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A collection of correspondence, photographs, slides, newsletters, advertisements, brochures, manuals, press releases, reports, scrapbooks, in-house publications, files and other material that document the history and activities of the Methodist Hospital/Wesley Medical Center through its various incarnations.

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Organizational records.

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Script, VHS, book, photographs, and memorabilia relating to the major motion film, Mississippi Burning.

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Organizational records.

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Administrative and historical records of the Mississippi Library Association (MLA).

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Materials pertaining to the proposed Mississippi Superconducting Super Collider project.

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Bo Morgan holds a Ph.D. in history from Memphis State University. He studies the history of the American South and is a leading expert on Mississippi history. He teaches courses on the South after Reconstruction, Mississippi, the theory and philosophy of history, and intellectual history. Dr. Morgan, the former chair of the Department of History at Delta State University, joined USM's Department of History in the fall of 2009.

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Bulletins, news clippings, plays, textbooks, and photographs from her teaching career.

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Materials in this collection span more than a century of activities relating to Jessie Morrison and her family. Most of the materials have been photocopied, due to water and insect damage.

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This collection contains clippings, correspondence, memorabilia, menus, invitations, media, scrapbooks, photographs, speeches and planning materials for The Mystic Krewe of Zeus. The materials primarily date 1924-2020.

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Business ledger from Natchez, Mississippi, ca. 1820-1827. The collection also includes letters and other material.

Scope and Contents The Natchez Trace Research Collection consists of photocopies of research materials collected and prepared by historians of the Natchez Trace Parkway and stored at Parkway headquarters in Tupelo, Mississippi. Materials in the collection were obtained from United States government agencies/departments such as the War Department and Bureau of Indian Affairs; from research collections at Louisiana State University, Tennessee Historical Society Archives, Mississippi Department of Archives and...

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Records that document activities of the Hattiesburg, Mississippi Chapter of the National Organization for Women (NOW). Included are office files, by-laws and amendments, computer print-outs of registered votersin Hattiesburg and Forrest County, newspaper clippings, audio and video cassette recordings pertaining to the Equal Rights Amendment (ERA), and copies of The National NOW Times (the official journal of NOW).

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1. "Hervas Laboratories of American Linguistics" Bulletin 6

Analysis of a Text in the Apalachi Language – (Muskhogean Stock)

By Noxon Toomey

St. Louis, MO, March, 1918

2. "The Taensa Grammar and Dictionary. A Deception Exposed"

Reprint from the American Antiquarian

By Daniel G. Brinton, M.D., March, 1885

3. "The Mississippi Choctaw Indians"

Choctaw Indian Agency

Philadelphia, MS, no date

Abstract The John Frederick Nau Papers is a collection of correspondence, newsletters, and other records relating to Dr. John Frederick Nau’s own articles and writings, and his involvement with the Mississippi Association for Retarded Children, M.A.R.C. Also included in this collection are manuscript histories of the U.S.M. Department of Philosophy and Religion, Danforth Chapel, and M.M. Roberts Stadium. This collection would be of interest to those studying the University of Southern Mississippi’s...

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This collection consists of thirteen volumes of journals and ledgers documenting the financial condition, accounts and related activities of the J. J. Newman Lumber Company which operated in Hattiesburg, Mississippi between approximately 1894 and 1943. It is not a complete set of the company's books, but some information is available for almost every year of the company's existence. The largest gaps for which no information is available are 1899-1902 and 1907-1908.

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Collection of issues of primarily American newspapers, including commemorative editions of papers published in Mississippi, Northern and Southern papers covering the Civil War, the Camp Shelby "Reveille", and others.

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Various materials from Walter P. Nilsson’s service time and the operations of the U.S.S. Biloxi in 1943-1944.

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This collection contains materials generated and/or collected by Perry County Citizens Against Nuclear Disposal, Inc. (PC-CAND). This collection should be of interest to those researching any aspect of nuclear waste disposal.

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Correspondence, photographs, memorabilia, genealogical materials.

Form of Material Log book maintained by Hamer Ogden, Superintendent of Methodist Hospital, from 1921 to 1958. It contains a brief summary of the business of the hospital for each fiscal year beginning in 1922 and ending in 1958. Data includes gross earnings, operating expenses, cash receipts, cash disbursements, cash in bank, accounts payable, free/unpaid work, deaths, births, average daily patients, cost per patient per day, average stay per patient, total operations, students in training, as well as other...

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This collection contains materials related to Powell Ogletree.

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The majority of the collection centers around Jeremiah Joseph "Jerry" O'Keefe and his political career.

Other materials include: photo album & scrapbook of Mary Cahill O'Keefe; photo album of Teresa Slattery O'Keefe; Jerry O'Keefe Legislative scrapbook; Jerry O'Keefe Political Career scrapbooks (2); Collected newspapers re Biloxi Mayor Hart Chinn and John A. O'Keefe, his successor; various plaques, awards, and proclamations.

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Scrapbooks, minutes, yearbooks, photographs, and early histories of the Original Home and Garden Club of Hattiesburg, Mississippi, 1927-1990.

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This collection includes records of Orpheus Club activities from 1926 to 1986.

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Recipies from various regions of Italy and other materials given with large cookbook donation.

Scope and Contents This collection consists of information concerning David Owen's involvement in the Mississippi Freedom Summer Project in 1964. Forms of material present include personal correspondence, newspaper clippings, and information concerning various civil rights organizations. Also included are a photograph of David Owen and several issues of The Southern Patriot. Of particular interest is a newspaper clipping detailing a physical attack against David Owen, Lawrence Spears, and Rabbi Arthur...

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The Selby Parker collection consists of one essay, a typescript, and miscellaneous articles written by and pertaining to the Mississippi author and former Youth Court Counselor of Hattiesburg, Mississippi. This collection is of particular interest to researchers studying the 1960s Civil Rights Movement, Mississippi authors and journalists, the University of Southern Mississippi, and local Hattiesburg history.

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Organizational records.

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Organizational records.