Oral history.; An interview conducted on August 25, 1971 with Erskine Caldwell (1903-1987). Mr. Caldwell was a prominent American author whose works include Tobacco Road, (1932) and God's Little Acre (1933).
Oral history.; Interview conducted on March 24, 1972 with Dr. William Penn Davis at his home in Jackson, Mississippi. Davis was born in Union County, Mississippi on August 5, 1903. He received a Bachelor of Arts degree from Mississippi College in...
Oral history.; Reverend Oliver D. Gilmer was born in Kentucky on May 31, 1927. As he grew up on a farm, he attended a one-teacher school from primer through the eighth grade. During World War II, he was drafted into the Army. He served in the...
From the AAEC Editorial Cartoon Collection. Cartoon by John Riedell. Uncle Sam stands on the globe at the western edge of the United States, facing west over the Pacific Ocean. Over the horizon, a woman labeled "Red China" has eaten part of a onion...
From the Map Collection. A map of the Pacific ocean with California and part of Mexico on the right, and Japan and the Philippines on the left. Two southern routes are drawn across the map and labeled "Commodore Anson's Track from Acapulco to...
From the Margaret Thatch Hinton Collection. Breakfast menu for the "Know Mississippi Better" train on 26 August 1927, New Orleans, Louisiana, to El Paso, Texas, on the Southern Pacific Lines.
From the Margaret Thatch Hinton Collection. Breakfast menu for the "Know Mississippi Better" train on 27 August 1927, New Orleans, Louisiana, to El Paso, Texas, on the Southern Pacific Lines.
From the Margaret Thatch Hinton Collection. Breakfast, lunch and dinner menu for the "Know Mississippi Better" train from 9-16 August 1928, while touring the Pacific Northwest on the Northern Pacific Railroad.
From the Margaret Thatch Hinton Collection. Dinner menu for the "Know Mississippi Better" train on 26 August 1927, New Orleans, Louisiana, to El Paso, Texas, on the Southern Pacific Lines.
From the Margaret Thatch Hinton Collection. Dinner menu for the "Know Mississippi Better" train on 27 August 1927, New Orleans, Louisiana, to El Paso, Texas, on the Southern Pacific Lines.
From the Margaret Thatch Hinton Collection. Dinner menu for the return trip of the "Know Mississippi Better" train in September 1927. Jackson, Mississippi, to San Francisco, California, on the Southern Pacific Lines.
From the Margaret Thatch Hinton Collection. Lunch menu for the "Know Mississippi Better" train on 26 August 1927, New Orleans, Louisiana, to El Paso, Texas, on the Southern Pacific Lines.
From the Margaret Thatch Hinton Collection. Lunch menu for the "Know Mississippi Better" train on 27 August 1927, New Orleans, Louisiana, to El Paso, Texas, on the Southern Pacific Lines.
From the University of Southern Mississippi Art Museum collection. Off-set print, presumably of a location in Hawaii, of people on a beach fishing with a net with trees and mountains in the background, by L. Macouillard.
Oral history.; Interview conducted on October 24, 1978 with Mr. Nathaniel H. Lewis at his home in McComb, Mississippi. Lewis was born in McComb, Mississippi. In 1928, Lewis and his father organized the McComb Independent Lodge NO. 846 of the...
Oral history.; Interview conducted on March 23, 1977 with Mr. Jimmy Swan. Swan was born in Cullman County, Alabama. He ran away from home when he was thirteen or fourteen and ended up in Wayne County, Mississippi. Swan sang in nightclubs and...
Oral history.; Mr. Palmer E. Foster was born in Jackson, Tennessee, and moved with his family to Ripley, Mississippi. After his high school graduation, he spent four years in the Army during World War II. Then he entered Rust College and in 1949...
Oral history.; Three interviews conducted on August 8 and 10, 1976 and October 19, 1976 with Jesse Boyce Holleman (born 1924). He served in the Mississippi House of Representatives from 1947 until 1953. At that time, he became district attorney for...
Oral history.; Interview conducted on December 3, 1971 with the Honorable Charles Evers at his office in Fayette, Mississippi. Evers was born on September 11, 1922 in Decatur, Mississippi. In 1950, he received a Bachelor of Arts degree in social...
Oral history.; Charles C. Jacobs Jr. was born in Greenville, Mississippi, on January 13, 1921. Mr. Jacobs attended the University of Mississippi and returned to its law school after serving as a Marine during World War II. During his career, he was...
