Men's clothing; Mississippi State University (Starkville, Miss.); Farmers; Corn; Mississippi Agricultural and Mechanical College (Starkville, Miss.); YMCA building (Mississippi State University); Buildings
An group of corn producers in front of the YMCA building (later the Post Office) on the campus of Mississippi State University. Sign reads 'Welcome 100 Bushel Corn Producers'.
Coleman, Frances; Jasen, David; Cunetto, Stephen; Geuder, Maridith; Templeton, Charles H. Jr.; McGrevey, Michael; Blais, Mimi; Keller, Sue
Dean of MSU Libraries Frances Coleman welcomes attendees to the first evening concert during the 2007 Charles Templeton Ragtime Music Festival. With her are Festival co-chairs David Jasen, Stephen Cunetto, Maridith Geuder, and Chip Templeton. MSU...
Festival coordinators (from l to r) Rhonda Keenum, Stephen Cunetto, Chip Templeton, Maridith Geuder, and Frances Coleman welcome guests to the 2009 Charles Templeton Ragtime Jazz Festival.
Festival coordinators (from l to r) Rhonda Keenum, Stephen Cunetto, Chip Templeton, Maridith Geuder, and Frances Coleman welcome guests to the 2009 Charles Templeton Ragtime Jazz Festival.
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.
Secession; Mississippi; Godey's lady's book and magazine; Hinds County (Miss.)
Letter to Eudora Hobbs in Salem, North Carolina, from her father, Howell Hobbs, relating family and local news and telling her about the local excitement over Mississippi's secession, 1861.
Civil war; Agriculture; United States; Fort Sumter (Charleston, S.C.); Jackson (Miss.)
Letter to Eudora Hobbs in Salem, North Carolina, from her cousin, N. H. Boyd, in Jackson, Mississippi, telling her about the local excitement over Virginia's secession from the Union. She writes that military companies are passing through...
Vicksburg (Miss.); Paris (Ill.); Steamboats; Women; Social history; Bird, Mary Ellen TenBrook, b. 1843; Lamon, Lucy Malindia Alexander, b. 1843; Judson, Jacintha Alexander, 1828-1903; Judson, Willet Harmon, 1823-1890; Judson, Jennie Shields, b....
Letter from 17-year-old Ellen Mary 'Nell' TenBrook to her 17-year-old aunt, Lucy Malindia Alexander, in Paris, Illinois, January 1860. Nell is visiting her aunt (Lucy's sister), Jacintha 'Cinty' Alexander Judson, in Vicksburg, Mississippi, and...