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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

Blumenfeld and Fried papers

 Collection
Identifier: MSS-98
Scope and Contents

Business papers of the Bernhard Blumenfeld (1853-1923) and Simon Fried (1843-1912) families, including deeds, promissory notes, stock certificates, (including two from John M. Stone Cotton Mills) and letters from Mena Blumenfeld concerning life in New York, a World War I celebration, and other. Items added by Henry Meyer include photographs of family members and homes. Places documented include Oktibbeha County, Mississippi, and New York City.

Dates: 1889 - 1955
Found in: Manuscripts

Boys' Clubs & Home Demonstration Work

 Record Group
Identifier: University Archives-A1988-29
Dates: 1923-1951

Eugene Butler Papers

 Collection
Identifier: MSS-389
Scope and Contents The Eugene Butler papers contain the personal and business correspondence of Progressive Farmer editor-in-chief Eugene Butler. There is also a small amount of correspondence related to his father, Dr. Tait Butler, particularly in regard to a memorial plaque for the Tennessee Agricultural Hall of Fame. The largest proportion of the collection materials is concerned with Eugene Butler’s position as editor and senior executive of the Progressive Farmer Company....
Dates: 1883 - 1999; Majority of material found within 1925 - 1980
Found in: Manuscripts

Lena Simmons Clark collection

 Collection
Identifier: MSS-18
Scope and Contents

Papers of the Travis Clark family including: farm accounts, receipts, other financial statements, cotton sale records and other farm records from Grenada County, Mississippi; material relating to the education of children (1865-1887), almanacs, scrapbook of clippings, postcards, invitations, and other papers.

Dates: 1856 - 1912
Found in: Manuscripts

Cully A. Cobb Papers

 Collection
Identifier: MSS-47
Scope and Contents The Cully A. Cobb papers consist of correspondence, reports, and other documents concerning the career and family of Cully A. Cobb. Series 1, Secretary of Agriculture Candidacy, consists of materials documenting Cobb’s candidacy for Secretary of Agriculture in 1932. It includes letters from, and copies of letters to, extension workers, experiment station personnel, college and university officials, agricultural associations and organizations, commercial manufacturers, and editors...
Dates: 1846 - 1973; Majority of material found within 1932 - 1970
Found in: Manuscripts

Lois P. Dowdle "Mrs. Cully" Cobb Papers

 Collection
Identifier: MSS-48
Scope and Contents The collection documents the life and career of Lois Pauline Dowdle (1889-1987), the wife of agricultural leader and publisher Cully A. Cobb.Series 1, Personal, 1915-1987, includes documents, many photocopies, related to Mrs. Cobb’s travel, interest in ‘The Parsonage’ families and their careers, social events, and church involvement (including a religious poem written and autographed by General William Brougher), along with biographical and memorial materials. Among the...
Dates: 1904 - 1987
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

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

Duncan and Blackwell Family Papers

 Collection
Identifier: MSS-726
Scope and Contents This collection includes the papers of various family members stemming from the Duncan and Blackwell family line. This includes materials from the Bias, Beane, Fontaine, Mitchell, and Tardy families as well as other connections. Materials include correspondence, diaries, family bibles, business papers (e.g., sale of cotton receipts), ledgers, estate records, bills of sale for enslaved persons, photographs, and other miscellaneous objects. The bulk of these materials come from the middle- to...
Dates: 1800-1950
Found in: Manuscripts

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Elections -- Mississippi. 2
Georgia. 2
Slavery -- Alabama -- History. 2
Slavery -- Mississippi -- History. 2
Southern States -- Politics and government. 2
Starkville (Miss.) 2
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Aberdeen (Miss.) 1
Accounting -- Mississippi -- History. 1
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African Americans -- Alabama -- History. 1
African Americans -- Civil rights -- History -- 20th century. 1
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African Americans -- Mississippi -- Social conditions -- 20th century. 1
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Agricultural pests -- United States. 1
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Agriculture -- Photographs. 1
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Almanacs. 1
Annual reports 1
Archeology -- Mississippi. 1
Attala County (Miss.) 1
Autograph albums -- Mississippi -- History. 1
Baseball -- Mississippi -- History. 1
Beef cattle -- Argentina. 1
Boardinghouses -- Mississippi -- History. 1
Bolivar County (Miss.) -- History. 1
Boll weevil -- Control -- United States. 1
Boys Societies and clubs 1
Boys’ Clubs of America 1
Business -- Alabama -- History. 1
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Cacao -- Ecuador -- Guayaquil. 1
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Chickasaw Indians -- History. 1
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Class reunion -- Mississippi. 1
Clay County (Miss.) 1
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Contracts -- Mississippi -- Oktibbeha County. 1
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Cotton -- Testing 1
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Cotton growing 1
Cotton machinery 1
Cotton mills. 1
Cotton spinning 1
Cotton trade -- France. 1
Cotton trade -- Mississippi -- Photographs. 1
Cotton trade -- United States -- History. 1
Cotton-picking machinery -- Photographs. 1
Cotton-picking machinery. 1
Courtship -- Mississippi -- History. 1
Deeds -- Alabama -- Madison County. 1
Deeds -- Mississippi -- Oktibbeha County. 1
Diaries. 1
Dockery (Miss.) 1
Editorials -- United States. 1
Family life -- Mississippi. 1
Farm tenancy -- Mississippi -- History. 1
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Farming -- Brazil. 1
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Grand Pre (N.S.) -- Photographs. 1
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Holmes County (Miss.) -- Social conditions. 1
Home demonstration work 1
Horses -- Diseases -- Treatment -- History. 1
Immigrant families -- United States. 1
Invitations. 1
James E. Tanner 1
Journalism, Agricultural -- Biography. 1
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Brougher, William Edward 2
Cobb family. 2
Cobb, Cully Alton 2
Cobb, Lois D. (Lois Dowdle) 2
Harris, Corra 2
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Mississippi State University 2
Alpha Kappa Alpha Sorority 1
Amberson, William Ruthrauff 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
Association of Southern Agricultural Workers 1
Bell, Arthur. 1
Bell, Della Billington 1
Bell, Henry Arthur 1
Bell, Mary Della. 1
Bethel Presbyterian Church (Lowndes County, Miss) 1
Bethel Presbyterian Church (Lowndes County, Miss.)--Photographs 1
Bias, Elizabeth Duncan, 1858-1937 1
Bias, Warwick Gatewood, 1853-1921 1
Blackwell, Nicholas, Dr., 1838-1910 1
Blanchard family. 1
Blumenfeld, Bernhard 1
Blumenfeld, Carrie (Carrie Fried Blumenfeld) 1
Blumenfeld, Mena 1
Blumenfeld, Simon 1
Brownell, Lucia Brown 1
Burns, Coleman Craig, Jr. 1
Burns, Coleman Craig, Sr. 1
Burns, Georgia May. 1
Burns, William Britt. 1
Butler, Dell Bell 1
Butler, Eugene 1
Butler, Eugene B. 1
Butler, Fred. 1
Butler, George. 1
Butler, Ida. 1
Butler, James 1
Butler, Mary Britt 1
Butler, Mary Jean 1
Butler, Robert Britt. 1
Butler, Tait 1
Campbell, Will D. 1
Cantrell, Oris Cynthia 1
Carthan , Eddie J. 1
Clark, Lena Simmons 1
Clark, Travis 1
Cobb family--Photographs. 1
Cobb, Napoleon Bonaparte 1
Confederate States of America. Army. Mississippi Infantry Regiment, 11th 1
Confederate States of America. Army. Mississippi Infantry Regiment, 22nd 1
Cox, A. Eugene (Allen Eugene) 1
Cunningham, Emory. 1
Davidson College 1
Delta Cooperative Farm Project (Hillhouse, Miss.) 1
Delta Cooperative Farm Project (Hillhouse, Miss.)--Photographs 1
Dockery family. 1
Dockery, Hughla Rice 1
Dockery, Joe Rice 1
Dockery, Thomas Covington 1
Dockery, William Alfred 1
Druid Hills Baptist Church (Atlanta, Ga.) 1
Duncan, Andrew Jackson, 1821-1865 1
Duncan, William M. , 1816-1858 1
Eastland, James O. (James Oliver) 1
Eddy, Sherwood 1
Eisenhower, Dwight D. (Dwight David) 1
Eisenhower, Mamie Doud 1
Fellowship of Southern Churchmen 1
Franklin, Sam H. 1
Frazer, Joe E. 1
Fried, Simon. 1
Fried, Sophie 1
Gardner, James H. 1
Grenada County (Miss.) 1
Hill, Sallie F. 1
Hogan family. 1
Hogan, Elijah 1
Jackson, Jesse 1
Jones, Mary Donelson 1
King, Martin Luther, Jr. 1
Kirkpatrick, John Lycan 1
Knox, James 1
Ku Klux Klan (1915- ) 1
Lampkin, Robert Allison 1
Lenoir Plantation (Monroe County, Miss.) 1
Lenoir family. 1
Lord, Gay 1
Love family. 1
Love, Albert C. 1
Love, Anna Grace 1
Love, Anne Grace 1
Love, David C. 1
Love, Drennan 1
Love, Grace 1
Love, William A. 1
Love, William J. 1
Marine Corps Base Quantico (Va.)--Photographs 1
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