Photograph of Henry L. Whitfield. Mr. Whitfield was offered Presidency of Mississippi Normal College in 1910, but chose to remain at MS Industrial Institute and College, now Mississippi University for Women. This photo can also be found in Dearly...
Photograph of Mrs. J.B. Waltman, Mayor A.L. (Bud) Gerrard, W.D. McCain, Mrs. W.D. McCain, William Wicht, J.B. Waltman, unidentified man, and Mrs. William Wicht at the University of Southern Mississippi Rose Garden dedication; 9 1/2 x 7 1/2
Photograph of Mrs. John L. Heiss, who earned a Masters Degree at the age of 91. Also found in Dearly Bought, Deeply Treasured on page 116, and in the Student Printz on 13 November 1975; 5 x 9
Photograph of the 1916 men's basketball team. First row: T. J. Rowan, F. M. Coleman, F. M. Caldwell, S. M. Furlow, R. V. Peacock; second row: T. J. Guy, V. C. Dale, C. L. Sumners, W. C. Powell.
Photograph of the 1922 Mississippi Normal College baseball team and coach. First row: J. A. McCrary, L. E. Gafford, A. H. Dempsy, N. R. Clayton, C. Files, W. C. Wailes; second row: Otis Waits, E. D. Cox, T. F. Morris, W. C. Denson, H. Hartzog;...
Photograph of the first members of the University of Southern Mississippi Sports Hall of Fame, installed February 20, 1965, at a banquet held in their honor at the University Commons. First row: Bracie Smith, George Westerfield, Reed Green, Dr....
Photograph of the unveiling of a portrait of Powell Ogletree at the dedication of the Alumni House. The portrait was unveiled by Bill Ogletree and Francis Palmer. The portrait artist is Stephen L. Moppert.
Oral history.; Interview conducted on July 19, 1978 with Mr. W.S. Griffin at his home in Jackson, Mississippi. Griffin was born on October 15, 1913 near Mantee, Mississippi, in Webster County. In 1936, he accepted a position as a teacher and coach...
From the University of Southern Mississippi Art Museum collection. Photo litho on paper of a woman with blonde hair in a green dress, by Henri de Toulouse-Lautrec.
Oral history.; Interview conducted on September 18, 1980 with Phillip West (born 1946). He has served as president of the NAACP of Adams County and as second vice-president for the state.
Oral history.; Two interviews conducted on May 21, 1974 and January 26, 1976 with the Honorable Mildred Wells Norris. Norris was born in Ovett, Mississippi. She studied for one year at Mississippi State College for Women. Norris started working...
Report of the Secretary of War, James A. Seddon; Includes Report of the Agent of Exchange, Robert Ould, and Estimates by A. R. Lawton, Quartermaster General, L. B. Northrop, Commissary General of Subsistence, S. P. Moore, Surgeon General C. S....
Oral history.; Interview conducted on July 28, 1981 with Reverend Clinton Collier at the Methodist Church in Morton, Mississippi. Collier was born on August 24, 1910 [i.e. 1909] in rural Neshoba County. After completing the eighth grade, which...
Oral history.; Two interviews conducted on April 1, 1993 and January 6, 1995 with Ariel Barnes (born 1917). Mrs. Barnes was born in Forest, Mississippi, but moved to Hattiesburg shortly after. She attended Alcorn University, where she earned a...
Oral history.; Interview conducted on November 11, 1995 with Larry Rubin (born 1942). In 1961, he helped to register voters in the South for the Student Nonviolent Coordinating Committee. In late 1963 and in 1964, Mr. Rubin worked as a civil rights...
Oral history.; A native of Mississippi, Mrs. Bates received degrees from Tougaloo College and West Virginia University, with further study at the University of Colorado and the University of Denver. She has been a resident of Denver, Colorado, for...
Oral history.; Mr. Ulysses Sims was born on May 31, 1918, in Mendenhall, Mississippi and after his parents died was raised by his grandparents. In 1936, he entered the Piney Woods School of Mississippi, working to pay his own way through school....
Oral history.; Mrs. Leila Lyle Wilkinson Underhill was born in Shelby, Mississippi, on July 29, 1919. She grew up during the Great Depression and remembers the flood of 1927. During World War II, Mrs. Underhill's brother was killed. Mrs....
Oral history.; Interview conducted on March 19, 1975 with Otho Monroe (born 1912). Mr. Monroe was superintendent of the Senatobia School District from 1949 until 1968, when he resigned in protest of school desegregation.
