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Finding Aid For The League Of Women Voters Of Mississippi Collection (Mum00261) Nov 2020

Finding Aid For The League Of Women Voters Of Mississippi Collection (Mum00261)

Archives & Special Collections: Finding Aids (alphabetical)

The League of Women Voters of Mississippi Collection contains the official records for the Mississippi division of this national, nonpartisan organization which encourages citizens to actively participate in government. Files contain correspondence, minutes, reports, publications, public relations, budget & financial information, membership directories, yearbooks, subject files, candidate questionnaires, scrapbooks, photographs, and recordings.


Finding Aid For The Mary Ellen Wilcox Larche Collection (Mum00258) Nov 2020

Finding Aid For The Mary Ellen Wilcox Larche Collection (Mum00258)

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The collection contains loose materials and a scrapbook of memorabilia from Central High School in Jackson, Miss., circa 1919-1925, kept by Mary Ellen Wilcox Larche. Items of note include entries and notes by Eudora Welty, with whom Larche was close.


Finding Aid For The Charles Sawyer Collection (Mum00257) Nov 2020

Finding Aid For The Charles Sawyer Collection (Mum00257)

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Contains a photocopy of the typescript to Charles Sawyer’s The Arrival of B. B. King (1978).


Finding Aid For The Felix Labauve Collection (Mum00255) Nov 2020

Finding Aid For The Felix Labauve Collection (Mum00255)

Archives & Special Collections: Finding Aids (alphabetical)

The collection contains notes and legal documents related to the life of Felix LaBauve of Mississippi.


Finding Aid For The Knox Collection Of Extremist Literature (Mum00253) Nov 2020

Finding Aid For The Knox Collection Of Extremist Literature (Mum00253)

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The collection contains various publications issued by right-wing political and religious organizations. Also included is a small amount of material created by leftwing religious and philosophical organizations.


Finding Aid For The Kavanough Collection (Mum00248) Nov 2020

Finding Aid For The Kavanough Collection (Mum00248)

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The collection contains two ledgers from a tavern, possibly in Aberdeen, Miss.


Finding Aid For The Jones County Assessment Of Personal Property, Polls, And Commutation Road Tax, 1924-1925 (Mum00247) Nov 2020

Finding Aid For The Jones County Assessment Of Personal Property, Polls, And Commutation Road Tax, 1924-1925 (Mum00247)

Archives & Special Collections: Finding Aids (alphabetical)

The collection is a ledger from Jones County, Miss., containing columns labeled by preprinted headings listing assets. The ledger has not been written in.


Finding Aid For The Felton M. Johnston Collection (Mum00245) Nov 2020

Finding Aid For The Felton M. Johnston Collection (Mum00245)

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Correspondence, files, photographs, and scrapbooks of Felton M. Johnston. Johnston served as Secretary of the U.S. Senate from 1955 through 1964. From 1965 through 1969, he was a member of the American Battlefield Monuments Commission.


Finding Aid For The Jasper County, Miss. Register Of Motor Vehicles And Motorcyles (Mum00242) Nov 2020

Finding Aid For The Jasper County, Miss. Register Of Motor Vehicles And Motorcyles (Mum00242)

Archives & Special Collections: Finding Aids (alphabetical)

The collection is a volume that contains a register listing motor vehicles in Jasper County, Miss., including owners' names, vehicle types, license numbers, and miscellaneous other information.


Finding Aid For The Howry Family Collection (Mum00238) Nov 2020

Finding Aid For The Howry Family Collection (Mum00238)

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Collection of personal correspondence among the Howry family, miscellaneous materials and letters from political figures.


Finding Aid For The Beckett Howorth Collection (Mum00236) Nov 2020

Finding Aid For The Beckett Howorth Collection (Mum00236)

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The collection contains writings by and information about orthopedist Beckett Howorth.


Finding Aid For The Hopson Collection (Mum00234) Nov 2020

Finding Aid For The Hopson Collection (Mum00234)

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The collection contains information on the Thompson family and the Nicholas Thompson home of Leasburg, North Carolina.


Finding Aid For The Mr. And Mrs. John B. Hood Collection (Mum00233) Nov 2020

Finding Aid For The Mr. And Mrs. John B. Hood Collection (Mum00233)

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The collection contains a notebook and a scrapbook with items relating to John Bell Hood and his wife.


Finding Aid For The Daniel Holland Ledger (Mum00231) Nov 2020

Finding Aid For The Daniel Holland Ledger (Mum00231)

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The collection is a ledger, the first portion of which dates from 1837 to 1845 and appears to be for a store in Natchez, Mississippi. The latter section is dated 1865 and concerns a Madison County, Mississippi plantation store with freedmen's accounts.


Finding Aid For The Nollie Hickman Collection (Mum00230) Nov 2020

Finding Aid For The Nollie Hickman Collection (Mum00230)

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The collection contains a manuscript of and publicity materials for the book Mississippi Harvest: Lumbering in the Longleaf Pine Belt, 1840-1915 by Nollie Hickman.


Finding Aid For The Beth Henley Small Manuscripts Collection (Mum00229) Nov 2020

Finding Aid For The Beth Henley Small Manuscripts Collection (Mum00229)

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The collection contains promotional materials and articles related to the work of playwright Beth Henley.


Finding Aid For The Beth Henley Collection (Mum00228) Nov 2020

Finding Aid For The Beth Henley Collection (Mum00228)

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The collection chiefly contains drafts and versions of screenplays written by Mississippi playwright and screenwriter Beth Henley.


Finding Aid For The Reverend Jesse L. Henderson Civil War Diary (Mum00226) Nov 2020

Finding Aid For The Reverend Jesse L. Henderson Civil War Diary (Mum00226)

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Collection contains the transcription of the diary of Reverend Jesse L. Henderson written 1864.


Finding Aid For The George William Healy, Jr. Collection (Mum00224) Nov 2020

Finding Aid For The George William Healy, Jr. Collection (Mum00224)

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The collection contains correspondence, manuscripts, photographs, clippings, periodicals, and miscellaneous other documents of George W. Healy, Jr., longtime editor of the New Orleans Times-Picayune and an active participant in the national political and cultural scene.


Finding Aid For The Pat Harrison Collection (Mum00222) Nov 2020

Finding Aid For The Pat Harrison Collection (Mum00222)

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The Pat Harrison Collection contains both personal and congressional records of Pat Harrison who represented Mississippi in the U.S. House of Representatives (1911-1919) and in the U.S. Senate (1919-1941).


Finding Aid For The Hardwood Manufacturers Institute - Southern Hardwood Producers, Inc. Collection/Lumber Archives (Mum00218) Nov 2020

Finding Aid For The Hardwood Manufacturers Institute - Southern Hardwood Producers, Inc. Collection/Lumber Archives (Mum00218)

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The Hardwood Manufacturers Institute (1922-1935) and the Southern Hardwood Producers Inc. (1935-?) were hardwood industry associations that provided trade promotion, public relations, research, and statistics.


Finding Aid For The Carolyn Haines Collection (Mum00212) Nov 2020

Finding Aid For The Carolyn Haines Collection (Mum00212)

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Carolyn Haines was born in Hattiesburg, Mississippi. She earned a B.S. in journalism from the University of Southern Mississippi and an M.A. in English with an emphasis in creative writing from the University of Southern Alabama. Her first novel, Summer of Fear, was published in 1993. She has since published over 20 books, including a series of novels about Southern belle detective Sarah Booth Delaney and a work of nonfiction, My Mother’s Witness: The Peggy Morgan Story, about a young white woman caught in a violent world of racism and brutality during the Civil Rights movement and its aftermath. The …


Finding Aid For The Grisham - A Time To Kill Manuscript (Mum00211) Nov 2020

Finding Aid For The Grisham - A Time To Kill Manuscript (Mum00211)

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The collection contains a manuscript of the novel A Time To Kill by John Grisham.


Finding Aid For The Grisham - The Chamber Manuscript (Mum00209) Nov 2020

Finding Aid For The Grisham - The Chamber Manuscript (Mum00209)

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The collection contains a manuscript of John Grisham's novel The Chamber.


Finding Aid For The Gravel Company Ledgers (Mum00207) Nov 2020

Finding Aid For The Gravel Company Ledgers (Mum00207)

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The collection contains ledgers, 1926-1929, of a Charleston, Miss., gravel company.


Finding Aid For The Edwin Granberry Collection (Mum00206) Nov 2020

Finding Aid For The Edwin Granberry Collection (Mum00206)

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Collection consists of correspondence, manuscripts, and legal and financial documents related to the life of author and Mississippi native Edwin Granberry. Items were created from 1918-1990.


Finding Aid For The Carroll Gartin Collection (Mum00198) Nov 2020

Finding Aid For The Carroll Gartin Collection (Mum00198)

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Papers of Carroll Gartin circa 1941 through 1966, bulk 1951 through 1966. Gartin served three terms as Mississippi's Lieutenant Governor (1952-1956, 1956-1960, and 1964-1966). The collection contains campaign records, correspondence, speeches, financial records, appointment calendars, scrapbooks, original music compositions, legislative files, subject files, photographs, audio recordings, and film reels.


Finding Aid For The Richard Ford Small Manuscripts (Mum00188) Nov 2020

Finding Aid For The Richard Ford Small Manuscripts (Mum00188)

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School publications, newspaper clippings and magazine articles about Mississippi author, Richard Ford. Ford's publications include The Sportswriter (1986), A Piece of My Heart (1987), Wildlife (1990), Independence Day (1995), Rock Springs (1987), Women With Men: Three Stories (1997), A Multitude of Sins: Stories (2002), and The Lay of the Land (2006).


Finding Aid For The First National Bank Of Oxford Collection (Mum00185) Nov 2020

Finding Aid For The First National Bank Of Oxford Collection (Mum00185)

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The collection contains ledgers and various accounts of the First National Bank of Oxford (Miss.), 1910- 1957. The volume containing entries for 1918 contains notations by William Faulkner, who worked at the bank.


Finding Aid For The Wynn - Faulkner Poetry Collection (Mum00179) Nov 2020

Finding Aid For The Wynn - Faulkner Poetry Collection (Mum00179)

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48 pages of early poetry written by William Faulkner in addition to materials related to the exhibition of these typescripts.