Mississippi Farm Bureau Federation; National Cotton Council of America; Cotton; Cottonseed; Soybean industry; Agriculture and state; Economic policy
Address delivered by Dupuy Bateman, president of the National Cottonseed Products Association for 1957, concerning cotton oil seed and soybean industry issues, with an accompanying letter from William Rhea Blake to Boswell Stevens about it.
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...
Civil war; United States; Confederate States of America; Draft; Lincoln, Abraham, 1809-1865; Lee, W. H. (William Hollinshed), 1841-1910; Edgefield District (S.C.); Religion; God
Letter, William States Lee, a minister in Edgefield District, South Carolina, to his grandson, William Hollinshed Lee, of Blythe's Regiment, Company A, Corinth, Mississippi. He mentions the evacuation of Columbus and doesn't know if the letter...
Clayton Rand pine tree (right), Literary Acres of the Chattanooga Audubon Society's Chapin Wildlife Sanctuary, Chattanooga, Tennessee, 1949. In background is Cherokee Indian cabin, birthplace of Cherokee naturalist Spring Frog.
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...
Knox, James, 1786-1864; Pickens County (Ala.); Presbyterians; Agriculture; Slavery; African-Americans; Somerville, James, 1827-1868; Oak Grove Presbyterian Church (Franconia, Ala.); Sons of Temperance of North America; Cotton; Presbyterian Church...
Diary kept from March 1848 to February 1851 by James Knox (1786-1864), a planter and Presbyterian church elder in Pickens County, Alabama. The diary records planting, harvesting, and other agricultural work, as well as Presbytery meetings and...
