Broadsides.
Found in 10 Collections and/or Records:
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.
Theodore G. Bilbo Papers
Charles F. Heartman Papers
Paul B. Johnson Family Papers
J. M. Martin Broadside
Advertisement for settlers in northeastern Mississippi and southwestern Tennessee area.
William D. McCain Pamphlet Collection
Pamphlets collected by USM president on communism, civil rights, desegregation, and other race-related topics; a speech on Freedom by Dr. McCain and two books on Benito Mussolini and Italian Fascism.
"Political Correspondences" (Lowndes County, Miss.) Broadside
Railroad Collection
Organizational records of the Association of American Railroads; the Gulf, Mobile, and Ohio Railroad; the Mississippi Central Railroad; and the Illinois Central.
Southern Book Arts Collection
Various materials relating to the USM Libraries’ Book Art Lecture Series.
Ernest A. Walen Collection
This is a collection of documents collected by Ernest A. Walen of Longmeadow, Massachusetts. The collection contains original letters, orders, printed material, official documents, photographs, newspaper clippings, prints, etc. covering the 19th Century with an emphasis on American Civil War materials and some 20th Century materials concerning the Civil War. Most of the material on the Civil War concerns the Confederacy, with some Federal documents included.