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Cotton farmers -- Mississippi.

 Subject
Subject Source: Library of Congress Subject Headings

Found in 3 Collections and/or Records:

Lena Simmons Clark collection

 Collection
Identifier: MSS-18
Scope and Contents

Papers of the Travis Clark family including: farm accounts, receipts, other financial statements, cotton sale records and other farm records from Grenada County, Mississippi; material relating to the education of children (1865-1887), almanacs, scrapbook of clippings, postcards, invitations, and other papers.

Dates: 1856 - 1912

Duncan and Blackwell Family Papers

 Collection
Identifier: MSS-726
Scope and Contents This collection includes the papers of various family members stemming from the Duncan and Blackwell family line. This includes materials from the Bias, Beane, Fontaine, Mitchell, and Tardy families as well as other connections. Materials include correspondence, diaries, family bibles, business papers (e.g., sale of cotton receipts), ledgers, estate records, bills of sale for enslaved persons, photographs, and other miscellaneous objects. The bulk of these materials come from the middle- to...
Dates: 1800-1950

Lenoir Plantation records

 Collection
Identifier: MSS-585
Scope and Contents The Lenoir Plantation Records contain the personal and business records of the extended Lenoir family from Monroe County, Mississippi. The papers span the early 18th century to 2001 and are divided into six series: Personal records, Business records, Legal documents: Land Deeds and related matters, Publications, Photographs, and Artifacts. Personal records include family correspondence that documents daily life on a cotton plantation throughout the 19th century, including several letters...
Dates: 1792 - 2001; Majority of material found within 1850 - 1930