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Education -- Mississippi.

 Subject
Subject Source: Library of Congress Subject Headings

Found in 11 Collections and/or Records:

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 / Liberty C. Abbott Family Papers

Carl J. "Jack" Gordon, Jr. collection

 Collection
Identifier: MPC-JG
Scope and Content Note

The Jack Gordon Collection contains materials relating to the life and career of Mississippi State Senator Carl J. "Jack" Gordon, Jr. The collection contains newspaper clippings focusing on Gordon's legislative career, political campaign materials, constituent correspondence, personal tributes, family photographs, and a variety of awards and certificates. The collection encompasses 7 cubic feet of material, including oversized photographs, certificates, and plaques.

Dates: 1955 - 2012; Majority of material found within 1976 - 2011
Found in: Mississippi Political Collections / Carl J. "Jack" Gordon, Jr. collection

W.C. Graham Miscellaneous Papers

 Collection
Identifier: MSS-203
Scope and Contents

Muster roll of W.C. Graham's Company, April-May 1865; payroll and discharge, May 16, 1865; graduation diploma, Baptist Female Seminary, Pontotoc, Mississippi, and valedictory address of Jennie L. Gaulding, 1873.

Dates: 1865, 1873
Found in: Manuscripts / W.C. Graham Miscellaneous Papers

Hightower, Montgomery, Perkins, Castles, and Stiles families papers

 Collection
Identifier: MSS.-537
Scope and Contents The Hightower, Montgomery, Perkins, Castles, and Stiles families papers contain the papers of the members of five Mississippi families related by marriage. Much of the material concerns three families: the Perkins, Hightower and Montgomery families. The papers include family correspondence, a small number of business and legal documents, and a variety of other documents that record predominantly the lives of the female members of the families. The collection includes a number of...
Dates: 1848 - 1997; Majority of material found within 1881 - 1960
Found in: Manuscripts / Hightower, Montgomery, Perkins, Castles, and Stiles families papers

John Lathon Lovett papers

 Collection
Identifier: MSS-224
Scope and Contents

Two account books, E. Lovett, Walthall, Mississippi, 1891-1897; 1 diary, John L. Lovett, Winona College, 1891-1892; University of Mississippi, 1893-1895; 1 original land patent, John Lovett, Choctaw County, 1841.

Dates: 1841, 1891-1897
Found in: Manuscripts / John Lathon Lovett papers

Sidney Owen Collection

 Collection
Identifier: MSS-121
Scope and Contents

"The History of the Sallis Community" by Sidney S. Owen (1950 term paper for Mississippi State University). News article about Sallis schools, from Kosciusko Star-Herald, June 20, 1957. Minutes of the 90th convention of the Mississippi Synod of the United Lutheran Church, Sallis, Mississippi, July 24-26, 1945. Long Creek Rifles - A Brief History (Co. A, 15th Mississippi Regiment, Attala County), by F. M. Glass.

Dates: 1945-1957 and undated
Found in: Manuscripts / Sidney Owen Collection

David Lewis Phares collection

 Collection
Identifier: MSS-444
Scope and Contents

Diary (1837-1844), obituaries (1893), biographies, address to a graduating class, photograph, medical notebook (1838), and notebook containing a list of students of the Newton Female Institute (1842-1851) and notes from medical lectures on horses.

Dates: 1837 - 1893
Found in: Manuscripts / David Lewis Phares collection

Poplar Springs Normal College Catalogue

 Collection
Identifier: MSS-249
Dates: 1892 - 1893
Found in: Manuscripts / Poplar Springs Normal College Catalogue

Shubuta Bookkeeping School Class Workbooks

 Collection — Box Miscellaneous Manuscripts Box 3
Identifier: MSS-268
Scope and Contents

Workbooks used by Captain J.M. Rudder, founder and teacher of a bookkeeping school in Shubuta, Mississippi.

Dates: 1875 - 1876
Found in: Manuscripts / Shubuta Bookkeeping School Class Workbooks

Thomas H. Smith Architectural Records

 Collection
Identifier: MSS-685
Scope and Content

Architectural drawings and plans for medical facilities and educational buildings in Jackson, Philadelphia, Houston and Kosciusko Mississippi.

Dates: 1955 - 1990
Found in: Manuscripts / Thomas H. Smith Architectural Records

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