From the AAEC Editorial Cartoon Collection. Cartoon by Jack Jurden. In the foreground of the cartoon, Richard Nixon is tied to railroad tracks with rope that is labeled "Demo Congress." The tracks extend toward the horizon where a large train is...
From the AAEC Editorial Collection. Cartoon by Eldon Pletcher. Two men dressed as railroad engineers are sitting on top of a railway car that is part of a longer train. The car, labeled "85-day regular session," is the next to last, followed by the...
From the AAEC Editorial Cartoon Collection. Cartoon by Eldon Pletcher. Ronald Reagan is driving a trolley and ringing the bell. The trolley is labeled "National transit systems" on its side, and the sign on the front is "Budget cut-backs." The...
One-page document dated December 4, 1871 and drafted by the Mississippi State Legislature requesting return of Federal lands first granted in 1856 for the purpose of building the Gulf and Ship Island Railroad. The Gulf and Ship Island Railroad was...
From the Hattiesburg Historical Photographs; Photograph of employees of the Aladdin Company (manufacturers of Aladdin Houses) lined up outside the company building located on North Street at the Mississippi Central Railroad track; 12 x 4
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 Hattiesburg Historical Photographs; Photograph of steam locomotive number 300, belonging to the Bonhomie and Hattiesburg Southern Railroad; 4 x 2
From the Hattiesburg Historical Photographs. B&HS Railroad locomotive number 200, and tender, parked beside a building. The B&HS was owned by the Tatum Lumber Company.
Customs form for the Confederate States of America recording the shipment of whiskey via the Mississippi Central Railroad to J. P. Atkinson at Holly Springs, Mississippi, dated 13 May 1861.
From the Major-Sowers Saw Mill Photographs Collection. Photograph of a side view of a railroad car piled high with timber to replace the decking on "Old Ironsides" The USS Constitution. The lumber came from the Tallahala site in Perry County.
From the Major-Sowers Saw Mill Photographs Collection. Photograph of a side view of a railroad car piled high with timber to replace the decking on "Old Ironsides" The USS Constitution. The lumber came from the Tallahala site in Perry County.
A dispatch sent by Brigadier General John C. Breckinridge to Colonel H. P. Brewster in Corinth, Mississippi, apparently in response to his request for information on Union troop movements in northeast Mississippi, and warning about a potential...
From the AAEC Editorial Collection. Cartoon by Eldon Pletcher. Ronald Reagan, wearing a train engineer's cap, drives a long train, the engine of which is labeled "Recession line." George H. W. Bush, also wearing an engineer's cap, is in the engine...
From the Hattiesburg Historical Photographs; Photograph of several African-American workers who demonstrate their expertise, while working on the tracks of the New Orleans & Northeastern Railroad, circa late 1940s or early 1950s. 5" x 5"
From the Goodyear Yellow Pine Company Photographs. Photograph featuring an aerial view of the Goodyear Pine Company of Picayune, Mississippi. The mill pond, main mill building, and railroad car loading area are visible. The photograph was taken...
From the Goodyear Yellow Pine Company Photographs. Photograph of the log train of the Goodyear Yellow Pine Company of Picayune, Mississippi. A railroad crane is loading logs. The photograph was taken by John N. Teunisson of New Orleans, Louisiana.
From the Goodyear Yellow Pine Company Photographs. Photograph of the sawmill at the Goodyear Yellow Pine Company of Picayune, Mississippi. The railroad car loading area is in the foreground (still under construction) and the main sawmill buildings...
From the Goodyear Yellow Pine Company Photographs. Photograph of skidder railroad track removal at the Goodyear Yellow Pine Company of Picayune, Mississippi. Work crew is taking up railroad ties and loading them on a railroad car. The photograph...
