Shaw family; Copiah County (Miss.); Port Hudson (La.); Civil war; United States; African-Americans; Slavery; Brookhaven (Miss.); Agriculture; Confiscations; Spinning; Children; Diseases
Letter, Albert Shaw to his mother, Mary Shaw. He is feeling much better, but his wife, Almerinda (''Rinnie''), is still in bad health. Their son, Clarence, likes to go out to the fields before dinner and ride home on a plow mule. He writes that...
Aberdeen (Miss.); African-American women; Clothing and dress
Unidentified African-American female, probably Fannie McComb, Aberdeen, Mississippi, possibly in wedding clothing. Portrait by F. S. McKnight, Aberdeen.
Mississippi Farm Bureau Federation; Committees; United States. Dept. of Agriculture; Crops; Agriculture; Economics; Fertilizers; Labor
Minutes of a February 28, 1951 meeting of the State Agricultural Mobilization Committee, Mississippi State Office of the Agricultural Mobilization Committee, United States Department of Agriculture. Facts presented and discussion of how to achieve...
Mississippi Farm Bureau Federation; United States. Dept. of Agriculture; Committees; Food crops; Feed grain program; Livestock; Meat
Memorandum No. 9 from Charles F. Brannan, Secretary of Agriculture and Chairman of the National Agriculture Mobilization Committee, to members of the State Agricultural Mobilization Committee. Concerns the need for higher production of feed grains,...
Mississippi Farm Bureau Federation; Committees; United States. Dept. of Agriculture; Farm production quota; Agriculture; Economic policy; Mississippi State Agricultural Mobilization Committee
Minutes of a June 7, 1951 meeting of the State Agricultural Mobilization Committee, Mississippi State Office of the Agricultural Mobilization Committee, United States Department of Agriculture. Facts and discussion about farm production guides for...
Mississippi Farm Bureau Federation; Committees; United States. Dept. of Agriculture; Agriculture; Fertilizer; Crops; Economic policy; Mississippi State Agricultural Mobilization Committee; Mississippi Agricultural Resources Conservation Program
Minutes of an August 2, 1951 meeting of the State Agricultural Mobilization Committee, under the Mississippi State Office of the Agricultural Mobilization Committee, under the United States Department of Agriculture. Concerns the Farm Policy Review...
Confederate States of America; Civil war; United States; Starkville (Miss.); Taxation; Hogan, Mary, 1800-1882
Receipt for $22.00 in taxes paid to the Confederate States of America by Mrs. Mary Hogan of Starkville, Mississippi. Signed by District 34 tax collector W. L. James, 1862.
Civil war; United States; Confederate States of America; Poetry; War poetry, American
Prospectus for a book of poems titled ''War Flowers,'' written by ''a soldier of the Confederate States Army'' and illustrating ''different phases and events of the war.'' The book is advertised to include ''an original burlesque tragedy,'' and...
Darden, Putnam.; Cameron, A. I.; Hunt, Roy J.; Confederate States of America. Army. Mississippi Artillery Battalion, 14th Jefferson Flying Artillery Battery.; Fayette (Miss.); Jefferson County (Miss.)--History.
Receipt for the purchase of a horse by A.I. Cameron and Putnam Darden from Roy J. Hunt for use in the Confederate army.
Dixon School (Neshoba County, Miss.)--Students--Photographs.; Forestry--Mississippi--Neshoba County--Photographs.; Education--Mississippi--Neshoba County--Photographs.
Timber estimating demonstration at Dixon School, Neshoba County, Mississippi.
Starr, John W.; Starr, Caroline B.; Wise, Louis--Photographs.; Giles, William L. (William Lincoln), 1911-1997--Photographs.; John W. Starr Memorial Forest--Photographs.; Mississippi State University. Agricultural and Forestry Experiment...
Dedication of the John W. Starr National Forest, November 11, 1978. Dr. Louis Wise and Dr. William Giles, Mississippi State University President present a color print of the sign to Mrs. Caroline B. Starr.
