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Cotton trade -- Mississippi.

 Subject
Subject Source: Library of Congress Subject Headings

Found in 5 Collections and/or Records:

Blumenfeld and Fried papers

 Collection
Identifier: MSS-98
Scope and Contents

Business papers of the Bernhard Blumenfeld (1853-1923) and Simon Fried (1843-1912) families, including deeds, promissory notes, stock certificates, (including two from John M. Stone Cotton Mills) and letters from Mena Blumenfeld concerning life in New York, a World War I celebration, and other. Items added by Henry Meyer include photographs of family members and homes. Places documented include Oktibbeha County, Mississippi, and New York City.

Dates: 1889 - 1955

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

Joe E. Frazer Collection

 Collection
Identifier: MSS-199
Scope and Contents Collection of Joe Frazer, President of the Board of Supervisors, Madison County, Mississippi, first President of the Mississippi Association of Supervisors and President of the Natchez Trace Association. Includes materials concerning negotiations for a proposed tri-county park area as a land utilization project on eroded agricultural lands at the Attala, Leake and Madison County corners area (1935, 1939). 1941 letters concern the cotton allotment and the Mississippi Civilian Defense Plan...
Dates: 1926-1930, 1932-1955, undated

Gardner (James H.) Collection

 Collection
Identifier: MSS-38
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

Drennan Love family collection

 Collection
Identifier: MSS-543
Scope and Contents The Drennan Love family collection contains a variety of materials which document Drennan Love and his descendants. Much of the material concerns the families of Anna Grace Love’s grandfather, William Alexander Love, and father, William Joseph Love. The collection contains correspondence, writings, legal materials, audiovisual materials, photographs, publications, artifacts and costumes. Series 1, Love family, includes materials documenting Drennan Love and his descendants. A small...
Dates: 1826 - 2008; Majority of material found within 1840 - 1970