From the Robert C. Waller Photographs. Photograph (positive image of a negative) of a display of Bake-Rite shortening at the 11th Avenue grocery store on Hardy Street..
From the AAEC Editorial Cartoon Collection. Cartoon by Richard Locher. Count Dracula, labeled "Big oil," stands over a man and woman in their bed. The window behind him is open, and the sun is shining into the room. Dracula is looking over his...
From the AAEC Editorial Cartoon Collection. Cartoon by Eldon Pletcher. Louisiana governor Dave Treen, dressed as a farmer, is standing in his plowed rows. Behind him is a sign in a row labeled "State needs $." Treen is holding a large book labeled...
From the AAEC Editorial Cartoon Collection. Cartoon by Richard Locher. Ichabod Crane, labeled "Oil costs," is riding a horse at a full gallop. He is being chased by the Headless horseman, labeled "Gov't [government] control." The Headless horseman...
From the AAEC Editorial Cartoon Collection; Cartoon by Merle Cunnington. A man labeled "Arab oil cartel" sits on the ornate saddle of a camel. He is leaning back and has his mouth open wide. He is holding a large sphere labeled "The Western world"...
From the AAEC Editorial Cartoon Collection. Cartoon by Eldon Pletcher. A man labeled "Chrysler" wearing a patched suit holds out an empty mug like someone begging for money. He stands next to a car, in front of which is a sign that reads "More help...
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 AAEC Editorial Cartoon Collection; Cartoon by Hy Rosen. A man wearing Middle Eastern/Arabic-style clothing labeled "O.P.E.C." dangles a bone labeled, "Oil price cut stories" in front of a dog with its head drawn to look like a sphere...
From the AAEC Editorial Cartoon Collection. Cartoon by Eldon Pletcher. Louisiana Governor Dave Treen stands on the edge of an unfinished bridge labeled, "La.'s capital improvement needs." The bridge extends no further than the river's edge. Treen...
From the Ellin (Joseph and Nancy) Freedom Summer Collection; Palmers Crossing Declaration of Independence emphasizes parts of the United States Constitution that pertain to human and civil rights. Also gives a general list of grievances from...
From the AAEC Editorial Cartoon Collection. Cartoon by Eldon Pletcher. Louisiana governor Dave Treen is driving a van labeled, "La. Dept. of Revenue." All around him are signs reading, "OPEC...Oil cut $5...Mexicoil...Price cut." He says, "Down,...
From the AAEC Editorial Cartoon Collection; Cartoon by Eldon Pletcher; Edwards and the Legislature are dressed as schoolboys and playing marbles. Edwards says, "I'll trade you four cents on the gasoline tax for one real estate tax, a soft drink...
From the AAEC Editorial Cartoon Collection. Cartoon by Eldon Pletcher. An oil barrel is on its side, and Jimmy Carter is on top of it crosswise and face down. Two large clouds are nearby [smoke?], one labeled “Imported oil prices" and the other...
From the Zeman (Zoya) Freedom Summer Collection.; Photograph of the Fifth St. Grocery in Clarksdale, Mississippi, September 1964. A large Falstaff sign is hanging in front of the store.
From the AAEC Editorial Cartoon Collection; Cartoon by Vic Runtz. On a road a man drives a car with "More and more cars" on the grill. He is being followed closely by a second car with "Record fatalities" on the grill, driven by the Grim Reaper (a...
From the AAEC Editorial Cartoon Collection; Cartoon by Ed Valtman. In the foreground, an arm is shown pouring milk into a saucer from a bottle labeled "Milk fund." Many cats are gathering to drink from the saucer. Two cats are labeled "Election"...
From the AAEC Editorial Cartoon Collection. Cartoon by Richard Locher. A farmer in overalls is holding a pail in one hand and a milking stool in the other. He is looking up at a giant cow's udder above him labeled "Milk prices."
From the AAEC Editorial Cartoon Collection. Cartoon by Eldon Pletcher. An Arab man labeled "OPEC" stands on a short stool and rings a bell. He is next to an oil barrel that is placed under a wooden easel with a sign labeled "Give more." A Christmas...
