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.; Two interviews conducted on June 18, 1992 and March 9, 1993 with Mr. C.B. "Buddie" Newman at his home in Valley Park, Mississippi. Newman was born on May 8, 1921 in Valley Park, Mississippi. In 1942, he left his job with the Southern...
From the Tung Oil Research and Development Collection. Members of the American Tung Oil Association gathered in a conference hall; most are gathered around tables, while some are on a panel.
From the Tung Oil Research and Development Collection. Members of the American Tung Oil Association gathered around a swimming pool posing for a photograph.
From the AAEC Editorial Cartoon Collection. Cartoon by John Stampone. A river of oil, labeled "U.S. oil depot raids," spills from a hill in the upper right background of the cartoon. At the source of the oil, smoke rises. The oil flows toward the...
Oral history.; Mrs. Lorita Nelson Jones was born on July 19, 1909, in Biloxi, Mississippi. Her mother's family were originally from New Orleans, Louisiana, of Creole heritage; her grandmother, Olivia Lewis, spoke only in French. Her father Lamar...
From the AAEC Editorial Cartoon Collection. Cartoon by John Knudsen. An offshore oil rig against the horizon flies a banner labeled "Pornography industry." An oil spill extends from the rig toward the shore at the foreground of the cartoon. The oil...
From the Thigpen (S.G.) Papers. Photograph of a train delivering tung oil paint. Two men inside a train car behind rows of paint hold a sign reading, “Thermolyzed Tung Oil Paint, made by the O’brien Varnish Co, South Bend, Ind. Shipped to...
Oral history.; An interview conducted on May 17, 2006 with Ronald J. Baker, a commercial fisherman in Biloxi, MS. Mr. Baker describes the hurricane's impact on his neighborhood, his personal business, and the shrimping industry in general.
Oral history.; Interview conducted on September 17, 1980 with the Honorable Tony Byrne, former mayor of Natchez, Mississippi at his office in the Natchez City Hall. Byrne was born on May 18, 1936 in Natchez, Mississippi. He attended Mississippi...
Oral history.; Mr. Aaron Morgan was born December 18, 1909. He attended Oak Hill School through the seventh grade and then attended Auburn Consolidated Schools, driving a covered wagon with a pair of mules as a school ";bus."; He finished high...
Oral history.; Interview conducted on June 26, 1979 with Mr. William J. Simmons at his office in Jackson, Mississippi. Simmons was born in 1916 in Utica, Mississippi. He attended Millsaps College and Mississippi College, graduating from the...
Oral history.; Two interviews conducted on August 23 and October 30, 1974 with Mr. Joe Reyer at his home in Poplarville, Mississippi. Reyer was born in 1893 in Pearl River County, Mississippi. He attended an agricultural high school, now Pearl...
From the Tung Oil Research and Development Collection. James Scott Long standing behind an office desk; various portraits decorate the wall behind him.
From the Tung Oil Research and Development Collection. Four scientists in the PATRDL laboratory. From left to right: a man standing behind a table writing on a clipboard, a woman sitting at a table working with equipment, a man standing and...
