Oral history.; Interview conducted on July 30, 1980 with Mr. Erle Johnston at his home in Forest, Mississippi. Johnston was born on October 10, 1917 in Garyville, Louisiana. In 1941, he moved Forest, Mississippi and bought the fledgling newspaper,...
Oral history.; Interview conducted on August 13, 1993 with Mr. Erle Johnston at his home in Forest, Mississippi. Johnston was born on October 10, 1917 in Garyville, Louisiana. In 1941, he moved Forest, Mississippi and bought the fledgling...
Oral history.; Interview conducted on November 1, 1977 with R.B. Layton. Mr. Layton was involved in the Jackson Public Schools as a teacher, a principal, and a curriculum director from the late 1930s to the middle 1970s. Layton was director of...
Oral history.; Interview conducted on October 24, 1978 with Mr. Nathaniel H. Lewis at his home in McComb, Mississippi. Lewis was born in McComb, Mississippi. In 1928, Lewis and his father organized the McComb Independent Lodge NO. 846 of the...
Oral history.; Discusses her father, Erle Johnston. Describes his relations with Ross Barnett and his work with the State Sovereignty Commission, which she denies was ever a spy organization.
Oral history.; Interview conducted on January 5, 1978 with Miss Florence Mars at her home in Philadelphia, Mississippi. Mars was born on January 1, 1923 in Philadelphia, Mississippi. She studied at Millsaps College and University of Mississippi,...
Oral history.; Mr. Harry A. Martin was born in Clarke County, Mississippi, on July 20, 1925. Mr. Martin became active in Four-H Club and in Future Farmers of America during his elementary and high school years. After graduation, Mr. Martin got a...
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.; Interview conducted on March 23, 1977 with Mr. Jimmy Swan. Swan was born in Cullman County, Alabama. He ran away from home when he was thirteen or fourteen and ended up in Wayne County, Mississippi. Swan sang in nightclubs and...
Oral history.; Born on January 27, 1966, in Natchez, Mississippi, to Elisha and Vera Wilkins, Ms. Juanita Wilkins was the eleventh of twelve children. She was graduated from high school in Natchez, and left two weeks later, moving to Dallas,...
Oral history.; Interview conducted on November 4, 1993 with Joseph E. Wroten (born 1925). Mr. Wroten became famous as one of only two Mississippi House Representatives who voted in favor of allowing blacks to enroll at the University of Mississippi.
Oral history.; Kathleen (Kat) Bergeron was born on April 23, 1950. She attended Gulfport East High School and the W. Page Pitt School of Journalism at Marshal University in Huntington, West Virginia. From 1995 to 1996, Ms. Bergeron attended...
From the Louis Slobodkin Papers.; Cardboard tabletop display created by the publisher featuring illustrations by Louis Slobodkin for Marguarite Glendinning's Gertie the Horse Who Thought and Thought (1951). 14" x 10.5"
From the de Grummond Children's Books collection. Published in London and Edinburgh by Thomas Nelson & Sons, between 1880 and 1892. Cover title. In verse. "Untearable--mounted on cloth"--Cover. Date based on use of "untearable--mounted on...
From the de Grummond Children's Books collection. By Madame d'Aulnoy. Published in New York by McLoughlin Bros., Inc., circa 1877. Cover title. Includes publisher's advertisement. Part of Aunt Louisa's big picture series.
From the de Grummond Children's Books collection. Published in Edinburgh by Oliver & Boyd, Tweeddale-Court, circa 1820. Pages printed one side only. Publisher's booklist on rear cover. Tan stiff paper wrappers. Page numbering is inconsistent.
From the de Grummond Children's Books collection. Published in New York by McLoughlin Bros., Inc., 30 Beekman Street, between 1863-1870. Title and imprint from cover. "Date inferred from publisher's address. Cf. American Antiquarian Society." ...
From the de Grummond Children's Books collection. Published in London by Frederick Warne, circa 1870s. Cover title. Publisher's ads on back cover. Part of Warne's Excelsior London toy books: New Series.
From the de Grummond Children's Books collection. Published in New York by McLoughlin Bros., Inc., circa 1880s. Title, imprint, and series statements from cover. P. [2] and [3] of cover included in pagination. Printed on linen. Alphabet on p....
From the de Grummond Children's Books collection. Published in New York by McLoughlin Bros., Inc., copyright 1882. Illustrations by Kate Greenaway. Title and imprint from cover. "Picture books for little children."--Publisher's advertisement,...
