From the Alexander Melvorne Jackson Papers. Photograph of Miguel Otero, Mary Blackwood Otero (Miguel Otero's wife), and an enslaved Black girl, photograph taken circa 1860s. The Oteros are sitting at a table with tea cups on it while a young Black...
From the Goodyear Yellow Pine Company Photographs. Photograph of skidder railroad track removal at the Goodyear Yellow Pine Company of Picayune, Mississippi. Work crew is taking up railroad ties and loading them on a railroad car. The photograph...
From the Goodyear Yellow Pine Company Photographs. Photograph of the log train of the Goodyear Yellow Pine Company of Picayune, Mississippi. A railroad crane is loading logs. The photograph was taken by John N. Teunisson of New Orleans, Louisiana.
From the Randall (Herbert) Freedom Summer Photographs. Peggy Jean Connor in her place of business, Jean's Beauty Shop, at 510 Mobile Street in Hattiesburg, Mississippi, across the street from COFO-Hattiesburg headquarters at 507 Mobile Street,...
From the Goodyear Yellow Pine Company Photographs. Photograph of skidder timber harvesting operations of the Goodyear Yellow Pine Company of Picayune, Mississippi. Railroad car crane loading logs. One of the men standing on the logs is possibly...
From the Goodyear Yellow Pine Company Photographs. Photograph of the mill pond and sawmill at the Goodyear Yellow Pine Company of Picayune, Mississippi. A corner of the mill pond with a close view of the log conveyor running into the sawmill...
From the Goodyear Yellow Pine Company Photographs. Photograph of skidder timber harvesting operations of the Goodyear Yellow Pine Company of Picayune, Mississippi. Large skidder, work crew, and possibly L.O. Crosby posing in foreground. The...
From the Hazelton (Margaret J.) Freedom Summer Collection; One black-and-white photograph, taken by Rev. Frazer Thomason, of a community meeting held in a church in Clarksdale, Mississippi. Participants hold hands as they sing "We Shall...
From the Goodyear Yellow Pine Company Photographs. Photograph of skidder timber harvesting operations of the Goodyear Yellow Pine Company of Picayune, Mississippi. Railroad car crane loading logs. Possibly L.O. Crosby standing on logs watching. The...
From the Hattiesburg Historical Photographs; Photograph of employees posing with new Ford automobiles in front of Barron Motors. A lone horse and wagon can be seen in the distance; negative only; 1 1/2 x 1 1/2
From the Postcard Collection. Postcard of The Shell Road in Biloxi, Mississippi. Copyright 1901 by Detroit Photographic Co.; Postmarked 2-13-1906 9:00 pm, Biloxi and 2-14-1906 8:30 am, New Orleans; 5 x 3
From the Hattiesburg Historical Photographs; Photograph of several African-American workers who demonstrate their expertise, while working on the tracks of the New Orleans & Northeastern Railroad, circa late 1940s or early 1950s. 5" x 5"
From the Camp (David A.) Letters. Letter from David A. Camp, captain in Company D of the 16th Battalion of Georgia Calvary (also called the Georgia Partisan Rangers), to his wife Anna Camp. In his letter dated 20 April 1863, Camp writes about the...
Contract signed between private tutor William Westerman and representatives of twelve families in Warren County, Mississippi agreeing that Westerman will teach sixteen children of their children. The families include the Hyland, Rawls, and Gibson...
From the Ellin (Joseph and Nancy) Freedom Summer Collection; Typewritten letter from the Hattiesburg, Mississippi, Council of Federated Organizations (COFO) staff, dated December 28, 1964. Informs friends of COFO of the plans to send 1,000 people...
Letter, dated 1 November 1872, written by Joseph Reid Anderson, president and owner of Tredegar Iron Works in Richmond, Virginia to the New York firm of Messrs. Niel, Davidson & Co. relating to the payment of a bill.
From the Margaret Thatch Hinton Collection. Dinner menu for the "Know Mississippi Better" train on 27 August 1927, New Orleans, Louisiana, to El Paso, Texas, on the Southern Pacific Lines.
From the Margaret Thatch Hinton Collection. Breakfast menu for the "Know Mississippi Better" train on 27 August 1927, New Orleans, Louisiana, to El Paso, Texas, on the Southern Pacific Lines.
From the Margaret Thatch Hinton Collection. Lunch menu for the "Know Mississippi Better" train on 26 August 1927, New Orleans, Louisiana, to El Paso, Texas, on the Southern Pacific Lines.
From the Margaret Thatch Hinton Collection. Lunch menu for the "Know Mississippi Better" train on 27 August 1927, New Orleans, Louisiana, to El Paso, Texas, on the Southern Pacific Lines.
