From the AAEC Editorial Cartoon Collection. Cartoon by Eldon Pletcher. A long tractor trailer truck and a short cargo truck are travelling on a road that skirts the base of a cliff wall. The large truck is being driven by Ronald Reagan and is...
From the AAEC Editorial Cartoon Collection. Cartoon by Eldon Pletcher. A huge pothole in a New Orleans city street is labeled "Needs." Other potholes are nearby, and the cityscape is in the background. A man with a hard hat is driving a dump truck...
From the Map Collection. A reprint of a Mississippi map featuring counties and roads originally published in 1850. Contains a table of steamboat routes and their distances.
Transcribed copy of a report by the General Legislative Committee of Mississippi based on findings from an investigation of the occupation of the University of Mississippi in 1962 by the United States Department of Justice. Action was taken in...
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 Adams County Police & Miscellaneous County Records. Approval of bridges built by George Weldon and authorization to pay for work. Signed by police commissioner, 26 October 1841.
From the Adams County Police & Miscellaneous County Records. Bill from M. McGhee to Board of Police, for road repairs during September - October 1856, dated 27 October 1856.
cartoon by Arthur Henrikson; Men travel in a car into the state of Illinois, and a sign welcomes them. Behind this sign is a larger sign reading,"historical adventureland; drive some of the same early century roads grandfather traveled; Illinois...
From the AAEC Editorial Cartoon Collection. Cartoon by Eldon Pletcher. A man in a Jeep driving on a road has had to stop due to a pile of rubble blocking the road. The rubble is labeled "Lebanon." The man is looking at his road map labeled...
From the Map Collection. Map of Mississippi by J.H. Colton. Map shows counties, towns, roads, and railroads. Longitude given in degrees west from Washington and Greenwich, England.
From the Hattiesburg Historical Photographs; Photograph of Downtown Hattiesburg showing East Front Street, as seen from its intersection with Main Street.
From the Map Collection. Map of Mississippi showing counties and Indian territories. To the left, right and bottom of the map are columns of text discussing different aspects of the state. Topic headings are "Situation, Boundaries, and Extent",...
From the AAEC Editorial Cartoon Collection. Cartoon by Eldon Pletcher. A highway patrol officer wearing a large badge labeled "Legislature" holds a large coffee cup with sloshing liquid. The cup is labeled "Strong drunken-driving legislation." He...
A Bill: To distribute bounty, granted as a reward to the officers and men serving on board of the Virginia, Patrick Henry, Jamestown, Raleigh, Beaufort and Teazer, for their gallantry and courage in the naval engagement with the enemy's vessels in...
A Bill: To be entitled, "An Act for the prevention of frauds on the revenues of the Postoffice Department, and prohibiting the transportation of mailable matter over the post routes of the Confederate States by unauthorized associations of persons...
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.; Interview conducted on July 12, 1973 with Mr. Jerry Clower at his office in Yazoo City, Mississippi. Clower was born in 1926 at Route Four, Liberty, Mississippi. After graduating from high school, he joined the U.S. Navy. On...
From the University of Southern Mississippi Art Museum collection. Oil on canvas painting of a long, straight road extending to the horizon, in pastel colors, by Neil Rose.
From the Hattiesburg Historical Photographs; Photograph of a dirt road labeled as, "Jackson Highway, Hattiesburg, Mississippi. The exact location of the road is unknown.
