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Ames and Hogan families papers

 Collection
Identifier: MSS-2
Scope and Contents

The Ames and Hogan families papers document the history of the family from 1816-1910. The papers consist of correspondence, legal documents, speeches and essays, business receipts, an autograph album, and other items. Among the business receipts are those relating to Hogan’s business with James Nealley, documenting their trips from Ditto’s Landing to New Orleans, along with their cargo and business partners.

Dates: 1816 - 1910
Found in: Manuscripts

Boys' Clubs & Home Demonstration Work

 Record Group
Identifier: University Archives-A1988-29
Dates: 1923-1951

Eugene Butler Papers

 Collection
Identifier: MSS-389
Scope and Contents The Eugene Butler papers contain the personal and business correspondence of Progressive Farmer editor-in-chief Eugene Butler. There is also a small amount of correspondence related to his father, Dr. Tait Butler, particularly in regard to a memorial plaque for the Tennessee Agricultural Hall of Fame. The largest proportion of the collection materials is concerned with Eugene Butler’s position as editor and senior executive of the Progressive Farmer Company....
Dates: 1883 - 1999; Majority of material found within 1925 - 1980
Found in: Manuscripts

Cully A. Cobb Papers

 Collection
Identifier: MSS-47
Scope and Contents The Cully A. Cobb papers consist of correspondence, reports, and other documents concerning the career and family of Cully A. Cobb. Series 1, Secretary of Agriculture Candidacy, consists of materials documenting Cobb’s candidacy for Secretary of Agriculture in 1932. It includes letters from, and copies of letters to, extension workers, experiment station personnel, college and university officials, agricultural associations and organizations, commercial manufacturers, and editors...
Dates: 1846 - 1973; Majority of material found within 1932 - 1970
Found in: Manuscripts

Lois P. Dowdle "Mrs. Cully" Cobb Papers

 Collection
Identifier: MSS-48
Scope and Contents The collection documents the life and career of Lois Pauline Dowdle (1889-1987), the wife of agricultural leader and publisher Cully A. Cobb.Series 1, Personal, 1915-1987, includes documents, many photocopies, related to Mrs. Cobb’s travel, interest in ‘The Parsonage’ families and their careers, social events, and church involvement (including a religious poem written and autographed by General William Brougher), along with biographical and memorial materials. Among the...
Dates: 1904 - 1987
Found in: Manuscripts

Allen Eugene Cox Papers

 Collection
Identifier: MSS-45
Scope and Contents The collection is organized into eight series which represent the original accession received between 1967 and 1970 and the subsequent seven additions received between 1971 and 1996. The numbering of the boxes in the first series includes a roman numeral to denote the original box numbering of this series. The organization of the folders within the series—mostly alphabetical—and the folder titles are substantially those of Mr. Cox. Folders have been divided where the contents were excessive....
Dates: 1880 - 1996; Majority of material found within 1935 - 1987
Found in: Manuscripts

William Alfred Dockery Family Papers

 Collection
Identifier: MSS-507
Scope and Contents The William Alfred Dockery family papers document the establishment and management of William Alfred Dockery’s cotton plantation in the town named after him: Dockery, Mississippi. Most of the collection consists of family correspondence from 1887 to 1906 and undated, particularly between Dockery and his wife, Hughla Rice Dockery. There is a great deal of content about the business of managing a large farm. The letters also contain numerous references (many disparaging) to Dockery’s...
Dates: 1881 - 1980; Majority of material found within 1887 - 1906
Found in: Manuscripts

James Knox diary

 Collection
Identifier: MSS.274
Scope and Contents The James Knox diary, which begins in March 1848 and ends in February 1851, records the daily operations of his plantation in Pickens County, Alabama, including sowing, plowing, harvesting, and selling. He refers to several enslaved persons by name, most often Patrick and Alvin. Knox’s regular attendance at church and presbytery meetings is recorded in the diary, along with information about the pastors and their sermon texts. Ministers James Somerville, J. L. Kirkpatrick, Thomas Morrow, and...
Dates: 1848 - 1851
Found in: Manuscripts

Mississippi Cooperative Extension Service Resource

 File — Box: One
Identifier: University Archives-A1985-72
Content Description

General files

Dates: 1930-1960

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University Archives 2
 
Subject
Cotton. 5
African Americans -- Mississippi -- History. 3
Agriculture, Cooperative -- Mississippi. 3
Agriculture. 3
4-H--clubs 2
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Agricultural education. 2
Agricultural journalists. 2
Agriculture -- Mississippi -- History. 2
Archaeology. 2
Cotton growing -- Southern States. 2
Georgia. 2
Slavery -- Alabama -- History. 2
4-H clubs -- Photographs. 1
Accounting -- Mississippi -- History. 1
Advertising. 1
African Americans -- Alabama -- History. 1
African Americans -- Civil rights -- History -- 20th century. 1
African Americans -- Mississippi -- Economic conditions. 1
African Americans -- Mississippi -- Social conditions -- 20th century. 1
African Americans -- Politics and government -- 20th century. 1
African Americans -- Segregation -- History -- 20th century. 1
African Americans -- Suffrage -- History -- 20th century. 1
African-Americans. 1
Agricultural administration. 1
Agricultural pests -- United States. 1
Agriculture -- Mississippi -- History -- 20th century. 1
Agriculture -- Photographs. 1
Agriculture -- United States. 1
Annual reports 1
Autograph albums -- Mississippi -- History. 1
Baseball -- Mississippi -- History. 1
Beef cattle -- Argentina. 1
Boardinghouses -- Mississippi -- History. 1
Bolivar County (Miss.) -- History. 1
Boll weevil -- Control -- United States. 1
Boys Societies and clubs 1
Boys’ Clubs of America 1
Business -- Alabama -- History. 1
Business -- Mississippi -- History. 1
Business records. 1
Cacao -- Ecuador -- Guayaquil. 1
Camp meetings -- Mississippi -- History. 1
Chickasaw Indians -- History. 1
Choctaw Indians -- Mississippi -- History. 1
Class reunion -- Mississippi. 1
Condition surveys 1
Contracts -- Mississippi -- Oktibbeha County. 1
Cotton -- Storage 1
Cotton -- Testing 1
Cotton -- Varieties 1
Cotton -- Marketing. 1
Cotton growing 1
Cotton machinery 1
Cotton spinning 1
Cotton trade -- United States -- History. 1
Cotton-picking machinery -- Photographs. 1
Cotton-picking machinery. 1
Courtship -- Mississippi -- History. 1
Deeds -- Alabama -- Madison County. 1
Deeds -- Mississippi -- Oktibbeha County. 1
Diaries. 1
Dockery (Miss.) 1
Editorials -- United States. 1
Education -- Mississippi -- History. 1
Farm tenancy -- Mississippi -- History. 1
Farming -- Austria. 1
Farming -- Brazil. 1
Farming -- France. 1
Farming -- Italy. 1
Farms -- Mississippi -- History -- 20th century. 1
Farms and plantations -- Mississippi. 1
Fur trade -- United States -- History. 1
Galleries & museums -- South Africa -- Pretoria. 1
Giles County (Tenn.) 1
Grand Pre (N.S.) -- Photographs. 1
Holmes County (Miss.) -- History. 1
Holmes County (Miss.) -- Social conditions. 1
Home demonstration work 1
Horses -- Diseases -- Treatment -- History. 1
James E. Tanner 1
Journalism, Agricultural -- Biography. 1
Journalism, Agricultural -- United States. 1
Livestock -- Judging -- Photographs. 1
Livestock -- Judging. 1
Lumber and lumbering. 1
Medicine -- Mississippi -- History -- 19th century. 1
Memphis (Tenn.) 1
Mississippi -- Race relations. 1
Mississippi -- Social conditions. 1
Mississippi Agricultural and Mechanical College 1
Mississippi County Cooperative Extension Service Cotton Program 1
Mississippi State University -- Alumni and alumnae. 1
Monuments & memorials -- South Africa -- Cape Town. 1
Mound Bayou (Miss.) 1
Mules -- Mississippi -- History. 1
Oktibbeha County (Miss.) 1
Packets -- Mississippi. 1
Packets -- United States -- History -- 19th century. 1
Periodicals -- Publishing -- United States. 1
Pickens County (Ala.) 1
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Brougher, William Edward 2
Cobb family. 2
Cobb, Cully Alton 2
Cobb, Lois D. (Lois Dowdle) 2
Harris, Corra 2
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Mississippi State University 2
Alpha Kappa Alpha Sorority 1
Amberson, William Ruthrauff 1
American Friends Service Committee 1
American Institute of Home-Grown Fats and Oils 1
Ames family. 1
Ames, Albion 1
Ames, Madison Fisk 1
Association of Southern Agricultural Workers 1
Bell, Arthur. 1
Bell, Della Billington 1
Bell, Henry Arthur 1
Bell, Mary Della. 1
Brownell, Lucia Brown 1
Burns, Coleman Craig, Jr. 1
Burns, Coleman Craig, Sr. 1
Burns, Georgia May. 1
Burns, William Britt. 1
Butler, Dell Bell 1
Butler, Eugene 1
Butler, Eugene B. 1
Butler, Fred. 1
Butler, George. 1
Butler, Ida. 1
Butler, James 1
Butler, Mary Britt 1
Butler, Mary Jean 1
Butler, Robert Britt. 1
Butler, Tait 1
Campbell, Will D. 1
Cantrell, Oris Cynthia 1
Carthan , Eddie J. 1
Cobb family--Photographs. 1
Cobb, Napoleon Bonaparte 1
Confederate States of America. Army. Mississippi Infantry Regiment, 22nd 1
Cox, A. Eugene (Allen Eugene) 1
Cunningham, Emory. 1
Delta Cooperative Farm Project (Hillhouse, Miss.) 1
Delta Cooperative Farm Project (Hillhouse, Miss.)--Photographs 1
Dockery family. 1
Dockery, Hughla Rice 1
Dockery, Joe Rice 1
Dockery, Thomas Covington 1
Dockery, William Alfred 1
Druid Hills Baptist Church (Atlanta, Ga.) 1
Eastland, James O. (James Oliver) 1
Eddy, Sherwood 1
Eisenhower, Dwight D. (Dwight David) 1
Eisenhower, Mamie Doud 1
Fellowship of Southern Churchmen 1
Franklin, Sam H. 1
Hill, Sallie F. 1
Hogan family. 1
Hogan, Elijah 1
Jackson, Jesse 1
Jones, Mary Donelson 1
King, Martin Luther, Jr. 1
Kirkpatrick, John Lycan 1
Knox, James 1
Ku Klux Klan (1915- ) 1
Lampkin, Robert Allison 1
Martin, Dabney A. 1
Memphis (Tenn). Police Dept 1
Minter, David R. 1
Minter, David R.--Photographs. 1
Mississippi AFL-CIO 1
Mississippi Baptist Hospital 1
Mississippi State Sovereignty Commission 1
Mississippi State University. Alumni Association 1
Mississippi State University. Class of 1908 1
Mississippi State University. Class of 1913 1
Mississippi State University. Class of 1913--Photographs 1
Mississippi State University. Cobb Institute of Archeology 1
Mississippi State University. Development Foundation 1
Mitchell, H. L. (Harry Leland) 1
National Council of the Churches of Christ in the United States of America 1
Nunn, Alexander 1
Oak Grove Presbyterian Church (Franconia, Ala.) 1
Poe, Clarence H. 1
Presbyterian Church in the U.S.A. Presbytery of Tuscaloosa. 1
Presley , Elvis 1
Progressive Farmer Company 1
Progressive farmer 1
Providence Plantation (Miss.) 1
Roosevelt, Franklin D. (Franklin Delano) 1
Rust , John D. 1
S. Gumbel and Company (New Orleans, La.) 1
Shorter College 1
Socialist Party (U.S.) 1
Somerville, James 1
Sons of Temperance of North America 1
Southern Tenant Farmers' Union 1
Southern living 1
Spanische Reitschule (Vienna, Austria) 1
St. Louis Southwestern Railway Company 1
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