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Liberty C. Abbott Family Papers

 Collection
Identifier: MSS-1
Scope and Contents The Liberty C. Abbott family papers contain the records of the Abbott family, including a large amount of correspondence, much of it with family and friends but there are political and business letters also. In addition, there are records of Liberty Abbott’s business activities, including Clifton Plantation, Abbott and Howard, Holmes County, as well as Thompson and McClure of Schlater, Leflore County. There are also some legal documents, diaries, memorabilia, newspaper clippings,...
Dates: 1859 - 1930; Majority of material found within 1883 - 1926
Found in: Manuscripts

Dora Adams Papers

 Collection
Identifier: MSS-667
Scope and Content Correspondence, speeches, notes, organizational materials, publications, newspaper clippings and other materials created and collected by Dora Adams (1912-1990), a community activist from West Point, Mississippi. Dora Adams was interested in civil rights, political issues, and the welfare and safety of the citizens of West Point, Mississippi, and other areas. Dora Adams was the coordinator of the Clay County Welfare Rights Organization. The Adams papers bulk with national, state and local...
Dates: 1955 - 1991
Found in: Manuscripts

Adams-Nowell Funeral Home (Choctaw County, Mississippi) Records

 Collection
Identifier: MSS-502
Scope and Content

Records of the Adams-Nowell Funeral Home, the largest funeral home in Choctaw County, formerly the Adams Funeral Home. Photocopies.

Dates: 1967 - 1992
Found in: Manuscripts

Wirt Adams Cavalry Regiment, Company E, roster

 Collection
Identifier: MSS-462
Scope and Contents

Civil War roll, minutes, letters of 1st Mississippi Cavalry Regiment, Company E, 1863-1865; clippings, 1981, poster, 1989.

Dates: 1863-1865, 1981, 1989
Found in: Manuscripts

Aetna Insurance Company (Columbus, Mississippi) Fire Insurance Policy Book

 Collection
Identifier: MSS-150
Scope and Contents

Fire insurance policy book, 1866-1871, Columbus, Mississippi.

Dates: 1866 - 1871
Found in: Manuscripts

African-American Marriage License Request Letters

 Collection
Identifier: MSS-881
Content Description 5 letters requesting marriage licenses for Black couples, 1919-1922, and one receipt for digging a grave for an unknown Black person. The license request letters include ONLY the names of the couples. There are NO specific marriage dates. The marriage licenses themselves are NOT included.License requested by M.S. Wilson, Planter, Schlater, MS, July 14, 1921:Alex Evans and Laura Searcy Cleveland Branch and Beatrice Sanders Henry Bledsoe and Julia Thomas...
Dates: 1919 - 1922
Found in: Manuscripts

A.G. Wineman & Sons Records, and Wineman, Williams, Guice, and Stockwell et al Family Papers

 Collection
Identifier: MSS-690
Content Description This collection consists of various materials belonging to the Wineman, Guice, Stockwell and Rayner families from 1803-2012 with the bulk of material dating from 1930-1970. This collection was separated into eight different sub-series: Financial Records, Printed Materials, Photographic Materials, Correspondence, Oversized Materials, and Newspapers. These papers include genealogical notes, correspondence, abstracts of title for Whiskey Island/ Ship-Fox Island in Tunica county in Mississippi...
Dates: 1803 - 2012; Majority of material found within 1930 - 1970
Found in: Manuscripts

Agnew Miscellany

 Collection
Identifier: MSS-149
Scope and Contents

Certificate of election, Bethany precinct, Lee County, Mississippi, 1939, other; list of Native Americans in various locations; trading card.

Dates: 1939 and undated.
Found in: Manuscripts

Alabama Civil War Letters

 Collection
Identifier: MSS-151
Scope and Contents

Letters: Feb. 1, 1863, B. F. Seale, Butler, Choctaw County, Alabama, to "Bro. Jack"; May 1, 1863, Nancy Peteet, Burton Creek Hills, Alabama, to "Dear Brother"; July 22, 1863, Jesse Seale, n. p, to "Dear Brother"; Nov. 22, 1863, Voucher, CSA, to J. A. Ware.

Dates: 1863
Found in: Manuscripts

Alabama-Mississippi Sociological Association Collection

 Collection
Identifier: MSS-449
Content Description

Records of the Alabama-Mississippi Sociological Association, including correspondence, agendas, newsletters, minutes, programs, membership lists, photographs, videocassette tapes, and other materials.

Dates: 1948 - 1991
Found in: Manuscripts

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United States -- History -- Civil War, 1861-1865. 66
Agriculture. 42
United States -- History -- Civil War, 1861-1865 -- Correspondence. 40
African-Americans. 25
Art. 15
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Correspondence. 15
World War, 1939-1945 15
Mississippi--Genealogy 14
Oktibbeha County (Miss.) 14
Business records. 13
Diaries. 13
Journalism -- Mississippi. 13
Politics. 13
Churches -- Mississippi. 12
Starkville (Miss.) 12
Women. 11
Education -- Mississippi. 10
Sheet music 10
Slavery -- Mississippi. 10
Education -- Mississippi -- History. 9
Poetry. 9
World War II. 9
Family -- History. 8
Family life -- Mississippi. 8
Soldiers -- Confederate States of America -- History. 8
Wills. 8
African Americans -- Civil rights -- History -- 20th century. 7
Baptist church in Mississippi. 7
Civil Rights -- Mississippi -- History -- 20th century. 7
Mississippi--History--Civil War, 1861-1865 7
Newspapers -- Mississippi. 7
Religion -- Mississippi -- History. 7
African Americans -- Mississippi -- History. 6
Architecture 6
Columbus (Miss.) 6
Cotton. 6
Farms and plantations -- Mississippi. 6
Legal documents. 6
genealogies (histories) 6
Account books. 5
Business -- Mississippi -- History. 5
Chickasaw County (Miss.) 5
Cotton trade -- Mississippi. 5
Law 5
Lowndes County (Miss.) 5
Pontotoc County (Miss.) 5
Receipts (financial records) 5
Slavery -- Mississippi -- History. 5
West Point (Miss.) 5
Women -- Education -- Mississippi. 5
Women -- Mississippi. 5
World War, 1914-1918 5
Aberdeen (Miss.) 4
Agriculture -- Mississippi -- History. 4
Civil rights movements -- Mississippi. 4
Clippings (information artifacts) 4
Deeds of trust. 4
Forestry--Mississippi 4
Georgia. 4
Mississippi State University. 4
Mississippi politics and government -- 1951- 4
Music -- America. 4
Natchez (Miss.) 4
Newspapers 4
Plantations -- Louisiana 4
Politics -- Mississippi -- History. 4
Reconstruction (U.S. history, 1865-1877) 4
Taxation -- Mississippi. 4
Universities and colleges -- Mississippi. 4
Winston County (Miss.) 4
Women -- History 4
Yellow fever -- Mississippi. 4
Advertising. 3
Agricultural education. 3
Attala County (Miss.) 3
Autograph albums. 3
Bills of sale -- United States -- Forms. 3
Carroll County (Miss.) 3
Choctaw Indians -- Mississippi -- History. 3
Confederate States of America. 3
Correspondence 3
Cotton farmers -- Mississippi. 3
Cotton growing -- Southern States. 3
Deeds -- Mississippi -- Oktibbeha County. 3
Freedmen -- Mississippi. 3
Freemasonry. 3
General -- United States -- Biography. 3
Land titles -- Mississippi. 3
Land titles. 3
Photographs. 3
Postal service. 3
Prisoners of war. 3
Racism -- Mississippi -- History. 3
Railroads -- Mississippi -- History. 3
Religious writings. 3
Scrapbook journaling. 3
Scrapbooks. 3
Slavery -- Alabama -- History. 3
Soldiers. 3
Southern States -- Politics and government. 3
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Language
English 802
French 2
German 1
Italian 1
Latin 1
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Russian 1
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Mississippi State University 5
Brougher, William Edward 4
Carter, Jimmy 3
Welty, Eudora 3
Bruce, Blanche Kelso 2
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Burnside, William A. 2
Chickasaw Female College 2
Cobb family. 2
Cobb, Cully Alton 2
Cobb, Lois D. (Lois Dowdle) 2
Cole, Hunter. 2
Confederate States of America. Army. Mississippi Cavalry Regiment, 1st 2
Confederate States of America. Army. Mississippi Infantry Regiment, 22nd 2
Eisenhower, Dwight D. (Dwight David) 2
Franklin, Sam H. 2
Harris, Corra 2
Jackson, Jesse 2
Lee, Stephen D. (Stephen Dill) 2
Mississippi State College 2
National Association for the Advancement of Colored People 2
Polk, James K. (James Knox), 1795-1849 2
Republican Party (Miss.) 2
Roosevelt, Franklin D. (Franklin Delano) 2
United Confederate Veterans 2
University of Mississippi 2
White, William Parker 2
11th Mississippi Infantry Regiment, Company H 1
17th Virginia Infantry 1
1st Mississippi Infantry Regiment. Company G 1
27th Mississippi Infantry Regiment, Company A 1
Abbott and Howard (Holmes County, Miss.) 1
Abbott family. 1
Abbott, F. Marion 1
Abbott, Gertrude 1
Abbott, Harry 1
Abbott, Liberty C. 1
Abbott, Maria 1
Aberdeen Creamery (Aberdeen, Miss.) 1
Adams family. 1
Adams, Everett L. (Everett Louis) 1
Adams, Everett L., Jr. (Everett Louis) 1
Adams, John Quincy, 1767-1848 1
Adams, Mary Augusta 1
Adams, Ruth. 1
Adams, William D. 1
Aetna Insurance Company 1
Agnew, E. 1
Agnew, Samuel Andrew 1
Alabama and Vicksburg Railway Company (Miss.) 1
Alcorn University 1
Almond, Edward M. (Edward Mallory) 1
Alpha Kappa Alpha Sorority 1
Amberson, William Ruthrauff 1
American Association of Retired Persons . Chapter 165 1
American Defenders of Bataan and Corregidor 1
American Ex-Prisoners of War, Inc 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
Ames, Sarah J. 1
Ancient York Masons 1
Andersonville Prison 1
Andrews, M.W. 1
Armey, Richard K. 1
Armstrong, J. Trooper 1
Arnez, Desi 1
Arnold, Ed. 1
Ashe, Winifred 1
Ashley Family 1
Association of Southern Agricultural Workers 1
Astor, John Jacob 1
Augustus, William Baldwin 1
Austin, Barbara. 1
Babbit, C.W. 1
Ball, Louis 1
Ballard, Chris (Christopher) 1
Ballard, Jessie Dola Stephenson, 7/18/1924-3/9/1978 1
Ballard, Mike (Michael), 11/24/1946-10/11/2016 1
Ballard, Ottis B., 1/11/1916-11/26/1989 1
Bank of Mississippi 1
Baptist Female Seminary (Pontotoc, Miss.) 1
Baptist family 1
Bardwell family. 1
Barney, Eliakim 1
Barry, B. F. 1
Baskin family. 1
Baskin, Maud 1
Baskin, Rebecca Jane 1
Baskin, Robert N. 1
Baskin, Robert R. 1
Baskin, Sallie A. 1
Bates, William Stowt, 1830-1928 1
Beachum, James M., 1842-1912 1
Beaty, Thomas Newton, 1826-1867 1
Beauvoir plantation. 1
Beiderlinden, William A. (William Arthur) 1
Bell, Arthur. 1
Bell, Della Billington 1
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