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Steve Patterson Collection

 Collection
Identifier: MSS-421
Scope and Contents

Draft of letter from Steve Patterson, Chairman of the Mississippi Democratic Party, to fellow state party chairmen, November 7, 1984, concerning the defeat of the Democratic presidential candidate, Walter Mondale. Patterson analyzes the reasons for the defeat.

Dates: 1984
Found in: Manuscripts

Thompson Pound Papers

 Collection
Identifier: MSS-333
Scope and Content

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.

Dates: 1960 - 1976
Found in: Manuscripts

James Purnell Papers

 Collection
Identifier: MSS-255
Scope and Contents

Contents: 2 letters, one containing information on Mississippi congressmen; and appointment by the governor. Several newspapers and church papers from Winona, Mississippi.

Dates: 1883 - 1910
Found in: Manuscripts

Clayton Rand Papers

 Collection
Identifier: MSS-91
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...
Dates: 1918 - 1971
Found in: Manuscripts

James S. Saggus Collection

 Collection
Identifier: MSS-117
Scope and Contents

Series of 49 articles written in 1965 for Jackson, Mississippi, newspaper, concerning the effects of the Civil War on government and life in Mississippi and concerning Mississippi's leaders during and after the war.

Dates: 1965
Found in: Manuscripts

Sidney L. "Sid" Salter Papers

 Collection
Identifier: MSS-490
Scope and Content Papers of Salter, born in 1959 in Philadelphia, Mississippi. Salter received his B.A. from Mississippi State University and began his career as assistant sports editor for The Starkville Daily News in 1981. In successive career moves from 1982 to 1983, Salter served as associate editor for The Neshoba Democrat and managing editor at The Bolivar Commercial before becoming publisher and editor of The Scott County Times/The Morton Tribune in 1983. From 1989 to 1991, Salter was also publisher of...
Dates: 1890 - 1998
Found in: Manuscripts

Wiley Sanders Papers

 Collection
Identifier: MSS-262
Scope and Contents

Manuscripts of speeches made in Sanders' political campaigns, in the legislature, at commencements and church; photo and autograph book of Mississippi legislators in 1884; souvenirs of the Mississippi Press excursion to Cuba (1930); and newspaper clippings about the history of Kosciusko, Mississippi.

Dates: 1876 - 1941
Found in: Manuscripts

Frank E. Smith Collection

 Collection
Identifier: MSS-94
Scope and Content

Collection of Frank Smith (1918-1997) includes the following: material pertaining to Mr. Smith's work with TVA; material accumulated as a result of his service on the Southern Regional Council; and materials for the five volume series he edited, Conservation in the U.S.: A Documentary History.

Dates: 1962 - 1973
Found in: Manuscripts

Hazel Brannon Smith Papers

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Identifier: MSS-445
Scope and Content Letters, clippings, pamphlets, certificates, artifact and other materials concerning Smith (1914-1994). The bulk of Smith's papers were destroyed in a fire at the Lexington Advertiser. Smith was born in Gadsden, Alabama, and graduated from the University of Alabama in 1935 with a B.A. in Journalism. In that year she came to Mississippi and purchased the Durant News. By 1943, that paper was successful enough to allow Smith to purchase the Lexington Advertiser, which she edited and published...
Dates: 1945 - 1976
Found in: Manuscripts

Boswell Stevens Papers

 Collection
Identifier: MSS-132
Scope and Content Correspondence, reports, clippings, scrapbooks, photographs, publications, and other records of Boswell Stevens (1896-1986), farmer of Noxubee County, Mississippi, and president of the Mississippi Farm Bureau Federation (1950-1972). Among the many organizations with which he was associated were the American Farm Bureau Federation, the National Cotton Council of America, the American Dairy Association of Mississippi, the Mississippi Federated Cooperatives, the Southern Farm Bureau insurance...
Dates: 1918 - 1986
Found in: Manuscripts

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