Oral history.; Mr. Lee Owens, Jr. was born on May 7, 1921, in Natchez, Mississippi. As a child, Mr. Owens worked in a cotton field for half a day while attending school for half a day. Because his parents could not afford to send him to school, he...
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...
From the AAEC Editorial Cartoon Collection; Cartoon by Richard Wallmeyer. A small child wearing one piece pajamas and holding a teddy bear is standing on the surface of the earth looking toward a huge moon in a dark sky. No stars can be seen. An...
From the AAEC Editorial Cartoon Collection. Cartoon by Eddie Germano. Uncle Sam stands behind Charles de Gaulle and Leonid Brezhnev, who are holding a huge Valentine labeled "Roses are red, violets are blue, please accept our IOU." Uncle Sam,...
From the AAEC Editorial Cartoon Collection. Cartoon by Eldon Pletcher. A man in suit and top hat (diplomat?) is standing on a spinning globe with a nuclear warhead on top. He holds a briefcase labeled, "N-talks." The cartoon caption reads, "'Round...
From the AAEC Editorial Cartoon Collection. Cartoon by Eldon Pletcher. A woman wearing a sunbonnet and apron over her clothing is labeled, "Quite contrary." She is patting sweat from her forehead and carrying a water can as she walks out of the...
From the AAEC Editorial Cartoon Collection. Cartoon by Eldon Pletcher. New Orleans mayor Ernest Morial and a woman labeled, "Council," are arguing with each other. Nearby is a dinner table with dishes and a platter. On the platter is a small amount...
From the AAEC Editorial Cartoon Collection. Cartoon by Eldon Pletcher. Ronald Reagan is dining with a woman labeled "Congress." They are seated on opposite sides of the table, and the table place card reads "The Spratts." A waiter brings a covered...
From the AAEC Editorial Cartoon Collection. Cartoon by John Stampone. In the first of four frames, Richard Nixon is drawn to resemble a small girl walking to school wearing a dress and broad-brimmed hat. From one hand, he holds the end of the strap...
From the AAEC Editorial Cartoon Collection. Cartoon by Vic Runtz. Gerald Ford is walking to school, bundled up against cold winter weather, carrying his school books. The schoolhouse is in the background. Ford looks over his shoulder at the lamb...
From the AAEC Editorial Collection. Cartoon by Eldon Pletcher. A small girl, walking and holding a schoolbook under one arm, is being followed by a white lamb labeled "Desegregation school days." The girl and lamb are looking back over their...
From the de Grummond Children's Books collection. By Clement Clarke Moore. Published in London by R. Tuck & Sons, circa 1905. Cover title. Part of the Father Tuck's nursery tales series. Part of the Artistic series, no. 1744.
From the de Grummond Children's Books collection. By Grace C. Floyd. Published in London and New York by Raphael Tuck & Sons, in 1895. Cover title. "Printed in Bavaria"--Cover. Donated with the Harer Collection. Part of the Father Tuck's...
From the de Grummond Children's Books collection. Illustrated by Clara Powers Wilson. Published in Chicago by M.A. Donohue & Co., circa 1910s. Title, imprint, and series statements taken from cover. P. [2] and [3] of cover included in...
From the de Grummond Children's Books collection. Illustrated by Nana French Bickford. Published in New York by Stoll & Edwards, copyright 1921. Part of the Little folks' playtime series.
From the de Grummond Children's Books collection. Pictures by Margaret W. Tarrant. Published in New York by Frederick A. Stokes Company, copyright 1920. Illustrated endpapers. Part of the Mother Goose nursery tales series.
From the de Grummond Children's Books collection. Published by McLoughlin Bros., Inc., in New York, copyright 1883. Also published as the second part of: Wonders of the circus. New York : McLoughlin Bro's, c1883. Title, imprint, and series...
From the de Grummond Children's Books collection. Published in Edinburgh by Oliver & Boyd, Tweeddale-Court, circa 1820. Pages printed one side only. Publisher's booklist on rear cover. Tan stiff paper wrappers. Page numbering is inconsistent.
From the de Grummond Children's Books collection. Published in Glasgow by David Bryce and Son, circa 1890. Contains: House that Jack built; Jack and the bean stalk; Old Mother Hubbard; Jack, the giant killer; Cinderella; Death and burial of Cock...
