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.; Discusses her father, Erle Johnston. Describes his relations with Ross Barnett and his work with the State Sovereignty Commission, which she denies was ever a spy organization.
Oral history.; Born on November 6, 1916, in Quito, Mississippi, Mrs. Martha Sisson Miller was the daughter of John William Sisson and Myrlea Johnson Sisson. She attended elementary and high school at Indianola City School. She attended Sunflower...
From the Isabel Wilner Papers.; Photograph of children choosing poems in the library during a reading of Isabel Wilner's Poetry Troupe: An Anthology of Poems to Read Aloud (1977), [circa 1978]. 5" x 3.5"
From the Isabel Wilner Papers.; Photograph of Isabel Wilner "listening to recording children have made of poems in The Poetry Troupe: An Anthology of Poems to Read Aloud (1977)" [circa 1978]. 5" x 4.5"
From the Isabel Wilner Papers.; Photograph of Isabel Wilner and children "choosing poems from books in the library" for a reading of The Poetry Troupe: An Anthology of Poems to Read Aloud (1977), [circa 1978]. 5" x 4.5"
From the Isabel Wilner Papers.; Photograph of third graders reading poems from Isabel Wilner's The Poetry Troupe: An Anthology of Poems to Read Aloud (1977) to four year olds [circa 1978]. 5" x 4.5"
From the Kate Greenaway Papers. Manuscript. Three poems. The first begins "I lean from out my windows..." The second begins "When all the day was filled with light..." The third, titled Double Sonnet, begins "Into the midnight sky..."
From the Kate Greenaway Papers. Little Ann and other poems by Ann and Jane Taylor, illustrated by Kate Greenaway (London: Routledge, [1883]). Pencil sketch (16 x 16 cm.) for "Sleepy Harry" p. 42; 6 x 6
From the Kate Greenaway Papers. Little Ann and other poems by Ann and Jane Taylor, illustrated by Kate Greenaway (London: Routledge, [1883]). "The Rowfant Quartos" tearsheet using illustration from dedication page in Little Ann.
From the Kate Greenaway Papers. Around the House: Stories and Poems with illustrations by Kate Greenaway. New York: Worthington, 1888. Illustration also used on the cover of The Illustrated London News Christmas Number 1882. drawing, pencil (33 x...
From the Kate Greenaway Papers. Little Ann and other poems by Ann and Jane Taylor, illustrated by Kate Greenaway (London: Routledge, [1883]). pencil sketch (19 x 14 cm.) for "Pastry Cook" p. 56.
From the Kate Greenaway Papers. Little Ann and other poems by Ann and Jane Taylor, illustrated by Kate Greenaway (London: Routledge, [1883]). Watercolor (29 x 25.5 cm.) based on child on p. 40. Signed.
From the Kate Greenaway Papers. Little Ann and other poems by Ann and Jane Taylor, illustrated by Kate Greenaway (London: Routledge, [1883]). Pen & ink drawing using "The Good-Natured Girls" illustration from p. 21; 7 x 5.5
From the Miller (Michael J.) Civil Rights Collection. Stories, poems, essays, and drawings created by students at the Mt. Olive, Mississippi freedom school.
Transcribed copy of a document detailing the curriculum of Freedom Schools. Begins with a Table of Contents showing the major curriculum divisions: academic, citizenship, and recreational and artistic. Also gives details of activities and materials...
From the McLoughlin Brothers Papers. Color proof of cover for Poems for the Children's Hour edited by Jane Wheeler, color illustrations by Priscilla Pointer (Springfield: McLoughlin Bros., 1939) Little color classics #828, from the books series of...
From the McLoughlin Brothers Papers. Pen and ink illustration for the frontispiece of Poems for the Children's Hour edited by Jane Wheeler, color illustrations by Priscilla Pointer (Springfield: McLoughlin Bros., 1939) Little color classics #828,...
From the McLoughlin Brothers Papers. Pen and ink illustration for page 21 of Poems for the Children's Hour edited by Jane Wheeler, color illustrations by Priscilla Pointer (Springfield: McLoughlin Bros., 1939) Little color classics #828, from the...
From the McLoughlin Brothers Papers. Pen and ink illustration for page 37 of Poems for the Children's Hour edited by Jane Wheeler, color illustrations by Priscilla Pointer (Springfield: McLoughlin Bros., 1939) Little color classics #828, from the...
