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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
Ulysses S. Grant and Julia Dent Grant papers
Collection
Identifier: USGPL-USGJDG
Scope and Content Note
This collection consists of thirteen boxes of correspondence, ephemera, photographs, and scrapbooks related to Ulysses S. Grant, Julia Dent Grant, their acquaintances, and family members. It is arranged in three series: Correspondence and Ephemera; Photographs, and Scrapbooks. The first two series have additional Sub-Series that break the material down into specific types which are then arranged either chronologically or alphabetically by topic.Correspondents in this collection...
Dates:
1822 - 2011
Found in:
Ulysses S. Grant Collection
Lloyd Lewis and Bruce Catton research notes collection
Collection
Identifier: USGPL-LLBC
Scope and Content Note
This collection contains the research notes of Lloyd Lewis and Bruce Catton, biographers of Ulysses S. Grant and historians of te Civil War era. Subjects covered include Ulysses S. Grant, Abraham Lincoln, William T. Sherman, the Mexican-American War, the American Civil War, Reconstruction, the Presidency, West Point, Grant's World Tour. Types of material found in this collection include: hand-written and typed research notes, correspondence, including originals dating back to the 1850s and...
Dates:
Majority of material found within 1840 - 1967
Found in:
Ulysses S. Grant Collection
James Stewart McGehee Papers
Collection
Identifier: MSS-119
Scope and Contents
Autobiography of McGehee, who was born in 1860 in Wilkinson County, Mississippi, moved to Louisiana in 1865, was educated in Virginia, and worked with the West Feliciana Railroad and with W.L. Green Commission Company (grain dealers) in St. Louis. Among the subjects are family and friends in Mississippi and Louisiana, Reconstruction, race relations, and importation of labor into the South. McGehee's family home was in Woodville, Mississippi. Also photograph.
Dates:
circa 1903-1904
Found in:
Manuscripts
Sanders, Lee and Sargent families papers
Collection
Identifier: MSS-574
Scope and Contents
The Sanders, Lee and Sargent families papers contain materials that document the lives of members of the three families, which are of significant social historical interest. There is extensive correspondence among members of the Lee family between 1850 and 1910, and a calendar of the correspondence is included as an appendix. A large number of deeds show the acquisitions made by the Lee and Sanders families in Columbus, Mississippi. The scrapbooks and recipe books give an insight into the...
Dates:
1850 - 2001; Majority of material found within 1860 - 1992
Found in:
Manuscripts
George A. Smythe Papers
Collection
Identifier: MSS-66
Scope and Contents
These papers mostly concern George A. Smythe, an Englishman who obtained U.S. citizenship in 1859 and settled in Jackson; and correspondence (1892-1943) of Ella V. Hipple and other family members.Includes deeds, tax receipts, and other business and legal papers (1839-1938) of George A. Smythe, Arthur W. Smythe, and Ella V. (Smythe) Hipple; ledger (1836-1865) of the firm Daly and McKee, Jackson, Miss.; other items many dealing with the antebellum, Civil War, and reconstruction...
Dates:
1836 - 1943
Found in:
Manuscripts
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- Antebellum. 1
- Business records. 1
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- Family life -- Mississippi. 1
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- Grant, Ulysses S. (Ulysses Simpson), 1822-1885 2
- Ashe, Winifred 1
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- Bilisoly, Lucrece J. 1
- Browning, Irene 1
- Bruce, Blanche Kelso 1
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- Church, Alonzo 1
- Cobb, Philipp 1
- Columbus Chowder and Marching Society 1
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- Daly and McKee 1
- Grant, Frederick Dent, 1850-1912 1
- Grant, Jesse Root, 1858-1934 1
- Grant, Julia Dent, 1826-1902 1
- Grant, Ulysses S., 1852-1929 1
- Hipple, Ella V. Smythe 1
- Kilby, Lucrese. 1
- Lawrenceville School (N.J.) 1
- Lee family. 1
- Lee, A.C. (Alonzo Church) 1
- Lee, E.A. (Elvira Anne) 1
- Lee, Louise C. (Louise Clary) 1
- Lee, Stephen D. (Stephen Dill) 1
- Lee, W.H. (William Hollinshed) 1
- Lee, William States 1
- Lende, Maud 1
- Lewis, Lloyd, 1891-1949 1
- Lincoln, Abraham, 1809-1865 1
- Lincoln, Mary Todd, 1818-1882 1
- McGehee, James Stewart 1
- Nelson, L.E. 1
- Princeton University 1
- Sanders family. 1
- Sanders, Anne Louise 1
- Sanders, David L. 1
- Sanders, Harry S. 1
- Sanders, Kate 1
- Sanders, William D. (William Davis) 1
- Sanders, William L. 1
- Sanders, William Lee 1
- Sanders, Winifred 1
- Sanders, Winifred A. 1
- Sargent family. 1
- Sargent, Harry B. 1
- Sargent, Harry B. (Harry Barry) 1
- Sargent, Henry B. (Henry Barry) 1
- Sargent, Hilah E. (Hilah Estill) 1
- Sargent, Robert 1
- Sartoris, Nellie Grant, 1855-1922 1
- Sherman, William T. (William Tecumseh), 1820-1891 1
- Simmons, Hilah G. 1
- Smythe, George A. 1
- Strong, Robert. 1
- W.L. Green Commission Company 1
- Waring, Francis T. 1
- Waring, Lawrence C. 1
- Waring, Lizzie (Elizabeth Ellen) 1
- West Feliciana Railroad 1
- White, Anne 1
- White, Floyd 1
- White, Howard 1
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