From the Margaret Thatch Hinton Collection. Typewritten letter from R.S. Wilson thanking participants for their involvement in the 1928 tour of the "Know Mississippi Better" train.
From the Map Collection. A map showing the rivers of the Mississippi, Louisiana, and Arkansas region. Cities are noted in all areas, counties are defined for Mississippi. On bottom "London. Published April 1832 by I.T. Hinton & Stimpkin & Marshall....
From the Margaret Thatch Hinton Collection. Cover from Miss Margaret Thatch's meal ticket booklet from the fourth annual "Know Mississippi Better" train tour.
From the Margaret Thatch Hinton Collection. The "Know Mississippi Better" train newsletter, Mississippi A' Roll, volume III, section XIII on 10 September 1927. The newsletter was written and distributed during the course of the train tour. This...
From the Margaret Thatch Hinton Collection. The "Know Mississippi Better" train newsletter, Mississippi A' Roll, volume 4, number 4 from 11 August 1928. The newsletter was written and distributed during the course of the train tour. This issue was...
From the Margaret Thatch Hinton Collection. The "Know Mississippi Better" train newsletter, Mississippi A' Roll, volume 4, number 5 from 12 August 1928. The newsletter was written and distributed during the course of the train tour. This issue was...
From the Margaret Thatch Hinton Collection. The "Know Mississippi Better" train newsletter, Mississippi A' Roll, volume 4, number 8 from 15 August 1928. The newsletter was written and distributed during the course of the train tour. This issue was...
From the Margaret Thatch Hinton Collection. The "Know Mississippi Better" train newsletter, Mississippi A' Roll, volume 4, number 12 from 19 August 1928. The newsletter was written and distributed during the course of the train tour. This issue...
From the Margaret Thatch Hinton Collection. The "Know Mississippi Better" train newsletter, Mississippi A' Roll, volume 4, number 14 from 21 August 1928. The newsletter was written and distributed during the course of the train tour. This issue...
From the Margaret Thatch Hinton Collection. The "Know Mississippi Better" train newsletter, Mississippi A' Roll, volume 3, number 1 on 26 August 1927. The newsletter was written and distributed during the course of the train tour. This issue was...
From the Margaret Thatch Hinton Collection. From the Margaret Thatch Hinton Collection. The "Know Mississippi Better" train newsletter, Mississippi A' Roll, volume III on 3 September 1927. The newsletter was written and distributed during the...
From the Margaret Thatch Hinton Collection. The "Know Mississippi Better" train newsletter, Mississippi A' Roll, volume III, section IX on 5 September 1927. The newsletter was written and distributed during the course of the train tour. This issue...
From the Margaret Thatch Hinton Collection. The "Know Mississippi Better" train newsletter, Mississippi A' Roll, volume III, section X on 5 September 1927. The newsletter was written and distributed during the course of the train tour. This issue...
From the Margaret Thatch Hinton Collection. The "Know Mississippi Better" train newsletter, Mississippi A' Roll, volume 4, number 1 on 8 August 1928. The newsletter was written and distributed during the course of the train tour. This issue was...
From the Margaret Thatch Hinton Collection. The "Know Mississippi Better" train newsletter, Mississippi A' Roll, volume III, section XI on 8 September 1927. The newsletter was written and distributed during the course of the train tour. This issue...
From the Margaret Thatch Hinton Collection. The "Know Mississippi Better" train newsletter, Mississippi A' Roll, volume III, section XIII on 9 September 1927. The newsletter was written and distributed during the course of the train tour. This...
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...
Materials in this collection were donated by William M. Colmer: First accession-1970. Additional information online at: http://www.lib.usm.edu/legacy/archives/m024.htm
Oral history.; Dr. Frank G. Gruich was born March 12, 1920 in Biloxi, Mississippi. Dr. Gruich earned a B.S. degree from the University of Mississippi and a degree in medicine from Tulane University, after which he worked at Charity Hospital in New...
Oral history.; Mr. Balfour William Ruff Sr. was born March 31, 1923, in Jackson, Mississippi. He moved to Tupelo at a young age and attended its public schools. For many years he operated the Ruff Dairy Farm, the first in the Tupelo area to...
