Jackson (Miss.); Civil war; United States; Pillage; Rice, Augusta H.; Percy family; Yerger family; Rice, Augusta H., 1831-1906
Letter from T. E. Percy, Jackson, Mississippi, to Augusta Hopkins Rice in Oktibbeha County, thanking her for her hospitality during a recent visit, mentioning his Yerger neighbors, telling her about Yankee soldiers who damaged his house, almost...
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...
Ruble Cothran family farm; multiple views. Farm of 50 acres located southwest of Morgan City; 20 additional acres are rented for farming cotton. Leflore Co. Home Demonstration agent Mrs. Ethel Bowman assisted with selection of farm family.
Miss Judith Aldrich and her 4-H steer at Mid-South Fair, Memphis, Tennessee, 1944. The steer was sold to T.C. Potts of Crenshaw, Mississippi for 48 cents per pound. This was the only steer from Mississippi and therefore was considered Mississippi...
Mississippi Farm Bureau Federation; United States. Congress. House of Representatives; Committees; Economic policy; Agriculture and state; Farm income
Statement of the Mississippi Farm Bureau Federation to the House Agriculture Subcommittee on Equipment, Supplies, and Manpower with Regard to Farm Costs and Net Farm Income, presented by David H. Bennett, Vice-President, in Memphis, Tennessee, on...
Attala Co. (Miss.) ; Therrell, Paul Houston--Family.;farm life--Mississippi.
Paul Houston Therrell family farm; multiple views. Farm of 110 acres owned and 60 acres rented about three miles southeast of Kosciusko, MS. Attala Co. agent Frank Buchanan and Associate county agent Billy Walton assisted with selection of farm...
Mack T. Blackwood family farm; multiple views. Farm of 493 acres at Drew, MS. Sunflower Co. agent Cecil Black, Assistant county agent Carl Robinson, and Associate county agent Joe Beckham assisted with selection of farm family.
Sunflower Co. (Miss.) ; Baird, George E., Jr.--Family.;farm life--Mississippi.
George E. Baird, Jr. family farm; multiple views. Farm of 820 acres two and a half miles northwest of Inverness, MS just off highway 49 west. Sunflower Co. Agricultural agent Cecil Black and Assistant county agent Carl Robinson assisted with...