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Jan Ruehling Polio Era Collection

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Correspondence, newspaper clippings, and records related to the life and work of Jan Ruehling, as well as the 20th century polio epidemic of the United States of America.

Finding Aid For The Guy Sterling Collection

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The Guy Sterling Collection contains blues photographs, posters, newsletters, and festival programs, including a number of autographed items.

Mum00705 Gary Hawkins Multimedia Collection, Danielle N. Townsend

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Physical and digital files including moving image files, audio, photographs, small manuscripts, and ephemera related to the films Joe and The Rough South of Larry Brown created by filmmaker Gary Hawkins.

Finding Aid For The Mrs. Jewel Harwood Scrapbook & Photograph Collection (Mum00135)

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Photographs of mostly African American subject from the late 19th century to the early 20th century. Most of the photographs were taken by studio photographers. The photography studios span, mostly, across the American South.

Collection mostly contains studio photographs taken by late 19th century photographers. The subjects are mostly African American.

Finding Aid For The Guy Sterling Collection (Mum00147)

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Finding Aid For The Violet Valley Bookstore Collection

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Scope and Content The collection contains news articles and correspondence about Violet Valley Bookstore, an independent bookstore in Water Valley, Miss., as well as promotional materials issued by the store.

Finding Aid For The Sam Lumpkin Collection (Mum00141)

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Papers, photographs, and scrapbooks of Sam Lumpkin of Tupelo, Mississippi. He served as a Democrat in the Mississippi House of Representatives from 1932 to 1942 and as Speaker of the House from 1940-1942. Lumpkin was Lieutenant Governor of Mississippi from 1948 to 1952. During the 1952 presidential election, he led the faction of Democrats who supported Republican presidential nominee Dwight D. Eisenhower.

Finding Aid For The Jamie L. Whitten Collection (Mum00732)

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Jamie L. Whitten represented his Mississippi district in the U.S. House of Representatives from 1941 to 1995 and chaired the powerful Committee on Appropriations from 1979 through 1992.

Finding Aid For The Tyrone K. Yates/John F. Kennedy Collection (Mum01774)

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The Tyrone K. Yates/John F. Kennedy Collection consists largely of John F. Kennedy campaign material and memorabilia, as well as publications by and about the thirty-fifth president of the United States. It also includes a number of items related to other presidents and campaigns.

Finding Aid For The Evelyn Uhrhan Irving Collection (Mum00146)

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Correspondence of modern language professor Evelyn Uhrhan Irving with various public officials and media outlets on foreign policy and domestic matters.

Finding Aid For The Allan Boyce Adams Collection (Mum00003)

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Allan Boyce Adams was a native of Coahoma County. A graduate of Mississippi College in Clinton, Adams served during World War I in the famed 42nd Rainbow Division. He was a first lieutenant under the leadership of General Douglas MacArthur.

Finding Aid For The Juanita Brown Collection (Mum00048)

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Collection contains extensive Civil War correspondence, most notably the letters of J.H. Buford to his sisters.

Finding Aid For The Katallagete / James Y. Holloway Collection (Mum00249)

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Manuscripts and correspondence related to Katallagete, the journal of the Committee of Southern Churchmen. Published from the 1960s to 1991, the journal was edited by James Y. Holloway, and boasted contributions by notable people such as Thomas Merton, Fannie Lou Hamer, Billy Graham, and Will Campbell, among many others. The collection contains correspondence, meeting minutes, loose journal issues, and other materials relating to the creation and publication of Katallagete. Also contains materials that pertain to the career of James Holloway.

Finding Aid For The Center For Southern Folklore Home Movie Collection (Mum00709)

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The collection contains 47 collections of home movies created by 47 different families in the American South.

Finding Aid For The Wilson Collection (Charles Reagan Wilson Collection, Mum00774)

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Materials relating to Dr. Charles R. Wilson’s publication, research, administrative work, and collection.

Finding Aid For The Ed Perry Collection (Mum01707)

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Collection of correspondence from various state leaders to Dr. William J. Hooper, Director of the Mississippi Law Research Institute, and materials related to the Mississippi Capitol Centennial Celebration in 2003.

Finding Aid For The Blues Archive Poster Collection (Mum01783)

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These blues posters, broadsides, and oversize printings, collected by various individuals and institutions, document the world of blues advertising.