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African-Americans.

 Subject
Subject Source: Library of Congress Subject Headings

Found in 25 Collections and/or Records:

Sue Pelham Trigg Papers

 Collection
Identifier: MSS-284
Scope and Content Papers of Trigg, teacher and historian, of Greenville, Mississippi. Manuscripts of articles by Miss Trigg about Greenville and Washington County, relating to local history; 28 letters (1796-1848) of the Bodley family of Kentucky and Mississippi, chiefly to Thomas H. Bodley, and 10 letters (1784-1788) to Dr. High Shiell of Kentucky. Some of Miss Trigg's articles were published in Memoirs of Henry Tillinghast Ireys, Papers of the Washington County Historical Society, 1910-1915, edited by...
Dates: 1784 - 1944

Rufus Ward Collection

 Collection
Identifier: MSS-73
Scope and Content Personal and business correspondence, accounts, receipts, deeds, slave records, tax receipts, military orders, genealogical material and other papers of the James Sykes family of Columbus, Mississippi. Includes letters from cotton brokers in West Point, Mississippi, Mobile, Alabama, St. Louis, Missouri, and New Orleans, Louisiana; letters from Alleghany Springs and Blue Ridge Springs, Virginia, and White Sulphur Springs, West Virginia; letters from Wildie and Ida Sykes at Patapsco Female...
Dates: 1837 - 1920

Edward J. Welty Architectural Records

 Collection
Identifier: MSS-617
Scope and Content

Records of Jackson architect Edward J. Welty (1912-1966), brother of Eudora Welty, include designs for Jackson residences, including Carter and Fly subdivision designs, for which Welty won an award, and ten other residences. Nineteen projects consist of plans drawn by Welty for the R. W. Naef firm, including schools and the Mississippi State Sanitorium. Includes drawings and some project records.

Dates: 1911 - 2003

West Point, Mississippi, Miscellaneous Papers

 Collection
Identifier: MSS-296
Scope and Contents

Miscellaneous papers about West Point, Mississippi, collected in WPA days by Mrs. Ed Joiner. Contents: An account of Grierson's Raid; also interviews with ex-enslaved persons.

Dates: undated

T. C. Wier Family Papers

 Collection
Identifier: MSS-646
Scope and Content Correspondence, diaries and journals, photographs, sermons and other church materials, receipts, memorials, poems and other writings, programs and other memorabilia, school materials, genealogical materials, clothing, publications and other materials documenting the lives and contributions of the extended family of Methodist minister Dr. T.C. (Thomas Coke) Wier (1827-1920), who served as presiding elder and pastor in Alabama and Mississippi churches from 1859-1906 and also served as...
Dates: 1837 - 1973