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University of Alabama Desegregation Collection

 Collection
Identifier: MSS-724
Scope and Content

Newspapers covering 1955 desegregation attempt at University of Alabama.

Dates: 1955
Found in: Manuscripts

Ella Bardwell Ward Family Papers

 Collection
Identifier: MSS-604
Scope and Contents The Ella Bardwell Ward family papers include a funeral program, awards and certificates, publications and photographs primarily documenting the life and career of Ella Bardwell Ward (1901-1981). Genealogical and other materials document the Bardwell family including Lena Bardwell Cunningham and other family members. Griffin United Methodist Church materials include a published history (1971) which also includes notes about Bardwell family members, an announcement of a program commemorating...
Dates: 1905 - 2002
Found in: Manuscripts

Rufus Ward Collection

 Collection
Identifier: MSS-73
Scope and Content Personal and business correspondence, accounts, receipts, deeds, slave records, tax receipts, military orders, genealogical material and other papers of the James Sykes family of Columbus, Mississippi. Includes letters from cotton brokers in West Point, Mississippi, Mobile, Alabama, St. Louis, Missouri, and New Orleans, Louisiana; letters from Alleghany Springs and Blue Ridge Springs, Virginia, and White Sulphur Springs, West Virginia; letters from Wildie and Ida Sykes at Patapsco Female...
Dates: 1837 - 1920
Found in: Manuscripts

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

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

Edward J. Welty Architectural Records

 Collection
Identifier: MSS-617
Scope and Content

Records of Jackson architect Edward J. Welty (1912-1966), brother of Eudora Welty, include designs for Jackson residences, including Carter and Fly subdivision designs, for which Welty won an award, and ten other residences. Nineteen projects consist of plans drawn by Welty for the R. W. Naef firm, including schools and the Mississippi State Sanitorium. Includes drawings and some project records.

Dates: 1911 - 2003
Found in: Manuscripts

West Point, Mississippi, Miscellaneous Papers

 Collection
Identifier: MSS-296
Scope and Contents

Miscellaneous papers about West Point, Mississippi, collected in WPA days by Mrs. Ed Joiner. Contents: An account of Grierson's Raid; also interviews with ex-enslaved persons.

Dates: undated
Found in: Manuscripts

Robert and Sadye Wier Papers

 Collection
Identifier: MSS-313
Scope and Content The Robert and Sadye Wier Papers, 1885-1975, consist of business records, correspondence, family papers, oral history interviews, personal papers, photographs, scrapbooks, and other items related to the lives of the Wiers. Topics covered include race relations, the history of Starkville, the Starkville Second Baptist Church, Journeymen Barber's International Union of America, teaching in Starkville, and the Mississippi Cooperative Extension Service in Newton, Winston, and Lowndes...
Dates: Majority of material found within 1885 - 1975
Found in: Manuscripts

T. C. Wier Family Papers

 Collection
Identifier: MSS-646
Scope and Content Correspondence, diaries and journals, photographs, sermons and other church materials, receipts, memorials, poems and other writings, programs and other memorabilia, school materials, genealogical materials, clothing, publications and other materials documenting the lives and contributions of the extended family of Methodist minister Dr. T.C. (Thomas Coke) Wier (1827-1920), who served as presiding elder and pastor in Alabama and Mississippi churches from 1859-1906 and also served as...
Dates: 1837 - 1973
Found in: Manuscripts

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Autograph albums -- Mississippi -- History. 1
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Big Springs (Miss.) 1
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Blackmonton (Miss.) 1
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Business -- Alabama -- History. 1
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Business Records - - Mississippi - - Chickasaw County 1
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Camp meetings -- Mississippi -- History. 1
Carroll County (Miss.) 1
Chickasaw Indians -- History. 1
Choctaw Indians -- Mississippi -- History. 1
College Administrators 1
Confederate States of America. Army. Mississippi Infantry Regiment, 24th. Company C. (Dowd Rebels). 1
Confederate States of America. Mississippi Cavalry Regiment, 8th. Company E (Lowndes Co.). 1
Contracts -- Mississippi -- Oktibbeha County. 1
Correspondence. 1
Cotton trade -- United States -- History. 1
Cotton-picking machinery -- Photographs. 1
Cotton-picking machinery. 1
Courtship -- Mississippi -- History. 1
Dairying -- Mississippi -- History. 1
Deeds -- Alabama -- Madison County. 1
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Deeds of trust. 1
Dockery (Miss.) 1
Education -- Mississippi -- Starkville. 1
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Fish and game licenses. 1
French Camp (Miss.) 1
Fur trade -- United States -- History. 1
Greenwood (Miss.) 1
Holmes County (Miss.) -- History. 1
Holmes County (Miss.) -- Social conditions. 1
Home demonstration work 1
Horses -- Diseases -- Treatment -- History. 1
Lumber and lumbering. 1
Medicine -- History. 1
Memphis (Tenn.) 1
Mississippi -- Race relations. 1
Mississippi -- Social conditions. 1
Mississippi State Bulldogs (Basketball team) 1
Mississippi politics and government -- 1951- 1
Mound Bayou (Miss.) 1
Mules -- Mississippi -- History. 1
Oktibbeha County (Miss.) 1
Packets -- Mississippi. 1
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Aberdeen Creamery (Aberdeen, Miss.) 1
Alpha Kappa Alpha Sorority 1
Amberson, William Ruthrauff 1
American Friends Service Committee 1
Ames family. 1
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Ames, Albion 1
Ames, Madison Fisk 1
Bardwell family. 1
Baskin family. 1
Baskin, Maud 1
Baskin, Rebecca Jane 1
Baskin, Robert N. 1
Baskin, Robert R. 1
Baskin, Sallie A. 1
Bruce, Blanche Kelso 1
Butts, Alfred Benjamin 1
Cable, Hattie Baskin 1
Campbell, Will D. 1
Carthan , Eddie J. 1
Confederate States of America. Army. Mississippi Infantry Regiment, 22nd 1
Cox, A. Eugene (Allen Eugene) 1
Cunningham, Lena B. (Lena Bardwell) 1
Delta Cooperative Farm Project (Hillhouse, Miss.) 1
Delta Cooperative Farm Project (Hillhouse, Miss.)--Photographs 1
Divine, Eva Baskin 1
Dockery family. 1
Dockery, Hughla Rice 1
Dockery, Joe Rice 1
Dockery, Thomas Covington 1
Dockery, William Alfred 1
Eastland, James O. (James Oliver) 1
Eddy, Sherwood 1
Farmers' Alliance (Miss.) 1
Fellowship of Southern Churchmen 1
Franklin, Sam H. 1
Griffin United Methodist Church (Starkville, Miss.) 1
Hogan family. 1
Hogan, Elijah 1
Jackson, Jesse 1
Joiner, Marcella Rose 1
King, Martin Luther, Jr. 1
Kirkpatrick, John Lycan 1
Knox, James 1
Ku Klux Klan (1915- ) 1
Ku Klux Klan (1915- ). Mississippi 1
Lampkin, Robert Allison 1
Martin, Dabney A. 1
Memphis (Tenn). Police Dept 1
Merchants and Farmers Bank (Vaiden, Miss.) 1
Minter, David R. 1
Minter, David R.--Photographs. 1
Mississippi AFL-CIO 1
Mississippi State Sovereignty Commission 1
Mitchell, H. L. (Harry Leland) 1
National Council of the Churches of Christ in the United States of America 1
Oak Grove Presbyterian Church (Franconia, Ala.) 1
Presbyterian Church in the U.S.A. Presbytery of Tuscaloosa. 1
Presley , Elvis 1
Preston, Zenas 1
Providence Plantation (Miss.) 1
Rambo, Mary C. 1
Rust , John D. 1
S. Gumbel and Company (New Orleans, La.) 1
Socialist Party (U.S.) 1
Somerville, James 1
Sons of Temperance of North America 1
Southern Tenant Farmers' Union 1
St. Louis Southwestern Railway Company 1
Trulight Baptist Church (Dockery, Miss.) 1
United Methodist Church (U.S.). Board of Missions 1
United States. War Finance Division 1
W. C. Henderson High School (Starkville, Miss.) 1
Wallace, George C. (George Corley) 1
Ward Elementary School (Starkville, Miss.) 1
Ward, Ella Sayles Bardwell 1
Watkins, William B. 1
West Creamery (West, Miss.) 1
Wier, Robert K., 1886-1974 1
Wier, Sadye Hunter , 1905-1995 1
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