From the AAEC Editorial Cartoon Collection. Cartoon by Eddie Germano. Uncle Sam stands behind Charles de Gaulle and Leonid Brezhnev, who are holding a huge Valentine labeled "Roses are red, violets are blue, please accept our IOU." Uncle Sam,...
From the AAEC Editorial Cartoon Collection; Cartoon by Ed Valtman. A smiling, blond woman dressed in a 19th century dress and hat is labeled, "South." She holds a large Valentine card with a picture of Richard Nixon, labeled, "Be my...
From the de Grummond Children's Books collection. Published in Dundee, Scotland, and New York by Valentine & Sons, circa 1920. The covers depict the front and rear of the coach, with the top edge shaped. Donated with the Floyd C. and Stella T....
Oral history.; Orene Ellis Farese was born May 20, 1916, in Choctaw County, Mississippi. She attended a local public schools, Holmes Junior College, and Blue Mountain College. She began her professional career as a high school English teacher. When...
From the de Grummond Children's Books collection. By Laura Valentine. With twenty four pages of illustrations; printed in colors. Published in New York by McLoughlin Bros., circa 1870s. The first three stories consist of 6 numbered leaves of...
From the Kate Greenaway Papers. Illustrated London News. London: Illustrated London News and Sketch, Ltd. vol. 74. Supplement. Greeting card of illustration "St. Valentine's Day" that appeared in Illustrated London News on February 15, 1879; 6 x 7
From the Kate Greenaway Papers. Illustrated London News. London: Illustrated London News and Sketch, Ltd. vol. 74. Supplement. Pencil sketch of illustration "St. Valentine's Day" that appeared in Illustrated London News on February 15, 1879; 3.5 x...
From the Zoya Zeman Freedom Summer Collection. Transcribed copy of the diary of Dean Hay, a Presbyterian minister from Nebraska, in which he details his trip to Hattiesburg, Mississippi, in February of 1964. The goal of this trip was to aid in the...
Yearbook page featuring photograph of B. F. Valentine of Jones County and the poem, "Our Dear Old M.N.C." by M.D. Dunlap; The New Spirit, 1915, page 41; 7 x 10
Oral history.; An interview conducted on August 31, 2009 with David Elliott. A newscaster at WLOX-TV, Mr. Elliott describes his experiences during and after Hurricane Katrina.
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...
Oral history.; Interview conducted on March 24, 1972 with Dr. William Penn Davis at his home in Jackson, Mississippi. Davis was born in Union County, Mississippi on August 5, 1903. He received a Bachelor of Arts degree from Mississippi College in...
Oral history.; Interview conducted on May 14, 1996 with Frances Thornton Smith (born 1916). In 1971, the year that elementary schools were integrated, Smith volunteered to teach at Fair Elementary School, an African-American school in Pascagoula,...
Oral history.; LePoint Cassibry Smith was born on October 29, 1920, in Memphis, Tennessee; she grew up in Cleveland, Mississippi. She attended the Hill Demonstration School at Delta State Teachers College; she then attended and was graduated from...
Oral history.; Mr. Monroe (Bill) Winston was born September 12, 1907, in Caseyville, Lincoln County, Mississippi. His parents were sharecroppers on the Red Star plantation, the same plantation where his grandmother had been a slave. Mr. Winston...
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 de Grummond Children's Books collection. Published in Springfield, Mass. by McLoughlin Bros., Inc., circa 1890-1930. With numerous illustrations. Contents: Cinderella, or, The little glass slipper; Dick Whittington and his cat; Story of...
From the Belcher (Granville W. and Mary Caroline) Letters. Granville W. Belcher, a farmer from Martinsville, Henry County, Virginia, served in company F, 57th Virginia Infantry during the Civil War. Belcher writes to his wife, Mary Caroline, on...
