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Women -- Mississippi.

 Subject
Subject Source: Library of Congress Subject Headings

Found in 5 Collections and/or Records:

Hightower, Montgomery, Perkins, Castles, and Stiles families papers

 Collection
Identifier: MSS.-537
Scope and Contents The Hightower, Montgomery, Perkins, Castles, and Stiles families papers contain the papers of the members of five Mississippi families related by marriage. Much of the material concerns three families: the Perkins, Hightower and Montgomery families. The papers include family correspondence, a small number of business and legal documents, and a variety of other documents that record predominantly the lives of the female members of the families. The collection includes a number of...
Dates: 1848 - 1997; Majority of material found within 1881 - 1960

Mississippi Media Professionals (Mississippi Press Women) records

 Collection
Identifier: MSS-581
Scope and Contents The collection is the records of the Mississippi Media Professionals (MMP), which was organized in 1947 as the Mississippi Press Women (MPW), and changed its name to the Mississippi Media Professionals in 1994. MMP is an organization dedicated to the betterment of media professionals, both male and female, throughout the state. The organization was incorporated in 1979 and is an affiliate of the national organization, the National Federation of Press Women (NFPW). Among the activities the...
Dates: 1958 - 2000; Majority of material found within 1964 - 1998

Myrna Colley-Lee Papers

 Collection
Identifier: MSS-635
Content Description Papers of costume designer Colley-Lee of Charleston, Mississippi, include scripts, playbills, photographs, design materials, sketches, rehearsal materials, research materials for plays; costumes created for Steppenwolf Theater production of "The Wedding Band", 2003; vintage costume collected by Colley-Lee as a part of her Glad Rags Collection; other costumes created and/or worn to special events by Colley-Lee; digital reproductions of costume sketches drawn by Colley-Lee; personal...
Dates: 1920 - 2011

Starkville Civic Clubs Collection. 1932-1995.

 Collection
Identifier: MSS-103
Scope and Content

Yearbooks and other records from Starkville clubs and organizations collected by various area residents: Civic League of Starkville ( 1941-1958); Young Women's Club of Starkville (1938-1941); Century Club of Amory (1956-1957); Mississippi Federation of Women's Clubs (1938-1948); Neo Cycle Club yearbooks, 1939-1947; Home and Garden Club (1932-1995); and the Starkville Home & Garden Club (1932-1995).

Dates: 1932 - 1995

United Daughters of the Confederacy, Lyda C. Moore Chapter (Lula, Mississippi) Records

 Collection
Identifier: MSS-285
Scope and Contents

Three scrapbooks of the UDC, Lyda C. Moore Chapter, Lula, Mississippi, 1952-53, 1953-54, 1954-55. Publication: Our Heritage. Vol. 1, No. 4 (February 1907).

Dates: 1907, 1952-1955