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 three men, Delaware, Vonell and Toliver. These gentlemen discuss several issues, among them slavery and the Works Progress Administration (WPA).
Health Hazard Evaluation of Police Officers and Firefighters After Hurricane Katrina --- New Orleans, Louisiana, October 17--28 and November 30--December 5, 2005 4 pages (PDF version).
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 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 Gladys Goodman of Cleveland, Mississippi. Mrs. Goodman discusses various aspects of her life including family, farming and slavery.
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 the Honorable John Pearson of Rosedale, Mississippi. Judge Pearson discusses his life and the many years of public service he performed.
Sepia photo shows the angled roof of a lumber company in the background with a large crowd of workers standing outside. Almost all the workers are wearing work caps, and hats. Notes state: Scenes from Pearl River Valley Lumber Company which later...
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,...
From the Birdsong PW Collection. Picture of several men in a low-lying field engaged in what appears to be some type of sporting or work activity. There are two flags in the ground by the men and a long white fence in the background. On the back...
From the Adam Daniel Beittel Papers. Typewritten letter from A.D. Beittel dated August 10, 1963. Beittel gives a brief history of Tougaloo College and its work to promote and work toward integration. Beittel invites recipients of the letter to...
From the Rankin (Annie) Papers. Two-page handwritten letter signed Annie [Rankin] to Mr. and Mrs. Frank M. Stewart dated March 20, 1968. Rankin writes about her work in Wilkinson and Franklin counties, Mississippi, to educate voting age people...
Finding Aid for the Marion Stark Gaines Photography Collection located in the Billups-Garth Archives in the Local History Department at the Columbus-Lowndes Public Library. The collection contains photographs, negatives, family papers, and other...
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...
From the Ron Caulfield Collection. A photograph of the dining area. Black and white counter with black diamond inserts. Two white tables with black covering; napkin dispenser on each table; 3 folding chairs around the front table; 4 around the back...
Letter.; Sillers writes that if the States' Rights movement is to prevail in Mississippi that Governor Wright must be succeeded by a Governor who will work hard for States' Rights principles. He suggests that the National Coalition Committee...
Letter.; Sillers writes to Governor White about the economic situation in Rosedale, Miss., which is experiencing population loss because there is little year-round work in the predominantly agricultural area. Sillers suggests that the governor...
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.
