Oral history.; An interview conducted on May 19, 2008 with Laura Clare Thompson Creel. A life-long resident of Biloxi, Mrs. Creel recounts her family history and experience dealing with hurricanes, including Hurricane Katrina.
Oral history.; An interview conducted on July 30, 2007 with Cheryl Ann Blain, an engineer and oceanographer at Stennis Space Center. Dr. Blain describes her personal struggles with Hurricane Katrina as well as many of the environmental and...
Oral history.; An interview with Sister Jacqueline Howard conducted on May 30, 2007. Principal at Our Lady Academy in Bay St. Louis, Mississippi, Howard describes the impact of Hurricane Katrina on the school and the community of Bay St. Louis.
Oral history.; An interview conducted February 21, 2007 with Thomas Brister, who describes his experiences during and after Hurricane Katrina on the Mississippi Gulf Coast.
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.; An interview conducted on February 21, 2007 with Tom Higgins, a retired shipyard manager and author of Sunshine on my Shoulders, a first-person narration of life after Hurricane Katrina. He describes his experience in Pascagoula,...
Oral history.; An interview conducted on September 23, 2009 with Robert Weaver, the Sand Beach Director and Roads Manager for Harrison County, who describes the 2005 hurricane season's destruction across the American South.
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....
Oral history.; Born on March 28, 1914, Dr. Eleanor Byrd Walters was born in Gunnison, Mississippi. In 1934, she received her B.S. in education from Delta State Teachers College and went on to earn several advanced degrees. From 1934 through 1943...
From the Weston (John) Letters. Letter from John Weston to Gersham B. Weston of Duxbury, Massachusetts, dated 16 June 1845, includes a listing of Weston family names obtained from Commer Weston of Plymouth.
From the Weston (John) Letters. Letter from John Weston to Ezra Weston of Boston, Massachusetts, dated 24 November 1845, contains the text of a letter John Weston had received from Edmund Weston of Randolph, Vermont.
From the de Grummond Children's Books collection. Published in Boston, Mass., by L. Prang, in 1863. Toy book cut in the shape of a standing Little Red Riding Hood. Title from illustrated paper cover. "Entered according to act of Congress, in...
From the de Grummond Children's Books collection. Published in Boston by DeWolfe, Fiske & Co., circa 1890. Title and imprint from cover. Figure of Red Riding Hood on cover folds out.
From the de Grummond Children's Books collection. Published in Springfield, Mass. by McLoughlin Bros., Inc., circa 1890-1930. With numerous illustrations. Contents: Cinderella, or, The little glass slipper; Dick Whittington and his cat; Story of...
From the de Grummond Children's Books collection. Published in Springfield, Mass., by McLoughlin Bros., Inc., circa 1920. Title, imprint, and series statements from cover. P. [2] and [3] of cover included in pagination. Part of the Sunshine...
From the Emilie and Marie Stapp Collection. Three panel pamphlet, left panel contains a photograph of Marshal Foch, the middle panel is reserved for a soldier.
From the Emilie and Marie Stapp Collection. Pamphlet featuring photos of President Woodrow Wilson, Commander in Chief of Allied Armies on the Western Front Marshal Foch and General John Pershing of the American Armies of France.
From the de Grummond Children's Books collection. Published in Springfield, Mass. by McLoughlin Bros., Inc., circa 1920s. Title and imprint from cover. P. [2] and [3] of cover included in pagination. Some illustrations are signed Noble Ives. ...
From the de Grummond Children's Books collection. Published in Springfield, Mass., by McLoughlin Bro's, Inc., circa 1920s. Title and imprint from cover. Running title: Cock Robin. "Untearable". "Six little mice" poem on p. 6.
From the de Grummond Children's Books collection. Published in Springfield, Mass., by McLoughlin Bros., Inc., circa 1920s. Title and imprint from cover. P. [2] and [3] of cover included in pagination. Printed on linen. "1471." Acquired from...
