Oral history.; An interview conducted on June 28, 2007 with Elizabeth Marks Doolittle, Public Services Librarian at the University of Southern Mississippi, Gulf Park Campus. Ms. Doolittle discusses her experiences during Hurricane Katrina.
Oral history.; An interview conducted on January 21, 2006 with Natalie C. Brown. Miss Brown lived near the Tulane campus during Hurricane Katrina and describes her evacuation and return to the city.
Oral history.; An interview conducted on August 2, 2007 and October 9, 2007 with Edmond Boudreaux, Jr., a longtime Mississippi Gulf Coast resident and active local historian of the region. Mr. Boudreaux discusses the impact of Hurricane Katrina on...
cartoon by Jack Jurden; A man dressed in a plaid coat and striped trousers encounters another man in a bird costume. Attached to the wing of the bird costume is a label that reads "Property of Game & Fish Commision. The caption reads "I'm on...
From the AAEC Editorial Cartoon Collection; Cartoon by Eddie Germano. George Wallace is shown dressed in colonial costume standing on a tree stump, ringing a bell with one hand and holding a long sheet of paper in the other hand. Wallace says,...
From the AAEC Editorial Cartoon Collection; Cartoon by John Knudsen. Henry Kissinger is shown dressed in a Superman costume, walking along a stone path holding a briefcase. He is walking with a woman taller in height who is carrying a shoulder bag...
From the AAEC Editorial Cartoon Collection; Cartoon by Ranan Lurie. Two men under the body of a donkey costume are fighting each other with fists and feet. The donkey, labeled "Dem.," has a bandaged face and head.
From the AAEC Editorial Cartoon Collection. Cartoon by Eddie Germano. A four-star general in full dress uniform with medals wears dark glasses and a clown's party hat. He is labeled, "the brass" and he appears to be trying to remember something. In...
From the AAEC Editorial Cartoon Collection. Cartoon by Eldon Pletcher. A bear dressed in a cheerleader's costume with a hammer and sickle symbol is leading a cheer for a very large crowd in the distance. The cheer is "Give me an N, give me an O,...
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."
From the AAEC Editorial Cartoon Collection. Cartoon by Eldon Pletcher. A large merchant ship labeled, "Economic benefits," is suspended above the Louisiana state house by a line attached to its central stack. At the bow and stern are two men...
From the AAEC Editorial Cartoon Collection. Cartoon by Eldon Pletcher. A man dressed in colonial clothing is labeled, "America's most interesting city." He is smiling and holding five large playing cards in his hand, one of which is labeled,...
From the AAEC Editorial Cartoon Collection. Cartoon by Eldon Pletcher. A man dressed in colonial costume is holding a sign with the words, "La. wants equity, not a special favor." On the horizon (curved edge of the Earth) is the U.S. Capitol dome....
From the AAEC Editorial Cartoon Collection. Cartoon by Eldon Pletcher. A man dressed in old world German costume is labeled "Berlin Volkfest." He holds a huge beer stein. Above him are the words, "German contributions to the civic, social and...
From the AAEC Editorial Cartoon Collection. Cartoon by Eldon Pletcher. A man in colonial clothing and a Mardi Gras mask has a thermometer in his mouth. The thermometer is labeled, "Fever pitch," and the end has exploted. The words, "Mardi Gras '67"...
From the AAEC Editorial Cartoon Collection. Cartoon by Eldon Pletcher. A man in colonial costume is driving a car directly behind a large truck. The trailer has a map of the United States on the side along with the words, "Federal interstate...
From the AAEC Editorial Cartoon Collection. Cartoon by Eldon Pletcher. On a large poster (side of a building?) are two theatre masks. Instead of the smiling face of comedy and crying face of tragedy, there are two crying faces. A man in colonial...
From the AAEC Editorial Cartoon Collection. Cartoon by Eldon Pletcher. The cartoon shows the gridlines of a chart with two trend lines, one upward that is labeled "Tideland hopes," and one downward that is labeled, "Relative downtrend in inland oil...
From the AAEC Editorial Cartoon Collection. Cartoon by Eldon Pletcher. The prow of a large ship under U.S. flag is sailing into the cartoon space from the right. It carries the name, "U.S. Vietnam efforts." On the left is an Asian man in pirate...
From the AAEC Editorial Collection. Cartoon by Eldon Pletcher. A man dressed in an oversized superhero costume labeled "Soviet military" flies down toward a telephone phone booth in the upper half of the cartoon. In the lower half, the man walks...