Clippings (Books, newspapers, etc.).

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Additional genealogy materials for his collection.

Form of Material

Primarily reprints of technical journal articles written by Dr. Seymour. Most items are short in length and some are copies of articles translated into various foreign languages.

Form of Material

Includes copies of the his Master's Thesis, Doctoral Dissertation, several certificates and awards, miscellaneous correspondence, ad several articles.

Form of Material

Correspondence, newspaper and journal clippings, and scrapbooks relating to the work of Dr. Raymond Seymour as a research chemist in private industry and as research chemist and professor in highter education. Also inclued are items relating to his work with chemical polymers.

Form of Material

Primarily copies of published articles in journals, many of which are foreign language journals, an edited manuscript, and newspaper clippings by or about Dr. Seymour.

Provenance

The collection includes:

Liberty Report.

Flyer concerning Black Thursday.

Letter from Ethiopia.

Newspaper clippings.

Photographs.

Form of Material Reprints and off-prints of articles and technical papers, journal and magazines (including foreign language publications), and technical reports authored by Seymour or containing items by Seymour (circa 1946-1986).Magazines, journals, and technical reports of interest to Dr. Seymour (circa 1977-1984).Conference papers, book drafts, correspondence, clippings, photocopies, and other items relating to Dr. Seymour and his work in chemisty and polymer science (circa...

Form of Material

This accession includes three plaques or framed items, (Dr. Seymour's Ph.D. diploma, a professor emeritus plaque from the University of Houston, and an award from the Manufacturing Chemists Association), in addition to a dozen books, journal articles or manuals.

Form of Material

Journal articles, news clippings, a book draft (typescript), certificates and framed awards.

The articles, book draft and clippings are primarily from 1980-1987; the awards and certificates are from 1937-1987.

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Copies of scholarly papers, oral presentations, articles, newspaper and other clippings or notices, awards, certificates and other framed memorabilia.

Form of Material

Framed 1935 M.S. degree, publication catalogs, conference programs, technical papers and reports, copies of articles written by Seymour, newsnotes about Seymour, script and illustrations for the filmstrip "The Significance of Avogadro's Number", copies of books, plaques and awards given to Dr. Seymour.

Form of Material

Contains copes of books, articles (some foreign languages such as Spanish and Polish), technical reports, abstracts, and correspondence related to Dr. Seymour's polymer research and writing activities.

Also included are newspaper clippings and related materials which provide infromation about Dr. Seymour, his wife Frances, and their family.

Form of Material

Typescripts, page proofs galley proofs, illustrations, published articles and books authored by Dr. Seymour. These include Applications of Polymers by Seymour and Mark; 2nd edition by Seymour and Carraher (1988) as well as materials from a book by Carnes and Seymour and Dr. Seymour's biographical sketches of Eminent American Chemists. Also included are various published articles in foreign journals.

Form of Material

Copies of journals, journal articles and conference papers written by Dr. Seymour. Many of the journals are foreign. There are also copies of correspondence and drafts of publicaiton which Dr. Seymour authored. The collection also contains copies of theses and dissertations prepared by Dr. Seymour's sudents at the University of Houston as well as a variety of miscellaneous items and newspaper clippings.

Form of Material

One scrapbook of Hawkins L. Vickers relating to his management of a large tung oil plantation for G.L. Reasor, a Chicago investor. The plantation farms were located in the south Mississippi area. The book also contains some information concerning Vickers Plant Farms (vegetable) near Hattiesburg.

Form of Material

3 edited chapters for an unidentified book; 1 copy of Organic Coatings: Their Origin and Development by Raymond B. Seymour, editor; 14 magazines with articles written by Dr. Seymour; 3 folders of miscellaneous correspondence, newspaper articles and book club pages.

Form of Material Typeset of book Handbook of Organic Coatings ready for publicaiton by Raymond B. Seymour and Herman F. Mark; 2 drafts of Giant Molecules: Essential Materials for Every Day Living by Raymond B. Seymour and Charles E. Carraher; Correspondence from the American Chemical Society symposium on "The Genesis of Polymer Science"; 2 typescripts for the book entitled Pioneers in Polymer Science possibly resulting...

Form of Material

Articles, typescript of publications by Seymour, and journals (many in foreign languages), all pertaining to Seymour's writing and research in the field of polymers.

Form of Material

1 cubic foot of polymer periodicals including Polymer News; Chemical Business; Popular Plastics and Packaging; Journal of Coating Technology; and Revista de Plasticos Modernas.

2.50 cubic foot includes office files, transparencies; notes; books and articles (drafts); USM materials; meetings and agendas; award files; and other miscellaneous files.

Form of Material

Sixteen color slides showing Dr. Raymond Seymour in New York, where he was presented The Soiety of Plastics Engineers 1989 International Award, a newspaper clipping documenting presentation of the SPE Award, and a list of Dr. Seymour's publications from 1993 forward.

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Mrs. Myrtis Rue was an African American native of Hattiesburg and a teacher in the public schools. She was the first person to donate civil rights materials to the USM Archives during the solicitation effort, which began in September 1997. Her gift was this full-page article entitled "Hattiesburg's Beginnings: A Black Perspective" from the Hattiesburg American of November 2, 1980. She died August 3, 2000.

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Publications and professional papers of Dr. Edward M. Wheat, professor of political science at The University of Southern Mississippi.

Form of Material

1. Four souvenir T-shirts emblazoned with campaign slogans.

2. Correspondence.

3. Newspaper articles.

4. Olympic tickets.

5. Miscellaneous political materials.

6. Two Civil War bullets.

7. Final proof of "Latin America and the Caribbean in Transition", edited by Dr. Simmons and Robert P. Watson.

Scope and Contents

The collection includes materials collected and produced by A. P. Andrews, in his effort to substantiate Sylvester Magee’s claim to have been an adult enslaved man that served in the Civil War. The collection includes correspondence, newspaper clippings and journal articles, research notes produced by Andrews, photographs, and reel-to-reel tapes of oral histories of Magee and some of his family members.

Abstract

Manuscripts of novels and related papers by Mississippi author.

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Files related to Col. Ashley’s time as Director of Cook Library at the University of Southern Mississippi.

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Materials that document the life and career of radio and television personality, Woodie Assaf.

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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These materials on Richmond Barthé were brought together in 1979 and 1980, and 1998 and 1999 as a special collection for research purposes of Associate Professor Harry C. Ward of the University of Southern Mississippi Art Department. These items describe the personal and professional life of Richmond Barthé.

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The David Batzka Civil Rights Collection contains papers from before, during, and after Batzka’s time in Clarksdale, Mississippi, during the Freedom Summer of 1964. This collection would be of interest to researchers studying the Civil Rights Movement, Mississippi history, and Freedom Summer.