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Dean Colvard Presidential Papers
Collection
Identifier: A1979-39
Dates:
1960 - 1966
Found in:
University Archives
Hazel Brannon Smith Papers
Collection
Identifier: MSS-445
Scope and Content
Letters, clippings, pamphlets, certificates, artifact and other materials concerning Smith (1914-1994). The bulk of Smith's papers were destroyed in a fire at the Lexington Advertiser. Smith was born in Gadsden, Alabama, and graduated from the University of Alabama in 1935 with a B.A. in Journalism. In that year she came to Mississippi and purchased the Durant News. By 1943, that paper was successful enough to allow Smith to purchase the Lexington Advertiser, which she edited and published...
Dates:
1945 - 1976
Found in:
Manuscripts
Sue Pelham Trigg Papers
Collection
Identifier: MSS-284
Scope and Content
Papers of Trigg, teacher and historian, of Greenville, Mississippi. Manuscripts of articles by Miss Trigg about Greenville and Washington County, relating to local history; 28 letters (1796-1848) of the Bodley family of Kentucky and Mississippi, chiefly to Thomas H. Bodley, and 10 letters (1784-1788) to Dr. High Shiell of Kentucky. Some of Miss Trigg's articles were published in Memoirs of Henry Tillinghast Ireys, Papers of the Washington County Historical Society, 1910-1915, edited by...
Dates:
1784 - 1944
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
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
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