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103d Infantry Division, 411th Regiment, Co. G Photograph
8” x 20” photograph, 17” x 36” laminated copy of photograph, and handwritten, 6-page list of soldiers in photograph.
103d Infantry Division Collection
Adams County Broadside
The Adams County Broadside collection contains one article titled “Paul Johnson Murdered!”, which recounts the alleged murder of Paul Johnson—owner of Selma Plantation in Natchez, Mississippi—by Ed Carter, one of Johnson’s African American tenants. This collection would be particularly important for researchers studying Southern plantations, sharecropping, and interracial relationships in the South in the late nineteenth or early twentieth century.
Adams County Police and Miscellaneous County Records
The bulk of the collection contains various items and documents relating to the various activities of the Adams County Board of Police that were generated between 1840-1842 and 1850-1856. Warrants for payment to Constable Peter Laurence, road and bridge maintenance reports, and sundry license applications make up most of the collection, but there are also documents relating to the county alms house and allegiance oaths by Board of Police members.
John Q. Adams Letters
Victoria Gray Adams Papers
Materials relating to her life-time of civil rights and human rights activities.
Sandra E. Adickes Papers
Materials relating to her life-time of civil rights and human rights activities.
Aerospace Photography Training Collection
Student study guides and workbooks from the Department of Aerospace Photography Training, Photo Science Branch designed for Air Training Command (ATC) course use.
Samuel Andrew Agnew Diaries
Diaries of farmer, teacher, minister in North Mississippi, 46 volumes.
Garret Smith Ainsworth Papers
Wiley Ainsworth World War I Letters
This collection consists primarily of letters written by Wiley Ainsworth to Celia Tullos during his service in World War I. Also in the collection is a research paper written by history student, Robert Magee, documenting Ainsworth's experiences through his letters. In addition, there are photographs of Wiley and Celia Ainsworth.
Creighton Allen Collection
Creighton Allen, born in Macon, Mississippi, was a pianist and composer. The collection contains a scrapbook, correspondence, sheet music and miscellaneous documents.
E.A. Allen Leaf River Masonic Lodge No. 19 Letter
Original letter, encased in hard transparent plastic, for E. A. Allen, member of Leaf River Masonic Lodge No. 19, located in Jones County, Mississippi, dated January 8, 1873. It appears to be a letter accepting Allen’s resignation from the lodge. It is signed by the Secretary, last name Mixon.
American Civil Liberties Union, Southern Regional Office, Records
Amite County Tavern Keepers (1824 Term) Record
The collection contains one item, a list of persons who had obtained a tavern license for the 1824 term in Amite County.
Joseph Reid Anderson Letter
Letter from Anderson, president of Tredegar Iron Works in Richmond, Virginia to New York firm of Niel, Davidson & Co., relating to payment of bill.
Carl F. Andre Writings
Manuscript materials of Carl F. Andre, writer for the Northside Sun in Jackson, Mississippi.
Alfred P. Andrews Sylvester Magee Research Collection
The collection includes materials collected and produced by A. P. Andrews, in his effort to substantiate Sylvester Magee’s claim to have been an adult enslaved man that served in the Civil War. The collection includes correspondence, newspaper clippings and journal articles, research notes produced by Andrews, photographs, and reel-to-reel tapes of oral histories of Magee and some of his family members.
Annual Report of Southern Railway Company in Mississippi, Office Copies
3 handwritten & typewritten preliminary copies of published serial Annual Report of Southern Railway Company in Mississippi, 1916-1918; and 2 paperbound, handwritten "Corporate" copies of selected pages of Annual report on the statistics of railways in the United States, the Interstate Commerce Commission for the year ending ..., 1918-1919.
Alfred A. Appling Railroad Surveyor Papers
A unique and extremely detailed first-hand visual and textual record of railroad fieldwork in the early years of the 20th-century.
John G. Armistead Collection
Manuscripts of novels and related papers by Mississippi author.
Danny Arnold / Don't Look Back Motion Picture Script
Movie script for Don't Look Back: The Story of Leroy 'Satchel' Paige, a film that was shot in Hattiesburg, Mississippi during the summer of 1980. The movie became a 1981 American made-for-television biographical film directed by Richard A. Colla and based on Paige's autobiography. It stared Louis Gossett Jr. and Beverly Todd.
Col. Grover Ashley Papers
Files related to Col. Ashley’s time as Director of Cook Library at the University of Southern Mississippi.
Woodrow “Woodie” Assaf Papers
Materials that document the life and career of radio and television personality, Woodie Assaf.
O.V. Austin Papers
Letters, photographs, and other materials reflecting his personal life as well as his association with Mississippi Normal College.
Ewart A. Autry Typescript
The stories in this collection may be of interest to students of literature, religion, sociology, and anthropology, in that they provide anecdotal tales associated with traditional values, which reflect the ideas held by a southern, white, educated, minister writing about his perceptions of life in rural northern Mississippi from the early 1900's through the 1970's.
Nelson H. Bailey Letters
Letters about his Civil War experiences from Virginia and Delaware.
Jeff Balfour Collection
This collection contains photographs, slides, postcards, and memoirs of Mississippi.
Frank D. Barber Papers
The Frank D. Barber Papers consist of campaign materials from Barber’s bid for the Mississippi State Senate in 1959, six issues of Southern Exposure from 1952-1953, and materials relating to the conferring university status on Mississippi Southern College in 1962. This collection is of particular interest to researchers studying Mississippi politicians and the history of the University of Southern Mississippi.
S.H. Barrett Letter
Original letter written in 1894 from Meridian, Mississippi, requesting a supply of paper and envelopes to be sent to Corinth, Mississippi.