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Dr. James R. Chatham Collection

 Collection
Identifier: MSS-736
Scope and Contents

This collection consists of 2 medieval choral manuscripts, and mid-20th century botanical and animal prints.

Dates: 1400 - 1500; 1958 - 1965

Parris-Bullen-Manon Family Genealogy

 Collection
Identifier: MSS-751
Scope and Content

Genealogical materials relating to the Parris, Bullen and Manon families in Barbados.

Dates: 1600 - 1900

Todd A. Herring Collection

 Collection
Identifier: MSS-658
Scope and Content Letters, travelers' accounts, estate records, slave lists, business records, military records, waybills, photographs, rare books, pamphlets, newspapers, publications, artifacts and audiovisual materials collected by Dr. Todd A. Herring. The collection documents Mississippi and Louisiana plantation culture and history with records from Natchez and Adams County, and towns and communities in Jefferson, Claiborne and Wilkinson Counties. A smaller series documents North Mississippi and Alabama...
Dates: 1642 - 2010

Jeannine Smith Collection

 Collection
Identifier: MSS-731
Scope and Content This collection centers around Artesia, Mississippi, a small town in Lowndes County that is best known as the junction point for the Mobile and Ohio Railroad. Throughout its history, the town has had several historical points of interest, including Civil War hospitals, political uprisings, hay festivals, and famous restaurants. The collection contains history of the town and genealogical materials regarding local families, as well as Civil War service documents and reconstruction...
Dates: 1735 - 2008

Evabeth Miller Kienast Collection

 Collection
Identifier: MSS-672
Scope and Content

Correspondence, research material, newspaper clippings, manuscripts, publications, notes, photographs, genealogy and family history documenting Silas Dinsmore and the Dinsmore family. Includes manuscripts and notes created by Kienast for the purposes of writing a Dinsmore biography or history. Unprocessed. Preliminary inventory available.

Dates: 1748 - 1994

Peyton Family Papers

 Collection
Identifier: MSS-115
Scope and Content

Photocopies of list of accounts and 11 letters (1768-1818) written by Thomas Jefferson, mostly to Craven Peyton (d. 1837), lawyer and landowner, of Albemarle County, Virginia; and correspondence and documents of the Peyton family of Virginia and Mississippi. Includes offer to sell a slave, Nov 27, 1818.

Dates: 1768 - 1916

Shirley Jacobs Sheet Music Collection

 Collection
Identifier: MSS-728
Scope and Content

Extensive piano sheet music collection comprised of over a thousand scores, spanning the years 1775-1977, with the majority encompassing the early twentieth century.

Dates: 1775 - 1977

Jane Bell Polk Family Papers

 Collection
Identifier: MSS-704
Scope and Content

Family notebooks containing genealogical information comprised of Family Search findings, cemetery records, Starkville Presbyterian Church history, deeds, maps, photographs, correspondence, war service records and a family Bible.

Dates: 1775 - 2001

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

Italian Legal Record Book

 Collection
Identifier: MSS-769
Dates: 1785 - 1816

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Abbott, F. Marion 1
Abbott, Gertrude 1
Abbott, Harry 1
Abbott, Liberty C. 1
Abbott, Maria 1
Aberdeen Creamery (Aberdeen, Miss.) 1
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Alabama and Vicksburg Railway Company (Miss.) 1
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Amberson, William Ruthrauff 1
American Friends Service Committee 1
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Ames, Madison Fisk 1
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Armstrong, J. Trooper 1
Arnez, Desi 1
Ashe, Winifred 1
Ashley Family 1
Astor, John Jacob 1
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Bank of Mississippi 1
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Barry, B. F. 1
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Baskin, Maud 1
Baskin, Rebecca Jane 1
Baskin, Robert N. 1
Baskin, Robert R. 1
Baskin, Sallie A. 1
Bates, William Stowt, 1830-1928 1
Beachum, James M., 1842-1912 1
Beaty, Thomas Newton, 1826-1867 1
Bell, Arthur. 1
Bell, Della Billington 1
Bell, Henry Arthur 1
Bell, Mary Della. 1
Bethany Associate Reformed Presbyterian Church 1
Bethel Presbyterian Church (Lowndes County, Miss) 1
Bethel Presbyterian Church (Lowndes County, Miss.)--Photographs 1
Beverly, Harriet B. 1
Beverly, Peter R. 1
Biedenharn, Jowilla. 1
Bilisoly, Lucrece J. 1
Blanchard family. 1
Blumenfeld, Bernhard 1
Blumenfeld, Carrie (Carrie Fried Blumenfeld) 1
Blumenfeld, Mena 1
Blumenfeld, Simon 1
Bond, Sarah E. (Sallie), 1830-1902 1
Bonds, W.W. 1
Bradley, Caroline 1
Bradley, Cavett William H. 1
Bradley, Charles Norman 1
Bradley, Frances Weems 1
Brigance, Louise Oliver 1
Brigance, Roy Shelby, 1927-2014 1
Brougher, William Edward 1
Brown and Frazer 1
Brown, R.B. 1
Brownell, Lucia Brown 1
Browning, Irene 1
Brumby, Louise C. (Louise Christine) 1
Buchanan, Margaret Ray , 1915-1995 1
Buck, Marcus C. 1
Buckley, R. E. 1
Burdette Lumber (Meridian, Miss.) 1
Burkitt, Frank (Benjamin Franklin), 1843-1914 1
Burns, Coleman Craig, Jr. 1
Burns, Coleman Craig, Sr. 1
Burns, Georgia May. 1
Burns, William Britt. 1
Burnside family 1
Bush, Edward S. 1
Bush, John C. 1
Butler, Dell Bell 1
Butler, Eugene 1
Butler, Eugene B. 1
Butler, Fred. 1
Butler, George. 1
Butler, Ida. 1
Butler, James 1
Butler, Mary Britt 1
Butler, Mary Jean 1
Butler, Robert Britt. 1
Butler, Tait 1
Butts, Alfred Benjamin 1
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