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Garret Smith Ainsworth Papers
Collection
Identifier: M194
Scope and Contents
This collection consists of Garrett Smith Ainsworth's memorandum book (diary), October 2, 1860-Dec. 31, 1861; diary, Jan. 1, 1862-April 28, 1863; and pocket diary, Aug. 24, 1862-April 27, 1863. They mainly recount his experiences while a private in Company A, 15th Illinois Volunteer Regiment, United States Army. Included are details of conditions in camp, particularly accidents and illness among the troops, especially the malaria from which Ainsworth suffered. He discusses day-to-day...
Dates:
1860-1863
Found in:
Historical Manuscripts and Photographs
Cherry Burns Collection
Collection
Identifier: M597
Abstract
Materials from Cherry Burns’ world travels.
Dates:
1926- circa 2005
Found in:
Historical Manuscripts and Photographs
Eugene V. Cameron/USS Biloxi Collection
Collection
Identifier: M480
Abstract
Eugene V. Cameron served aboard the U.S.S. Biloxi during his tenure in the U.S. Navy during World War II. The U.S.S. Biloxi was commissioned in 1943 and served in the Pacific Ocean. The ship was decommissioned in 1946.
Dates:
circa 1944-1998
Found in:
Historical Manuscripts and Photographs
Claude E. Fike World War II Diary
Collection
Identifier: M275
Abstract
Diary, ship's log, memoirs, correspondence, memorabilia concerning his service in the U.S. Navy with the Seventh Fleet near New Guinea.
Dates:
June 1941-August 1993
Found in:
Historical Manuscripts and Photographs
Mary Winton Pulley Papers
Collection
Identifier: M92
Scope and Contents
The bulk of the Mary Winton Pulley Papers consists of diaries dating from 1936 until Mary Pulley's death in 1956. She writes of her daily activities as registrar for Mississippi Southern College, as well as about family members, gardening activities, friends and social events, obligations as a sorority sponsor, genealogy, and travel.Names of colleagues and friends, places of interest, and events of the times are mentioned throughout the 20 year span of her diaries. She writes of...
Dates:
1876-1956
Found in:
Historical Manuscripts and Photographs
Susan Hasalo Sojourner Collection
Unprocessed Collection
Identifier: AM11-013
Scope and Contents
Materials cover the feminist movement, a farm co-op, and Sue’s artistic endeavors.
Dates:
circa 1960s-2000s
Found in:
Historical Manuscripts and Photographs
Klaus & Elisabeth C. Speer Papers
Collection
Identifier: M352
Abstract
Personal diaries of Elisabeth Speer, family Christmas letters, and scrapbook of newspaper clippings concerning Civil Rights Movement in Mississippi.
Dates:
circa 1963-1965
Found in:
Historical Manuscripts and Photographs
Thomas Spight Letters
Collection
Identifier: M47
Scope and Contents
This collection consists of fifteen handwritten letters, three pages from Thomas Spight's diary, two envelopes and a death announcement for Mattie Gilliam. Eight of the letters are dated from December 14, 1860, to February 5, 1865, and were written by Thomas Spight to Virginia Barnett, his cousin, whom he later married. Spight wrote the letters while serving in the Confederate Army during the Civil War. The letters were written from encampments in Mississippi, Kentucky, Georgia, and possibly...
Dates:
June 1858-November 1887
Found in:
Historical Manuscripts and Photographs
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- Adams, Victoria Gray, 1926-2006 1
- Ainsworth, Garrett Smith, 1839-1863 1
- Beech, Bob, Reverend (Robert L.), -2008 1
- Ben-Ami, David Z., Rabbi, 1924-2008 1
- Burns , Cherry Lou Fellner , 1926- 1
- Cook, R.C., Dr., 4th President of Mississippi Southern College (now the University of Southern Mississippi) (Robert Cecil), 1903-1979 1
- Fike, Claude E., Dr., University Archivist and Director of McCain Library & Archives; Dean of the College of Arts, 1920-1994 1
- George, J. B., Dr., 3rd President of Mississippi Southern College (now the University of Southern Mississippi) (Jennings Burton), 1893-1971 1
- Hamer, Fannie Lou, 1917-1977 1
- Lelyveld, Arthur J., Rabbi, 1913-1996 1
- McCain, William D., Dr., 5th President of Mississippi Southern College (now the University of Southern Mississippi) (William David), 1907-1993 1
- Pulley, Mary Winton, 1885-1956 1
- Sojourner, Sue [Lorenzi] (Susan Sadoff Lorenzi Hasalo), 1941-2020 1
- Spight, Thomas, 1841-1924 1 + ∧ less
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