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.
From the AAEC Editorial Cartoon Collection. Cartoon by Eldon Pletcher. A child in a skeleton costume walks down the street carrying an enormous bag of candy labeled, "Trick or treat." The cartoon caption reads, "The affluent society."
Photograph of the 1971 Afro-American Cultural Society. Pictured left to right: 1st row: Dr. Robert D. Smith (advisor), Cynthia Barnes, Mattie Coleman (parliamentarian), John Price (president), Lettie Evans (secretary), Robert Williams, Samson Byrd;...
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 de Grummond Children's Books collection. Published in New York by McLoughlin Bros., Inc., between 1871 and 1874. Title, imprint, and series statements from cover. Date cf. American Antiquarian Society. Printed on linen. "Swift's...
Photograph of judging during the first bridge building contest for members of the Society of Women Engineers. Contestants were evaluated on technique and creativity and were allowed to use only spaghetti and white glue. Photograph also found in the...
Photograph of Chi Tau Epsilon, a national dance honor society that promotes a greater appreciation of modern dance as an art form. (Caption) Also found in the 1997 Southerner yearbook on page 172.
From the AAEC Editorial Cartoon Collection. Cartoon by Eldon Pletcher. A huge cornucopia is in the center of the cartoon, with the small end in the foreground. The cornucopia is labeled, "An affluent society," and its large mouth is stuffed to...
cartoon by Eddie Germano; A child representative of "our young" is pushed back by a jumping television. Out of the t.v. set come rays of "violence" and "bad examples." A quote from Dr. Milton Eisenhower, Chairman of Presidential Commission on...
From the Mabel Esther Allan Papers .; Four snapshots of folk dancing in England by the English Folk Dance and Song Society from 1934-1939; 8 1/2 x 7 1/2
From the McCain (William D.) Pamphlet Collection; In the pamphlet, McCain contends that the United States is constantly losing freedoms due to the centralization of the federal government. He feels that Communism and Socialism are the greatest...
From the Southern Tourism Collection. A paper of the Heritage Tour Committee at Saenger Center. It states that there is a museum that will be open in two rooms of the Saenger Theatre.
From the AAEC Editorial Cartoon Collection; Cartoon by Eddie Germano. A fat man labeled "Military budget" is seen from the back. Dressed in a military uniform and smoking a cigar, he is walking through a doorway that is not large enough for him....
cartoon by Eddie Germano; A disheveled-looking man is standing on a podium with his fist clinched and thrust into the air. With his other hand, he is pushing down on the top of a man's head labeled "press" who is sitting beside the podium. The...
Oral history.; Interview conducted on May 18, 1972 with Ms. Ruby Magee at College Hall at the University of Southern Mississippi. Magee was born in 1940 in Tylertown, Mississippi. In 1962, she received a BA in history and political science from...
