From the Margret and Hans Augusto Rey Papers.; Watercolor illustration from book dummy (pp. 4-5) created by H.A. Rey for Charlotte Zolotow's The Park Book (1944). 5.5" x 12.5"
From the Margret and Hans Augusto Rey Papers.; Watercolor illustration with handpainted text (entitled "Main Events from 4300 B.C. to 2400 B.C.") from book dummy for H.A. Rey's unpublished book, History of the World [ca. 1941]. 15" x 12.5"
From the Margret and Hans Augusto Rey Papers.; Dummy pages (pp. 42-43) with color illustrations and text (small illustration of H.A., Margret, and their dog in the lower right corner of p. 42) from H.A. Rey's Curious George Rides A Bike (1952)....
From the Margret and Hans Augusto Rey Papers.; Watercolor illustration (p. 4) from book dummy for H.A. Rey's unpublished book, Survival of the Loftiest: The Evolution of the Giraffe (1940). 12" x 9.5"
From the Margret and Hans Augusto Rey Papers.; Watercolor illustration created by H.A. Rey from the book dummy (pp. 6-7) for Emmy Payne's Katy No Pocket (1944). 6.5" x 11"
From the Margret and Hans Augusto Rey Papers.; Miniature book dummy (with wooden ruler placed beside it to show size) for H.A. and Margret Rey's Pretzel (1944). 3.5" x 3"
From the Margret and Hans Augusto Rey Papers.; Color illustration from book dummy for H.A. Rey's unpublished book, The Onion Lover [ca. 1935-1940]. 8.5" x 12"
From the Margret and Hans Augusto Rey Papers.; Watercolor cover illustration for book dummy from H.A. Rey's unpublished German language book, Der Schlangentoter [ca. 1930-1940]. 8.5" x 12"
From the Margret and Hans Augusto Rey Papers.; Watercolor illustration from the book dummy (p. 2) for H.A. Rey's How the Flying Fishes Came Into Being (1938). 8.5" x 11.5"
From the Margret and Hans Augusto Rey Papers.; Watercolor illustration with hand-painted text (entitled "Contemporaries") from book dummy of H.A. Rey's unpublished book, History of the World [ca. 1941]. 30" x 12.5"
From the Margret and Hans Augusto Rey Papers.; Watercolor illustration (p. 2) from book dummy for H.A. Rey's unpublished book O Vegitariano Covertido [ca. 1925-1935]. 12.5" x 9.5"
From the Margret and Hans Augusto Rey Papers.; Watercolor illustration of lighthouse and ship (folded and unfolded) from H.A. Rey's book dummy for How Do You Get There (1941). The first image is 8.5" x 9.5" and the second image is 8.5" x 14."
From the Margret and Hans Augusto Rey Papers.; Watercolor illustration of a little girl with a dog and her parents waiting at a bus stop (folded) and her parents getting on the bus (unfolded) from H.A. Rey's book dummy for How Do You Get There.
A collection of eight interviews with participants in the Mississippi civil rights movement. The people interviewed discuss how they came to participate in the civil rights movement, their various activities, including voter registration, Freedom...
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.; Gwin E. Douglas was born on November 9, 1923, in State Line, Mississippi. Douglas graduated from Leakesville High School in 1942 and worked briefly with his father in the naval store and the timber businesses until he was drafted...
Oral history.; Interview conducted on December 14, 1972 with Mr. Percy Greene at his office in Jackson, Mississippi. Greene was born on September 7, 1897 in Jackson, Mississippi and died on April 16, 1977. He was very active in the civil rights...
From the Jan Pienkowski Papers.; Production sheet with four block color print dummy pages per sheet from Jan Pienkowski 's Bel and Bub and the Bad Snowball (2000). 8.5" x 11"
From the Maud and Miska Petersham Papers. Notes and typescript (missing page 8) of acceptance speech for the 1946 Caldecott Medal award for THE ROOSTER CROWS: A BOOK OF AMERICAN RHYMES AND JINGLES by Maud
and Miska Petersham (New York: ...
