Mississippi Politics Collection

MUM00316

Campaign Mailing. “3 Reasons Conservatives Need Boyce Adams in Congress” (circa 2014-2016). 

Campaign Card. “Sam Adcock for Congress. Special Election May 12th” (circa 2014-2016). 

Campaign postcard. "…Another Empty Building." (circa 2003). 

Campaign postcard. "Noal with one good reason to make our schools better!" (circa 2003). 200 

Campaign postcard. "Losing Physicians. Less Access to Healthcare." (circa 2003). 

Pamphlet. "Noal Akins Will Fight…" 

Campaign Mailing. "State Representative Noel Atkins Has Helped Turn Our State Around." 

Campaign Mailing. "History in the Making. State Representative Noel Akins." 

Broadsheet. "You are respectfully requested to support and vote for William Baker for Mayor of Oxford" [1973]. 

Campaign letter from Marsha Barbour in Yazoo City, Mississippi, re: Haley Barbour for Governor. 2003 

Campaign Postcard. "That’s Why Law Enforcement Supports Haley Barbour." 2003 

Campaign Mailing. "Musgrove Claims He’s Created 56,000 Jobs…But Mississippi Knows Better." 2003 

Campaign letter from Donald E. Wildmon, re: Haley Barbour (2003). 

Campaign Postcard. "Haley Barbour Will Work Closely with President Bush and Our Congressional Team, and We Will Get More Done for Mississippi than Ever Before!" 2003 

Campaign Postcard. "Better Jobs = More Opportunities for All of Northeast Mississippi" (2007). 

Campaign Postcard. "Haley Barbour Is Fighting to Protect Furniture Jobs at Every Level" (2007). 

Campaign Postcard. "Governor Barbour Is Taking Action…," re: illegal immigration (2007). 

M 2 (Spring 2007), re: Barbour on cover and "The Barbour Briefing" (pp. 4-9). 

Speech Transcript with handwritten notations. "We have heard much here of late with reference to the rights of states being sacrificed…," re: states rights, segregation.    (14p.)

Pamphlet. "Dynamic Leadership to Keep Segregation and Improve Our Standard of Living, Ross Barnett, Mississippi’s Next Governor." 

Campaign Card. "Your Support Will Be Appreciated. Theo. G. Bilbo of Pearl River County, Candidate for Lieutenant Governor of Mississippi." 

Newspaper Clipping. Valerie Oliver, "Murky Pool All that’s Left of Bilbo’s House" Jackson Clarion-Ledger (21 April 1986), p. 1B. 

Campaign Broadside. "Meet & Hear President Jimmy Carter, Friday, Oct. 31 4:30 p.m., Governor’s Mansion" (Carter-Mondale Re-election Committee, 1980). 

Mailing. "Putting Mississippi Back to Work: A Report on Economic Recovery Efforts from the Office of Congressman Travis W. Childers" (2009). 

Mailing. "They Fought so That We Could Be Free: Congressman Travis W. Childers Is Working to Honor Their Sacrifice" (circa 2009). 

Mailing. "North Mississippi Priorities: Jobs, Jobs, Jobs: A Report from Congressman Travis W. Childers on North Mississippi" (2010). 

Mailing. “Nancy Pelosi Has Travis Childers in the Palm of Her Hand” (Americans for Limited Government, 2010). 

Broadside. "’YOU’ Can Help Improve County Law Enforcement, Elect Roy-Clark for Sheriff." 

Campaign Postcard. "Kay Cobb Standing up for Our Interests" (). 1995 

Campaign Mailing. "Senator Thad Cochran Taking a Stand for Mississippi" (). 2008 

Campaign Mailing. “Conservative Leader Thad Cochran, Cutting Wasteful Spending, Putting Mississippi First” (National Association of Realtors, 2014). 

Carbon typed letter from Mary Neill Duvall, Administrative Assistant to the University of Mississippi Chancellor, to Coleman, re: postcard from Coleman. Attached: typed letter from Coleman to Duvall, re: background on postcard. 27 January 1972 1931 29 January 1972 

Typed memorandum from D.H. Waits, Chair of Legislative Tax Study Committee, to Coleman, Lieutenant Governor Carroll Gartin, and the Mississippi Legislature, re: tax study committee. 10 October 1956 

Copy typed manuscript. "Statement of Governor J.P. Coleman, April 22, 1957," re: state constitutional convention. 

Copy typed letter from Coleman to "Members of the Legislature," re: expenditure funds for the Building Commission. Attached: copy typed manuscript "Mississippi State Building Commission, Jackson, Mississippi, Statement of Allocations from Funds Appropriated by House Bill 1003, Laws of 1956, June 30, 1957." 28 June 1957 

Broadside. "Mississippi Executive Department, Jackson, A Public Proclamation of the Governor Convening the Legislature of the State of Mississippi in Extraordinary Session," re: constitutional convention (1957). 

Copy Typed Manuscript. "An Answer to an Editorial Entitled ‘Munich Day in Mississippi," re: segregation of veterans hospital in Jackson. 

Campaign Card. “Justin Cluck for State Representative, Putting Our Families First” (circa 2014-2016). 

Automobile License Plate. “Dantin for United States Senator” (1978). 

Campaign Mailing. "Jay Eads Understands Education." 2003 

Campaign Mailing. "There’s No Comparison." 2003 

Campaign Poster. "Keep Jim on the Job in Washington." 1954 

Campaign Mailing. "Yes, I Did Sue the Military…" (Mississippi Republican Party, circa 2009). 

Campaign Mailing. "John Arthur Eaves, Jr. Just Doesn’t Understand." (Mississippi Republican Party, circa 2009). 

Broadside. "Finch Is in the Fight, Vote Gov. Cliff Finch, Former Governor of Mississippi Democratic Candidate for President." 1980 

Broadside. Re: African American support for Tim Ford’s election as Speaker of the House (1994). 

Campaign Mailing. "An Important Reminder from Governor Kirk Fordice: You and Your Family DO Have a Stake in This Election!" (1995). 

Broadside. "Daniel Kirkwood Fordice, Jr., Governor of Mississippi, Inauguration 1996."    (2 copies)

Campaign Card. "Elect Evelyn Gandy Lieutenant Governor." 

James Z. George 

Broadsheet. Book signing for James Z. George: Mississippi’s Great Commoner by Timothy B. Smith (2012). 

Campaign Postcard. "E.B. (Boyd) Golding for State Auditor" (1955). 

Campaign letter from Don E. Wildmon, re: electing Bill Hawks Lieutenant Governor. 6 July 1999 

Typed letter dated 9 May 2008 from Neal Gregory to Jennifer Ford, re: attached documents. Attached: copy typed letter dated 19 June 1959 from Harry Truman to Gregory, re: Alben Barkley-Pat Harrison contest for Majority Leadership; copy typed letter dated 7 June 1959 from Gregory to Truman, re: above topic. 

Campaign Card. “We Need Cristen Hemmins for State Senate” (circa 2014-2016). 

Campaign Card. “Gray Tollison cut a deal with political insiders” (circa 2014-2016). 

Campaign Card. “Gray Tollison Can’t Fool Us…” (circa 2014-2016). 

Campaign Card. “Doc Holliday for Congress” (circa 2014-2016). 

Campaign Card. “Dr. Ed ‘Doc’ Holliday for Congress” (circa 2014-2015). 

Campaign Mailing. "Jim Hood Is Making His Campaign Donors Very Rich," re: State Attorney General (Mississippi Republican Party, circa 2009). 

Campaign Card. "Vote in the May 1 Democratic Primary for Richard Howorth Mayor of Oxford" (2001). 

Pamphlet. "On June 5, Vote for Richard Howorth, Mayor of Oxford" (2001). 

The Lafayette Alarm Vol. 1 (June 2001), re: mayoral contest between Howorth and Pat Lamar.    (6 copies)

Pamphlet. Clayton Rand, "Benjamin G. Humprheys" (Mississippi Power & Light Company). 

Original black-and-white photograph of Judge J.P. Coleman administering the oath of office to Judge E. Grady Jolly of the U.S. Court of Appeals for the Fifth Circuit (1982). 

Press Release, "Inaugural Address Governor Paul B. Johnson, January 21, 1964." 21 January 1964 

Coleman press release re: Mississippi Research & Development Council. 20 October 1965    (2 copies)

Printed photograph portrait of Johnson as governor. Signed by Johnson. 

Campaign Card. “Dr. Starner Jones has a plan to stop illegal immigration” (circa 2014-2016). 

Campaign Pamphlet. “Republican Starner Jones, Conservative for Congress” (circa 2014-2016). 

Campaign Card. "Please Elect Celeste Jordan Lafayette County Tax Assessor Tax Collector, Republican Candidate" (1995). 

Telegram from John E. Gregg, Executive Vice President of Mississippi Manufacturers Association, to Kennedy, re: tour of Gulf Coast Industrial facilities. 1956 

Copy Typed Manuscript. "Mississippi’s Marriage Market by John L. Kennedy, State Representative, Marshall County." 

Copy draft state bill, re: Pearl River Water Supply District (1958). 

Copy Typed Manuscript. Re: Port of Gulfport (8 January 1958). 

Typed letter from Lester Alvis, Chair of Board of Trustees of Mississippi Hospital School for Cerebral Palsy, to "Dear Friend," re: open house for new quarters. 15 January 1958 

Typed letter from David B. Wilson, President of Mississippi Hospital Association, to Kennedy, re: indigent care program proposed by Hospital Study Committee. 7 January 1958 

Typed letter from Lester Alvis, Chairman of Board of Trustees of Mississippi Hospital School for Cerebral Palsy, to "Dear Friend," re: urge visit. 22 January 1958 

Typed letter from A.E. Gatlin, Assistant Director of Mississippi Agricultural & Industrial Board, to "All State Legislators," re: enclosed booklet. Attached: Karl Wiesenburg, Let’s Look at Our Legislature (Pascagoula, MS: Advertiser Printing, 1958). 

Copy typed letter from Rodney E. Defenbaugh of Greneda, MS to Fred Schmidt, Chair of Mississippi Economic Council Usury Committee, re: legislation on small loan brokers and borrowers. 

Typed letter from J.D. Carmichael, Managing Director of Mississippi Retail Merchants Association, to state legislature, re: shoplifting. 31 July 1957 

Typed Manuscript. "Fact Sheet on Amendments to Present Mississippi State Sales Tax Laws Which Would Allow 2% Compensation to Retailers for Collecting and Reporting Same" (Mississippi Retail Merchants Association). 

Typed letter from James A. Egger, President of Mississippi Retail Merchants Association, to Kennedy, re: sales tax law. 

Typed letter from Kennedy to "Dear Friends," re: marriage bill. 7 January 1958 

Copy Typed Manuscript. "In Re: House Bill 269, Regular Session 1958 (from State Times Thursday, 2/27/58) Saving Lives, Dollars, August Inspection Bill Seeks Big Economy for Mississippi by Robert Webb." 

Copy Typed Manuscript. "Your Vote in 1956 Could Have Prevented This," re: abolish sale of fireworks. 

Typed letter from George A. Huth, President of Jackson Chamber of Commerce, to Mississippi Legislature, re: thank you for legislative work. 22 May 1958 

Typed Manuscript. "A Report to the Mississippi State Legislation by the General Legislative Investigation Committee, January 1956." 

Copy Typed Manuscript. "Itinerary for Members of the Legislature Attending the Sixth Annual Convention and Free Enterprise Celebration Mississippi Manufacturers Association and Tours of the Port and Industrial Facilities of the Mississippi Gulf Coast" (). 1957 

Typed Manuscript. "Bill #1587," re: education. 

Typed letter from R.H. Busby, Chair of Mississippi Manufacturers Association Labor Committee, to Kennedy, re: enclosed article on state income tax effect on industry. 8 February 1958 

Copy typed letter from Hayden Campbell and Earl Evans to "Fellow Members of the Mississippi Legislature," re: creation of Agricultural & Industrial Board. 1958 

Bumper sticker. "Pat Lamar for Mayor" [Oxford, MS]. 

Campaign Card. “Vote Tuesday, November 8th, Brent Larson, Lafayette County Schools Board Member District 1” (circa 2014-2016). 

Print-out of online article "Sen. Lott Defended School’s Race Policy" by John Solomon on Salon.com. 12 December 2002 

Newsweek (23 December 2002), re: Lott on the cover. 

Paper Fan. “Trent Lott for Mississippi” (undated). 

Pamphlet. "T.J. Lowry for Re-election Highway Commissioner Northern District." 

Postcard. "John R. Lynch, Congressman from Mississippi, 43rd, 44th, 47th Congress – 6 years, Negroes in American History" (Los Angeles, CA: Hugh Havilon Gordon Cultural Center). 

Invitation to gubernatorial inauguration of Ray Mabus (1988). 

Campaign Card. “Steve Massengill’s Record on Schools Is Rotten to the Core” (circa 2014-2016). 

Campaign Card. “Steve Massengill’s Bad Votes Hurt Our Families” (circa 2014-2016). 

Campaign Card. “Re-Elect Republican Steve Massengill Representative District 13” (circa 2015). 

Campaign Card. “Brad Mayo Is the Conservative Voice We Need” (circa 2014-2016). 

Campaign Mailing. “Elect Randy McCluskey District 1 Supervisor” (circa 2014-2016). 

Campaign Mailing. “Congress’ – and Sen. Cochran’s – Special Exemption from ObamaCare” (Independent Women’s Voice, 2014). 

Campaign Mailing. “Chris McDaniel Is the New, Conservative Leader Mississippi’s Been Waiting For” (Washington, DC: Club for Growth Action, 2014). 

Campaign Mailing. “Chris McDaniel. Principled. Conservative. A New Leader for Mississippi” (Washington, DC: Club for Growth Action, 2014). 

Broadsheet. "elect Chad D. McLarty Supervisor District 4," re: Lafayette County (2011). 

Pamphlet. "Elect Chad D. McLarty Supervisor District 4" (2011). 

Broadsheet. “Nolan Mettetal, MS State Representative District 10: Panola & Lafayette Counties (2011). 2 copies. 

Campaign Postcard. "Elect Nolan Mettetal Mississippi House District 10, Lower Taxes, More Jobs, Balanced Budget," (2011). 

Campaign Card. “Fresh Start with New Conservative Leadership” (circa 2014-2016). 

Campaign Mailing. "Molpus – A Model for Success in North Mississippi," re: gubernatorial election (1995). 

Christmas Card postmarked from Montgomery to Joyce Taylor at the University of Mississippi. 7 December 1972 

Campaign Broadsheet. "Vote June 2nd…for Oxford’s Future," (Alderman at Large in Oxford, Mississippi, circa 2009). 

Campaign Broadsheet. "Judge Rook Moore, Court of Appeals" (circa 2000). 

Campaign Mailing. “Baretta Mosley. Lafayette County Circuit Court Clerk. 23 Years of Experience as Deputy Circuit Court Clerk” (2011). 

Broadside. "All Right, Old Lying Fred, You Asked for It," re: reprint of letter to the editor, Fred Sullens, of the Jackson Daily News from Murphree (). 1942 

Campaign Mailing. "If 4 Years of Musgrove Was Bad…" (Mississippi Republican Party, 2003). 

Campaign Button. "E.F. Noel" [elected governor in 1908]. 

Mailing. “Please Join Us at the Oxford Town Hall Meeting, June 9, 2011…Congressman Alan Nunnelee, Mississippi’s 1st Congressional District” (2011). 

Campaign Card. “Johnny Parker Re-Elect Lafayette County School Board District 1” (circa 2014-2016). 

Printed letter from Jim Payne, re: election to Mississippi House of Representatives, District 12 seat. Attached: pamphlet "Elect Jim Payne, District 12, House of Representatives, Oxford-Lafayette"; printed form "Mississippi Voter Registration Application" (2004). 

Campaign Card. "Elect Bob Perry Lieutenant Governor of Mississippi." 

Copy Pamphlet. "An Address to the People by Robert S. Phifer, Jr. Announcing His Candidacy for Mayor of Jackson, Mississippi" (circa 1915). 

Campaign Material. “Vote Terry ‘Dago’ Prestage Justice Court Judge Central District” (circa 2014-2016). 

Typed letter dated 30 May 1940 from “Ida” to “Daisy” [Mrs. Leroy Green of Tupelo, Mississippi] on House of Representatives Committee on World War Veterans’ Legislation letterhead and envelope franked by John Rankin, re: personal, reference to coming home when Congress adjourns for political conventions; envelope. 

Campaign Postcard. "Holly Raney: It’s Time for Mississippi to Move Upward!," re: state representative (Friends of Holly Raney, 2011). 

Pamphlet. "Vote for Bramlett Roberts for Chancery Judge 18th Chancery District of Mississippi, Election August 26, 1958." 

Typed letter dated 8 November 1919 from Lee M. Russell to Who’s Who in America, re: inclusion of biographical sketch. Attached: carbon typed letter dated 13 November 1919 from A.N. Marquis & Co. to Russell, re: above topic; handwritten note, re: Russell information; copy typed letter dated 8 October 1921 from A.N. Marquis & Co. to W.F. Marshall of the Mississippi State Library, re: Russell in Who’s Who in America; typed letter dated 4 October 1921 from Marshall to Marquis & Company, re: above letter; copy typed letter dated 26 September 1921 from A.N. Marquis to Marshall, re: above topic. 

Acquisition Information

Gift of Jim Hawkins.

Postcard. "Chas. Scott the Farmer’s Candidate for Governor of Mississippi, on His Horse-back Ride through the State" (Milwaukee: E.C. Kropp Co.). Postmarked 1907. 

Postcard. “Vote Nov. 4th Tina Dugard Scott Chancery Court Judge, Place 1” (2014). 

Broadsheet. “Democratic Guy Davis Shaw for Governor” (2011). 

Pamphlet. "William T. Sloan, for County Attorney on August 5, 1975," re: Lafayette County. 

Campaign letter dated 29 October 1947 from Zelma W. Price, re: Stennis election to U.S. Senate. 

Copy Typed Manuscript. "Excerpts from Radio Broadcast of United States Senator John Stennis of Mississippi, Washington, D.C., May 26, 1956," re: Supreme Court, Farm Bill, military preparedness, veterans’ benefits, foreign aid. 

Copy Typed Manuscript. "A Report from Washington from United States Senator John Stennis, October 3, 1958," re: trip behind the Iron Curtain. 

Copy Typed Manuscript. "Address by U.S. Senator John Stennis Mississippi State Bar Convention" (30 May 1958). 

Copy Typed Manuscript. "Address of U.S. Senator John Stennis, First Annual Meeting – Rivers & Harbors Association of Mississippi" (3 June 1958). 

Reprint. "The Civil Rights Bill – A $100 Billion Blackjack?: Excerpts of Speech of Hon. John Stennis of Mississippi in the Senate of the United States, Tuesday, April 7, 1964" Congressional Record. 

Pamphlet. "Candidate for Hinds County Representative Mississippi State Legislature, Special Election July 15, 1969, John H. Stennis." 

Pamphlet. "Re-Elect Mary Sue Stevens Circuit Court Clerk Yalobusha County" (1991). 

Campaign letter from Tollison, re: reelection as state senator. Attached: broadsheet "Reelect Gray Tollison State Senator." 

Campaign Mailing. "A Champion for Education." 

Campaign Card. “Senator Gray Tollison, Standing up to Insurance Companies, Getting Results for Our Children & Families” (circa 2014-2016). 

Broadside. "Friend to Friend, Elect Herschel R. Turner Chancery Clerk," re: Lafayette County. 

Pamphlet. Clayton Rand, "James K. Vardaman" (Mississippi Power & Light). 

Typed letter Walker to "My Fellow Mississippian," re: thank you for permitting him to serve in Congress. Attached: Walker Christmas Card. 

Program. "Inaugural Ceremonies of Governor William Lowe Waller" (1972). 

Doorknob Hanger. "Elect Bill Waller Governor." 

[Original black-and-white photograph “Governor Bill Waller, Governor’s Staff 1972-1976, Hinds, Madison, & Rankin District” removed to Modern Political Archives Photographs Box 3, Folder 17.] 

Campaign Postcard. "The Vote Is in…Your Choice Is Change. Elect Trammell Wells, Supervisor, District 4," re: Lafayette County (2007). 

Campaign Postcard. "Please Vote Tuesday, November 6, 2007, Trammell Wells, Supervisor, District 4," re: Lafayette County. 

Pamphlet. "Vote Lena W. Wiley Justice Court Judge Northern District, Republican Candidate, 1995." 

Invitation & Program for Governor Hugh White inaugural ceremonies (1952). 

Anne Millet, Jamie L. Whitten, Democratic Representative from Mississippi (Ralph Nader Congress Project, 1972). 

Reprint. "Speech of Honorable Jamie L. Whitten of Mississippi" Congressional Record (6 June 1974), re: flood control by Soil Conservation Service. 

Reprint. "House of Representatives Public Works Appropriations Act: Speech of Hon. Jamie L. Whitten of Mississippi" Congressional Record (). 30 July 1973    (2 copies)

Church Program. First Presbyterian Church in Charleston, MS (12 September 1995), re: Whitten funeral service. 

Campaign Mailing. "Roger Wicker. Putting Money into Our Infrastructure Improves Our Health, Safety, and Economy" (2008). 

Prices and Health Care. Our Issues. Our Concerns" (2008). 

Campaign Mailing. "You’re Doing Your Part. Times Are Tough in America Right Now…and Tough Times Call for TOUGH Leadership" (2008). 

Invitation for inaugural ceremonies of Governor John Bell Williams (1968). 

Invitation to Governor William Winter Inauguration (1980). 

Copy Typed Manuscript. "Governor William Winter’s Message to a Joint Session of the Mississippi Legislature, 4 January 1984," re: review of Winter’s term in office. 

Program to Governor Fielding Wright’s Inauguration (1948). 

Campaign Mailing. “Join Rev. Don Wildmon and Support Lee Yancy, Treasurer” (Paid for by Friends of Lee Yancey, 2011). 

Clipping. “Carroll County has Much History, Color” and “A Black Hawk Rally to Remember” (circa 2014-2016). 

Campaign Mailing. Better Schools, Better Jobs (2015). 

Folder with material related to symposium at Mississippi State University (2015). 

Copy Typed Manuscript. Re: Mississippi legislature membership list, . 1948-1952 

Copy Typed Manuscript. "Suffrage and Elections, Constitutional Provisions (Miss.), Article 12 Franchise."    (2 copies.

Copy Typed Manuscript. "The Governor: Mississippi (Constitutional provisions)." 

Copy Typed Manuscript. "Democratic Party of the State of Mississippi Executive Committee 1976-1980." 

Typed letter from Mike Mills, Chairman of Mississippi First, Inc., to "Dear Friend," re: elect quality legislators. 

Program. "The Freedom of Choice Dinner Honoring 1963 Republican Candidates, June 7, 1963" (Biloxi, MS). 

Broadside. "Mississippians for States Rights: Its Plan and Purpose." 

Absentee Ballots for Greenwood, Mississippi (1951, 1953, & 1954). 

Pamphlet. "The Date ‘Washington Comes to Mississippi’" (1953). 

Circular Letter. Tom and Nan Davis of Oxford, Mississippi to "Dear Friends," re: Al Hopkins for Attorney General and Mike Chaney for Insurance Commissioner. 

Mailing. "Will Some Washington Politicians BLOW UP Your Healthcare?" (Campaign for Responsible Health Reform, circa 2010). 

Sticker. “Ask Me about i26.” 

Pamphlet. “No on Initiative 26” (Mississippians for Healthy Families). 

Broadsheet. “Vote No on 26, It Goes to Far!” (Students Voting No on 26). 

Broadsheet. Re: fiscal analysis and arguments for initiatives 27 (voter ID), 31 (eminent domain), and 26 (personhood). 

Broadsheet. “Vote NO on 26, It goes too far!” (Students Voting No on 26). 

Broadsheet. “A Message from the MSMA President.” 

Bookmark. “Mississippi Governors Day” (2013). 

Campaign Button. "1992 Fordice Inaugural" (Kirk Fordice) 

Campaign Button. "Gene Taylor U.S. Congress" 

Campaign Button. "Dantin Senator" (Maurice Dantin) 

Campaign Button. "Mississippi Inauguration 1988 Governor Ray Mabus" 

Campaign Clasp. "John Bell Williams" 

Pendant. "Big Jim" [James O. Eastland] 

Coin. "State Auditor Steve Patterson" and "The Great Seal of the State of Mississippi" 

Lapel pin. “Governor’s Staff Bill Waller 72-76” 

Plastic bag. “Re-Elect Steve Massengill Representative District 13” (circa 2014-2016), re: Lafayette County, Mississippi. 

Emory board. “Re-Elect Massengill” (circa 2014-2016). 

Bumper Sticker. "I’m Right with Ross Barnett." 

Campaign Poster. "Vote R. Jess Brown. House of Representatives. Dist. 31F."    (17" x 11")

Campaign Poster. "It’s Time. Carmichael."    (17" x 12")

Campaign Poster. "Elect Mary H. Coleman Chancery Clerk."    (14" x 11")

Campaign Poster. "Elect Maurice Dantin Governor of Mississippi."    (14" x 22")

Campaign Poster. "Kenneth Dean for Congress. Tuesday, June 4th Mississippi Democratic Primary."    (13 1/4" x 19 3/4")

Campaign Poster. “Wall Doxey Candidate for United States Senate, Election September 23rd” (circa 1941-1942). 

Campaign Poster. "Re-elect Senator Jim Eastland."    (22 1/2" x 13 1/2")

Campaign Poster. "John Arthur Eaves for Governor. A Man of Courage. The Peoples Man."    (13 1/2" x 20")

Campaign Poster. "Vote Charles Evers for Governor in ‘71. Evers for Governor Committee, Jackson, Mississippi."    (21 1/2" x 14")

Campaign Poster. "Evers for Everybody. Nov. 2. 7A.M.-6P.M."    (24" x 18")

Campaign Poster. "FINCH."    (12 1/2" x 19")

Portrait Print. Cliff Finch with state seal and flag behind him.    (18 1/4" x 13")

Print. “J.Z. George Library” by Steve Douglass (11” x 14”). 

Invitation. “Tastes from The Help, Saturday, November 19, 2011.” 

Campaign Poster. "Elect Jim Herring Lieutenant Governor."    (22" x 14")

Campaign Poster. “Pick Howorth, Mayor, The Time Is Ripe, Oxford’s Own Homegrown.” (10” x 24.5”) 

Bumper Sticker. "Johnson for Governor." 

Campaign Poster. "Elect Jobie Martin to the House of Representatives District 2 Post 3."    (14" x 11")

Bumper Sticker. "Re-elect the President" (Finance Committee for the Re-election of President Nixon). 

Campaign Poster. "Charles Sullivan for Governor."    (22" x 14")

Newspaper Supplement for Oxford Eagle. "Charles Sullivan for Governor." 

Campaign Poster. "Waller Was Here."    (21 1/2" x 14)

Campaign Poster. "Elect William Winter Governor. He’s for Real."    (20" x 14")

Broadside. "Sample Ballot, State of Mississippi, First Primary Election, Democratic Party, August 8, 1967, Sunflower County, District Four." 

Poster. “Hands that Pick Cotton…Now Can Pick Our Public Officials, Register and Vote!” (Voter Education Project, Atlanta, Georgia, 1970). 

Campaign Poster. “Vote No on 26, Save Women’s Lives” (Students Voting No on 26, 2011). 

Original political cartoon drawing. “A Little Pruning Needed,” re: Mississippi voters, Franklin D. Roosevelt, Mike Conner, Theodore G. Bilbo (circa 1930s). 

Poster. “All Are Welcome Here” (Oxford, MS: Square Books, 2016). 

 Folder Painting “The Great Seal of the State of Mississippi.” 

Modern Political Archives Photographs Box 3, Folder 19. "Governor Bill Waller, Governor's Staff 1972-1976, Hinds, Madison & Rankin Counties." 

Modern Political Archives Photographs Box 3, Folder 21. Composite photograph "Historic Pictorial Group of the Members of the Legislature, State of Mississippi Photographed and Combined by E.V. Seutter, The Jeweler and Artist of Jackson, Miss." (1882). 

Scope and Content

Includes African American legislators.