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Blanche K. Bruce Collection

 Collection
Identifier: MSS-909
Scope and Content

Materials include one receipt signed by Bruce while serving as sheriff of Bolivar County, Mississippi. The remaining twelve documents are deeds, which Bruce signed while servering as recorder of deeds.

Dates: 1871 - 1890
Found in: Manuscripts

James Stewart McGehee Papers

 Collection
Identifier: MSS-119
Scope and Contents

Autobiography of McGehee, who was born in 1860 in Wilkinson County, Mississippi, moved to Louisiana in 1865, was educated in Virginia, and worked with the West Feliciana Railroad and with W.L. Green Commission Company (grain dealers) in St. Louis. Among the subjects are family and friends in Mississippi and Louisiana, Reconstruction, race relations, and importation of labor into the South. McGehee's family home was in Woodville, Mississippi. Also photograph.

Dates: circa 1903-1904
Found in: Manuscripts

Sanders, Lee and Sargent families papers

 Collection
Identifier: MSS-574
Scope and Contents The Sanders, Lee and Sargent families papers contain materials that document the lives of members of the three families, which are of significant social historical interest. There is extensive correspondence among members of the Lee family between 1850 and 1910, and a calendar of the correspondence is included as an appendix. A large number of deeds show the acquisitions made by the Lee and Sanders families in Columbus, Mississippi. The scrapbooks and recipe books give an insight into the...
Dates: 1850 - 2001; Majority of material found within 1860 - 1992
Found in: Manuscripts

George A. Smythe Papers

 Collection
Identifier: MSS-66
Scope and Contents These papers mostly concern George A. Smythe, an Englishman who obtained U.S. citizenship in 1859 and settled in Jackson; and correspondence (1892-1943) of Ella V. Hipple and other family members.Includes deeds, tax receipts, and other business and legal papers (1839-1938) of George A. Smythe, Arthur W. Smythe, and Ella V. (Smythe) Hipple; ledger (1836-1865) of the firm Daly and McKee, Jackson, Miss.; other items many dealing with the antebellum, Civil War, and reconstruction...
Dates: 1836 - 1943
Found in: Manuscripts

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