Mississippi
Subject
Subject Source: Library of Congress Subject Headings
Scope Note: https://lccn.loc.gov/n79138969
Found in 22 Collections and/or Records:
Alabama-Mississippi Social Work Education Conference papers
Collection
Identifier: MSS-3599
Overview
Alabama-Mississippi Social Work Education Conference records
Dates:
1971-2010
Allan F. Archer papers
Collection
Identifier: MSS-0082
Overview
Documents pertaining to the career of Dr. Allan F. Archer from 1932 to 1951 when he worked at the University of Alabama Museum of Natural History and Geological Survey of Alabama. The material primarily focuses on Dr. Archer’s study of spiders, but includes crabs, mollusks, crustacean and matters of ecological and biological importance as well.
Dates:
1932-1951
Buckner Confederate Hospital Medical Logs
Collection
Identifier: MSS-4339
Scope and Contents
This collection from Buckner Hospital, dating from April 1862 to April 1865, is comprised of one ledger of patients treated by the hospital’s mobile unit and one ledger of medical orders. The patient ledger is 343 pages and contains patient names, ranks, regiments, companies, complaints and applied treatments, and whether the patient was discharged or died. The medical orders ledger is 141 pages of general and specific orders concerning medical treatment at field hospitals.
The ledgers are...
Dates:
1862-04 - 1865-04
Maria E. Chandler and H. R. Garner Cotton Claims Documents
Collection
Identifier: MSS-4128
Overview
Handwritten and typescript documents - correspondence, affidavits, etc. - relating to two southern clients of the New York lawyer Quinton Corwine, dealing with compensation due them for cotton seized by federal agents during the Reconstruction period
Dates:
1864-1898
R. H. Cook Diary and Poems
Collection
Identifier: MSS-4114
Overview
Diary for the year 1869 written by a young man in Rose Hill, Mississippi.
Dates:
1869-1880
Sam Dale envelope fragment
Collection
Identifier: MSS-3732
Overview
Fragment of an envelope sent to David Holmes, then governor of the Mississippi Territory (which included the state of Alabama), on 15 May 1817, by Sam Dale at Fort Claiborne, Alabama
Dates:
1817 May 15
Jefferson Davis Papers
Collection
Identifier: MSS-0404
Abstract
This is a collection of mostly personal correspondence of Jefferson Davis and his family members, in both the United States and Europe. This collection also includes three folders of photographs and other visual materials.
Dates:
1823-1917
Edward Lee Hotel Broadside
Collection
Identifier: MSS-4321
Scope and Contents
One handmade sign from the Edward Lee Hotel in Jackson, Mississippi, from approximately 1963 supporting freedom and equality. The sign measures approximately 30" x 20" and is marked with the initials "EL" in two corners. The Edward Lee Hotel was one of two African American-owned hotels in Jackson, Mississippi.
Dates:
1963
Eliza Williams Chotard Gould memoirs
Collection
Identifier: MSS-0582
Overview
Two typescript copies of an 1868 memoirs written by early Tuscaloosa resident of French ancestry, whose family were Natchez, Mississippi pioneers.
Dates:
1868
Gulf and Ship Island Railroad Company documents
Collection
Identifier: MSS-0602
Overview
Documents dealing with various financial considerations concerning mortgages, bonds, consolidations, etc., between 1912 And 1914
Dates:
1912-1936
Leola Dennis Photo Album of Utica (Mississippi) Normal and Industrial Institute
Collection
Identifier: 2020-007
Overview
One photographic album compiled by Leola Dennis containing seventy-one black-and-white photographs depicting life at the Utica Normal and Industrial Institute during the early 1920s.
Dates:
1921 - 1924
Martha Jane Coleman Banks commonplace book
Collection
Identifier: MSS-0111
Abstract
Commonplace book containing diary entries, recipes, miscellaneous writings, newspaper clippings, and poems; created by Martha Jane Coleman Banks of Columbus, Mississippi.
Dates:
Circa 1848-1865
E. O. McElroy papers
Collection
Identifier: MSS-3758
Overview
Ten U.S. postal service railroad mail service directories for several southeastern states: Florida, Georgia, Alabama, Mississippi, Louisiana, and Texas; letters, postal rating exams, etc.
Dates:
1938-1948
Mississippi, New Orleans, Mobile records
Collection
Identifier: MSS-1000
Abstract
Miscellaneous manuscripts from the Gulf Coast; business related, bills, receipts, pricing lists
Dates:
1836 - 1876
Mississippi Territory seal
Collection
Identifier: MSS-0999
Overview
Picture of the Mississippi Territory seal
Dates:
unknown
Thomas McAdory Owen correspondence on A Bibliography of Mississippi
Collection
Identifier: W-0093
Overview
Contains correspondence between Thomas McAdory Owen and Mississippi authors and scholars regarding Owen's A Bibliography of Mississippi.
Dates:
1896-1909
Prentiss Ingraham and Joseph H. Ingraham Scrapbook
Collection
Identifier: MSS-0729
Abstract
Material relating to "dime novelist" Prentiss Ingraham and his father, Joseph Holt Ingraham, kept by Prentiss's daughter, Rosa. Included are clippings, letters, poetry, photographs and other items, and a a list of books by Ingraham held by the W. S. Hoole Library.
Dates:
1839 - 1950; Majority of material found within 1868 - 1950
C. L. Townsend letters
Collection
Identifier: MSS-1419
Abstract
Letters to his wife and family sent from Kentucky and Corinth, Mississippi in 1862. The letters give instructions for handling his business affairs and express discontent with the war.
Dates:
1862
Belle M. Turner Papers
Collection
Identifier: MSS-1428
Overview
Two documents in the case of an altercation between A.L. West and Thomas M. Pearce in Noxubee, Mississippi.
Dates:
circa 1867
W. A. Mair Photographs
Collection
Identifier: 2008-025
Overview
This collection consists of two photographic albums with 230 photographs showcasing highlights of W. A. Mair travels with his friends and family through Michigan, Texas, Arkansas, Mississippi, Alabama, Louisiana, Florida, Indiana, Illinois, Mexico, and Tennessee.
Dates:
1900 - 1901
Wade Hall Photographs, Small Collection
Collection — Box 2009001.017: [1006241514]
Identifier: 2009-076
Abstract
This collection consists of five photographs depicting African American's picking cotton in Mississippi.
Dates:
1941
William Y. Gholson Legal Account Books
Collection
Identifier: MSS-4130
Overview
Two pocket ledgers listing the cases and clients from Memphis, to Mobile, to New Orleans, of this Pontotoc, Mississippi, lawyer, from 1839-1842
Dates:
1839-1842