4-H Club Congress (Miss.); Clothing and dress; Cotton; Contests; Leflore County (Miss.); Lowndes County (Miss.); Monroe County (Miss.); Clarke County (Miss.)
Winners in Women's State Cotton Dress Contest, conducted at the 1932 Mississippi 4-H Club Congress. Left to Right: Mrs. E. E. Allen, Leflore County; Mrs. C. L. Gaston, Lowndes County; Mrs. Earl J. Green, Clarke County; Mrs. E. W. Holmes, Monroe...
Sykes family; Grocery bills; Civil war; United States; Lowndes County (Miss.)
Statement and receipt for James Sykes' payment for goods purchased of F. S. Kemp in 1864, dated March 13, 1865. Includes food and lodging for soldiers.
Sykes family; Slavery; Estates, administration of; Lowndes County (Miss.)
Receipt for payment of $60 to A. M. Cannon for the hire of negroes, paid by James Sykes as part of the estate settlement for his son, James William Sykes, 1864.
Slavery; Taxation; Lowndes County (Miss.); Lanier, Elizabeth Person, 1783-1881
Receipt for Elizabeth Lanier's payment of $10.50 in 1859 property taxes on 15 slaves. Received by Lowndes County sheriff E. C. Eggleston on May 14, 1860.
Lowndes County Board of Police (Lowndes County, Miss.); Contracts--Mississippi--Lowndes County.; McGowa Creek (Lowndes County, Miss.); Bridges--Mississippi--Lowndes County.
Lowndes County Board of Police appointment of James Sykes, John M. Witherspoon, Thomas C. Billups and George N. Harris as Commissioners to oversee the completion of a bridge across McGower (McGowa) Creek, Lowndes County, Mississippi, 1865.
Meek and Sims (Firm: Columbus, Miss.); Fenner, Saunders & Co.; Land companies.; Labor--Mississippi.; Agriculture--Mississippi.; Mississippi and Alabama Land Co. and Immigration Agency.
Letters from the Mississippi and Alabama Land Company and Immigration Agency, Columbus, Mississippi, 1870.
Business; Feemster family; Gaston family; Sewing; Fabric; Clothing and dress; Poetry; Civil war; United States; Oaths; Race relations; African-Americans; Tennessee; Courtship; Lowndes County (Miss.); Stainback, George Tucker, 1829-1902; Feemster,...
Letter, Loulie Feemster, Bigbee Bottom, Mississippi, to her husband, Alex W. Feemster, in Selma, Alabama, opening with news of church and business. She lists the fabrics she bought for clothes and includes a humorous limerick about wives spending...