From the Thigpen (S.G.) Papers. Photograph of a train delivering tung oil paint. Two men inside a train car behind rows of paint hold a sign reading, “Thermolyzed Tung Oil Paint, made by the O’brien Varnish Co, South Bend, Ind. Shipped to...
From the Spight (Thomas) Letters. Pages from a diary written by Thomas Spight, Spight, a member of the 34th Mississippi Infantry during the Civil War, dated 18 March - 14 April 1865. Spight describes his unit's march from Augusta, Georgia,...
From the Goodyear Yellow Pine Company Photographs. Photograph of the home of Lamont and Josephine Rowlands in Picayune, Mississippi. This exterior view features view of the side and back of the single story frame house. The photograph was taken by...
From the Goodyear Yellow Pine Company Photographs. Photograph of the home of Lamont and Josephine Rowlands in Picayune, Mississippi. This exterior view features a picket fence in the foreground and the single story frame house in the background....
cartoon by Eddie Germano; An "airport traffic controller" is seen sitting up in bed and very distressed. It appears he has had a dream about jets flying all different directions. He is sweating and biting his nails.
Photograph of the Sunken Garden, later the site of McLemore Hall. The garden was built in 1932 as a jobs project during the early part of the Depression. Lake Byron is located just to the right of this picture. Both areas were part of a campus...
From the Campbell (Will D.) Papers; Newsletter of the Student Nonviolent Coordinating Committee (SNCC), dated December 9, 1963. The front-page story of this issue reports the bombing of the home of an African-American voter registration worker in...
Photograph of a street scene in Purvis, Mississippi. The walls of the home in the foreground are standing with no roof, and the two homes in background appear to be in tact; 5 x 4
From the de Grummond Children's Books collection. Published in Racine, Wisconsin, by Whitman, copyright 1928. Contains: Story of Red Riding Hood; Little pig; The greedy piggy that ate too fast; The sleepy bear and the playful bear; Johnny...
cartoon by Jack Jurden; French President Georges Pompidou wears a trenchcoat and carries one suitcase in each hand. He appears dizzy and weary. One of the suitcases bears a travel sticker from Chicago, and has been pierced with an arrow. A cloud...
From the AAEC Editorial Cartoon Collection; Cartoon by Vic Runtz. President Richard Nixon sits on a sofa in a room rifling through a valise full of papers. From an open doorway at the left edge of the cartoon, a rolling pin labeled "Muskie...
From the Ellin (Joseph and Nancy) Freedom Summer Collection; Report by the Student Nonviolent Coordinating Committee (SNCC), dated September 21-22, 1964, on two bombings in Pike County, Mississippi. The home of Alyene Quin and the Society Hill...
cartoon by Reg Manning; A dashed line marks the border between the U.S. and Mexico. On the U.S. side, a thug of a man labeled "Crime in the U.S." holds up a man at gun point. On the Mexico side, a man labeled "Governor of Baja California, Mexico"...
From the Zeman (Zoya) Freedom Summer Collection. Student Nonviolent Coordinating Committee's (SNCC) security handbook details safety precautions for civil rights workers. Document sections include Travel, Living at Home or in Freedom Houses,...
