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.; 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.; Interview conducted on July 12, 1973 with Mr. Jerry Clower at his office in Yazoo City, Mississippi. Clower was born in 1926 at Route Four, Liberty, Mississippi. After graduating from high school, he joined the U.S. Navy. On...
Oral history.; Interview conducted on September 20, 1979 with Dr. Dewey Lane at the Robinson Lane Surgical Clinic in Pascagoula, Mississippi. Lane was born on September 27, 1934 in Starkville, Mississippi. He attended Vanderbilt University from...
Oral history.; Two interviews conducted on February 7 and 21, 1992 with Mr. Thomas Knight Sr. at the University of Southern Mississippi. Knight was born on July 9, 1920 near Hattiesburg, Mississippi. In 1941, he began working at the Reliance...
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.; 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).
Photograph of students, a teacher, and observers in a classroom. A label applied to the bottom right of the photograph reads: "One of the first observation classes in Miss. Normal College. Which group is observing? One guess." The child nearest the...
Oral history.; Interview conducted on October 21, 1999 with Dr. Sandra Adickes (born 1933). In 1963, Dr. Adickes taught African-Americans in freedom school efforts in Prince Edward County, Virginia. In 1964, she was recruited to teach in...
Oral history.; Interview conducted on September 18, 1980 with Phillip West (born 1946). He has served as president of the NAACP of Adams County and as second vice-president for the state.
From the University of Southern Mississippi Art Museum collection. Oil on canvas painting of a man in a boat on a lake, by Baurd. German label, versteigerungshavs. Matth. Pronath sail house of matthew pronath munchechen Augustenstrasse 54...
From the de Grummond Children's Books collection. Written by Madame d'Aulnoy. Embellished with curious cuts. Printed at Mozley and Co's Lilliputian Book-Manufactory in Gainsbrough, England in 1793. First published by Francis Newbery in 1773. ...
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. 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 AAEC Editorial Cartoon Collection. Cartoon by John Stampone. Richard Nixon holds a briefcase in one hand and a bird cage in the other. The briefcase is labeled "Guam meeting with Thieu." A label attached to the handle of the cage reads,...
From the AAEC Editorial Cartoon Collection. Cartoon by John Stampone. Cabinet officers George Shultz and Robert Finch sit on the left shoulder of Richard Nixon. Shultz holds a sign labeled "Office of Management and Budget adviser;" Finch holds a...
From the AAEC Editorial Cartoon Collection. Cartoon by Eldon Pletcher. The curtain on a proscenium stage has comedy-tragedy masks and the label "State fiscal theater." The comedy mask labeled "Surplus" resembles Dave Treen, and the tragedy mask...
From the AAEC Editorial Cartoon Collection. Cartoon by Eldon Pletcher. The cartoon shows the gridlines of a chart and a rising trend line near the bottom labeled, "High price of everything." A man labeled "Price fixing" is running up the trend...
From the AAEC Editorial Cartoon Collection. Cartoon by Eldon Pletcher. A man in a nightshirt and sleeping cap is yawning. He carries a tire over his shoulder and is holding an alarm clock that reads, "Daylight saving time...2 am Sunday." He is...
From the AAEC Editorial Cartoon Collection. Cartoon by Eldon Pletcher. A man [unidentified] in uniform with name label, "Top Kick," calls out a marching cadence, "HUD, two, three, four," as a line of houses marches along. The houses are labeled,...
