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.; Page discusses his family, his experiences as a black physician, the civil rights movement, his work in state politics, and the Mississippi Humanities Council.
From Mrs. W's 1901 Diary. Mrs. W.'s diary paints a vivid portrait of the daily life of a middle class homemaker in 1901, and constitutes a daily account of the author's activities from April 1 - August 7, 1901.Very little biographical or historical...
Oral history.; Viola Brown Sanders was born in Sidon, Mississippi, on February 21, 1921. After Miss Sanders finished her education, she taught school for two years in Glen Allan, Mississippi. In 1943, Miss Sanders joined the United States Navy...
Photograph of senior "Yellow Jacket" club member, Eudoro Iturbe shaving the head of a freshmen member. This photo was featured in the 1964 Southerner yearbook on page 59 and in the May 4, 1982 Student Printz; 5 x 7
Oral history.; Interview conducted on June 24, 1998 with J.C. Fairley, Mamie Phillips, and Charles Phillips, who were all active in the NAACP during the civil rights movement of the 1950s and the 1960s.
Oral history.; Interview conducted on February 13, 1978 with Mr. M.W. Hamilton in Petal, Mississippi. Hamilton was born in Hattiesburg, Mississippi in 1909 and lived in the area until his death in 1990. He worked as a mechanic, electrician and...
Oral history.; Interview conducted on August 26, 1975 with Mr. Charles Johnson at his home in Jackson, Mississippi. Johnson was born in 1911 in Amory, Mississippi. After receiving a degree in Science from Mississippi State University, he began...
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 Walter Anderson Papers.; A black and blue marker illustration of the white rabbit looking at a timepiece, used in front matter and on dust jacket of Anderson's Alice: Walter Anderson Illustrates Alice's Adventures in Wonderland by Lewis...
From the Taro Yashima Papers. Dummy Pages for pages 2, 3 (title page), 12-13, 14-15, 18-19, 26-27, 30-31, 36-37, endpapers, and dust jacket of Crow Boy by Taro Yashima (New York:Viking, 1955). Crow Boy is a 1956 Caldecott Honor Book.
From the Syd Hoff Papers.; Preliminary watercolor jacket illustration by Sid Hoff of Bigfoot carrying a girl down a mountain from Joan Lowery Nixon's Bigfoot Makes A Movie (1979). 12" x 10"
From the Sari Papers.; Ink illustration for dust jacket cover by Sari for Christine Noble Govan's Tilly's Strange Secret (1952). Fleur, Anne Elizabeth (Sari, pseudo.) 12.5" x 14.5"
From the Mircea Vasiliu Papers.; Matted color illustration with paste-up text for dust jacket created by Mircea Vasiliu for Nancy Sherman's Miss Agatha's Lark (1968). 22.5" x 14.5"
From the McLoughlin Brothers Papers. Pasted-up dust jacket dummy for The Traveling Musicians from the Brothers Grimm, illustrated by Ianray (Springfield: McLoughlin Bros., 1945) Westfield classics #69, from the books series of the McLoughlin...
From the McLoughlin Brothers Papers. Paste-ups for the jacket or title page of The Bear Hunt, The Gypsy Camp, Saving the Old Mill, and Shipwrecked on Christmas Island from the Dick and Janet Cherry series, from the books series of the McLoughlin...
