World War, 1914-1918 -- Mississippi

Content Description The Mosley-Jackon Family papers contain extensive correspondence of military training life of young soldiers in World War I and II to their family in Oktibbeha County. The collection includes letters, postcards, holiday cards, family photographs, lace textiles, women’s and children clothing, military and leisure artifacts, Nazi artifacts, ephemera, and other pint material concerning the McKnight, Mosley, Crumpton, and Jackson families of Oktibbeha County, Mississippi. While most of the...

Scope and Content Papers of Scott, educator, of Mississippi. Correspondence with relatives and friends, chiefly in Mississippi; clippings concerning the Scott family; incomplete file of Normal College News (1919-1921) edited by Scott, a faculty member of the Mississippi State Teachers College, Hattiesburg (now University of Southern Mississippi); proceedings (1877) of the first annual convention of the Mississippi State Teachers Association; and biographies of presidents of the Mississippi Educational...

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Consists of letters and telegrams from Robert Donald Sharp who was stationed in army camps in Mississippi and Louisiana to his father, R.W. Sharp of Grenada, Mississippi.