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Aberdeen (Miss.)

 Subject
Subject Source: Library of Congress Subject Headings

Found in 6 Collections and/or Records:

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
Found in: Manuscripts / Lenoir Plantation records

Alice Puckett Posey Life History

 Collection
Identifier: MSS-250
Scope and Contents

Reminiscence of Alice Puckett Posey concerns life in Aberdeen and Northeast Mississippi, 1857-1944.

Dates: undated
Found in: Manuscripts / Alice Puckett Posey Life History

John E. Rodabough Papers

 Collection
Identifier: MSS-493
Scope and Content

Papers of historian John E. Rodabough (1942-1982), contain photographs, scrapbooks, maps, city directories, newspaper clippings, genealogical data, personal correspondence, memorabilia, and research material pertaining to Monroe County, Mississippi and St. Louis, Missouri. The collection also includes Rodabough's thesis "A History of the Negroes of Aberdeen and Monroe County, Mississippi, 1790-1916," and a draft of his book "Frenchtown, a history of St. Louis from 1803 to 1969".

Dates: 1819 - 1984
Found in: Manuscripts / John E. Rodabough Papers

Bertie Shaw Rollins Collection

 Collection
Identifier: MSS-15
Scope and Content

Correspondence and business papers for the Shaw family; historical texts by Bertie Shaw Rollins; historical material for Monroe County and the town of Aberdeen, MS

Dates: 1819 - 1956
Found in: Manuscripts / Bertie Shaw Rollins Collection

William E. Sykes Papers

 Collection
Identifier: MSS-279
Scope and Contents

76 letters (1859-1865) of William E. Sykes to his wife, chiefly from northeast Mississippi Civil War campaign sites; statements, accounts, receipts, and other business papers (1858-1864), chiefly from Aberdeen, Mississippi. Transcriptions available.

Dates: 1856 - 1865
Found in: Manuscripts / William E. Sykes Papers

Sam Wilhite papers

 Collection
Identifier: CPRC-137
Scope and Content The collection documents the activities of Sam Wilhite (1919-1998), who served as executive assistant to Mississippi Governor Hugh White in his second term (1952-1956) and was deeply involved in Democratic political work on the state, regional, and national levels during the late 1940s and 1950s. Among the candidates for whom he campaigned were Adlai Stevenson, John C. Stennis, and Hugh White. Wilhite also worked with the chambers of commerce in Florence, Alabama, and in West Point and...
Dates: 1871 - 1976; Majority of material found within 1940 - 1976
Found in: Mississippi Political Collections / Sam Wilhite papers

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