Gardner (James H.) Collection

Collection

Identifier: MSS-38

Staff Only

Scope and Content Note

The James H. Gardner Collection contains business records from various Mississippians. Masonic Letters from the New Hope Lodge. Personal correspondences between several Gardners’. As well as a Civil War letter and a miscellaneous collection of papers, prescriptions, political advertisements and election materials-hand bills. The content is in the form of paper and Photostat.

Dates

1846 - 1948
Majority of material found within 1880 - 1890

Creator

Gardner, James H. (Person)

Access Restrictions

Open to all researchers.

Use Restrictions

Any requests for permission to publish, quote, or reproduce materials from this collection must be submitted in writing to the Manuscripts Librarian for Special Collections. Permission for publication is given on behalf of Mississippi State University as the owner of the physical items and is not intended to include or imply permission of the copyright holder, which must also be obtained.

Biographical Note

James H. Gardner was born on August 3, 1937 to James D. Gardner and Kate H. Clegg in Mathiston, Mississippi. He graduated from Mississippi State University in 1958 with a degree in Business and was a member of the Society for the Advancement of Management. He died in Aberdeen in 1995.

Extent

.25 Cubic Feet (One .25 cubic foot archival storage box. Legal size.)

Language of Materials

English

Additional Description

Calendar

Miscellaneous:

Political advertisements. On back of facsimiles of Confederate money. Six $10 bills.

Prescription for eye salve, “the best in the world”. Photostat.

Prescription “For Paralacis, Congestive chill an Affection of the spine and kidney, Rheumatism and straightening a limb, neuralgia, headache, toothache.” Photostat.

Mississippi. Mim. Copy of verses of song.

Paper, “The Dying Boy.”

Campaign Buttons. “The People’s Choice”, (J.K. Vardaman), “F.E. and C.U. of A. Mississippi.”