From the Tung Oil Research and Development Collection. Members of the American Tung Oil Association gathered around a swimming pool posing for a photograph.
From the Tung Oil Research and Development Collection. Members of the American Tung Oil Association gathered in a conference hall; most are gathered around tables, while some are on a panel.
From the Tung Oil Research and Development Collection. James Scott Long standing behind an office desk; various portraits decorate the wall behind him.
From the Tung Oil Research and Development Collection. Four scientists in the PATRDL laboratory. From left to right: a man standing behind a table writing on a clipboard, a woman sitting at a table working with equipment, a man standing and...
From the Tung Oil Research and Development Collection. Three people (a man and a woman sitting at desks and one man in the background) working inside the PATRDL laboratory.
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
Oral history.; Interview conducted on July 7, 1976 with Mr. P.A. Tims of Poplarville, Mississippi. Tims was born on October 20, 1890 in Ethel, Mississippi. In 1912, he enrolled in the first class to convene on the campus of the newly established...
From the Thigpen (S.G.) Papers. Photograph of a train delivering tung oil paint. Two men inside a train car behind rows of paint hold a sign reading, “Thermolyzed Tung Oil Paint, made by the O’brien Varnish Co, South Bend, Ind. Shipped to...
Oral history.; Two interviews conducted on August 23 and October 30, 1974 with Mr. Joe Reyer at his home in Poplarville, Mississippi. Reyer was born in 1893 in Pearl River County, Mississippi. He attended an agricultural high school, now Pearl...
From the Thigpen (S.G.) Papers. Photograph of a tanker train car with a tung oil banner draped across front. Two men are standing on the train holding a banner on each side. Four men stand together on the left (identified as Alex Martin, M. P....