Beauvoir (Biloxi, Miss.).

Form of Material

1. Christmas Dinner menu for Jefferson Davis Beauvoir Confederate Veterans Home (1942)

2. Jean’s Treasure Chest Menu for Good Little Boys and Girls, Weidman’s, Meridian, MS (1954)

3. Menu from The Dock, Vicksburg, MS (1988)

4. Brochure from Tuminello’s, Vicksburg, MS (undated)

5. Brochure from Four Seasons Restaurant, Vicksburg, MS (undated)

6. Menu from Original Sollie’s Hot Tamales, Vicksburg, MS (undated)

Form of Material

Fifteen press photographs of various politicians & locations.

Abstract

This collection contains photographs, slides, postcards, and memoirs of Mississippi.

Abstract Fourteen duplicate video tapes and a copy of the final script for "Beauvoir: Memorial to the Lost Cause," No. 3 in the Magnolia Series produced by Mississippi Gulf Coast Community College (MGCCC). The program covers the history of Beauvoir in Biloxi, Mississippi, the home of Jefferson Davis in his later years, which then became a home for old soldiers who fought for the Confederacy, and finally a public memorial to the life of Jefferson Davis and the Jefferson Davis Presidential Library....

Scope and Contents

This collection consists of records of the Jefferson Davis Soldiers' Home, located at Beauvoir in Biloxi, Mississippi. The bulk of the material dates from 1944 to 1954. It documents the operation of the home and includes records of the home's board of directors and superintendents, as well as payroll and budget records, and inmate files.

Abstract

This collection contains historical materials, children’s books, and various magazines.

Scope and Contents

The collection contains testimonies, articles, press releases, and documents on various aspects of Mississippi during the Hurricane Katrina disaster and the years of struggle for recovery on the Mississippi gulf coast. These materials were compiled by University of Southern Mississippi History Professor, James "Pat" Smith, in creating his book Hurricane Katrina: the Mississippi Story.

Scope and Contents The Southern Tourism Collection includes advertisements for tourist destinations throughout the United States, with the vast majority located in the American South. This collection is organized geographically, and each geographic level (i.e. country, state, Mississippi region, county, and city) is organized alphabetically.These materials cover approximately ten different states, with most state-level material concentrated in Mississippi. Additionally, it encompasses eleven...

Abstract Notebooks kept by Mr. M. James Stevens, "Mr. History" of the Mississippi Gulf Coast and the first northern-born (New Jersey) president of the Mississippi Historical Society. He was the first recipient of the Society's Dunbar Rowland Award for his efforts to preserve history. The notebooks contain typed transcriptions of newspaper accounts and other source information that Mr. Stevens gathered on many subjects of Gulf Coast and Mississippi history. Also included in the collection are maps and...

Abstract

Literary manuscripts, publications files, photographs, news clippings of this popular Gulf Coast newspaper columnist.