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.; 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.; Mrs. Janelle McComb was born in Lauderdale County, and moved to Tupelo, Mississippi, when two weeks old. As a child, Mrs. McComb enjoyed the annual Mississippi / Alabama Fair and Dairy Show. She survived the Tupelo tornado in her...
Oral history.; Mr. Terry Allen Broadus was born on October 11, 1938. Mr. Broadus enrolled at Perkinston Agricultural High School in 1952 and later received a baseball scholarship to attend Perkinston Junior College. In the late 1960s, Mr. Broadus...
From the Major-Sowers Saw Mill Photographs Collection. Photograph of a log train with timber to replace decking on "Old Ironsides" The USS Constitution. The lumber came from the Tallahala site in Perry County.
From the Hattiesburg Historical Photographs; Photograph of locomotive number 207, designed for pulling logs, circa early 1900s. Several men and women are posed on the engine. 5" x 3"
From the Hattiesburg Historical Photographs. Bynum Lumber Company locomotive #346 at work in the woods hauling logs. The company was located in Lamar County, Mississippi.
From the Hattiesburg Historical Photographs; Photograph of Mr. Monroe Lott and Mr. Everett Lott with a large virgin pine tree cut in Lamar County for J. J. Newman Lumber Company. A log from it won a steam locomotive as a prize at the 1904...
From the Hattiesburg Historical Photographs. Advertisement giving specifications for a locomotive and tender ordered from Baldwin Locomotive Works of Philadelphia, Pennsylvania, by the Mississippi Central Railroad.
From the Major-Sowers Saw Mill Photographs Collection. Photograph of a 50 ton Heisler locomotive pulling flat cars loaded with logs to replace decking on "Old Ironsides"; 3 x 5
From the Robert C. Waller Photographs. Photograph (positive image of a negative) of engineers on a diesel locomotive for the Mississippi Central Railroad.
From the AAEC Editorial Cartoon Collection. Cartoon by Merle Cunnington. Railroad tracks extend from the front center of the cartoon into the distance. A sheet of paper with "Dwindling supply of energy" lies on the railroad ties in the foreground....
From the Hattiesburg Historical Photographs; Photograph of steam locomotive number 300, belonging to the Bonhomie and Hattiesburg Southern Railroad; 4 x 2
From the Hattiesburg Historical Photographs. B&HS Railroad locomotive number 200, and tender, parked beside a building. The B&HS was owned by the Tatum Lumber Company.
From the Hattiesburg Historical Photographs. This locomotive belonged to the Tatum Lumber Company, located in the Bonhomie Community, near Hattiesburg.
