Beulah Culbertson Archives and Special Collections

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This collection contains interviews with alumni at their 50th anniversary from 1978 to 2019. The interviews are available in various formats ranging from handwritten responses to cassettes, and CDs. Some if the interviews also have transcriptions.

Scope and Contents The vast majority of the Strobel record group dates to 1977-1980. It appears the archives may have received most of all of his records from this period, but the collection trails off in 1981 for reasons unknown, with only a few folders dating after 1983. From the 1977-1981 the records cover all aspects of the office, but during later periods the collection mainly includes clippings, congratulatory or holiday correspondence, and official publications. In addition, this is some material that...

Scope and Contents The John Clayton Fant Records are arranged chronologically by year. It contains series of correspondence, school schedules, and other miscellaneous files from 1920-1929. The bulk of the years in this collection are between 1926 and 1929. Subjects in series include school schedules of students and teachers, correspondence during the Fant Administration, architectural contracts, billing and receipts, Student Government Council claims and decisions, newspaper clippings, and other miscellaneous...

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This collection contains scrapbooks that document the events of MGS session from the early 1980s to the mid-2000s. The collection also contains program records including class development documentation.

Scope and Contents This collection contains organizational records such as bylaws, meeting minutes, conference programs, officer handbooks, newsletters, and membership directories. It also contains research and notes that Dr. Mildred Witt collected for her own research that includes face-to-face interviews, correspondence with significant early leaders, notes from her readings, compiled lists of officers, dates, and award winners. A significant gap exists between 1917 and 1958 due to missing and/or damaged...

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This collection contains the Yearbooks, Photo albums, Scrapbooks, DVD and VHS videos from 1988 to 2010. In addition to several boxes with folders and files from MSMS and 131 picture slides, and one box with posters made by MSMS students for several programs or events.

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The Nora Miller Presidential Collections contains items (an inauguration program and SACSOOC report) related to the presidency of President Miller.

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This collection contains 5 sashes from the Office of Student Life that were used for an unknown event in the 2010s.

Scope and Contents The collection appears to have belonged to Mary Lou Peyton, who then donated it to the university. Most of the materials belonged to her. Records of Ephraim Peyton, Jr. include appointments, awards, licenses, and other official documents with some financial documents, recommendation letters, and copies of obituaries.Annie Coleman Peyton's series includes correspondence predominately from 1876-1898, clippings of her letters to the editor signed "A Mississippi Woman," and scattered...

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This collection contains a gym suit that was most likely worn in one of Emma Ody Pohl's physical education classes.

Scope and Contents The majority of this collection consists of various correspondence between Sutherland and others, transcriptions of meetings, and other reports and documents. From the vague folder names that were present prior to processing, slightly more specific record groups were created to make searches more intuitive. Because of the scattered order of the documents and misplacement of papers, all items had to be placed in new folders and reordered to comply with the new organizational method imposed on...

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This collection primarily includes correspondence and notes and correspondence to University President, Robert Frazer, from 1897-1889

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The Science Department Record Group has items realted to this history of the department with most items created duting the 1970s. The Evans and Sehon fossil Exhibit Series refers to itesm that were collected by Science Department faculty and used for display.

The collection also contains various papers and correspondece created my members or students in the department.

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This collection contains photographic slides produced by Professor Melissa Smith and her classes from the Communication Department.

Scope and Contents The archives maintains a collection of copies of newspaper articles, programs, brochures, and other ephemera for ready reference on a variety of topics relating to Mississippi University for Women. Such topics include (among other things) notable people, locations around campus, events, and campus offices and departments, as well as topical headings from a survey of students taken during the 1960s. Persons with three or more items are given their own file; all others are kept together,...