Open Access. Powered by Scholars. Published by Universities.®

Digital Commons Network

Open Access. Powered by Scholars. Published by Universities.®

Articles 1 - 30 of 420

Full-Text Articles in Entire DC Network

Finding Aid For The Robert L. Oakman Iii Collection (Mum01797) Nov 2020

Finding Aid For The Robert L. Oakman Iii Collection (Mum01797)

Archives & Special Collections: Finding Aids

School work, programs, and other material ephemera associated with the University of Mississippi and author James Dickey.


Finding Aid For The John Leslie Collection (Mum01795) Nov 2020

Finding Aid For The John Leslie Collection (Mum01795)

Archives & Special Collections: Finding Aids

John Leslie served as the mayor of Oxford, Mississippi from 1973 until 1997. The John Leslie Collection contains correspondence, speeches, manuscripts, reports, photographs, and newspaper clippings.


Finding Aid For The Edwin Bennett Ogden Jr. Collection (Mum01792) Nov 2020

Finding Aid For The Edwin Bennett Ogden Jr. Collection (Mum01792)

Archives & Special Collections: Finding Aids

Correspondence, newspapers, publications, and political memorabilia from Edwin Bennett Ogden, Jr.,


Finding Aid For The Charles Henri Ford Collection (Mum01791) Nov 2020

Finding Aid For The Charles Henri Ford Collection (Mum01791)

Archives & Special Collections: Finding Aids

Letters, photographs, postcards and transcripts from author Charles Henri Ford addressed to Robert Sharrard (and others) about different published work.


Finding Aid For The Prospect Hill Plantation Collection (Mum01788) Nov 2020

Finding Aid For The Prospect Hill Plantation Collection (Mum01788)

Archives & Special Collections: Finding Aids

The Prospect Hill Plantation Collection is made up mainly tenant contracts but also includes personal letters written to and from the Wade family, business correspondences related to cotton crops and purchases, and a small amount of preprinted material of agricultural origin.


Finding Aid For The Artfirst Collection (Mum01778) Nov 2020

Finding Aid For The Artfirst Collection (Mum01778)

Archives & Special Collections: Finding Aids

The collection contains issues of Artfirst, a quarterly newsletter for visual artists and craftspeople in Mississippi.


Finding Aid For The John Quincy Wolf Jr. Collection (Mum01777) Nov 2020

Finding Aid For The John Quincy Wolf Jr. Collection (Mum01777)

Archives & Special Collections: Finding Aids

Fifty-two audio cassettes of mostly shape note singing in north Mississippi, north Alabama, Tennessee, and Kentucky recorded by John Quincy Wolf in the 1960s.


Finding Aid For The University Of Mississippi Small Manuscripts (Mum01771) Nov 2020

Finding Aid For The University Of Mississippi Small Manuscripts (Mum01771)

Archives & Special Collections: Finding Aids

The collection contains miscellaneous items related to the University of Mississippi. The collection is arranged by subject.


Finding Aid For The First Presbyterian Church Of Oxford Photograph (Mum01768) Nov 2020

Finding Aid For The First Presbyterian Church Of Oxford Photograph (Mum01768)

Archives & Special Collections: Finding Aids

The collection contains photographs of buildings and congregation members of First Presbyterian Church in Oxford, Miss.


Finding Aid For The Louis E. Bourgeois Collection (Mum01760) Nov 2020

Finding Aid For The Louis E. Bourgeois Collection (Mum01760)

Archives & Special Collections: Finding Aids

A collection of published poems and stories by author Louis E. Bourgeois of Oxford, Miss.


Finding Aid For The Tina Mayfield Collection (Mum01758) Nov 2020

Finding Aid For The Tina Mayfield Collection (Mum01758)

Archives & Special Collections: Finding Aids

The collection contains materials related to Percy Mayfield, Lowell Fulson, and Tina Mayfield.


Finding Aid For The Ed Movitz Integration Collection (Mum01757) Nov 2020

Finding Aid For The Ed Movitz Integration Collection (Mum01757)

Archives & Special Collections: Finding Aids

The collection contains forty-six black-and-white photographs, taken for use by various newspapers, documenting the 1962 integration of the University of Mississippi.


Finding Aid For The Landry-Hume Collection (Mum01796) Nov 2020

Finding Aid For The Landry-Hume Collection (Mum01796)

Archives & Special Collections: Finding Aids

The Farar, Ellis, and Rapalje families were prominent plantation owners in Adams County, Mississippi in the 18th and 19th centuries. This collection contains materials related to them and several other plantation-owning families. Materials include correspondence, plantation ledgers, and various types of business and financial documents.


Finding Aid For The Browning Club Collection (Mum01754) Nov 2020

Finding Aid For The Browning Club Collection (Mum01754)

Archives & Special Collections: Finding Aids

This collection documents the history of the Browning Club from 1895-2011. Membership information, minutes of the meetings, yearbooks, papers, and reports to the Mississippi Federation of Women’s Clubs are included in the collection.


Finding Aid For The William E. Ready Collection (Mum01794) Nov 2020

Finding Aid For The William E. Ready Collection (Mum01794)

Archives & Special Collections: Finding Aids

The collection consists of two letters of appreciation by President John F. Kennedy and U.S. Attorney General Robert F. Kennedy to U.S. Marshal Ernest S. Mike, who was wounded at the University of Mississippi riot in 1962, and one newspaper clipping.


Finding Aid For The Political Science Department Vertical Files (Mum01793) Nov 2020

Finding Aid For The Political Science Department Vertical Files (Mum01793)

Archives & Special Collections: Finding Aids

Vertical files on local and state politics and government generated by the University of Mississippi Political Science Department.


Finding Aid For The Charles Henri Ford Collection (Mum01791) Nov 2020

Finding Aid For The Charles Henri Ford Collection (Mum01791)

Archives & Special Collections: Finding Aids

Letters, photographs, postcards and transcripts from author Charles Henri Ford addressed to Robert Sharrard (and others) about different published work.


Finding Aid For The Hubert Creekmore Collection (Mum01790) Nov 2020

Finding Aid For The Hubert Creekmore Collection (Mum01790)

Archives & Special Collections: Finding Aids

Collection contains playbills, programs, and correspondence related to the life and work of author, artist, and editor Hubert Creekmore. Items were created 1928-2002.


Finding Aid For The Richard C. Bridges Collection (Mum01789) Nov 2020

Finding Aid For The Richard C. Bridges Collection (Mum01789)

Archives & Special Collections: Finding Aids

The collection contains correspondence of Richard C. Bridges, a soldier in the 11th Mississippi Infantry Regiment, Company A (commonly known as the University Greys) during the Civil War.


Finding Aid For The Deputy U.S. Marshals 50th Anniversary Memory Book (Mum01787) Nov 2020

Finding Aid For The Deputy U.S. Marshals 50th Anniversary Memory Book (Mum01787)

Archives & Special Collections: Finding Aids

The Deputy U.S. Marshals 50th Anniversary Memory Book consists of reproductions of documents related to the University of Mississippi's integration, including the violent confrontation of 30 September 1962, as well as items from the university’s 40th anniversary of integration commemoration.


Finding Aid For The Robert A. Herring Iii Scrapbooks (Mum01786) Nov 2020

Finding Aid For The Robert A. Herring Iii Scrapbooks (Mum01786)

Archives & Special Collections: Finding Aids

Scrapbooks of news clippings created during the integration of the University of Mississippi.


Finding Aid For The Murphey Wilds Collection (Mum01785) Nov 2020

Finding Aid For The Murphey Wilds Collection (Mum01785)

Archives & Special Collections: Finding Aids

Correspondence, news clippings, and ephemera collected by Rev. Murphey Wilds, largely related to the 1962 riot at the University of Mississippi and his “Day of Repentance” of 7 October 1962.


Finding Aid For The Bill Miles Collection (Mum01782) Nov 2020

Finding Aid For The Bill Miles Collection (Mum01782)

Archives & Special Collections: Finding Aids

After working briefly as a journalist, Bill Miles formed the advertising/public relations firm Bristow-Miles Associates, Inc. in 1963 in Tupelo, Mississippi (later Bill Miles Associates). The firm often represented local political candidates. In 1996, voters of Itawamba and Monroe counties sent Miles to the Mississippi House of Representatives where he remained for the next twelve years.


Finding Aid For The Haley Barbour Collection (Mum01779) Nov 2020

Finding Aid For The Haley Barbour Collection (Mum01779)

Archives & Special Collections: Finding Aids

Haley Barbour served as chairman of the Republican National Committee from 1993 to 1997 and governor of Mississippi from 2004 to 2012.


Finding Aid For The Martha Alice Stewart: Time On Parchman Farm Collection (Mum01772) Nov 2020

Finding Aid For The Martha Alice Stewart: Time On Parchman Farm Collection (Mum01772)

Archives & Special Collections: Finding Aids

Martha Alice Stewart was head nurse at Mississippi State Penitentiary, commonly known as Parchman Farm, in the 1930s. The collection contains documents related to the prison as well as personal and professional documents of Stewart, and 210 black-and-white photographs taken during Stewart's tenure at the prison.


Finding Aid For The Jerry Boone Collection (Mum01769) Nov 2020

Finding Aid For The Jerry Boone Collection (Mum01769)

Archives & Special Collections: Finding Aids

Records of Dr. Jerry Boone’s service from 1998 to 2004 as court-appointed monitor for the Ayers lawsuit on desegregation and disparate state funding of Mississippi’s higher education institutions.


Finding Aid For The Sidna Brower Mitchell Collection (Mum01767) Nov 2020

Finding Aid For The Sidna Brower Mitchell Collection (Mum01767)

Archives & Special Collections: Finding Aids

Collection of letters written to Sidna Brower while she was editor of the Mississippian. The letters discuss Brower, James Meredith, and the integration of the University of Mississippi. The collection also includes photographs, many newspaper clippings, newspapers, and other printed materials.


Finding Aid For The Camp Dick Garnett Letterbook (Mum01766) Nov 2020

Finding Aid For The Camp Dick Garnett Letterbook (Mum01766)

Archives & Special Collections: Finding Aids

The letterbook contains letters from Confederate Army Lieutenant and Assistant Adjutant General Joseph C. Robert and his colleague, Colonel Edward Dillon, written from Camp Dick Garnett in the District of South West Mississippi and East Louisiana in 1864.


Finding Aid For The Intra-University Bulletin Collection (Mum01765) Nov 2020

Finding Aid For The Intra-University Bulletin Collection (Mum01765)

Archives & Special Collections: Finding Aids

The collection contains issues, 1974-1980, of the Intra-University Bulletin, a daily bulletin of brief news items pertaining to the University of Mississippi.


Finding Aid For The Inside Ole Miss Collection (Mum01764) Nov 2020

Finding Aid For The Inside Ole Miss Collection (Mum01764)

Archives & Special Collections: Finding Aids

The collection contains issues, 2000-2003, of Inside Ole Miss, a monthly newsletter of faculty and staff news at the University of Mississippi.