Gulfport (Miss.).

Form of Material

1. Coop DeVille in Oxford, MS

2. The Shed in Gulfport, MS

Scope and Contents

Mississippi postcards.

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Postcard of King’s Daughters Hospital at Gulfport, Mississippi.

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Four Mississippi postcards.

Abstract

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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Six articles written by Edmond Boudreaux, Mississippi Gulf Coast historian.

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Correspondence, copied newspaper clippings, and other materials pertaining to activates of the Business and Professional Women’s Club.

Form of Materials

Items relating to Dent family, also includes surnames Gunn, McLeod, and Pickering. Contains a selection of very early 1900 postcards, mostly of Mississippi Gulf Coast.

Scope and Contents

Research materials for book, Hurricane Camille: Monster Storm of the Gulf Coast.

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The collection contains a one-page letter from PFC Holgerson at the Technical Training School at the Army Air Force Technical Training Command at Gulfport Field, Mississippi, to his friend PFC Elwyn W. Lowe in New York.

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Photographer Fred Hutchings' photographs of the aftermath of Hurricane Camille on the Mississippi Gulf Coast.

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Research collection of historian Charles Sullivan for his book "Hurricanes of the Gulf Coast."

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Menus from various eating establishments in Mississippi, primarily the Hattiesburg area.

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Maps, reports, etc. documenting the Mississippi Renewal Forum and efforts towards recovery, rebuilding and renewal of the Mississippi Gulf Coast after Hurricane Katrina.

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.

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.

Form of Material

Items relating to Hurricane Camille disaster operations by the U.S. Army Corps of Engineers, Mobile District.