Posters.

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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.

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One poster advertising the 3rd annual Historic Mobile Street Renaissance Festival held on October 17-19, 2008. It contains artwork by Paul McCall and a list of activities by date, time and location.

Form of Material 1. Signature, November 2012, Volume VII Issue 8, with article “Sign of the times, committee hopes to recreate Hub sign”, page 292. Hub City Centennial flyer advertising the HUB SIGN3. Reprint of advertisement for the Hattiesburg Slogan Sign being turned on4. Reprint of article from The Hattiesburg News, November 29, 1912 that tells of the Hub Sign was illuminated the night before5. Commemorative, collectable and frameable Hub...

Form of Material

Various civil rights article and articles and programs related to the 50th anniversary of Freedom Summer.

Form of Material

Information for Mississippi Archives Month October 2014 provided by the Mississippi Historical Records Advisory Board.

Form of Material

Ephemera from the first Mississippi Book Festival held at the Mississippi State Capital in Jackson, Mississippi, on August 22, 2015. The festival title was “A Literary Lawn Party” with John Grisham and Greg Iles being two of the featured speakers.

Two copies of the inaugural poster, two round stickers and one festival map.

Form of Material

Show poster for Blair High School’s presentation of “Annie Get Your Gun” on Thursday February 22 at 7:30 p.m., in the Blair Center Auditorium. Reserved seats were $2.50 and general admission was $1.50. Brian Blair drew the artwork used.

Scope and Contents From the Unprocessed Collection:

Photographs, news clippings, programs, uniforms, and memorabilia related to The Dixie Darlings Alumnae Association.

Scope and Contents From the Unprocessed Collection:

Photographs, news clippings, programs, uniforms, and memorabilia related to The Dixie Darlings Alumnae Association.

Form of Material

Poster from the second Mississippi Book Festival held at the Mississippi State Capital in Jackson, Mississippi, on August 20, 2016. The festival title was “A Literary Lawn Party” with Kate Dicamillo, Richard Ford, Julia Reed, Jon Meacham, Jesmyn Wart and Richard Grant being six of the featured speakers.

Scope and Contents From the Unprocessed Collection:

Photographs, news clippings, programs, uniforms, and memorabilia related to The Dixie Darlings Alumnae Association.

Scope and Contents From the Unprocessed Collection:

Photographs, news clippings, programs, uniforms, and memorabilia related to The Dixie Darlings Alumnae Association.

Form of Material

Playbills from Hattiesburg Civic Light Opera and two 11” x 17” posters.

Form of Material

The Museum of the Southern Jewish Experience limited edition poster: “To Preserve Our Past, To Insure Our Future.” Edition 477 out of 1000, signed.

Scope and Contents From the Collection:

This collection is comprised of playbills, photographs, scrapbooks, posters, correspondence, bylaws, budgets, and memorabilia of the Hattiesburg Civic Light Opera. It also includes newspaper clippings and production notes for some HCLO shows. This collection should be of interest to researchers of local theatrical organizations, or those interested in forming such groups.

Form of Material

Poster and 2 keychains made my Jennifer Torres.

Form of Material

One poster created by Dr. Matthew Casey.

Scope and Contents

Color poster of the Fall 2021 Dixie Darlings. Many of the Darlings have signed their names on their images.

Form of Material

The collection includes:

"Facts About Hattiesburg," 1898.

"History of Hattiesburg Coloring Book," 1976.

Senator Theodore G. Bilbo campaign poster, 1940.

"Back Our Boys in Vietnam" bumper sticker.

Form of Material From the Accession:

Playbills from Hattiesburg Civic Light Opera and two 11” x 17” posters.

Abstract

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.

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Copies of this Ocean Springs Record columnist's "Sous Les Chenes", "Images Under the Oaks" and “Vintage Village Vues” columns, and related research materials.

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The David C. Berry, Jr. Papers include the correspondence, drafted writings, and publications of USM professor and poet David C. Berry. This collection would be of particular interest to researchers focusing on the writing process or studying university professorships and family life in the late twentieth and early twenty-first centuries. Topics in Berry’s poetry include the Vietnam War, marriage, divorce, and religion.

Scope and Contents

Materials relating to the Black Lives Matter movement in Hattiesburg, Mississippi.

Abstract

Newspaper and magazine articles, journals, newspapers, bumper stickers, cartoons, etc. concerning anti-Semitism and Civil Rights.

Form of Material From the Accession:

Playbills from Hattiesburg Civic Light Opera and two 11” x 17” posters.

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Family photographs and materials documenting the Civil Rights Movement in Mississippi.

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Materials from Cherry Burns’ world travels.

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Posters, route cards and book, annual, magazine, program of several circuses that performed in Mississippi.