Series 4: Publications, 1881 - 1960

The Publications series encompasses a variety of publications and pamphlets. Among them is a broadsheet titled “The Strange Luck of Israel Speed” purporting to be a warning against the activities of an African-American confidence man in Monroe County. It was written by the president of the First National Bank in Aberdeen, Eugene L. Sykes and was published in the Aberdeen Examiner on November 10, 1938. Folder 93 includes religious booklets and a 1918 report on German war practices, while Folder 94 holds a Rand-McNally Indexed Pocket Map and Shippers’ Guide of Mississippi from 1915 and Goodrich Route Book: Ohio and Indiana from 1914. Additionally there are a number of maps, showing the railroads of Louisiana, the railroads of Mexico and mines in Sonora, and a soil survey of Monroe County, all from the early years of the twentieth century. There are oil maps of the southern United States, many being supplements from Oil Weekly magazine.