Oral history.; An interview conducted on August 2, 2007 and October 9, 2007 with Charles Benvenutti, a CPA in Bay St. Louis, MS. He describes his experience during and after Hurricane Katrina.
Oral history.; An interview conducted on August 2, 2007 and October 9, 2007 with Edmond Boudreaux, Jr., a longtime Mississippi Gulf Coast resident and active local historian of the region. Mr. Boudreaux discusses the impact of Hurricane Katrina on...
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.; Interview conducted on August 13, 1993 with Mr. Erle Johnston at his home in Forest, Mississippi. Johnston was born on October 10, 1917 in Garyville, Louisiana. In 1941, he moved Forest, Mississippi and bought the fledgling...
Oral history.; Mr. George A. Stevens was born in 1910 in Forrest County, Mississippi. He attended Hattiesburg public schools but graduated from high school in Anthony, New Mexico. Mr. Stevens returned to attend The University of Southern...
Oral history.; Kathleen (Kat) Bergeron was born on April 23, 1950. She attended Gulfport East High School and the W. Page Pitt School of Journalism at Marshal University in Huntington, West Virginia. From 1995 to 1996, Ms. Bergeron attended...
From the Tigert (David Neal) Letters; this collection contains approximately 200 letters written by David Neal Tigert to his family while he was at basic training at Fort Sam Houston in Texas. Change of address notice from the Department of Defense.
Materials in this collection were donated by William M. Colmer: First accession-1970. Additional information online at: http://www.lib.usm.edu/legacy/archives/m024.htm
From the Kate Greenaway Papers. Autograph postcard signed. 1 p. (12 x 7.5 cm.) To Mrs. Edmund Evans at Witley from Kate Greenaway dated Tuesday [18 May 1886].
From the Kate Greenaway Papers. Autograph postcard signed. 1 p. (11 x 7.5 cm.) To Mrs. Miller from Kate Greenaway at Hampstead dated Saturday [12 November 1892].
From the Postcard Collection. Postcard of The Shell Road in Biloxi, Mississippi. Copyright 1901 by Detroit Photographic Co.; Postmarked 2-13-1906 9:00 pm, Biloxi and 2-14-1906 8:30 am, New Orleans; 5 x 3
From the Hattiesburg Historical Photographs; Postcard photograph featuring the west side of Main Street, between Front and Pine Streets, circa 1907. Business establishments pictured are the Davidson Company, Conner Shoe Company, First National Bank...
From the Political Campaign Collection. Postcard for Hiram J. Patterson in his bid for reelection to the position of Highway Commissioner. The front of the postcard contains a note from Jasie (?) C. Rankin in support of Patterson. The postcard is...
