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End-Grain Of 10 North American Hardwoods, Lopes Dercilio Verly Junior, Greg W. Burgreen, Edward D. Entsminger Mar 2020

End-Grain Of 10 North American Hardwoods, Lopes Dercilio Verly Junior, Greg W. Burgreen, Edward D. Entsminger

College of Forest Resources Publications and Scholarship

This technical note determines the feasibility of using an InceptionV4_ResNetV2 convolutional neural network (CNN) to correctly identify hardwood species from macroscopic images. The method is composed of a commodity smartphone fitted with a 14× macro lens for photography. The end-grains of ten different North American hardwood species were photographed to create a dataset of 1709 images. The stratified 5-fold cross-validation machine-learning method was used, in which the number of testing samples varied from 341 to 342. Data augmentation was performed on-the-fly for each training set by rotating, zooming, and flipping images. It was found that the CNN could correctly identify …


Species Distribution Models To Inform At-Risk Species Status Assessments In The Southeastern Us, Carlos Ramirez-Reyes, Mona Nazeri, Garrett Street, Francisco Vilella, D. Todd Jones-Farrand, Kristine O. Evans Jan 2020

Species Distribution Models To Inform At-Risk Species Status Assessments In The Southeastern Us, Carlos Ramirez-Reyes, Mona Nazeri, Garrett Street, Francisco Vilella, D. Todd Jones-Farrand, Kristine O. Evans

College of Forest Resources Publications and Scholarship

The USFWS is working collaboratively with State Wildlife Agencies, Universities, Non-profits and others in the southeast to address the National Listing Workplan. The USFWS needs up-to-date information on current status and the likely impact of future changes to develop Species Status Assessments (SSAs), which help inform listing decisions. States, Universities and other partners are providing species expertise, location data, analytical support and logistical support (e.g. surveys). However, a significant knowledge gap remains in understanding potential species distributions, from which status surveys can be more strategically implemented. This project provides a bridge between species location information and the SSAs by developing …


Aquatic Habitat Changes Along The Arkansas River (Supporting Data And Code), Mike Rhodes, Jonathan Spurgeon, Wes Neal, Kristine Evans Jan 2020

Aquatic Habitat Changes Along The Arkansas River (Supporting Data And Code), Mike Rhodes, Jonathan Spurgeon, Wes Neal, Kristine Evans

College of Forest Resources Publications and Scholarship

The associated code and data are supporting information for an assessment of large-scale changes in aquatic habitats within the varying pools of the Arkansas River, Arkansas, USA following impoundment of the river as part of the McClellan–Kerr Arkansas River Navigation System. We used a combination of Landsat satellite data (30 m resolution) from 1984-2016 and the European Commission Joint Research Center’s (JRC) Global Surface Water dataset (GSW) to assess changes in water availability by aquatic habitat category and river pool in the Arkansas River system. Analysis was completed using Google Earth Engine, with code available in this repository. We also …


Baskin Family Papers, Mississippi State University Libraries Sep 2019

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 Sep 2019

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 Sep 2019

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 Sep 2019

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 Sep 2019

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 Sep 2019

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 Sep 2019

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 Sep 2019

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 Sep 2019

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 Sep 2019

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 Sep 2019

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 Sep 2019

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 Sep 2019

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 Sep 2019

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 Sep 2019

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 Sep 2019

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 Sep 2019

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 Sep 2019

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 Sep 2019

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 Sep 2019

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 Sep 2019

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 Sep 2019

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 Sep 2019

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 Sep 2019

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 Sep 2019

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 Sep 2019

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 Sep 2019

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.