cartoon by John Riedell; A man holding a snow shovel stands in a snow drift labeled "Middle West" He shakes his fist at a menacing snow creature as big snowflakes fall around them both.
From the AAEC Editorial Cartoon Collection. Cartoon by Eldon Pletcher. A mirror is labeled, "1968 issues magic mirror," reminiscent of the mirror in the Snow White fairy tale. In the mirror are the images of three men labeled...
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 AAEC Editorial Cartoon Collection. Cartoon by John Stampone. In the four frames of this cartoon, Uncle Sam sits at a table with Nikita Khrushchev in a room with a window and a grandfather's clock that is chiming the hour. The time on the...
From the Berta and Elmer Hader Papers. Sketch in graphite for the title page of THE BIG SNOW by Berta and Elmer Hader (New York: Macmillan, 1948). THE BIG SNOW is the winner of the 1949 Caldecott Medal.
From the Berta and Elmer Hader Papers. Sketch in graphite for the frontispiece of THE BIG SNOW by Berta and Elmer Hader (New York: Macmillan, 1948). THE BIG SNOW is the winner of the 1949 Caldecott Medal.
From the Berta and Elmer Hader Papers. Thumbnail dummy in graphite of THE BIG SNOW by Berta and Elmer Hader (New York: Macmillan, 1948). THE BIG SNOW is the winner of the 1949 Caldecott Medal.
From the Berta and Elmer Hader Papers. Thumbnail dummy in graphite of THE BIG SNOW by Berta and Elmer Hader (New York: Macmillan, 1948). THE BIG SNOW is the winner of the 1949 Caldecott Medal.
From the McLoughlin Brothers Papers. Color cover illustration from Snow White and the Seven Dwarfs: An Illustrated Story Book, published by McLoughlin Brothers.
From the de Grummond Children's Books collection. Published in New York by McLoughlin Bros., Inc., in 1888. Title, imprint, and series statement from cover. Caption title: Little Red Riding Hood. P. [2] and [3] of cover included in pagination. ...
From the AAEC Editorial Cartoon Collection. Cartoon by Eldon Pletcher. A man bundled up in winter clothing and accessories, including a weather vane on his hat, drives a car with a license plate that reads, "Winter '82." He is driving down a road...
From the Emilie and Marie Stapp Collection. Amelia Siedler was 10 years when she created this diary documenting her family's move from Iowa to Arkansas in a covered wagon from 28 December 1895 - 27 February 1896.
From the Emilie and Marie Stapp Collection. Amelia Siedler was 10 years when she created this diary documenting her family's move from Iowa to Arkansas in a covered wagon from 28 December 1895 - 27 February 1896.
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.; An interview conducted on February 21, 2008 with Mark Currier, who describes his experiences during and after Hurricane Katrina on the Mississippi Gulf Coast.
Oral history.; An interview with Michael Hewes conducted on December 29, 2006. Hewes discusses his preparations before, and his experience during, and cleanup and recovery efforts after Hurricane Katrina in Gulfport, Mississippi.
Oral history.; An interview conducted August 29, 2006 with Pam McVey, a nurse at Biloxi Regional Medical Center, who describes Hurricane Katrina's devastating effects on the hospital and its patients.