From the Map Collection. A map of the island. Marked are The East Bay, The Spout, Cumberland Bay, The West Bay, and Sugar-loaf Bay, Monkey Key, and Goat Island. Areas of fine sand and fine dark sand are indicated. Scale of two leagues.
From the Map Collection. A map showing a harbor and surrounding landforms. Brackish and fresh water are identified as well as the composition of the sea floor. "Lying in the Lat. of 17.d 36.m N." Scale of 1 mile.
From the Map Collection. A map of a settlement with a road and multiple structures. The legend describes the use of certain structures. Scale of forty poles.
Transcribed copy of a report by the General Legislative Committee of Mississippi based on findings from an investigation of the occupation of the University of Mississippi in 1962 by the United States Department of Justice. Action was taken in...
From the AAEC Editorial Cartoon Collection; Cartoon by Eddie Germano. Richard Nixon and a large grouip of men, including Nelson Rockefeller, Ronald Reagan, and George Romney, have been fighting. Each has been wounded, but Nixon is the winner. The...
From the AAEC Editorial Cartoon Collection. Cartoon by Eldon Pletcher. In the jungle in Vietnam, an American soldier is on duty lying at the entrance of an open bunker holding a machine gun. Across the top of the bunker entrance are the words,...
Photograph of students lying on mattresses outside the ticket office, waiting to buy football tickets. The photograph is also found on page 142 of Chester M. Morgan's Dearly bought, deeply treasured, published in 1987.
From the AAEC Editorial Cartoon Collection. Cartoon by Eddie Germano. A large book is labeled "Wave of published memoirs by late Pres. Kennedy associates." A man labeled "Dedicated officials" is lying flat between the pages of the book, with arms...
Certificate of survey for a 130 acre tract of land in the Natchez District owned by John Burnet. The survey was conducted by William Vousdan on land 45 miles north of the Fort of Natchez lying along Bayou Pierre in what is now Claiborne County,...
Printed committee report, dated 1 December 1818, on the question of prohibiting Choctaw Indian settlement on the west bank of the Mississippi River until the tribe ceded to the United States the lands lying east of the Mississippi.
From the AAEC Editorial Cartoon Collection. Cartoon by Gene Basset. People carrying a sledge hammer, bat, board with nail, paint can, and a flag labeled "Red guards" are walking away from the ruined storefront of the "Peking Book Shop." The window...
From the AAEC Editorial Cartoon Collection; Cartoon by Eddie Germano. President Lyndon Johnson is lying in bed awake counting sheep which are jumping a fence. The sheep are labeled "Shriver, Humphrey, Kennedy, etc."
From the AAEC Editorial Cartoon Collection. Cartoon by Eldon Pletcher. Two 55-gallon drums are in the foreground at the edge of a body of water, and in the background are other drums. All drums show marks that indicate corrosion. A drum in the...
From the AAEC Editorial Cartoon Collection. Cartoon by John Riedell. Robert F. Kennedy is dressed as a doctor and is standing beside a hospital bed. In one hand, Kennedy holds a human heart labeled "Dissent." Ho Chi Minh is lying in the hospital...
cartoon by Ed Valtman; Ford is lying on a couch talking to a reporter who is writing in a notebook. There is a long line of reporters standing behind the couch writing in notebooks as well.
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...
cartoon by Ed Valtman; A group of cowboys are standing around the fence watching a cowboy labeled "stock prices" getting thrown from a wild, bucking bull labeled "Stock Market." A ticker-tape machine by the fence is shown with a worried facial...
