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Baskin Family Papers, Mississippi State University Libraries
Baskin Family Papers, Mississippi State University Libraries
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MSS. 22. 1869-1948 and undated. 1 cubic foot. Includes records created by the family Robert Ren Baskin (1854-1911) and Rebecca J. Simpson Baskin (1863-1962). The collection consists of correspondence, financial and legal records, and miscellaneous personal, political, agricultural, medical, religious, and educational materials. Records created by the family of Robert Ben Baskin (1854-1911), and Rebecca J. Simpson Baskin (1863-1961). Includes Ku Klux Klan material, 1900-1935 and undated, and a greeting card with African-American caricature, undated.
Thornton (Jane C.) Letter, Mississippi State University Libraries
Thornton (Jane C.) Letter, Mississippi State University Libraries
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MSS. 281. 1842. 0.01 cubic feet: 1 item. Letter of Jane C. Thornton describes overland trip to Mississippi; relates local prices, game supply, food; describes buildings and accommodations at Centenary College, Brandon Springs, Mississippi, where she and two sons live. Letter incomplete.
Cobb (Cully Alton) Papers, Mississippi State University Libraries
Cobb (Cully Alton) Papers, Mississippi State University Libraries
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MSS. 47. 1932-1967. 10 cubic feet. Papers of Cully Alton Cobb (1884-1975), publisher and MSU graduate of the class of 1908 include correspondence relating to Mr. Cobb's candidacy for Secretary of Agriculture (1932-1933); correspondence, memoirs, government forms, clippings from Mr. Cobb's period of service with Agricultural Adjustment Administration (1933-1937); speeches, photographs, copies of certificates, genealogy The Cobbs of Tennessee; scrapbooks of Cobb's activities; other materials. See also Cully A. Cobb/Ruralist Press papers.
Raymond (S. P.) Letters, Mississippi State University Libraries
Raymond (S. P.) Letters, Mississippi State University Libraries
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MSS. 29. 1864, 1866, 1876-1877. 0.02 cubic feet. 1861 letter from Raymond of the 41st Mississippi Infantry Regiment, Company E (Verona Rifles), an ambulance driver who was killed at Battle of Atlanta and letter from soldier who re-buried him, 1866. Also tax receipts from Lee County, 1876-1877.
Cox (Allen Eugene) Papers, Mississippi State University Libraries
Cox (Allen Eugene) Papers, Mississippi State University Libraries
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MSS. 45. 1880-1996 (Bulk Dates: 1935-1987). 47.75 cubic feet. The Allen Eugene Cox papers contain the papers of Allen Eugene Cox (1905-1992), former resident director of Providence Cooperative Farm, Holmes County, Mississippi, and later executive director of the Delta Foundation. The papers include correspondence, ledgers, newspaper clippings, publications, photographs and films. Correspondence, published material, clippings, and other material collected by Allen Eugene Cox of the Delta Foundation, chiefly pertaining to the racial problems in the South and cooperative farms. Includes information on the White Citizens' Council, Mississippi State Sovereignty Commission, National Council of Churches, COFO, NAACP, SNCC and related organizations, …
Hill Family Papers, Mississippi State University Libraries
Hill Family Papers, Mississippi State University Libraries
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MSS. 383. 1821-1927. 0.25 cubic feet. Diary; 5 letters from Charles W. Hill to his sister Abbie; clippings regarding Hill's Civil War experiences; receipt; envelope; photograph; wallet. During the Civil War Hill served in Company A of the 115th Illinois Volunteers.
Wilson (John H.) Civil War Experience, Mississippi State University Libraries
Wilson (John H.) Civil War Experience, Mississippi State University Libraries
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MSS. 304. Undated. 0.01 cubic feet. Reminiscences concerning the Civil War experience of Wilson of the 1st Mississippi Infantry Regiment, Company G (Dave Rogers Rifles).
Mcgeoy Papers, Mississippi State University Libraries
Mcgeoy Papers, Mississippi State University Libraries
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MSS. 225. 1813, 1906, 1909. 0.08 cubic feet. Letter from Margaret Hayes to Kimbroughs, regarding her mother's (Mrs. Jefferson Davis) death; sympathy acknowledgement from McLaurins; tax receipts, Harrison County, Mississippi. Also includes assorted papers dealing with Mrs. A. McC. Kimbrough and U.D.C. activities regarding Beauvoir and 1813 copy of the New York Spectator.
Pridmore Family Civil War Letters, Mississippi State University Libraries
Pridmore Family Civil War Letters, Mississippi State University Libraries
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MSS. 253. 1862-1865. 0.16 cubic feet and 1 reel microfilm. Letters of Sgt. F. Pridmore, 41st Regiment, Alabama Volunteers, Co. K., Buckner's Division, describe troop movements, army conditions, etc., in Tennessee, Mississippi, and Virginia. Transcriptions available.
Chestnut Springs Baptist Church (Calhoun County, Mississippi) Minutes, Mississippi State University Libraries
Chestnut Springs Baptist Church (Calhoun County, Mississippi) Minutes, Mississippi State University Libraries
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MSS. 363. 1892-1898. 0.08 cubic feet. Volume I of the church records. Photocopies.
Pleasant Grove Methodist Church (Clay County, Mississippi) History, Mississippi State University Libraries
Pleasant Grove Methodist Church (Clay County, Mississippi) History, Mississippi State University Libraries
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MSS. 247. Undated. 0.01 cubic feet. History of the Pleasant Grove Methodist Church of Clay County.
Buckley Civil War Letters, Mississippi State University Libraries
Buckley Civil War Letters, Mississippi State University Libraries
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MSS. 161. 1863-1864. 0.03 cubic feet. Letters of R. E. Buckley of the 36th Mississippi Infantry Regiment, Company I (Stephens Guards) to his mother in Lake, Mississippi, from Mississippi and Georgia, 1863-1864. Transcriptions available.
Andrews (M. W.). Memoirs Of The War Between The States, Mississippi State University Libraries
Andrews (M. W.). Memoirs Of The War Between The States, Mississippi State University Libraries
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MSS. 229. Undated. 0.04 cubic feet. Memoirs of the War Between States (May-August, 1861), a Civil War reminiscence as told to Icie A. Moore by Martin Wells Andrews, Cherry Creek, Mississippi (Pontotoc County) concerning his service in the 2nd Mississippi Infantry Regiment, Company I (Cherry Creek Rifles).
Ellis (R. U.) Day Book, Mississippi State University Libraries
Ellis (R. U.) Day Book, Mississippi State University Libraries
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MSS. 193. 1847-1868. 0.08 cubic feet. Day book of merchant R.U. Ellis of Starkville, Mississippi, includes freedmen's accounts.
Mcgehee (James Stewart). Rambles In Autobiography, Mississippi State University Libraries
Mcgehee (James Stewart). Rambles In Autobiography, Mississippi State University Libraries
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MSS. 119. circa 1903-1904. 0.33 cubic feet. Autobiography of McGehee, who was born in 1860 in Wilkinson County, Mississippi, moved to Louisiana in 1865, was educated in Virginia, and worked with the West Feliciana Railroad and with W.L. Green Commission Company (grain dealers) in St. Louis. Among the subjects are family and friends in Mississippi and Louisiana, reconstruction, race relations, and importation of labor into the South. McGehee's family home was in Woodville, Mississippi.
Woolsey Family Letters, Mississippi State University Libraries
Woolsey Family Letters, Mississippi State University Libraries
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MSS. 305. 1844-1856. 0.08 cubic feet. Woolsey family letters, including four letters from England and Scotland; 1 business letter, New York, to Lloyd's agent, Savannah, Georgia; 1 Confederate Veteran's membership certificate.
Phillips (E. G.) Letter, Mississippi State University Libraries
Phillips (E. G.) Letter, Mississippi State University Libraries
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MSS. 237. 1859. 0.01 cubic feet: 1 item. Letter (ALS, initials only) from E.G. P. to Mrs. F.G. Lynch, Forkville, Virginia, April 25, 1859, refers to her husband Mr. Phillips who is away in Boydton, Mecklenburg County, Virginia, and mentions people in and around Boydton. The writer describes a religious meeting, her religious beliefs and her hopes for the conversion of her husband.
Ashley Family Collection, Mississippi State University Libraries
Ashley Family Collection, Mississippi State University Libraries
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MSS. 155. 1842-1862. 0.08 cubic feet. Tax receipts for taxes assessed on land and for tax paid in kind on pork in Jasper and Copiah Counties, Mississippi.
Cole (Lucy Wellborn) Collection, Mississippi State University Libraries
Cole (Lucy Wellborn) Collection, Mississippi State University Libraries
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MSS. 396. 1983. 0.08 cubic feet. Recollections of Mrs. Cole: "Childhood Memories of the Starkville Methodist Church in the Early Decades of the Century," "Food Preparation in Starkville in the Early 1900's," "My Recollection of Starkville Public School."
Wellborn (John H.) Collection, Mississippi State University Libraries
Wellborn (John H.) Collection, Mississippi State University Libraries
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MSS. 293. 0.25 cubic feet. Field Notes of Oktibbeha County. Books 1, 2, 3. Books 1 and 2 are copies of the original survey records signed by Gideon Fitz. Book 3 consists of notation of chain measurements of selected townships and ranges in Oktibbeha County.
West Point, Mississippi, Methodist Episcopal Church, South, Register, Mississippi State University Libraries
West Point, Mississippi, Methodist Episcopal Church, South, Register, Mississippi State University Libraries
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MSS. 297.1891-1899, 1968-1973. 0.08 cubic feet. List of members received and list of pastors.
Critz Family Genealogy, Mississippi State University Libraries
Critz Family Genealogy, Mississippi State University Libraries
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MSS. 183. 1955-1962. 0.08 cubic feet. 15 items concerning the Critz family genealogy.
Theater Program Collection, Mississippi State University Libraries
Theater Program Collection, Mississippi State University Libraries
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MSS. 392. 1982. 0.01 cubic feet: 1 item. Program for "The Ponder Heart", opera by Alice Parker based on the novel by Eudora Welty, New Stage Theatre, Jackson, Mississippi, September 10-19, 1982.
Sellers (T.G.) Family Scrapbook, Mississippi State University Libraries
Sellers (T.G.) Family Scrapbook, Mississippi State University Libraries
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MSS. 571. 1886-1976 and undated. 0.04 cubic feet. Photocopies of a scrapbook of writings, photographs and obituaries concerning the family of Thomas George Sellers, minister of First Baptist Church (1857-1899) and founder of the Starkville Female Institute (later the Maxwell home). Includes writings by Sallie Graves Sellers, Thomas Freeman Sellers and Suzanne Sellers Jones, and concerns the Sellers extended family, and Starkville, Mississippi, history.
Farnsley (Alexander) Letters, Mississippi State University Libraries
Farnsley (Alexander) Letters, Mississippi State University Libraries
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MSS. 194. 1856-1860. 0.08 cubic feet Facsimiles of letters from Farnsley to his "intended", Mary Elizabeth Thurman, in Kentucky.
Lenoir Family Plantation Records, Mississippi State University Libraries
Lenoir Family Plantation Records, Mississippi State University Libraries
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MSS. 585. 1792-2001 (Bulk Dates: 1850-1930). 8.5 cubic feet. Plantation records and family papers (1792, 1820-1963), of the extended family of William T. Lenoir (1811-1960) and Mary E. Blanchard Lenoir (1810-1894), of Prairie (Muldon), Monroe County, Mississippi. Includes a letter about Amanda, a slave accused of trying to poison the milk with strychnine (1856). Letters include much discussion of slaves, particularly "Mom Nancy."
Conwill Collection, Mississippi State University Libraries
Conwill Collection, Mississippi State University Libraries
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MSS. 124. 1846-1880. 0.08 cubic feet and 1 reel microfilm. Letters written by members of the Myers, Hollingsworth, Milner, and Conwill families, of South Carolina, Indianola, and Mississippi, 1846-1880. Mostly concern family affairs.
Clark (Lena Simmons) Collection, Mississippi State University Libraries
Clark (Lena Simmons) Collection, Mississippi State University Libraries
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MSS. 18. 1856-1912. 0.33 cubic feet and 1 reel microfilm. Papers of the Travis Clark family including: farm accounts, receipts, other financial statements, cotton sale records and other farm records from Grenada County, Mississippi; material relating to the education of children (1865-1887), almanacs, scrapbook of clippings, postcards, invitations, and other papers.
Mcrae (Sallie B.) Diary, Mississippi State University Libraries
Mcrae (Sallie B.) Diary, Mississippi State University Libraries
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MSS. 227. 1862. 0.04 cubic feet. Typed copy of McRae's diary, January-June 1862, edited by James W. Webb.
Chickasaw County (Mississippi) Tax Records, Mississippi State University Libraries
Chickasaw County (Mississippi) Tax Records, Mississippi State University Libraries
Special Collections Finding Aids
MSS. 438. 1848-1870. 1 reel microfilm. Personal and real property rolls, land rolls, for Chickasaw County, Palo Alto, and Houston, Mississippi.