Oral history.; Two interviews conducted on June 12, 2007 and February 20, 2008 with Robert Gavagnie. A descendent of some of the first settlers on the Mississippi Gulf Coast, Mr. Gavagnie discusses his experiences as Chief of the Bay St. Louis...
Oral history.; Two interviews conducted on November 12, 1981 and February 6, 1982 with Judge J. P. Coleman. Coleman was born on December 9, 1914 in Fentress, Mississippi. After attending the University of Mississippi, he was invited to work in...
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.; An interview conducted on August 25, 1971 with Erskine Caldwell (1903-1987). Mr. Caldwell was a prominent American author whose works include Tobacco Road, (1932) and God's Little Acre (1933).
Oral history.; An interview conducted on February 22, 2007 with Carol Mars, a retired librarian, who discusses Hurricane Katrina's effects on her life as well as the Pascagoula Library and surrounding area.
Oral history.; Interview conducted on August 6, 1981 with Dr. W. J. Cunningham at his home in Memphis, Tennessee. William Jefferson Cunningham was born on December 23, 1905 in Iuka, Mississippi. In 1929, he graduated from the University of...
Oral history.; Interview conducted on March 26, 1974 with Rabbi Julian B. Feibelman in his office at the Temple Sinai in New Orleans, Louisiana. Feibelman was born on March 23, 1897 in Jackson, Mississippi. He remained in Jackson for the first...
Oral history.; Interview conducted on July 30, 1980 with Mr. Erle Johnston at his home in Forest, Mississippi. Johnston was born on October 10, 1917 in Garyville, Louisiana. In 1941, he moved Forest, Mississippi and bought the fledgling newspaper,...
Oral history.; Interview conducted on January 5, 1978 with Miss Florence Mars at her home in Philadelphia, Mississippi. Mars was born on January 1, 1923 in Philadelphia, Mississippi. She studied at Millsaps College and University of Mississippi,...
Oral history.; Two interviews conducted on April 1, 1993 and January 6, 1995 with Ariel Barnes (born 1917). Mrs. Barnes was born in Forest, Mississippi, but moved to Hattiesburg shortly after. She attended Alcorn University, where she earned a...
Oral history.; Kathleen (Kat) Bergeron was born on April 23, 1950. She attended Gulfport East High School and the W. Page Pitt School of Journalism at Marshal University in Huntington, West Virginia. From 1995 to 1996, Ms. Bergeron attended...
Carbon copy of a five-page typed Report on the Library written on August 26, 1964 by Nancy Bowles Ellin. The report lists book loan procedures and policies. The main library in the project's headquarters and branches at Mt. Zion Baptist Church, the...
From the de Grummond Children's Books collection. Collected and revised by Benjamin Tabart. Published in London by Sir Richard Phillips and Co., Bride Court, Bridge Street, circa 1818. "Contains twenty-six choice pieces of fancy and fiction, by...
From the de Grummond Children's Books collection. Embellished with coloured engravings. Printed and sold by John Marshall, 140 Fleet Street, From Aldermary Church-Yard, in London, in 1823. Back of title page contains list of other titles. Hand...
From the de Grummond Children's Books collection. Printed and sold in London by John Marshall, in 1823. Embellished with coloured engravings. Verso of title page contains list of other titles. Hand colored engraved plates; lacking...
From the de Grummond Children's Books collection. Published in London by Dean & Son, sometime between 1830 and 1854. Cover title. Date range based on publication dates of other titles in series. Part of the Children's Popular Tales series [7].
From the de Grummond Children's Books collection. This book is part 2 of 3 volumes. Published in Boston by T.H. Carter, in 1837. Part of the series Stories and rhymes for children ; no. 10.
From the de Grummond Children's Books collection. Published in Otley, UK, by Yorkshire J.S. Publishing & Stationery Co., circa 1840. Cover title. Publisher from back wrapper. Approximate date from Osborne Coll. "Printed for the...
From the de Grummond Children's Books collection. A new version, to which is added Little Jane and her mother. Published in Boston by Wm. J. Reynolds and Company, in 1848. Page numbering is inconsistent. Three parts issued in one, each with...
