From the AAEC Editorial Cartoon Collection. Cartoon by Jack Jurden. In the foreground of the cartoon, Richard Nixon is tied to railroad tracks with rope that is labeled "Demo Congress." The tracks extend toward the horizon where a large train is...
From the AAEC Editorial Collection. Cartoon by Eldon Pletcher. Two men dressed as railroad engineers are sitting on top of a railway car that is part of a longer train. The car, labeled "85-day regular session," is the next to last, followed by the...
One-page document dated December 4, 1871 and drafted by the Mississippi State Legislature requesting return of Federal lands first granted in 1856 for the purpose of building the Gulf and Ship Island Railroad. The Gulf and Ship Island Railroad was...
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. Map of Mississippi by J.H. Colton. Map shows counties, towns, roads, and railroads. Longitude given in degrees west from Washington and Greenwich, England.
Customs form for the Confederate States of America recording the shipment of whiskey via the Mississippi Central Railroad to J. P. Atkinson at Holly Springs, Mississippi, dated 13 May 1861.
From the Map Collection. Map showing the counties of Arkansas, Mississippi, and Louisiana from 1870. Also shows cities, towns, and railroads. "Entered according to Act of Congress in the year 1870 by S. Augustus Mitchell, Jr. in the Clerk's Office...
From the Major-Sowers Saw Mill Photographs Collection. Photograph of a side view of a railroad car piled high with timber to replace the decking on "Old Ironsides" The USS Constitution. The lumber came from the Tallahala site in Perry County.
From the Major-Sowers Saw Mill Photographs Collection. Photograph of a side view of a railroad car piled high with timber to replace the decking on "Old Ironsides" The USS Constitution. The lumber came from the Tallahala site in Perry County.
From the AAEC Editorial Collection. Cartoon by Eldon Pletcher. Ronald Reagan, wearing a train engineer's cap, drives a long train, the engine of which is labeled "Recession line." George H. W. Bush, also wearing an engineer's cap, is in the engine...
From the Thigpen (S.G.) Papers. Photograph of a tanker train car with a tung oil banner draped across front. Two men are standing on the train holding a banner on each side. Four men stand together on the left (identified as Alex Martin, M. P....
From the Hattiesburg Historical Photographs; Photograph of guards from Camp Shelby posted at the railroad bridge over Leaf River to protect it from sabotage during WWI. Several young boys are in the foreground of the image; 5 x 7
From the Robert C. Waller Photographs. Photograph (positive image of a negative) of Hattiesburg City Hall. A marker for the Illinois Central Railroad was dedicated in front of the building in 1951.
From the Major-Sowers Saw Mill Photographs Collection. Photograph of a 50 ton Heisler locomotive pulling flat cars loaded with logs to replace decking on "Old Ironsides"; 3 x 5
A Bill: To be entitled, "An Act to provide for keeping in repair the railroads of the Confederate States necessary for the transportation of troops and Government supplies." By Mr. Clapp; Read first and second times, laid on the table and ordered...
From the Robert C. Waller Photographs. Photograph (positive image of a negative) of a train engine at the Illinois Central Railroad crossing at 7th Street.
