Education -- Mississippi -- History.

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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.

Scope and Contents The Baskin family papers are organized into four series: Correspondence, Financial and Legal Records, Miscellaneous, and Visual Materials. Correspondence includes letters between Baskin family and friends from 1869 to 1948, with the bulk dating from 1896 to 1940. Financial and Legal Records, 1869-1948 and undated, include bills, tax records, and deeds of trust. The Miscellaneous series consists of published and ephemeral materials collected by the family,...

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Minutes of the Board of Trustees of the college which was located in Pontotoc, Mississippi.

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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.

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Register of the Franklin Academy, Columbus, Mississippi.

Scope and Contents “Friendship’s Album” of Meschach Franklin of Early, Marshall County, Mississippi, compiled while a student in the Class of 1860 at the University of Mississippi. Includes handwritten letters from: Thomas L. Boggan, Byhalia; James A. Scudday, Thibodeaux, Louisiana; R. T. (Reuben Turner) Pollard, Whitehaven, Tennessee; W. Abney; William Handy, Canton, Mississippi; George W. Smith, Canton, Mississippi; John Seymour McNeily, Cold Springs, Wilkinson County, Mississippi; Thomas Bulten, Bayou Sara,...

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Diary of Mrs. Red, a student at Industrial Institute and College, Columbus, Mississippi, concerns the daily events in a college girl's life. Copy.

Scope and Content Papers of Scott, educator, of Mississippi. Correspondence with relatives and friends, chiefly in Mississippi; clippings concerning the Scott family; incomplete file of Normal College News (1919-1921) edited by Scott, a faculty member of the Mississippi State Teachers College, Hattiesburg (now University of Southern Mississippi); proceedings (1877) of the first annual convention of the Mississippi State Teachers Association; and biographies of presidents of the Mississippi Educational...

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The Daniel Williams family papers document the history of the family from 1823 to 1966, most notably Campbell “Cammie” Williams and his brother, Mims Williams. The papers consist of correspondence, Civil War tax documents, bills and account statements, contracts, newspaper clippings, genealogical material, essays, poetry, cards, and miscellany.