From the AAEC Editorial Collection. Cartoon by Eldon Pletcher. An elephant with a chain around its neck and a dog tag that reads "Jumbo" is labeled "$5.2 billlion general appropriations bill" across its back. Four men stand around Jumbo, and at...
From the AAEC Editorial Cartoon Collection. Cartoon by Paul Szep. An old, thin man sits on a throne with a very tall back. He wears a crown and clutches ermine lined robes around him. His feet are on a cushion. Around him on the floor are three...
From the AAEC Editorial Cartoon Collection. Cartoon by Clyde Wells. The earth is shown five times against a white background. Each schpere has the year above it, a flagpole, and a flag with lettering. The first is 1850, and the flag is labeled "1...
From the Zwerling (Matthew) Freedom Summer Collection,; Photograph of civil rights volunteers taken at the Freedom Summer Training Session in Oxford, Ohio, in 1964. The training session was held to prepare volunteers for work in Mississippi. Andrew...
Transcribed copy of a report by the General Legislative Committee of Mississippi based on findings from an investigation of the occupation of the University of Mississippi in 1962 by the United States Department of Justice. Action was taken in...
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...
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 AAEC Editorial Cartoon Collection. Cartoon by Eldon Pletcher. The cartoon is divided into four panels, each of which shows Massachusetts senator Ted Kennedy. In the first three panels, he is attempting to spell a state's name but getting...
From the Hattiesburg Historical Photographs. Photograph of Major Casteel, Camp Shelby Public Relations Office. Major Casteel stands on a platform to speak to a Hattiesburg audience during World War II. Among those seated on the platform are (l-r):...
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...
From the AAEC Editorial Collection. Cartoon by Eldon Pletcher. Louisiana gubernatorial candidates David Treen and Edwin Edwards look at each other from behind podiums under a banner that reads "Debate '83." Notes pages are on the podiums and...
Printed roster, dating 1 February 1869, listing the district headquarters, officers, and companies under Brigadier General Alvan Cullem Gillem, commander of the Fourth Military District, Department of Mississippi, established by the U.S. Congress...
Printed roster, dating 1 February 1869, listing the district headquarters, officers, and companies under Brigadier General Alvan Cullem Gillem, commander of the Fourth Military District, Department of Mississippi, established by the U.S. Congress...
From the AAEC Editorial Cartoon Collection; Cartoon by Ed Valtman. The upper frame of this cartoon shows four characters. In the center, Yitzhak Rabin and Anwar Sadat look back over their shoulders at Henry Kissinger. Kissinger gestures toward the...
From the Hattiesburg Historical Photographs; Photograph featuring artist's drawings of five early Hattiesburg Schools, circa 1908. Featured are Court Street, Fourth Ward, Hardy Street, Main Street and Third Ward Schools.
From the Margret and Hans Augusto Rey Papers.; A four version sequence of Portuguese and English editions of H.A. Rey's Elizabite: The Adventures of a Carnivorous Plant (1942), showing the various illustrations of a maid. First page is 8.5" x 13."...
From the Margret and Hans Augusto Rey Papers.; Photographs of Chateau Feuga, Eichenbergs aboard ship, and fishermen on Seine River in Paris, negatives wound on fourth roll, photo 26 of 29; 4 x 6
From the AAEC Editorial Cartoon Collection. Cartoon by Eldon Pletcher. The cartoon is divided into four panels, each with an image of Ronald Reagan saying something. In the first two, he says, "No!" In the third he says, "A thousand times...." In...
