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Finding-Aid for the S.G. Thigpen Collection (MUM00444)

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Descriptive Summary

Scope and Contents Note

Restrictions

Container List

Descriptive Summary

PURL:

http://purl.oclc.org/umarchives/MUM00444/

Creator:

Thigpen, S.G.

Title:

S.G. Thigpen Collection.

Inclusive Dates:

1890-1970

Materials in:

English

Abstract:

Collection contains newspaper articles, recording tapes, a scrapbook, and various photographs related to the life of S.G. Thigpen. Items were created 1890-1970.

Quantity:

3 boxes & 2 large scrapbooks.

Number:

MUM00444

Location:

F-13.

Repository :

The University of Mississippi
J.D. Williams Library
Department of Archives and Special Collections
P.O. Box 1848, University, MS 38677-1848, USA
Phone: 662.915.7408
Fax: 662.915.5734
E-Mail: archive@olemiss.edu
URL: https://www.olemiss.edu/depts/general_library/archives/

Cite as:

S.G. Thigpen Collection (MUM00444). The Department of Archives and Special Collections, J.D. Williams Library, The University of Mississippi.

Scope and Contents Note

Collection contains newspaper articles, recording tapes, a scrapbook, and various photographs related to the life of S.G. Thigpen. Items were created 1890-1970.

Restrictions

Access Restrictions

Open.

Use Restriction

The copyright law of the United States (Title 17, United States Code) governs the making of photocopies or other reproductions of copyrighted material. Under certain conditions specified in the law, libraries and archives are authorized to furnish a photocopy or other reproduction. One of these specified conditions is that the photocopy or reproduction is not to be “used for any purpose other than private study, scholarship or research.” If a user makes a request for, or later uses, a photocopy or reproduction for purposes in excess of “fair use”, that user may be liable for copyright infringement.

Container List

S.G. THIGPEN COLLECTION

Boxed in Personal Collection:

BOX 1.
1. Newspaper Articles

2. Original Manuscript: In The Beginning, An Autobiographical Approach to the Life and Times of the Period, 1890-1917 in Rural Mississippi

3. Chronology of Picayune History

4. Miscellaneous: Newspaper Clippings, Post Cards, Photographs, and one license plate

5. Written Manuscripts used for Weekly Radio Programs

BOX 2. Recording Tapes of Weekly Radio Broadcasts on Local History in Pearl River County

BOX 3.
1. Listing of Sunday Radio Programs (Recording Tapes) recorded between 1964-1970

a. Christmas Program, I & II

b. Old Palestine Church

c. An Old Country Store (Undated)

d. Story of a Ninty-One Year Old Woman

e. Old Sayings, (2)

f. Mr. Reuben Smith

g. A Story of John H. Hill

h. A Day in 1902, Part One and Two

I. Memories of Pearlington by Sam Russ

J. Captain W. H. Hardy

k. Wood McGeehee

l. Old Proctor Plantation

m. Travel in the Old Days, Part One and Two

n. A Sones Chapel Woman

o. Schools Eighty Years Ago

p. Mr. Harvey Burks

q. Mr. E.J. Stockstill

r. An Old Gristmill

s. The Lee Family

t. The Copeland Gang

u. Floating Down Pearl River

v. Mitchell School

w. A Trip to Henlifield in 1914

x. Comments on the Abuses of Television

y. Indian Ball Game

z. Music Sixty Years Ago

aa. Rev. L.G. Varnado, Part One and Two

bb. Russell Stewart, Transportation in the Old Days

cc. A Train Robbery in 1892

dd. Changes in Styles of Dress

ee. Changes in Travel

BOX 4:
1. Large Oversized Scrapbook (24/18)

containing Articles From Thigpens Hardware Store News

a. Advertising and Product Information

b. Advertising on Local Real Estate

c. Current update on Agricultural Production and Cultivation

BOX 5:
1. Photographs:

a. Picayune Peach Festival, 1925 (6)

b. The City of Picayune Between 1911-1933 (10)

c. Local Businesses in Picayune, 1920s (13)

d. Tung Tree Groves (25)

e. Strawberry and Potato Fields (4)

f. City of Picayune in the 1950s (12)

g. Business Establishments in Picayune in the 1950s, Chemical, Retail, and the First National Bank (14)

h. Map of Pearl River County, Mississippi (1928)

I. Newspaper Clippings on Local Farmlands and Tung Groves in 1928

j. Advertisments on Local Real Estate