Materials in this collection were donated by William M. Colmer: First accession-1970. Additional information online at: http://www.lib.usm.edu/legacy/archives/m024.htm
From the AAEC Editorial Cartoon Collection. Cartoon by Eldon Pletcher. Uncle Sam stands in front of a space shuttle ready for launch (attached to Saturn rocket and fuel assembly, upright on the pad). It is labeled "Columbia...First space cargo."...
From the AAEC Editorial Cartoon Collection. Cartoon by John Knudsen. Uncle Sam holds the naked frame of an umbrella labeled "Treaty banning nuclear weapons from outer space." A missile labeled "New Russian orbiting bomb" flies above Uncle Sam.The...
From the AAEC Editorial Cartoon Collection. Cartoon by John Knudsen. The earth is personified with a human face in outer space with several bandages over wounded areas on the sphere. The bandages are labeled, "Vietnam; Cuba; Africa; Captive...
From the AAEC Editorial Cartoon Collection; Cartoon by John Stampone. The earth is shown as the head of a man whose clothes are tattered and torn. He stands with cane in hand on the nose of one of many missiles and looks up at a crescent moon....
Oral history.; Page discusses his family, his experiences as a black physician, the civil rights movement, his work in state politics, and the Mississippi Humanities Council.
From the AAEC Editorial Cartoon Collection; Cartoon by Richard Wallmeyer. A small child wearing one piece pajamas and holding a teddy bear is standing on the surface of the earth looking toward a huge moon in a dark sky. No stars can be seen. An...
From the AAEC Editorial Cartoon Collection. Cartoon by Eldon Pletcher. A frog in a space suit is in a jump so high that he is in outer space, with planets in the background. The frog is holding a paper with the words, "Cost of living index," and...
From the AAEC Editorial Cartoon Collection. Cartoon by Eldon Pletcher. Uncle Sam is holding a piece of paper that reads, "Recent U.S. space successes." He is looking at the moon, which has circles around it to resemble a target. The cartoon caption...
cartoon by John Knudsen; A satellite and three space craft orbit the earth. The space craft have been personified with grinning human faces. One of the craft bears an atomic symbol. A giant piece of paper labeled "Treaty Banning Nuclear Weapons...
From the AAEC Editorial Cartoon Collection; Cartoon by Vic Runtz. Uncle Sam kneels and folds his hands in a posture of prayer at the base of a ladder labeled "Prayers of the people." The ladder stretches far into the night sky toward the moon. The...
From the AAEC Editorial Cartoon Collection. Cartoon by Eldon Pletcher. Apollo 8 flies through space on its way from Earth to the moon. Many planets and other celestial bodies are shown against the expanse of space. In the upper foreground is a...
From the AAEC Editorial Cartoon Collection; Cartoon by Vic Runtz. The Apollo 11 rocket, labeled "Moon walk mission," launches from the pad into the sky labeled "God's universe." Stars and the moon are seen in the sky; the billowing exhaust from the...
From the AAEC Editorial Cartoon Collection; Cartoon by Vic Runtz. The Apollo 8 command module has just splashed into the ocean upon its return from the moon. Waves radiate out from the splashdown. Parachutes are deployed, and a Navy ship approaches...
From the AAEC Editorial Cartoon Collection; Cartoon by Vic Runtz. A child sits on the front porch of a shack in a snowy scene during winter. To the left of the shack is an inoperable vehicle half-buried in the snow. A second child and a cat (artist...
From the AAEC Editorial Cartoon Collection. Cartoon by Eddie Germano. Richard Nixon is standing on top of the earth, shown by latitude and longitude lines at his feet. He is hidden from view, except for his head, by a tall curtain. A sign on the...
From the AAEC Editorial Cartoon Collection; Cartoon by John Riedell. The moon is in the foreground and Earth is in the background. Uncle Sam is standing on Earth (in the United States). He extends his bent, elongated left leg toward the surface of...
From the AAEC Editorial Cartoon Collection; Cartoon by John Stampone. A giant shovel labeled "Benefits for all mankind" has been thrust partway into the soil of the surface of the moon. Against the backdrop of outer space, a spacecraft labeled...
From the AAEC Editorial Cartoon Collection; Cartoon by John Stampone. The earth and the moon have been personified as an elderly bride and groom, labeled "Mother Earth" and "Man-in-the-moon," and are holding hands in a wedding ceremony. An...
Oral history.; An interview conducted on June 18, 2006 with Kai Drobish, a ceramicist and resident of Bay St. Louis. Mr. Drobish discusses his experiences during and after Hurricane Katrina.
