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Vernon Pace Collection

 Collection
Identifier: MSS-544
Scope and Content

Materials collected by journalist Vernon Pace include audio recordings, phonograph records, books, pamphlets and articles representing conservative points of view.

Dates: 1931 - 1984
Found in: Manuscripts

Partial Emmitt Till Trial Transcript

 Collection
Identifier: MSS-802
Scope and Content

Fully legible copy of the typescript transcript of the second half of the trial for the murder of Emmitt Till. This material was collected by Bryan Maxwell Newman, who obtained the copy shortly after the trial concluded in 1955. Mr. Newman was employed near Greenwood, Mississippi where the trial took place.

Dates: 1955
Found in: Manuscripts

Steve Patterson Collection

 Collection
Identifier: MSS-421
Scope and Contents

Draft of letter from Steve Patterson, Chairman of the Mississippi Democratic Party, to fellow state party chairmen, November 7, 1984, concerning the defeat of the Democratic presidential candidate, Walter Mondale. Patterson analyzes the reasons for the defeat.

Dates: 1984
Found in: Manuscripts

Thompson Pound Papers

 Collection
Identifier: MSS-333
Scope and Content

Includes correspondence, reports, maps clippings, and publications, primarily concerning the Tombigbee River Valley Water Management District, which Pound served as Executive Director for ten years. Other subjects include the Tennessee-Tombigbee Waterway, legislation, history of Pontotoc County, and education.

Dates: 1960 - 1976
Found in: Manuscripts

James Purnell Papers

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Identifier: MSS-255
Scope and Contents

Contents: 2 letters, one containing information on Mississippi congressmen; and appointment by the governor. Several newspapers and church papers from Winona, Mississippi.

Dates: 1883 - 1910
Found in: Manuscripts

Clayton Rand Papers

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Identifier: MSS-91
Scope and Content Papers of Clayton Thomas Rand (1891-1971), author, columnist, speaker, and publisher of the Dixie Guide, Gulfport, Mississippi. Rand graduated from Mississippi A & M College in 1911, operated newspapers in Neshoba County and other parts of north Mississippi, and in the 1920's moved to the Mississippi Gulf Coast, where he resided until his death. Included are correspondence; manuscripts of speeches, books, pamphlets, and columns; financial records; clippings; printed material and...
Dates: 1918 - 1971
Found in: Manuscripts

James S. Saggus Collection

 Collection
Identifier: MSS-117
Scope and Contents

Series of 49 articles written in 1965 for Jackson, Mississippi, newspaper, concerning the effects of the Civil War on government and life in Mississippi and concerning Mississippi's leaders during and after the war.

Dates: 1965
Found in: Manuscripts

Sidney L. "Sid" Salter Papers

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Identifier: MSS-490
Scope and Content Papers of Salter, born in 1959 in Philadelphia, Mississippi. Salter received his B.A. from Mississippi State University and began his career as assistant sports editor for The Starkville Daily News in 1981. In successive career moves from 1982 to 1983, Salter served as associate editor for The Neshoba Democrat and managing editor at The Bolivar Commercial before becoming publisher and editor of The Scott County Times/The Morton Tribune in 1983. From 1989 to 1991, Salter was also publisher of...
Dates: 1890 - 1998
Found in: Manuscripts

Wiley Sanders Papers

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Identifier: MSS-262
Scope and Contents

Manuscripts of speeches made in Sanders' political campaigns, in the legislature, at commencements and church; photo and autograph book of Mississippi legislators in 1884; souvenirs of the Mississippi Press excursion to Cuba (1930); and newspaper clippings about the history of Kosciusko, Mississippi.

Dates: 1876 - 1941
Found in: Manuscripts

Carl Schurz collection

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Identifier: FVW-CSZ
Scope and Content The Carl Schurz collection is organized into three series. The first and most substantial series is a collection of correspondences mostly written by Carl Schurz himself. The collection is comprised mostly of original documents; however, some of the correspondences are also photocopies and have been noted as such in the breakdown. Other authors in the collection include Abraham Lincoln and Gideon Welles. The addressees of the letters are incredibly varied and range from other statesmen like...
Dates: 1857 - 2001; Majority of material found within 1857 - 1906

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White, Hugh L. (Hugh Lawson) 2
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Williams, John Bell 2
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Wright, Fielding (Fielding Lewis) 2
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Abbott, Liberty C. 1
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Aberdeen Creamery (Aberdeen, Miss.) 1
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Adams, Roy Clark. 1
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American Civil Liberties Union of Mississippi 1
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Anderson, Lena Bell Clayton. 1
Armey, Richard K. 1
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Baskin, Maud 1
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Baskin, Sallie A. 1
Bilbo, Theodore Gilmore 1
Brady, Tom P. 1
Brown, Jerry. 1
Bruce, Blanche Kelso 1
Buckley, William F. , Jr. 1
Burkitt, Frank (Benjamin Franklin), 1843-1914 1
Cable, Hattie Baskin 1
Campbell, Will D. 1
Carmichael, Gil (Gilbert E.) 1
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Carter, Jimmy 1
Carthan , Eddie J. 1
Child Development Group of Mississippi 1
Clifton, Chalmers Dancy, 1889-1966 1
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Collins, Ross A. 1
Colvard, Dean W. 1
Conner, Douglas L. 1
Cox, A. Eugene (Allen Eugene) 1
Delta Cooperative Farm Project (Hillhouse, Miss.) 1
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Delta Ministry 1
Derian, Patricia M. 1
Divine, Eva Baskin 1
Eagleton, Thomas F. 1
Eddy, Sherwood 1
Eisenhower, Dwight D. (Dwight David) 1
Espy, Mike 1
Fair, Charles D. 1
Fallows, James E. 1
Family Service Association of America 1
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Filley, Chauncey I. (Chauncey Ives), 1829-1923 1
Finch, Cliff. 1
Fordice, Kirk. 1
Fordice, Pat. 1
Franklin, Sam H. 1
Fridge, B. F. (Benjamin Franklin), 1856-1936 1
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Gearhart, Birdie 1
Gearhart, Frances 1
Gearhart, Frank 1
Gearhart, Traver 1
George, Elizabeth Brooks Young, 1827-1897 1
George, James Z. (James Zachariah), 1826-1897 1
Gephardt, Richard A. (Richard Andrew) 1
Godwin Advertising Agency (Godwin Group) (1937-) 1
Goldwater, Barry M. (Barry Morris) 1
Gordon, Carl J. "Jack", Jr., 1944-2011 1
Gordon, Charles Ulysses, 1865-1955 1
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