Agriculture.
Subject
Subject Source: Library of Congress Subject Headings
Found in 44 Collections and/or Records:
Gale Carr Papers
Collection
Identifier: MSS-650
Scope and Contents
Series 1, “Life and career,” documents Carr’s birth and early farming career in Lamar County, Missouri, his military service in World War I, and his work at the Shelby County Penal Farm. Documentation of Carr’s work at the Penal Farm includes correspondence (1931-1932) to his wife, registers, and publications. Clippings and stationery document the continuation of Carr’s career after he was hired as the Northeast Mississippi Livestock Association Director in Tupelo, Lee County, Mississippi....
Dates:
1871 - 1996
Found in:
Manuscripts
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Gale Carr Papers
Cully A. Cobb Papers
Collection
Identifier: MSS-47
Scope and Contents
The Cully A. Cobb papers consist of correspondence, reports, and other documents concerning the career and family of Cully A. Cobb.
Series 1, Secretary of Agriculture Candidacy, consists of materials documenting Cobb’s candidacy for Secretary of Agriculture in 1932. It includes letters from, and copies of letters to, extension workers, experiment station personnel, college and university officials, agricultural associations and organizations, commercial manufacturers, and editors...
Dates:
1846 - 1973; Majority of material found within 1932 - 1970
Found in:
Manuscripts
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Cully A. Cobb Papers
Lois P. Dowdle "Mrs. Cully" Cobb Papers
Collection
Identifier: MSS-48
Scope and Contents
The collection documents the life and career of Lois Pauline Dowdle (1889-1987), the wife of agricultural leader and publisher Cully A. Cobb.Series 1, Personal, 1915-1987, includes documents, many photocopies, related to Mrs. Cobb’s travel, interest in ‘The Parsonage’ families and their careers, social events, and church involvement (including a religious poem written and autographed by General William Brougher), along with biographical and memorial materials. Among the...
Dates:
1904 - 1987
Found in:
Manuscripts
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Lois P. Dowdle "Mrs. Cully" Cobb Papers
James Knox diary
Collection
Identifier: MSS.274
Scope and Contents
The James Knox diary, which begins in March 1848 and ends in February 1851, records the daily operations of his plantation in Pickens County, Alabama, including sowing, plowing, harvesting, and selling. He refers to several enslaved persons by name, most often Patrick and Alvin. Knox’s regular attendance at church and presbytery meetings is recorded in the diary, along with information about the pastors and their sermon texts. Ministers James Somerville, J. L. Kirkpatrick, Thomas Morrow, and...
Dates:
1848 - 1851
Found in:
Manuscripts
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James Knox diary
Lecture: A career for you in agriculture, April 2, 1960, April 2, 1960
File
Identifier: B2 F23
Dates:
April 2, 1960
(MCES) Agriculture, Forestry, and Veterinary Medicine
Collection
Identifier: University Archives-A1980-16
Dates:
1933-1952
Lillian Neilson Collection
Collection
Identifier: MSS-419
Scope and Content
Journals, financial records, correspondence, photographs, family history, and miscellany, mostly pertaining to James C. Neilson, a Lowndes County, Mississippi, farmer, Mississippi state legislator, and Grange member. Among the topics in his journals are freedmen's accounts, race relations, church, the Grange, the legislature, an arson trial, and his family. Also included are the 1962 journal of Sarah Neilson, which mentions the riots at the University of Mississippi; a history of the Boykin...
Dates:
1829 - 1976
Found in:
Manuscripts
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Lillian Neilson Collection
Sarah Neilson Collection
Collection
Identifier: MSS-110
Scope and Content
Materials collected by Sarah Neilson, historian and Mississippi University for Women secretary to the President. Includes Columbus and Lowndes County town and county history, genealogical data, family photographs, greeting and advertising cards, limericks ledgers, daybooks, and other materials.
Dates:
1807 - 1966
Found in:
Manuscripts
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Sarah Neilson Collection
North Mississippi Probate and Chancery Court Records Collection
Collection
Identifier: MSS-352
Scope and Content
Probate and Chancery Court records, tax receipts, estate expense reports, and other legal documents, most from Itawamba County, 1836-1911, as well as miscellaneous other material dating from 1911-1971. Pontotoc, Calhoun, and Tishomingo counties are also represented, and there is some material concerning Limestone County, Alabama. Finally, there is one photocopy of Civil War letter from Thomas Whitesides to James Bullard, 4/27/1861. Donated by Randy Sparks, 1980-81.
Dates:
1836 - 1971
Oktoc Community Club Collection
Collection
Identifier: MSS-627
Scope and Content
Calendars, yearbooks, photographs, publications, clippings and other materials documenting the Oktoc Community Club and the Oktoc community, Oktibbeha County, Mississippi.
Dates:
1930 - 2005
Found in:
Manuscripts
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Oktoc Community Club Collection