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Perry County (Miss.).

 Subject
Subject Source: Library of Congress Subject Headings
Scope Note: Perry Co., Miss

Found in 9 Collections and/or Records:

Jeff Balfour Collection

 Collection
Identifier: M602
Abstract

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

Dates: 1872-1998

L.N. Dantzler Lumber Company Collection

 Unprocessed Collection
Identifier: AM18-46
Form of Material

L.N. Dantzler Lumber Company records.

Dates: circa 1840-1965

Forrest County Cemetery Book Typescript

 Collection
Identifier: M255
Abstract

Manuscript and typescript of cemetery markers.

Dates: 1983-1984

Hattiesburg American Photograph Collection

 Collection
Identifier: M566
Abstract

Original photographs published in the Hattiesburg American.

Dates: 1969, circa 1972-1992

Rudy H. Leverett Collection

 Collection
Identifier: M554
Abstract

The Rudy H. Leverett Collection contains the personal papers, correspondence, drafted writings, and publications of author and professor Rudy H. Leverett. This collection would be of interest to researchers focusing specifically on language, religion, education, and Civil War history. Topics included among Leverett’s writings consist of genealogical studies on the McLemore and Leverett families, as well as Jones County, Mississippi history and Southern culture.

Dates: circa 1934-1999

Major-Sowers Saw Mill Photographs

 Collection
Identifier: M292
Scope and Contents This collection of photographs from the Major-Sowers Saw Mill Company includes 20 images of company sites in Epley (Lamar County) and Tallahala (Perry County). These black-and-white photographs illustrate many facets of a saw mill company, from the logs coming out of the forests via steam locomotives, to stacking the finished product in the mill's storage shed.An aerial view of the Tallahala operation and a panoramic photograph of the Epley location demonstrate that the saw mill...
Dates: Majority of material found within 1923, 1928-1929

Jim McLain Forrest County Papers

 Collection
Identifier: M589
Abstract

The Jim McLain Forrest County Papers consist of letters, postcards, and a diary written by members of the Thompson-Byrd Family from 1900-1915. John and Mahala Byrd Thompson lived in Perry County and later at McCallum in Forrest County. The collection is of particular interest to researchers studying Mississippi families and genealogy.

Dates: 1900, 1903, 1906-1907, 1912, 1914-1915

Nuclear Waste Disposal Research Collection

 Collection
Identifier: M427
Scope and Contents

This collection contains materials generated and/or collected by Perry County Citizens Against Nuclear Disposal, Inc. (PC-CAND). This collection should be of interest to those researching any aspect of nuclear waste disposal.

Dates: circa 1969-1987

Joseph Irving Thompson Land Abstracts

 Unprocessed Collection
Identifier: AM2000-100
Abstract

Land abstracts of properties in Greene, Lamar, Jefferson Davis, Covington, Perry, and Forrest Counties in Mississippi.

Dates: circa 1857-1956