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Dr. William B. Watkins Ledgers

 Collection
Identifier: MSS-336
Scope and Contents Daily account ledgers of Dr. Watkins of Big Springs, Mississippi, formerly in Chickasaw County and now in Clay County, including one daily medical account ledger, 1872-1873. Patients include African-Americans, whom Watkins indicates with “Freedman” beside their names. Two additional ledgers, ca. 1880s-1890s and 1930s, contain medical and farm accounts of Caucasians and African-Americans. Also included are loose materials from the ledgers: two letters (1906 and undated) and gin receipts for...
Dates: 1872 - 1937
Found in: Manuscripts

Brad Watson Papers

 Collection
Identifier: MSS-539
Scope and Content Papers of Watson, writer and lecturer, Mississippi State University and University of Alabama alumnus. Materials related to Watson's career as an author include original manuscripts, correspondence, newspaper clippings, journals, award materials, promotional materials, and conference materials. Original manuscripts comprise several edited and revised copies of Last Days of the Dog Men. Correspondence consists of letters from his publisher, fans, and letters concerning his position at Harvard...
Dates: 1994 - 1997
Found in: Manuscripts

Mrs. Henry Duke II Watson and Mrs. Charles Wallace Papers

 Collection
Identifier: MSS-342
Scope and Content

Family papers concerning the Watson and Wallace families of Strong, Mississippi. Includes: account books of the Strong Community Store, 1900s, 1911-1912 and an account book, 1875-1875 and 1900-1901; pamphlets about Grassland Farms, which was operated by Henry Duke Watson. He raised Rhode Island red chickens and showed them all over the world.

Dates: 1874 - 1974
Found in: Manuscripts

Waverley Mansion Collection

 Collection
Identifier: MSS-325
Scope and Content

Papers and photographs concerning the antebellum plantation Waverley, which was built in Clay County, Mississippi, in the 1850s by George Hampton Young.

Dates: 1836 - 1982
Found in: Manuscripts

Waverley miscellaneous papers

 Collection
Identifier: MSS-289
Scope and Contents

Letter from Ben R. Rhett to Captain Billy, 1908; cures for animal and poultry diseases. These items were found at Waverley Plantation (Clay County, Mississippi) in 1936.

Dates: 1908 and undated
Found in: Manuscripts

The Frank and Virginia Williams Collection of Lincolniana - Weapons

 Class
Identifier: FVWCL-Weapons
Scope and Contents

This class consists of numerous original and reproduction weapons from or relating to the Civil War-era. Types of weapons include knives, bullets, cartridges, and firearms. included are a reproduction of the pistol that John Wilkes Booth used to assassinate Abraham Lincoln and an original Burnside Rifle.

Dates: Majority of material found within 1990 - 2000

Weaver Insurance Agency Collection

 Collection
Identifier: MSS-743
Scope and Content

Agents records, and insurance ledgers from turn of the century.

Dates: 1890 - 1940
Found in: Manuscripts

Weaver-MS A & M Souvenir photo booklet

 File
Identifier: University Archives-A2017-45
Dates: 1950

Billy Weeks Collection

 Collection
Identifier: MSS-290
Scope and Contents

Ledger from store in Holly Bluff, Mississippi.

Dates: 1917
Found in: Manuscripts

Hiram Sharp Weeks Family Papers

 Collection
Identifier: MSS-701
Dates: 2009 - 2013
Found in: Manuscripts

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University Archives 843
Manuscripts 808
Mississippi Political Collections 132
Mississippi State University Libraries 83
Ulysses S. Grant Collection 25
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Subject
United States -- History -- Civil War, 1861-1865. 82
Agriculture. 43
United States -- History -- Civil War, 1861-1865 -- Correspondence. 43
African-Americans. 25
Correspondence. 23
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Politics. 20
Starkville (Miss.) 18
World War, 1939-1945 17
Art. 16
Diaries. 15
Oktibbeha County (Miss.) 15
Mississippi--Genealogy 14
Business records. 13
Journalism -- Mississippi. 13
Churches -- Mississippi. 12
Mississippi State University 12
Education -- Mississippi. 11
Family -- History. 11
Mississippi State University. 11
Women. 11
World War II. 11
Civil Rights -- Mississippi -- History -- 20th century. 10
Mississippi Cooperative Extension Service 10
Poetry. 10
Sheet music 10
Slavery -- Mississippi. 10
Education -- Mississippi -- History. 9
Soldiers -- Confederate States of America -- History. 9
Family life -- Mississippi. 8
Mississippi--History--Civil War, 1861-1865 8
Newspapers -- Mississippi. 8
Wills. 8
4-H--clubs 7
African Americans -- Civil rights -- History -- 20th century. 7
African Americans -- Mississippi -- History. 7
Architecture 7
Baptist church in Mississippi. 7
College Administrators 7
Mississippi politics and government -- 1951- 7
Religion -- Mississippi -- History. 7
World War, 1914-1918 7
genealogies (histories) 7
Civil rights movements -- Mississippi. 6
Columbus (Miss.) 6
Cotton. 6
Elections -- Mississippi. 6
Farms and plantations -- Mississippi. 6
Law 6
Legal documents. 6
Politics -- Mississippi -- History. 6
Receipts (financial records) 6
Reconstruction (U.S. history, 1865-1877) 6
West Point (Miss.) 6
Women -- Education -- Mississippi. 6
memorabilia 6
Aberdeen (Miss.) 5
Account books. 5
Agriculture -- Mississippi -- History. 5
Business -- Mississippi -- History. 5
Chickasaw County (Miss.) 5
Correspondence 5
Cotton trade -- Mississippi. 5
Home demonstration work 5
Lowndes County (Miss.) 5
Mississippi -- Race relations. 5
Mississippi State University. President’s Commission on the Status of Women 5
Music -- America. 5
Pontotoc County (Miss.) 5
Scrapbook journaling. 5
Slavery -- Mississippi -- History. 5
Women -- Mississippi. 5
souvenirs 5
4-H Correspondence 4
Agricultural education. 4
Agriculture, Cooperative -- Mississippi. 4
Clippings (information artifacts) 4
College students -- Mississippi -- History. 4
Cotton growing -- Southern States. 4
Deeds of trust. 4
Forestry--Mississippi 4
General -- United States -- Biography. 4
General Grant National Memorial (New York, N.Y.) 4
Georgia. 4
Jackson (Miss.) 4
Mexican War, 1846-1848. 4
Mississippi State University -- Alumni and alumnae. 4
Natchez (Miss.) 4
Newspapers 4
Photographs. 4
Plantations -- Louisiana 4
School integration -- Mississippi. 4
Soldiers. 4
Sports teams 4
Taxation -- Mississippi. 4
Universities and colleges -- Mississippi. 4
Winston County (Miss.) 4
Women -- History 4
Women college students -- Mississippi. 4
World War I. 4
Yellow fever -- Mississippi. 4
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English 1894
French 3
German 2
Basque 1
Italian 1
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Names
Stennis, John C. (John Cornelius), 1901-1995 59
Montgomery, G. V. (Gillespie V.), 1920-2006 19
Grant, Ulysses S. (Ulysses Simpson), 1822-1885 11
Grant, Julia Dent, 1826-1902 5
Mississippi State University 5
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Brougher, William Edward 4
Carter, Jimmy 4
Democratic Party (Miss.) 4
Eisenhower, Dwight D. (Dwight David) 4
Grant, Frederick Dent, 1850-1912 4
Grant, Jesse Root, 1858-1934 4
Lincoln, Abraham, 1809-1865 4
Conner, Douglas L. 3
Eastland, James O. (James Oliver) 3
Evers, Charles 3
Grant, Ulysses S., 1852-1929 3
Griffin, Charles H. (Charles Hudson), 1926-1989 3
Lincoln, Robert Todd, 1843-1926 3
Mississippi Cooperative Extension Service 3
Republican Party (Miss.) 3
Roosevelt, Franklin D. (Franklin Delano) 3
Stone, John Marshall, 1830-1900 3
Waller, Bill 3
Welty, Eudora 3
Abernethy, Thomas Gerstle 2
Babcock, Orville Elias, 1835-1884 2
Bilbo, Theodore Gilmore 2
Bruce, Blanche Kelso 2
Burnside, William A. 2
Cantacuzene, Julia, Princess, 1876-1975 2
Carter, Hodding 2
Chickasaw Female College 2
Cobb family. 2
Cobb, Cully Alton 2
Cobb, Lois D. (Lois Dowdle) 2
Cole, Hunter. 2
Coleman, J.P. (James Plemon) 2
Coleman, J.P. (James Plemon), 1914-1991 2
Colmer, William Meyers 2
Confederate States of America. Army. Mississippi Cavalry Regiment, 1st 2
Confederate States of America. Army. Mississippi Infantry Regiment, 22nd 2
Delta Ministry 2
Espy, Mike 2
Franklin, Sam H. 2
Gartin, Carroll 2
Grant family, 1822- (President U. S. Grant) 2
Grant, Elizabeth Chapman 2
Grant, Ida, 1854-1930 2
Grant, U. S. (Ulysses S.), 1881-1968 2
Harris, Corra 2
Jackson, Jesse 2
Kennedy, John F. (John Fitzgerald) 2
Lee, Stephen D. (Stephen Dill) 2
Lincoln, Mary Todd, 1818-1882 2
MacArthur, Douglas 2
McGovern, George S. (George Stanley) 2
Mississippi State College 2
National Association for the Advancement of Colored People 2
Nixon, Richard M. (Richard Milhous) 2
Phillips, Rubel L. 2
Polk, James K. (James Knox), 1795-1849 2
Sartoris, Nellie Grant, 1855-1922 2
United Confederate Veterans 2
University of Mississippi 2
Wallace, George C. (George Corley) 2
White, Hugh L. (Hugh Lawson) 2
White, William Parker 2
Whitten, Jamie L. 2
Williams, John Bell 2
Winter, William F. 2
Wright, Fielding (Fielding Lewis) 2
11th Mississippi Infantry Regiment, Company H 1
17th Virginia Infantry 1
1st Mississippi Infantry Regiment. Company G 1
27th Mississippi Infantry Regiment, Company A 1
Abbott and Howard (Holmes County, Miss.) 1
Abbott family. 1
Abbott, F. Marion 1
Abbott, Gertrude 1
Abbott, Harry 1
Abbott, Liberty C. 1
Abbott, Maria 1
Aberdeen Creamery (Aberdeen, Miss.) 1
Adams family. 1
Adams, Everett L. (Everett Louis) 1
Adams, Everett L., Jr. (Everett Louis) 1
Adams, Henry Smith 1
Adams, John Quincy, 1767-1848 1
Adams, Mary Augusta 1
Adams, Roy Clark. 1
Adams, Ruth. 1
Adams, William D. 1
Aetna Insurance Company 1
Agnew, E. 1
Agnew, Samuel Andrew 1
Alabama and Vicksburg Railway Company (Miss.) 1
Alcorn University 1
Allen, Grover--Photographs. 1
Allen, Grover. 1
Allen, John M. 1
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