Mississippi Poultry Association; Poultry; Poultry farms; Associations, institutions, etc.
Handbook from the Mississippi Poultry Association detailing the constitution, by-laws, and records of membership. Alphabetical membership list details the poultry breeds raised by members. Includes advertisements.
Shaw family; Copiah County (Miss.); Brookhaven; Measles; Diseases; Civil war; United States; African-Americans; Slavery; Morgan, John Hunt, 1825-1864; Fort Donelson (Tenn.); Clarksville (Tenn.)
Letter from Albert Shaw to his mother, Mary Shaw, telling her about the ill health of himself, his son, some of the slaves, and the neighborhood in general. Some of the soldiers in Brookhaven have the measles. He tells her that he has been...
Civil war; United States; Teachers; Education; Union City (Tenn.); La Grange (Tenn.); Oxford (Miss.); Webb, Matilda Ann, 1832-1913
Letter to ''Lit'' (Matilda Ann Boyd Webb) from her cousin, Mattie A. Boyd, and Sophie Boyd Hays. Mattie is visiting Sophie, her school term in Oxford having just ended. Mattie writes that most of the young men are gone from town, and that...
Nottoway Plantation (La.); Randolph, John Hampden, 1813-1883; Sugar trade; John Shelby & Co. (Memphis, Tenn.); Bayou Goula (La.); Steamboats
Waybill for a wartime shipment of 20 hogsheads (about 135 bushels) of sugar from Nottoway, the plantation of John Hampden Randolph, a wealthy planter of Bayou Goula, Louisiana, to be shipped on the steamer Louisville to John Shelby & Co. in...
John C. Stennis Senate Luncheon John Sparkman Olin D. Johnston Ralph Yarborough Herbert Walters Cales Boggs Veterans' Legislation Washington DC Stennis
Senator John C. Stennis in Washington, D.C. at Senate Luncheon with (seated) from l-r: Senator John Sparkman (Ala. John A."Buck" Jenkins; Senator Olin D. Johnston (SC) and Senator Ralph Yarborough (Tex.(standing) l-r: Senator Herbert S. Walters...