From the Map Collection. A maps showing a section of shoreline with two ports and the position of two cutters. "The Form of Cruising Off ACAPULCA on the COAST of MEXICO in the SOUTH SEAS, in the Year 1742. by his Majesty's Ships, Centurion,...
From the Theodore G. Bilbo Papers. The fifth column conspiracy in America authentic map and directory. A map of communist, Nazi, and Fascist headquarters in the United States, compiled and edited by Joseph P. Kamp and A. Cloyd Gill in 1941.
From the AAEC Editorial Cartoon Collection. Cartoon by Eldon Pletcher. On a map of Louisiana, the northern part of the state is labeled "North Louisiana," and the southern part is labeled, "South Louisiana." At Baton Rouge, the legislature building...
From the Map Collection. A map showing a bay with sea floor composition noted. The three major features drawn are a salt lagoon, the Hill of Petaplan, and The White Friers. Scale of two English miles.
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 Map Collection. A color map of Florida showing existing and proposed water routes through the state. Some cities are marked. Includes three sections showing Pensacola, Tallahassee, and the Harbour of St. Augustine in detail. Across the top...
From the AAEC Editorial Cartoon Collection. Cartoon by John Knudsen. Leonid Brezhnev, holding a club and labeled "USSR," is running toward a cat labeled "Czechoslovakia" that is crouched before a bowl of milk labeled "Freedom." Milk drips from the...
From the Map Collection. A map of the South American States of New Grenada and Venezuela. Scale of 100 geographical miles and 100 British miles. "A Fullerton & Co. Edinburgh, London, and Dublin. Engraved by J. Bartholomew, Edin."
From the Map Collection. A map of South America. Scale of 500 Geographical miles and 500 British miles. Areas are categorized by British, French, and Dutch colonies as well as Native States.
From the AAEC Editorial Cartoon Collection. Cartoon by Eldon Pletcher. A map of Louisiana is the backdrop for this cartoon. A man whose head and neck are a pipe wrench sits at the edge of a manufacturing facility. The sign above the factory reads,...
From the AAEC Editorial Cartoon Collection. Cartoon by Eldon Pletcher. A man dressed in a Colonial general's uniform is driving a car labeled, "Long-standing La. tidelands dispute." Luggage labeled "37 1/2% movement" is on the car's trunk. The...
From the Mantinband (Rabbi Charles) Papers; Photograph of Rabbi Charles Mantinband speaking to a group of African American students. He is pictured showing a world map as he speaks.
From the Map Collection. A map showing a bay on the coast of Chili. The orientation of each piece of land is relative to the center of the map. "Discovered by a Victualler to COMMODORE ANSON'S Squadron in the SOUTH SEA, 1741. This ISLAND is call'd...
Oral history.; An interview conducted on October 22, 2005 with Wendy Frost. A registered nurse from Findlay, Ohio, Ms. Frost was a volunteer with the American Red Cross in South Mississippi following Hurricane Katrina.
Oral history.; An interview conducted on April 26, 2006 with Ursula Daxecker. A native of Austria, Daxecker came to New Orleans as a graduate student. After her home was flooded in Hurricane Katrina, Daxecker moved to Northern Virginia. She has...
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.; An interview conducted on May 19, 2008 with Laura Clare Thompson Creel. A life-long resident of Biloxi, Mrs. Creel recounts her family history and experience dealing with hurricanes, including Hurricane Katrina.
Oral history.; An interview conducted on September 23, 2009 with Robert Weaver, the Sand Beach Director and Roads Manager for Harrison County, who describes the 2005 hurricane season's destruction across the American South.
