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Posey (Alice Puckett) Life History, Mississippi State University Libraries Sep 2019

Posey (Alice Puckett) Life History, Mississippi State University Libraries

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MSS. 250. Undated. 0.01 cubic feet. Reminiscence of Alice Puckett Posey concerns life in Aberdeen and Northeast Mississippi, 1857-1944.


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.


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."


Knox (James) Diary, Mississippi State University Libraries Sep 2019

Knox (James) Diary, Mississippi State University Libraries

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MSS. 274. 1848-1851. 0.04 cubic feet. The diary of James Knox (1786-1864), which begins in March 1848 and ends in February 1851, records the weather and the daily operations of his plantation in Pickens County, Alabama, including sowing, plowing, harvesting, and selling. He refers to several slaves by name, most often Patrick and Alvin. Knox's regular attendance at church and presbytery meetings is recorded in the diary, along with information about the pastors and their sermon texts. Ministers James Somerville, J. L. Kirkpatrick, Thomas Morrow, and A. P. Silliman are often mentioned. The diary also includes notes about social visits …


Oswalt Family Collection, Mississippi State University Libraries Sep 2019

Oswalt Family Collection, Mississippi State University Libraries

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MSS. 318. 1856-1863. 0.024 cubic feet: 1 reel microfilm. Letters (1861-1863) of Henry Oswalt of the 27th Mississippi Infantry Regiment, Company A (Oktibbeha Riflemen) and his wife Pamela A. Oswalt of Oktibbeha County, from Camp Moccasin near Chattanooga, Atlanta and Mississippi.


Bell (Rachel) Letter, Mississippi State University Libraries Sep 2019

Bell (Rachel) Letter, Mississippi State University Libraries

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MSS. 159. 1862. 0.01 cubic feet: 1 item. Letter describing the Civil War situation in Tippah County, Mississippi, 1862. Transcriptions available.


Concord Baptist Church Of Christ (Choctaw County, Mississippi) Minutes, Mississippi State University Libraries Sep 2019

Concord Baptist Church Of Christ (Choctaw County, Mississippi) Minutes, Mississippi State University Libraries

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MSS. 563. 1837-1861. 1 reel microfilm. Minutes of Concord Baptist Church of Christ in Choctaw County, Mississippi.


Pittman (Robert D.) Collection, Mississippi State University Libraries Sep 2019

Pittman (Robert D.) Collection, Mississippi State University Libraries

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MSS. 246. 1851-1907 and undated. 0.6 cubic feet. Collection of Robert Pittman of Coffeeville, Mississippi, includes Lee B. Hazlewood account and daybooks (1898-1907); Mary Person's autograph album (1851-1852 and undated); undated carte de visite of two girls taken in Memphis; three letters and a writing (undated) from W.S. Blount to his sister Betty Hazelwood concerning the Civil War service of their brother G.G. (George G. Blount) in the 15th Mississippi Infantry, Company B (Winona Stars); sheet music (placed with Music Collection).


Jones (Clay) Papers, Mississippi State University Libraries Sep 2019

Jones (Clay) Papers, Mississippi State University Libraries

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MSS. 538. 1982-1998 (Bulk Dates: 1990-1997). 6.83 cubic feet. The collection includes the correspondence, awards materials, portfolios, cartoon drawings and art, and political memorabilia of cartoonist Clayton Robert Jones, who worked for Mississippi newspapers from 1990 to 1997.


Owen (Sidney) Collection, Mississippi State University Libraries Sep 2019

Owen (Sidney) Collection, Mississippi State University Libraries

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MSS. 121. 1945-1957 and undated. 1 reel microfilm. The History of the Sallis Community by Sidney S. Owen (1950 term paper for Mississippi State University). News article about Sallis schools, from Kosciusko Star-Herald, June 20, 1957. Minutes of the 90th convention of the Mississippi Synod of the United Lutheran Church, Sallis, Mississippi, July 24-26, 1945. Long Creek Rifles - A Brief History ( Co. A., 15th Mississippi Rgt., Attala Co.), by F. M. Glass.


Jefferson College (Washington, Mississippi) Address To Public, Mississippi State University Libraries Sep 2019

Jefferson College (Washington, Mississippi) Address To Public, Mississippi State University Libraries

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MSS. 214. 1839. 0.01 cubic feet: 1 item. Broadside containing address to the public from Jefferson College, April 25, 1839.


Mcrae (Sallie B.) Diary, Mississippi State University Libraries Sep 2019

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.


Lowrey (Thomas Jefferson) Memoranda Book, Mississippi State University Libraries Sep 2019

Lowrey (Thomas Jefferson) Memoranda Book, Mississippi State University Libraries

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MSS. 498. 1840-1891. 0.08 cubic feet. Journals of Thomas Jefferson Lowry, minister of the Methodist Episcopal Church, who served circuits primarily in North Mississippi. The journals provide information regarding baptisms, membership, missions support, subscriptions, book sales, sermons preached, and an occasional home remedy. Baptism and membership records indicate gender and race. Transcript of original from J.B. Cain Archives, Millsaps College.


Chickasaw County (Mississippi) Tax Records, Mississippi State University Libraries Sep 2019

Chickasaw County (Mississippi) Tax Records, Mississippi State University Libraries

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MSS. 438. 1848-1870. 1 reel microfilm. Personal and real property rolls, land rolls, for Chickasaw County, Palo Alto, and Houston, Mississippi.


Person (Tom) Speech, Mississippi State University Libraries Sep 2019

Person (Tom) Speech, Mississippi State University Libraries

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MSS. 244. 1963. 0.02 cubic feet. What has become of fiction? Talk delivered at the annual meeting of the Mississippi Library Association, Jackson, Mississippi, November 22, 1963. Published in Mississippi Library News. Also includes two letters concerning this talk from Person to Margarete Peebles, July 25 and August 21, 1963.


Cammack (Abner) Collection, Mississippi State University Libraries Sep 2019

Cammack (Abner) Collection, Mississippi State University Libraries

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MSS. 164. 1883-1886. 0.33 cubic feet. Records of the C.D. Benton & Company plantation store at Burnett, Louisiana include letter book, 1883-1886, with copies of correspondence relating to supplies and cotton sales; ledger of accounts, 1882-1883 and 11 loose items documenting supplies purchased, cotton stored and other transactions with share croppers and other customers in the Burch's Bend area.


Malloy Family Papers, Mississippi State University Libraries Sep 2019

Malloy Family Papers, Mississippi State University Libraries

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MSS. 11. 1819-1929. 0.33 cubic feet. Materials documenting the Malloy family of Lowndes County, Mississippi, includes local correspondence concerning family affairs and a breach of promise suit; a letter of Samuel M. Smith and N. B. M. from Corinth, 1861 to "Doc" (Malloy?) on unusual letterhead; reprints of several newspapers; package of floral calling cards and other souvenir cards.


Calhoun County (Mississippi) Church Records, Mississippi State University Libraries Sep 2019

Calhoun County (Mississippi) Church Records, Mississippi State University Libraries

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MSS. 120. 1880-1975. 1 reel microfilm. New Liberty Missionary Baptist Church Records, 1904-1930, 1956-1975; Mt. Herman Primitive Baptist Church Records, 1880-1926, 1926-1955; Homewell Association of Primitive Baptists minutes, 1945; Little Black Association of Primitive Baptists minutes, 1926; M.F. Young family Bible records.


Nocturne Music Club Collection, Mississippi State University Libraries Sep 2019

Nocturne Music Club Collection, Mississippi State University Libraries

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MSS. 423. 1971-1984. 1 cubic foot. Scrapbooks concerning the members and activities of the Nocturne Music Club of Starkville, Mississippi. Included are clippings, programs, certificates, ribbons, and photographs. See also the Harold and Lois Kaufman papers.


Development Of The Mayhew Mission, Mississippi State University Libraries Sep 2019

Development Of The Mayhew Mission, Mississippi State University Libraries

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MSS. 376. 1972. 0.04 cubic feet: 1 item. Class paper concerning the Mayhew Mission, Oktibbeha County, Mississippi, written by Sylvia Blaylock and Nancy Ergger, 1972.


Henry (Marcus L.) Account, Mississippi State University Libraries Sep 2019

Henry (Marcus L.) Account, Mississippi State University Libraries

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MSS. 234. 1861-1862. 1 reel microfilm. An account of facts collected and preserved during the Civil War.


Landrum (Allye Morgan). "History Of Morgantown", Mississippi State University Libraries Sep 2019

Landrum (Allye Morgan). "History Of Morgantown", Mississippi State University Libraries

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MSS. 138. 1976. 0.01 cubic feet. Writing by Allye Morgan Landrum concerns the history of Morgantown, Oktibbeha County, Mississippi.


West Point, Mississippi, Miscellaneous Papers, Mississippi State University Libraries Sep 2019

West Point, Mississippi, Miscellaneous Papers, Mississippi State University Libraries

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MSS. 296. Undated. 0.02 cubic feet. Miscellaneous papers about West Point, Mississippi. Collected in WPA days by Mrs. Ed Joiner. Contents: An account of Grierson's Raid; also interviews with ex-slaves.


Whitfield (Governor) Photograph, Mississippi State University Libraries Sep 2019

Whitfield (Governor) Photograph, Mississippi State University Libraries

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MSS. 299. 1924. 0.01 cubic feet: 1 item. Photograph of Governor Henry L. Whitfield and staff, Jackson, Mississippi on inauguration day, January 22, 1924.


Poplar Springs Normal College Catalogue, Mississippi State University Libraries Sep 2019

Poplar Springs Normal College Catalogue, Mississippi State University Libraries

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MSS. 249. 1892-1893. 0.08 cubic feet.


Weeks (Thelma) Letters, Mississippi State University Libraries Sep 2019

Weeks (Thelma) Letters, Mississippi State University Libraries

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MSS. 362. 1947. 0.08 cubic feet. Letters (10) written by Thelma Weeks of Ackerman, Mississippi, while visiting friends in Aquacate, Cuba. Included are detailed descriptions of her plane trip to Havana, tours of a sugar cane mill and the Hershey Mills, a trip to the Methodist Seminary in Matanzas, and various sights in Cuba.


Yellow Fever In Natchez, 1823, A History, Mississippi State University Libraries Sep 2019

Yellow Fever In Natchez, 1823, A History, Mississippi State University Libraries

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MSS. 307. 1823. 0.08 cubic feet. Copy of a history of the August-October 1823 yellow fever epidemic in Natchez, Mississippi, written by Henry Tooley.


Stephens (H. A.) Letter, Mississippi State University Libraries Sep 2019

Stephens (H. A.) Letter, Mississippi State University Libraries

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MSS. 71. 1862. 0.01 cubic feet: 1 item. Letter (1862) of Hubert Alonzo Stephens of the 11th Mississippi Infantry Regiment, Company H (Chickasaw Guards) at Camp Fisher, Virginia, to his parents. Stephens died at Petersburg.


Chickasaw Female College Catalogues, Mississippi State University Libraries Sep 2019

Chickasaw Female College Catalogues, Mississippi State University Libraries

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MSS. 171. 1890-1891, 1902-1903. 0.33 cubic feet. Chickasaw Female College catalogues include lists of courses taught and lists of students.


James (D. Clayton) Collection, Mississippi State University Libraries Sep 2019

James (D. Clayton) Collection, Mississippi State University Libraries

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MSS. 67. 1957-2003 (Bulk Dates: 1964-1996). 23.75 cubic feet. The D. Clayton James papers include the papers of Dr. D. Clayton James (1931-2004) who was a professor of history at Mississippi State University and a prolific author, notably on General Douglas MacArthur. The papers contain correspondence, research files, manuscripts, newspaper clippings, publications and copies of publications, audio and video recordings, microfilm, photographs, and miscellany.