{"id":1813,"date":"2016-12-07T23:05:38","date_gmt":"2016-12-07T23:05:38","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.deltastate.edu\/library-beta2\/?page_id=1813"},"modified":"2016-12-07T23:05:38","modified_gmt":"2016-12-07T23:05:38","slug":"greenville-history-memorabilia","status":"publish","type":"page","link":"https:\/\/www.deltastate.edu\/library\/departments\/archives-museum\/guides-to-the-collection\/manuscript-collections\/mccormick-collection\/greenville-history-memorabilia\/","title":{"rendered":"Greenville History Memorabilia"},"content":{"rendered":"[vc_row type=”in_container” scene_position=”center” text_color=”dark” text_align=”left” overlay_strength=”0.3″][vc_column column_padding=”no-extra-padding” column_padding_position=”all” background_color_opacity=”1″ background_hover_color_opacity=”1″ width=”1\/1″][heading]\n

Greenville History Memorabilia \u00b7 Back to collection home\u00a0 <\/a><\/p>\n[\/heading][\/vc_column][\/vc_row][vc_row type=”in_container” scene_position=”center” text_color=”dark” text_align=”left” overlay_strength=”0.3″][vc_column column_padding=”no-extra-padding” column_padding_position=”all” background_color_opacity=”1″ background_hover_color_opacity=”1″ width=”1\/1″][vc_column_text]This collection contains items pertaining to Greenville history.<\/p>\n

Box 1: Greenville History<\/p>\n

Framed Dollar from the Boeing Military Airplane Company<\/p>\n

Folder:<\/p>\n

1. \u00a0 \u00a0 Commercial Appeal , May, 1940 with personal note from Jean Kirkland\"flood-song\"<\/a><\/p>\n

Papers of A.G. Wineman and Sons of Greenville, 1909<\/p>\n

2. \u00a0 \u00a0 \u00a0Greenville Metal Car tag<\/p>\n

Greenville, MS- Port City of the Delta Metal sign<\/p>\n

3. \u00a0 \u00a0 \u00a0Scan of tourism AD for the Metropolis of the Delta, Greenville<\/p>\n

Photo of opening of Henderson & Baird Hardware, 1963<\/p>\n

Ground Breaking of Boy\u2019s Club, 11\/4\/1980<\/p>\n

\u201cThe Depression is over in the Delta\u201d photo- Sauer Studio, 1935<\/p>\n

4. \u00a0 \u00a0 \u00a0Man standing in front of horses photo<\/p>\n

Photo of mule farming<\/p>\n

Stein Mart Ad<\/p>\n

5. \u00a0 \u00a0 Holcombe Drug Company Calendar, 1916<\/p>\n

The Mississippi Flood Song, 1927<\/p>\n

The 39th<\/sup> Anniversary Edition Greenville Times<\/p>\n

78th<\/sup> Commencement Program, 1969
\nProgram for Graduates, ?
\nNewspaper Clippings of promotions in the First National Bank
\nTable of Reciprocals Book
\nBusiness Education Department , Greenville High School photos, 1966-67
\nScan of photo of Greenville High School of 1936
\nScan of photo of Greenville High School Commencement, 1894
\nScan of class photo, 1918
\nScan of Mrs. Gertrude Kirschner\u2019s Class program
\nScan of Greenville Military Academy Building<\/p>\n

Scan of G.M.A. Commencement Program, 1928<\/p>\n

Scans of Amanda Worthington
\nPaepcke-Leicht Lumber Co., 1905 Scans
\nSeven scans of Greenville during the 1927 flood
\nScanned photo of Grand Lodge members in 1897
\nPhotograph of frozen tree during the 1994 Ice Storm
\nArticle in the Southern journal on Greenville\u2019s Legendary Water
\nPhotograph of a barge on the Mississippi River
\nFlyer from the Greenville Water Ski Tournament, August 24, 1963
\nScanned photograph of mother and son
\nFlyer of Leonard Bernstein
\nPhotographs of cotton harvest at the Hopson Plantation in Clarksdale
\nCompiled Greenville Background (1990s data)
\nGreenville Bluesmen Baseball League information (2000s)
\n1990s Miscellaneous History
\nBrief history, Steamboat stops, River info<\/p>\n

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Odds and Ends items<\/p>\n

Box 1:<\/p>\n

Lantern
\nMusic Scroll in a box
\nPathe News Mississippi Flood Disaster\"film\"<\/a>
\nHootie by Holdom (ceramic owl)
\nMason Jar: Walter Hart, Type A, Carpet Wool Blend
\n\u201cThe story of the Mighty Mississippi\u201d record
\nJoe Hoover\u2019s Mississippi Flood Song book<\/p>\n

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Box 2:<\/p>\n

Fred Neyman Silver Bowl
\nBarq Beverage Company fan
\nC. E. Jordan & Co. Fan
\nRiverside Poster Advertising Co. Ruler
\nLantern<\/p>\n

Box 3:<\/p>\n

Folder:<\/p>\n

1. \u00a0 \u00a0 \u00a0Late 1890s personal notebook<\/p>\n

Farmer\u2019s ledger, 1906<\/p>\n

2. \u00a0 \u00a0 \u00a0Alvin Anderson\u2019s Personal Notebooks<\/p>\n

Chemistry I, 1920<\/p>\n

English, 1909<\/p>\n

3. \u00a0 \u00a0Plate Block thoughts and comments appearing in Lynn\u2019s weekly stamp news<\/p>\n

Fountain Dawson\u2019s Scrapbook, 1980
\nNews clippings of Shelby Foote
\nBook Inn<\/p>\n

News clippings on McCormick Book Inn<\/p>\n

Guest book from the opening 1965<\/p>\n

Walker Percy News clippings
\nNews clippings on Eudora Welty
\nWilla Johnson\u2019s scans and photos
\nQuackenbos Report
\nLiterary Articles
\nScan of the Keatings<\/p>\n

Shelby Foote\u2019s Gone Flyer<\/p>\n

Photo by Ted Shepherd<\/p>\n

Scan of David Cohn<\/p>\n

Neshoba County Fair \u201cRango\u201d box \u2013 book advertisement \"head\"<\/a><\/p>\n

Box 4:<\/p>\n

Folder:<\/p>\n

1. \u00a0 \u00a0 \u00a0 \u00a0Tourism Pamphlets<\/p>\n

2. \u00a0 \u00a0 \u00a0 \u00a0Photographs by Hugh<\/p>\n

Lundy Jefferson DSTC ID card, 1947<\/p>\n

Mississippi State College for Women Commencement Program, 1947<\/p>\n

Photo of Bill and Dot Taggart\u2019s Party<\/p>\n

Photo of Judge William Keady<\/p>\n

Junior Cotillion Invitation List<\/p>\n

3. \u00a0 \u00a0 \u00a0Summer Hollyhocks Cards by Nina Bologna Newton<\/p>\n

William Alexander Percy clipping<\/p>\n

Articles on Bill Lester<\/p>\n

Photo of Ellen Douglas<\/p>\n

Book Cover of \u201cTruth\u201d<\/p>\n

Pamphlet on Shelby Foote\u2019s the Civil War<\/p>\n

Press Photo of Ellen Douglas<\/p>\n

Pieces of History of the Greenville Chapter International Order of King\u2019s Daughters and Son<\/p>\n

Clipping on Willie Morris<\/p>\n

Greenville Indian Banner<\/p>\n

4. \u00a0 \u00a0 \u00a0Personal notebook of Ruth La Fon Stillions, 1941<\/p>\n

Delta Devotional Hours, First Baptist Church Radio Messages
\nFarrar Straus Giroux, Spring\/Sumer 1983
\nGood pastures Leave Overton County Via Steamboat by Ridley Good pasture
\nThe National Society Colonial Dames Mississippi Society Yearbook, 1967-1969
\nAleph-Bet Books
\nYoung Delta, 1972 (3)
\nInscripius, MSU Student Literary Magazine, May 1969
\nUniversity of Mississippi Commencement Day, 1931\u00a0 \"port-city\"<\/a>
\nA History of the Arcola Methodist Church, 1854-1968
\nColorful Moments from Mississippi\u2019s History by Junior Food Stores, INC
\nGreenville Sportsmen Semi-Pro Baseball, 1976
\nReflections 1989
\nWashington County Drainage Bulletin, 1918, 1919, 1920
\n75th<\/sup> Anniversary of First National Bank of Biloxi
\nAnnual Report of Department of Archives and History, 1985-86
\nGreenville Symphony League, Over the Rainbow, 1984
\nMainstream Mississippi, 1981
\nMississippi Business Journal, 2009
\nDelta Business Journal, 2008
\nThe Saturday Evening Post, 1912
\nLife Magazine, February 1937
\nCongressional Digest, February 1928
\nPopular Science Monthly, June 1928
\nMiss Gardener, 1977, 1976
\nThe Journal of the Bolivar County Historical Society, March 1983
\nHistorical Highlights of the United States Army Corps of Engineers
\nRecord\u2019s Digest, September 1870
\nHistory of the Mississippi State Association of the Improved, Benevolent Protective Order of Elks of the World, 1926-1973
\nParchman Prison 1970 Rodeo, October
\nAt Pen Point, Moorhead
\nFour Bank Bags
\nThe Debutante\u2019s Register, 1952-1953<\/p>\n

Clean and Green Award, 2007<\/p>\n

5. \u00a0 \u00a0 Signed Willie Foster\u2019s photograph<\/p>\n

Jazz singers\/Blues singers stamps<\/p>\n

Early Greenville Postcards
\nEarly Greenville Postcards
\nScans of older Greenville
\nScanned photos of 1902 Greenville Buildings (identified)
\n39th<\/sup> Anniversary identified scanned photos of Greenville
\nLife in Greenville, MS scans
\nLake Washington\/ Glen Allen Scans
\n2000s\u2019 publishing\u2019s<\/p>\n

Box: Records and other items<\/p>\n

2 Youth M size t-shirts advertising The Delta Italians by Paul Canonici
\nTwine from Greenville Mills
\n16 bank bags from various Greenville Banks
\nScanned photo of young William Alexander Percy
\nLancelot, a novel by Walker Percy
\nNew York Times Magazine on the Other Carters, 1977
\nRecord: Negro Prison Songs by the Mississippi State Penitentiary
\nRecord: Baby Doll Soundtrack
\nRecord: Johnny Winter Album
\nRecord: Delta Blues Festival \u201979
\nRecord: James \u201cSon\u201d Thomas, Highway 61 Blues
\nRecord: Sonny Boy Nelson, Police Mississippi Blues
\nRecord: James Son Thomas, Gateway to the Delta<\/p>\n

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Box: Garden Club, Local Greenville News, Mississippi, Literary Authors, Artists, Articles, and Advertisements<\/p>\n

Notepad with Mississippi Authors details<\/p>\n

Clipping on Autograph parties at McCormick Book Inn, Josephine Haxton, Bern and Franke Keating
\n\u201cWork on the Book of Greenville\u201d article, 8\/12\/1920
\nArticle on Carrie Levy Moyse, sister of Leopold Levy, 8\/15\/1948
\nBrodie Crump section on George Pearce, Australia, and Barnum Bailey Circus, 1\/21\/1957
\nWeekly Democrat Page, 4\/29\/1920
\nEssay written for Southern Magazine- \u201cMen, Boys, Bourban, and Time\u201d by Beverly \u2026
\nBen Wasson article on poem on W.A. Percy\u2019s Knight, 1\/2\/1977
\nBrodie Crumn\u2019s article on W.A. Percy helping Prize-fighter, 1\/21\/1953
\nPhoto of students studying Percy\u2019s Knight
\nArticle on Percy\u2019s Knight \u201cPatriot,\u201d 1\/15\/1971
\nThe Time has come articles on W.A. Percy and the \u201cPatriot\u201d
\nBen Wasson\u2019s Window of Literary giants, 6\/29\/1969
\nArticles on Malvina Hoffman
\nCritic\u2019s page on Louse Crump\u2019s novel\u00a0Face of Fear, 5\/2\/1954
\nArticle on\u00a0the Tale of the Lunch Lady and the uneaten rolls\u00a0by Robert St. John, 9\/10\/2005
\nHoward Bahr on Lanterns on the Levee
\nArticle about Eudora Welty visiting Greenville, 10\/10\/1948
\nArticles and photos of Matsy Wynn Richards, \u201cYe Olde Barn Studio<\/p>\n

\u00a0 \u00a0<\/i>\u201cThe African King\u201d cards by Kathryn Phillips
\nCooling the South signing by Elli Morris
\nMarian Sykes Alexander\u2019s quote on the Duke of Zardano
\nRuins of Windsor Postcard
\nCard of Robinson: Pleasant History of an Unusual Cat by Walter Anderson
\nArticle on Mamie Foote Ketter book signing, 11\/28\/2003
\nPostcard ad for\u00a0Seasoned to Taste\u00a0by Ginger King Birnbaum
\nPostcard ad for Euphus Ruth\u2019s \u201cFrom Helena to Hollandale\u201d exhibit
\n12 Pamphlets of Mississippi Delta Literary tour
\nPostcard Ad for Bern & Franke Keating Gallery Reception, 10\/6\/2000
\nThe Time has come bookmarks (2), 4\/29\/2010
\n\u201cSomebody stole the cornbread from my dressing\u201d article and postcard
\nU.S. Hwy 82 Mississippi River Bridge fan, 7\/26\/2010
\n3 packets of Mississippi postcards
\nStanton Hall postcard
\n(5) Postcards announcing Ellen Douglas Room at the Eudora Welty Library \"jar\"<\/a><\/p>\n

Newspaper of Walt Grayson signing at McCormick Book Inn, 11\/23\/2010
\nNewspaper of \u201cBread of Life\u201d Cookbook, 6\/17\/1998
\nClipping of Ad announcing Steve Yarborough novel signing
\nAppreciation article on Shelby Foote, voice of the South in Newsweek, 7\/11\/2005
\nThe New York Times Book Review, 7\/29\/2007
\nElmore & Son Photography Ad, 11\/24\/1898
\nArcadia Electric Studio Ad, 11\/9\/1908
\nGish by Bell Studio, 1911
\nJ.C. Coovert Photographer, late 1890s
\nBarner Photo Co. Ad, 11\/6\/1902
\nArticle on Photographer John Ashcraft, Jr. in Leflore Illustrated 2007-2008
\nC. G Bell Photographer Ad (3)
\nWilkerson Drug Co. Ad, 1900
\nFrance Studio Ad., 10\/22\/1930
\nThis is the Most Fascinating Spot on Earth\u00a0book Ad, 9\/21\/1905
\nBradley\u2019s Studio Ad, 12\/22\/1909
\nCarter\u2019s Book Store Ad, 12\/15\/1898
\nDelta Bakery Ad, 10\/27\/1911
\nGreenville Bakery Ad, 1\/22\/1876
\nGoode\u2019s C.O.D Store Ad, 10\/26\/1911
\nSievers Greenville Bakery Ad, 10\/26\/1911
\nArticle on City Sculpture Exhibit in Jackson, 10\/6\/1966
\nObituary for Adrian Blocker, 7\/1\/1966
\nArticles on Abraham Murder, 1966
\nArticles on Bill Beckwith and Leon Koury, sculptures, 1975
\nWashington County Protestant Committee opposed to the Ku Klux Klan
\nSwan Lake Hunting Club Charter and By Laws, 1953
\nGreenville\u2019s Literary Heritage, Levee Press Article
\nGreenville Garden Club, 1956-57
\nLeland Garden Club, 1949-50
\nGarden Gossip, 11\/9\/1935
\nGreenville Garden Club Yearbooks
\nPhi Gamma Delta Catalogue, 1878
\nNotices from the Greenville Times, 1897
\n(6) Clipping on No Compromise attitude of police concerning the demonstration in Greenville
\nHarper\u2019s Weekly, 5\/4\/1861
\nDaily Democrat, 5\/9\/1911, P.O.E. Parade, Juarez attack
\nWalter Johnson visit (First Flight), Weekly Democrat 5\/4\/1911
\nHistory of Greenville\u2019s Bridge, Delta Democrat Times, 9\/15\/1940
\nLake Ferguson Articles
\nRattlesnake Bayou Article, 10\/12\/1958
\nMartin Marble Library articles, 3\/2\/1938-1964
\nKing\u2019s Daughters Hospital articles, 1901-1905
\nArticles on Greenville Local News, 1888-1910
\nScan of Greenville Masonic Temple
\nGreenville Fire Department Earthquake Preparation Instructions
\nPhoto of young girl
\nPrint by Melanie Turbe, 2005
\nWelcome to Oxford, MS Historical Tour Pamphlet
\nPhoto of Bogue
\nDrawing of smallmouth bass
\n2 photos by Workman
\n3 scans of (drawn) Arial shots in Greenville
\nPhoto of Greenway Park Pavilion
\n2 photos of Sanitarium, 1925
\n5 scans of Greenville Buildings postcards
\nWayside House clipping
\nArticle on Holt Collier, 9\/29\/1996
\nScanned photo of Holt Collier
\nScanned photo taken in 1912 Flood
\nScanned photo of Forest Home
\n(4) Believe in Greenville Stickers
\nMississippi School Bulletin Directory, 1951-52
\nMississippi School Bulletin Directory, 1952-53
\n(2) St. Joe Letterman patches
\n(3) Vote Hank Burdine Cards
\nBenjamin Moore Store Photo, 12\/13\/2008
\nProgram for St. Joseph Jr. High\u2019s \u201cMississippi Melody\u201d
\nFirst United Methodist Church Directory and Program book, 2002
\nFirst Baptist Church Yearbook
\nGreenville, MS Telephone Directory, July 1947
\nA Dairy from a Planter\u2019s family in Greenville, MS, 1884-1897<\/p>\n

\"plate\"<\/a><\/p>\n

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