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Ames and Hogan families papers

 Collection
Identifier: MSS-2
Scope and Contents

The Ames and Hogan families papers document the history of the family from 1816-1910. The papers consist of correspondence, legal documents, speeches and essays, business receipts, an autograph album, and other items. Among the business receipts are those relating to Hogan’s business with James Nealley, documenting their trips from Ditto’s Landing to New Orleans, along with their cargo and business partners.

Dates: 1816 - 1910
Found in: Manuscripts

Baskin Family Papers

 Collection
Identifier: MSS-22
Scope and Contents The Baskin family papers are organized into four series: Correspondence, Financial and Legal Records, Miscellaneous, and Visual Materials. Correspondence includes letters between Baskin family and friends from 1869 to 1948, with the bulk dating from 1896 to 1940. Financial and Legal Records, 1869-1948 and undated, include bills, tax records, and deeds of trust. The Miscellaneous series consists of published and ephemeral materials collected by the family,...
Dates: 1869 - 1948
Found in: Manuscripts

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

Alfred Benjamin Butts papers

 Collection
Identifier: MSS-163
Scope and Contents

Agreement with freedmen, Sept. 14, 1865, concerning work on the Caldwell Plantation, Oktibbeha County, Mississippi; 2 bonds issued by Oktibbeha County "in payment of stock of the Mobile and Ohio Railroad Company," 1 note concerning interest paid, 1892; and 1 typescript of A.B. Butts work, " Civil Service in American Cities".

Dates: 1865 - 1892
Found in: Manuscripts

Allen Eugene Cox Papers

 Collection
Identifier: MSS-45
Scope and Contents The collection is organized into eight series which represent the original accession received between 1967 and 1970 and the subsequent seven additions received between 1971 and 1996. The numbering of the boxes in the first series includes a roman numeral to denote the original box numbering of this series. The organization of the folders within the series—mostly alphabetical—and the folder titles are substantially those of Mr. Cox. Folders have been divided where the contents were excessive....
Dates: 1880 - 1996; Majority of material found within 1935 - 1987
Found in: Manuscripts

Dean Colvard Presidential Papers

 Collection
Identifier: A1979-39
Dates: 1960 - 1966

William Alfred Dockery Family Papers

 Collection
Identifier: MSS-507
Scope and Contents The William Alfred Dockery family papers document the establishment and management of William Alfred Dockery’s cotton plantation in the town named after him: Dockery, Mississippi. Most of the collection consists of family correspondence from 1887 to 1906 and undated, particularly between Dockery and his wife, Hughla Rice Dockery. There is a great deal of content about the business of managing a large farm. The letters also contain numerous references (many disparaging) to Dockery’s...
Dates: 1881 - 1980; Majority of material found within 1887 - 1906
Found in: Manuscripts

James Knox diary

 Collection
Identifier: MSS.274
Scope and Contents The James Knox diary, which begins in March 1848 and ends in February 1851, records the daily operations of his plantation in Pickens County, Alabama, including sowing, plowing, harvesting, and selling. He refers to several enslaved persons by name, most often Patrick and Alvin. Knox’s regular attendance at church and presbytery meetings is recorded in the diary, along with information about the pastors and their sermon texts. Ministers James Somerville, J. L. Kirkpatrick, Thomas Morrow, and...
Dates: 1848 - 1851
Found in: Manuscripts

Lillian Neilson Collection

 Collection
Identifier: MSS-419
Scope and Content Journals, financial records, correspondence, photographs, family history, and miscellany, mostly pertaining to James C. Neilson, a Lowndes County, Mississippi, farmer, Mississippi state legislator, and Grange member. Among the topics in his journals are freedmen's accounts, race relations, church, the Grange, the legislature, an arson trial, and his family. Also included are the 1962 journal of Sarah Neilson, which mentions the riots at the University of Mississippi; a history of the Boykin...
Dates: 1829 - 1976
Found in: Manuscripts

Sarah Neilson Collection

 Collection
Identifier: MSS-110
Scope and Content

Materials collected by Sarah Neilson, historian and Mississippi University for Women secretary to the President. Includes Columbus and Lowndes County town and county history, genealogical data, family photographs, greeting and advertising cards, limericks ledgers, daybooks, and other materials.

Dates: 1807 - 1966
Found in: Manuscripts

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Confederate States of America. Army. Mississippi Infantry Regiment, 24th. Company C. (Dowd Rebels). 1
Confederate States of America. Mississippi Cavalry Regiment, 8th. Company E (Lowndes Co.). 1
Contracts -- Mississippi -- Oktibbeha County. 1
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Cotton trade -- United States -- History. 1
Cotton-picking machinery -- Photographs. 1
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Courtship -- Mississippi -- History. 1
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Mississippi politics and government -- 1951- 1
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Oktibbeha County (Miss.) 1
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Baskin, Rebecca Jane 1
Baskin, Robert N. 1
Baskin, Robert R. 1
Baskin, Sallie A. 1
Bruce, Blanche Kelso 1
Butts, Alfred Benjamin 1
Cable, Hattie Baskin 1
Campbell, Will D. 1
Carthan , Eddie J. 1
Confederate States of America. Army. Mississippi Infantry Regiment, 22nd 1
Cox, A. Eugene (Allen Eugene) 1
Cunningham, Lena B. (Lena Bardwell) 1
Delta Cooperative Farm Project (Hillhouse, Miss.) 1
Delta Cooperative Farm Project (Hillhouse, Miss.)--Photographs 1
Divine, Eva Baskin 1
Dockery family. 1
Dockery, Hughla Rice 1
Dockery, Joe Rice 1
Dockery, Thomas Covington 1
Dockery, William Alfred 1
Eastland, James O. (James Oliver) 1
Eddy, Sherwood 1
Farmers' Alliance (Miss.) 1
Fellowship of Southern Churchmen 1
Franklin, Sam H. 1
Griffin United Methodist Church (Starkville, Miss.) 1
Hogan family. 1
Hogan, Elijah 1
Jackson, Jesse 1
Joiner, Marcella Rose 1
King, Martin Luther, Jr. 1
Kirkpatrick, John Lycan 1
Knox, James 1
Ku Klux Klan (1915- ) 1
Ku Klux Klan (1915- ). Mississippi 1
Lampkin, Robert Allison 1
Martin, Dabney A. 1
Memphis (Tenn). Police Dept 1
Merchants and Farmers Bank (Vaiden, Miss.) 1
Minter, David R. 1
Minter, David R.--Photographs. 1
Mississippi AFL-CIO 1
Mississippi State Sovereignty Commission 1
Mitchell, H. L. (Harry Leland) 1
National Council of the Churches of Christ in the United States of America 1
Oak Grove Presbyterian Church (Franconia, Ala.) 1
Presbyterian Church in the U.S.A. Presbytery of Tuscaloosa. 1
Presley , Elvis 1
Preston, Zenas 1
Providence Plantation (Miss.) 1
Rambo, Mary C. 1
Rust , John D. 1
S. Gumbel and Company (New Orleans, La.) 1
Socialist Party (U.S.) 1
Somerville, James 1
Sons of Temperance of North America 1
Southern Tenant Farmers' Union 1
St. Louis Southwestern Railway Company 1
Trulight Baptist Church (Dockery, Miss.) 1
United Methodist Church (U.S.). Board of Missions 1
United States. War Finance Division 1
W. C. Henderson High School (Starkville, Miss.) 1
Wallace, George C. (George Corley) 1
Ward Elementary School (Starkville, Miss.) 1
Ward, Ella Sayles Bardwell 1
Watkins, William B. 1
West Creamery (West, Miss.) 1
Wier, Robert K., 1886-1974 1
Wier, Sadye Hunter , 1905-1995 1
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