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Cornelia Rush Family Papers
Collection
Identifier: MSS-625
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Correspondence, notes, news clippings, and photographs of Cornelia Rush (1910-2001) of Starkville, Mississippi, teacher. Purchased at Rush estate auction and given to the Library.
Dates:
1940 - 1973
Found in:
Manuscripts
Wilmuth Saunders Rutledge Papers
Collection
Identifier: MSS-590
Scope and Content
Papers of Rutledge (1907-1994), MSU historian and teacher, include materials for her thesis on James A. Lyon and other writings and articles; history class lectures; Mississippi Historical Society materials. Also includes family materials: Will J. Saunders family letters, 1931-1943; materials concerning the World War II activities of Glenn Cowan Rutledge.
Dates:
1931 - 1995
Found in:
Manuscripts
Sessums Family Collection
Collection
Identifier: MSS-508
Scope and Content
Genealogical notebooks concerning the Sessums family (1942, 1949); photographs of I. D. Sessums, Henrietta Kirksey Sessums and others; portrait of Henrietta Kirksey Sessums; funeral broadside (1896), and yearbooks of the Greenwood Leflore Chapter, DAR, Columbus, Mississippi (1967-1968, 1976-1977); DAR certificate of Carrie Battle Palmer Maddux Howard. Also includes collected materials: newspapers concerning the Kennedy assassination and a scrapbook of clippings and other materials concerning...
Dates:
1896 - 1975
Found in:
Manuscripts
John Y. Simon Original Documents and Ephemera
Collection
Identifier: USGPL-JYS
Scope and Content Note
This collection contains documents and ephemera removed from the office and personal files of Ulysses S. Grant Association Executive Director Dr. John Y. Simon. These items include orginal documents signed by Presidents of the United States, political ephemera, and personal items related to Dr. Simon's father's service in World War I.
Dates:
1846 - 1952
Found in:
Ulysses S. Grant Collection
Claude Dickens Smith Navy Notebook
Collection
Identifier: MSS-755
John C. Stennis papers, Series 045: Pre-Senate
Series
Identifier: CPRC-JCS-045
Scope and Contents
This series contains material from Senator Stennis’ pre-Senate years, arranged chronologically from 1927-1946. The material contains correspondence from constituents, friends, and acquaintances, many sent from soldiers fighting in World War II. It also includes correspondence from Stennis' time as a Circuit Court Judge, grades and correspondence from his studies at the University of Virginia, his work as a member of the MSU Alumni Association, and a scrapbook he maintained as a student at...
Dates:
1927 - 1946
Found in:
Mississippi Political Collections
William Taylor Collection
Collection
Identifier: MSS-81
Scope and Contents
Research material, consisting chiefly of correspondence and clippings for Taylor's M.A. thesis about the "Hell Ships", the Japanese ships that carried American POWs, including many from Bataan and Corregidor, from the Philippines to Japan during World War II.
Dates:
undated
Found in:
Manuscripts
William Clayton Walker Papers
Collection
Identifier: MSS-600
Scope and Content
Materials documenting the life of William Clayton Walker (1919-1995) of Lauderdale, Mississippi. Included are letters and military records of Walker, who served in World War II in the 123rd Infantry, Co. I, the 20th Infantry, Co. H, and the 6th Quartermaster Company. Most of the letters are written to his mother, Mrs. Sallie E. Walker, from U.S. training camps and New Guinea and the Philippines, 1942-1945. Two grade reports and a registration card (1940-1942) document that Walker was a...
Dates:
1940 - 1946
Found in:
Manuscripts
James C. Windham Collection
Collection
Identifier: MSS-320
Scope and Content
Biographical information about Windham (1913-1977), chairman of the Pabst Brewing Company and resident of Milwaukee, Wisconsin and Noxubee County, Mississippi; clippings concerning the world premiere of the Pere Marquette Symphony, sponsored by the Father Marquette Tercentenary Commission, which was chaired by Windham. 28 issues of Yank: The Army Weekly (British edition) (1943-1944). Copy of Report by the Supreme Commander to the Combined Chiefs of Staff on the Operations in Europe of the...
Dates:
1943 - 1977
Found in:
Manuscripts
World War II War Savings Program Collection
Collection
Identifier: MSS-391
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