviews conducted on April 28, 30 and May 7, 1981 with Mr. Claude Ramsay at his office in Jackson, Mississippi. Ramsay was born in 1916 in Ocean Springs, Mississippi. He served briefly in the Civilian Conservation Corps...
Oral history.; Interview conducted on June 24, 1998 with J.C. Fairley, Mamie Phillips, and Charles Phillips, who were all active in the NAACP during the civil rights movement of the 1950s and the 1960s.
Oral history.; Discusses Murchison's time spent in the United States Army. Particularly focuses on his participation in the Vietnamese Conflict. During that time, Murchison served both as an adviser and in an actual unit. He received a number of...
Oral history.; An interview conducted on August 30, 1978 with Thomas Jefferson Tubb (born 1899). Mr. Tubb served as chairman of the Clay County Executive Committee for 47 years from 1928 to 1975 and during the Dixiecrat movement from 1950 to 1956....
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...
