Agriculture.

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Oral histories of extension agents, politicians and local citizens. Topics include African-American history, women's history, the Vietnam War, agriculture, and Mississippi State University, Starkville and West Point history.

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Oral history and selected photographs and memorabilia materials documenting the Perkins family, the Tennessee Valley Authority career of Paul H. Perkins (1920-2006), the Tupelo tornado and other topics concerning North Mississippi.

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Wm. P. White, Isle of Hope, near Savannah, Georgia, to W.M. Phillips, Mississippi, January 9, 1854. Letter relates to an article by Dr. Harden in American Farmer, Vol. 14.

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Memoir by Irby Pittman, edited and transcribed by Terrell Shoultes, concerns Silas Alfred Pittman (1870-1934) and family of Cadaretta, Webster County, Mississippi, their ancestors from Georgia and other places, and farming and rural life in Mississippi.

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Includes correspondence, reports, maps clippings, and publications, primarily concerning the Tombigbee River Valley Water Management District, which Pound served as Executive Director for ten years. Other subjects include the Tennessee-Tombigbee Waterway, legislation, history of Pontotoc County, and education.

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Manuscript pages containing postal History of Claiborne County, Mississippi.

Scope and Content Papers of Clayton Thomas Rand (1891-1971), author, columnist, speaker, and publisher of the Dixie Guide, Gulfport, Mississippi. Rand graduated from Mississippi A & M College in 1911, operated newspapers in Neshoba County and other parts of north Mississippi, and in the 1920's moved to the Mississippi Gulf Coast, where he resided until his death. Included are correspondence; manuscripts of speeches, books, pamphlets, and columns; financial records; clippings; printed material and...

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The collection consists of copies of entomological articles collected by Dr. Reinecke,a former adjunct professor of entomology at MSU, focusing on the boll weevil and pink boll-worm but also including other insects such as the sugar-cane borer and the tobacco budworm, their physiology, life-cycles, control, and rearing in the laboratory. The articles are drawn from a variety of scientific journals and other publications, mostly from the 1960s to the 1980s.

Scope and Content Records of Columbus architect William I. Rosamond (1912-1973) and the successor firm of his son, William H. Rosamond. The firm also included architect Fred Harrison (1924-1981). Architects Mathew L. Virden (1930-1992) and Robert Ivy were later associated with the William H. Rosamond firm and brought drawings from other firms to the collection. Drawings for the firms of Virden and Fields (Greenville), Virden, Fields and Roberson and Virden, Fields and Alexander, Dean, Dale and Dean (Columbus...

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Collection of Sanders (1908-1991), owner of Sanders Lumber Company in Meridian, Mississippi, include speeches made as President of the National Forest Products Association, 1971-1973; publications on forestry; plaques and awards; books, poster, photographs, lithograph, artifact and autobiographical writing.