Oral history.; Interview conducted on March 7, 1991 with Miss Emma Ruth Corban in her home in Meridian, Mississippi. Corban was born in Fayette, Mississippi, on September 18, 1907. She completed a BA degree in English in 1929 and her Masters...
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...
Oral history.; Three interviews conducted on December 12, 1975, January 19, 1976, and January 23, 1991 with Mr. C.J. Duckworth in his office in Jackson, Mississippi. Duckworth was born in Summerland, Mississippi, Smith County, on February 25,...
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
From the Hattiesburg Historical Photographs; Photograph of a baptism performed by Rev. A. L. O’Briant of Immanuel Baptist Church, in Gordon’s Creek, circa 1908.
From the Goodyear Yellow Pine Company Photographs. Photograph of skidder timber harvesting operations at the Goodyear Yellow Pine Company of Picayune, Mississippi. Large, double-ended skidder with tank car. Work crew and possibly L.O. Crosby in...
From the Goodyear Yellow Pine Company Photographs. Photograph of skidder timber harvesting operations of the Goodyear Yellow Pine Company of Picayune, Mississippi. Railroad car crane loading logs. One of the men standing on the logs is possibly...
From the Goodyear Yellow Pine Company Photographs. Photograph of skidder timber harvesting operations of the Goodyear Yellow Pine Company of Picayune, Mississippi. Large skidder, work crew, and possibly L.O. Crosby posing in foreground. The...
From the Goodyear Yellow Pine Company Photographs. Photograph of skidder timber harvesting operations of the Goodyear Yellow Pine Company of Picayune, Mississippi. Railroad car crane loading logs. Possibly L.O. Crosby standing on logs watching. The...
From the Thigpen (S.G.) Papers. Photograph of S. G. Thigpen Co. storefront. Standing near an automobile are four men identified as S. G. Thigpen, E. H. Stevens, L. O. Crosby, Sr. and R. J. Williams.
