Oral history with Irene Haper. Interview was conducted by G.B. Crawford on 26 October 1983, at Horn Lake, Mississippi. Includes a transcript and audio.
Transcription of an oral history interview conducted with Mrs. Norma C. O'Bannon. O'Bannon was a teacher in Mississippi for the Washington County School district beginning in 1921. She discusses life then and now in the area.
Transcription of an oral history interview conducted with Fletcher Abrams of Carry, Mississippi. Abrams discusses agriculture and sharecropping plus the role of mechanized farm equipment.
Transcription of an interview conducted with Mrs. Mose Allison. Mrs. Allison taught school from 1926-1957 at Tippo School. She is the mother of renowned jazz pianist Mose Allison. Throughout the interview, Mrs. Allison recounts life in Tippo,...
Transcription of an oral history interview conducted with Sylvester Matthews regarding the history of the Rosedale Negro Church. Matthews, born in 1887, discusses his family's history and various aspects of the history of the Rosedale area, in...
Transcription of an oral history interview conducted with Albert Day. Day grew up in Gunnison, Mississippi. During his childhood, his father was a general manager of the Delta Cooperative Farm Project in Hillsdale, Mississippi. Day discusses the...
Transcription of an oral history interview conducted with three men, Delaware, Vonell and Toliver. These gentlemen discuss several issues, among them slavery and the Works Progress Administration (WPA).
Transcription of an oral history interview conducted with Charles M. George. George discusses in particular his time spent working for the West Tallahatchie School District where he eventually became the first African American Superintendent.
From the Lowndes County Postcard Collection. A postcard of Lide's Pharmacy, Columbus, Mississippi U.S.A. A message is stamped on the back, "REFERRING to The PRESCRIPTION SAY TO YOU DOCTOR: 'GET IT AT LIDE'S' (SAY IT PLAIN) You Have EVERYTHING to...
Transcription of an oral history interview conducted with James Goodman of Cleveland, Mississippi. Goodman talks about farming and slavery in and around Cleveland, Mississippi.
Large colonial structure with six columns across the front and lattice work railings on the second story porch. Lattice work hangs down to shade the first level porch, but it does not have any other railings. Most of the view is obscured by trees,...
Copy of a photograph of the Post Office located on the northwest corner of North Union and West Center Street, shortly after it was completed. It is a square concrete building with ornate columns and trim around the doorway. There are striped...
From the Birdsong PW Collection. The image is of a man standing underneath a very small, covered structure with his back to the camera. He is holding a weapon. On either side of the structure is concertina (barbed) wire. In the foreground of the...
From the Birdsong PW Collection. Photograph of a large mound of unknown material with two water bottles sitting next to it in the middle of a field. The material has the initials ""P.W."" on it, indicating it has something to do with prisoners of...
From the Birdsong PW Collection. Photocopy of a picture of a horse and buggy with two men dressed in military uniforms riding inside it. There is a caption on top of the picture that reads ""It has the Fringe on top But it's a GI Surrey."" In pen...
From the Ingalls Shipbuilding National Women's Welding Championship Collection. Image depicts three people standing in the foreground: Vera (Anderson) McDonald and two gentlemen. Vera (Anderson) McDonald stands to the far right of the image, a...
From the Sara Cross Collection. A photocopy of a photograph of reassembling of Camp Van Dorn chapel by the First Baptist Church of Bay St. Louis, MS. The church purchased the chapel when the camp closed, dismantled it, and reassembled it in Bat St....
Transcription of an oral history interview conducted with Iva Brown of Charleston, Mississippi. Mrs. Brown discusses her experience first growing up as a student and finally as a school teacher in Charleston beginning in 1926.
Transcription of an oral history interview conducted in Cleveland, Mississippi with Tommy Naron. Naron talks of his life in Cleveland and his many years of public service in the area.
