From the Symeon Shimin Papers.; Pencil illustration of boy looking at a carriage (p. 47) created by Symeon Shimin for Joan M. Lexau's A Kite Over Tenth Avenue (1967). 20" x 13.5"
From the Margret and Hans Augusto Rey Papers.; Colored pencil illustration (pp. 56-57) from H.A. and Margret Rey's Curious George Flies A Kite (1958). 8.5" x 13"
From the Margret and Hans Augusto Rey Papers.; Preliminary sketch/line drawing from H.A. & Margret Rey's Curious George Flies A Kite (1958). 5.5" x 8.5"
From the Margret and Hans Augusto Rey Papers.; Preliminary sketch/line drawing for H.A. and Margret Rey's Curious George Flies A Kite (1958). 5.5" x 8.5"
From the AAEC Editorial Cartoon Collection; Cartoon by Vic Runtz. A worried-looking man holding onto a kite string attached to a kite labeled "Soaring interest rates" is carried into the sky, far above the rooftops of a town. Runtz's signature cat...
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.; Miss Oseola McCarty was born on March 7, 1908, in Wayne County, Mississippi. McCarty attended Eureka Elementary School until the sixth grade when she dropped out to care for an aunt who was ill. While still in school, McCarty began...
Oral history.; Interview conducted on March 23, 1977 with Mr. Jimmy Swan. Swan was born in Cullman County, Alabama. He ran away from home when he was thirteen or fourteen and ended up in Wayne County, Mississippi. Swan sang in nightclubs and...
Oral history.; Mr. Roberts Wilson Jr. was born July 6, 1941, in Rosedale, Mississippi. After attending both Vanderbilt University and the University of Mississippi, he went to Washington. D.C., during the mid 1960s where he worked in the office of...
Oral history.; Mrs. Lorita Nelson Jones was born on July 19, 1909, in Biloxi, Mississippi. Her mother's family were originally from New Orleans, Louisiana, of Creole heritage; her grandmother, Olivia Lewis, spoke only in French. Her father Lamar...
From the AAEC Editorial Cartoon Collection. Cartoon by John Collins. Richard Nixon is flying a kite in a strong wind. The kite's tail has ribbons labeled "NATO, NORAD, SEATO, Chiang." Nixon is looking over his shoulder and upward at the source of...
cartoon by Jack Jurden; Three kites are pictured with a leafless tree labeled "Senate" Two of the kites are punctured and hanging on branches of the tree; these two kites are labeled "Carswell" and "Haynsworth" The third kite, labeled "Blackmun,"...
From the AAEC Editorial Cartoon Collection; Cartoon by Vic Runtz. Two kites are caught in a tree labeled "Senate scrutiny." The kite labeled "Haynsworth" has been mostly consumed by the tree. The kite labeled "Carswell...Supreme Court nomination"...
From the AAEC Editorial Cartoon Collection. Cartoon by Jim Lange. Richard Nixon is shown as Charlie Brown, the Peanuts cartoon character, who has been flying a kite. He is jumping in alarm at the sight of his kite, labeled "SST," crashing to the...
