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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