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1922réf. 41198Washington D.C.: Published by the United States Coast and Geodetic Survey 1922. Large folding nautical chart printed on heavy paper stock. Colored. A rare original coastal survey of the border between Mississippi and Alabama including the Mississippi Sound Gulfport Biloxi Pascagoula and a series of barrier islands: Cat Island Ship Island Horn Island Petit Bois Island Dauphin Island and Island Aux Herbes. Established by President Thomas Jefferson in 1807 as the Survey of the Coast the U.S. Coast and Geodetic Survey was the United States' first civilian scientific agency. This agency has followed its mission to survey the U.S. coastline create nautical charts of the coast and help increase maritime safety since its founding and has often played fascinating roles in significant chapters of U.S. history. It served in all theaters of the Civil War in the service of the Union Army and Navy pioneered acoustic exploration in the wake of the sinking of the Titanic and during WWI it worked to detect enemy submarines. In addition this agency worked to survey and produce detailed maps and renderings of the U.S. coast. These nautical survey maps commonly referred to as "T-sheets" provide fascinating insights into the history of the United States coastline which has and will continue to shift. These maps are the most important data source for understanding the physical and ecological characteristics of the U.S. shoreline. The present map is notable for its inclusion of Gulfport Biloxi and Pascagoula as they were gridded in 1922 and Cat Island a barrier island used for an undercover WWII program Dogs for Defense. Cat Island was chosen as the training camp dedicated to a specialized training program based off the untrue belief that dogs could differentiate humans by smell based on their cultural heritage. The top secret program attempted to train dogs to track and attack Japanese soldiers in the Pacific Theater and was held at Cat Island because of its similar terrain to that of the Pacific Islands and its uninhabited status. This operation was unsuccessful due to the incorrect assumption and shut down in 1944. This map is a highly detailed and accurate sea chart of the coastal border between Mississippi and Alabama and an important historical view of the developing states. Published by the United States Coast and Geodetic Survey unknown
1922réf. 41198Washington D.C.: Published by the United States Coast and Geodetic Survey 1922. Large folding nautical chart printed on heavy paper stock. Colored. A rare original coastal survey of the border between Mississippi and Alabama including the Mississippi Sound Gulfport Biloxi Pascagoula and a series of barrier islands: Cat Island Ship Island Horn Island Petit Bois Island Dauphin Island and Island Aux Herbes. Established by President Thomas Jefferson in 1807 as the Survey of the Coast the U.S. Coast and Geodetic Survey was the United States' first civilian scientific agency. This agency has followed its mission to survey the U.S. coastline create nautical charts of the coast and help increase maritime safety since its founding and has often played fascinating roles in significant chapters of U.S. history. It served in all theaters of the Civil War in the service of the Union Army and Navy pioneered acoustic exploration in the wake of the sinking of the Titanic and during WWI it worked to detect enemy submarines. In addition this agency worked to survey and produce detailed maps and renderings of the U.S. coast. These nautical survey maps commonly referred to as "T-sheets" provide fascinating insights into the history of the United States coastline which has and will continue to shift. These maps are the most important data source for understanding the physical and ecological characteristics of the U.S. shoreline. The present map is notable for its inclusion of Gulfport Biloxi and Pascagoula as they were gridded in 1922 and Cat Island a barrier island used for an undercover WWII program Dogs for Defense. Cat Island was chosen as the training camp dedicated to a specialized training program based off the untrue belief that dogs could differentiate humans by smell based on their cultural heritage. The top secret program attempted to train dogs to track and attack Japanese soldiers in the Pacific Theater and was held at Cat Island because of its similar terrain to that of the Pacific Islands and its uninhabited status. This operation was unsuccessful due to the incorrect assumption and shut down in 1944. This map is a highly detailed and accurate sea chart of the coastal border between Mississippi and Alabama and an important historical view of the developing states. Published by the United States Coast and Geodetic Survey unknown books
réf. 3395Columbus Miss.: Headquaters 1895. . Handbill 11 x 5 1/2 inches Two copies only located one at Virginia Historical and one at the University of South Caroline which came from a scrapbook put together by Col. Benjamin Franklin Eshleman 1830-1909 a West Point graduate born in Pennsylvania but moved to Louisiana as a child and fought on the Confederate side during the Civil War. The scrap book was a gift of Jack and Mindy Castles; Mr. Castle's grandfather having married a daughter of Eshleman. This copy has been digitized. The handbill contains a plea to Confederate Veterans to contribute to a fund for a memorial in Richmond: Battle "As well said by Comrade Rouss: "The mementos of the struggle of the South.are scattered broadcast over the country. Should they not be collected and provision be made for their preservation.Then as our ranks are being rapidly thinnned by the Scythe of Time let the comparatively few of us that remain at once take the matter in hand and labor for the realization of the prophetic vision and joyous hope of the patriot orator Senator Daniel of Virginia--in the consummation of a completed Battle Abbey.which would beÊÊAn undying memorial of the people who fought their own battles in their own way for their own liberty as they conceived it for their own independence as they desired it and who need give to the world no other reason why." Signed in print by two ex-Confederate generals Stephen D. Lee and Edward Turner Sykes. Columbus, Miss.: Headquaters, 1895. unknown
réf. 3395Columbus Miss.: Headquaters 1895. . Handbill 11 x 5 1/2 inches Two copies only located one at Virginia Historical and one at the University of South Caroline which came from a scrapbook put together by Col. Benjamin Franklin Eshleman 1830-1909 a West Point graduate born in Pennsylvania but moved to Louisiana as a child and fought on the Confederate side during the Civil War. The scrap book was a gift of Jack and Mindy Castles; Mr. Castle's grandfather having married a daughter of Eshleman. This copy has been digitized. The handbill contains a plea to Confederate Veterans to contribute to a fund for a memorial in Richmond: Battle "As well said by Comrade Rouss: "The mementos of the struggle of the South.are scattered broadcast over the country. Should they not be collected and provision be made for their preservation.Then as our ranks are being rapidly thinnned by the Scythe of Time let the comparatively few of us that remain at once take the matter in hand and labor for the realization of the prophetic vision and joyous hope of the patriot orator Senator Daniel of Virginia--in the consummation of a completed Battle Abbey.which would beÊÊAn undying memorial of the people who fought their own battles in their own way for their own liberty as they conceived it for their own independence as they desired it and who need give to the world no other reason why." Signed in print by two ex-Confederate generals Stephen D. Lee and Edward Turner Sykes. Columbus, Miss.: Headquaters, 1895. unknown books
1856réf. 26203Jackson: E. Barksdale State Printer 1856. Over 200 amendments resolutions and acts ranging from marriage licenses to town charters. Bound in is an unrecorded broadside advocating the "American Ticket" of E.M. Yerger for governor and a ticket of other offices. Printed on blue ruled paper this evidently relates to the election of 1856. It is bound after page 34 of the text. Original marbled boards and sheep corners rebacked in modern cloth. Good. hardcover
1856réf. 26203Jackson: E. Barksdale State Printer 1856. Over 200 amendments resolutions and acts ranging from marriage licenses to town charters. Bound in is an unrecorded broadside advocating the "American Ticket" of E.M. Yerger for governor and a ticket of other offices. Printed on blue ruled paper this evidently relates to the election of 1856. It is bound after page 34 of the text. Original marbled boards and sheep corners rebacked in modern cloth. Good. hardcover books
1913réf. 845701913. Escaped from the Small Pox Detention Camp" Broadside. Criminals. Mississippi. $150 Reward. Escaped from the Small Pox Detention Camp At Jackson Mississippi On the Night of March the 20th 1913. Jackson MS 1913. 9-1/2" x 8" 24.13 x 20.32 cm broadside text below headline. Light browning inkstamps of San Francisco Police Department dated March 27 1913 and three marks in blue pencil. A well-preserved item. $350. Signed in type by E.S. Middleton Sheriff of Hinds County Mississippi i.e. Ellis Scattergood Middleton Jr. 1863-1931. The escaped men both white are Lowrey Chandler charged with murder and Paul Gilmore charged with horse stealing. The rewards are $100.00 for Chandler and $50.00 for Gilmore. The description notes: "These men were suffering from an attack of small pox and their faces were still scabby when they made their escape." The San Francisco Police Department stamps show that Middleton cast a wide net for these men. unknown
1913réf. 845701913. Escaped from the Small Pox Detention Camp" Broadside. Criminals. Mississippi. $150 Reward. Escaped from the Small Pox Detention Camp At Jackson Mississippi On the Night of March the 20th 1913. Jackson MS 1913. 9-1/2" x 8" 24.13 x 20.32 cm broadside text below headline. Light browning inkstamps of San Francisco Police Department dated March 27 1913 and three marks in blue pencil. A well-preserved item. $350. Signed in type by E.S. Middleton Sheriff of Hinds County Mississippi i.e. Ellis Scattergood Middleton Jr. 1863-1931. The escaped men both white are Lowrey Chandler charged with murder and Paul Gilmore charged with horse stealing. The rewards are $100.00 for Chandler and $50.00 for Gilmore. The description notes: "These men were suffering from an attack of small pox and their faces were still scabby when they made their escape." The San Francisco Police Department stamps show that Middleton cast a wide net for these men. unknown books
réf. 15-8430New York: Newport News And Mississippi Valley Company 1890. Folded Sheet. 39.5 x 29 cm. Near Fine. Stock certificate issued to C. Weidenfeld signed by C.P. Huntington & others for capital stock in the Newport News and Mississippi Valley Company dated August 11 1890. New York: Newport News And Mississippi Valley Company, 1890. unknown
1860réf. 827031860. A Compilation of Mississippi Session Laws Including A Response to an Enslavement Petition from a Free Woman of Color Mississippi. Laws of the State of Mississippi Passed at a Regular Session of the Mississippi Legislature Held in the City of Jackson November 1859. Jackson: E. Barksdale State Printer 1860. 608 pp. Octavo 8" x 5". Later three-quarter sheep over marbled boards lettering piece and black leather label to spine Washington State Law Library label to foot of spine endleaves renewed. Light rubbing ink library stamps to front board and bottom-edge of text block front joint starting at ends rear joint cracked corners lightly bumped and worn. Light toning to interior occasional light foxing trimming to fore-edge just touching text or side-notes on a few pages without loss to legibility. $350. Official printing of laws passed by the Mississippi state legislature in 1859. The compilation includes the Mississippi state constitution as ratified in 1832 and a detailed table of contents and index. The amendments resolutions and acts in the volume deal with a number of interesting topics such as Native Americans and slavery. Also included is "An act for the benefit of Ann Mataw a free woman of color." This act responded to a petition which stated that Mataw preferred "a residence as a slave in this state where she was born to a residence in a non-slaveholding state" and believed "that slavery with a humane owner is preferable to freedom in a free state.in view of the certainty that the legislation of the State if not at the present session will soon be such as to coerce all free persons of color to leave it" Mataw. This is reflected in the text of the act which states that Mataw's "absolute slavery" would "protect the said Ann from the penalties of the present or any future statute of the State in reference to free negroes and mulattoes" 353. Petitions for self-enslavement were rare. They enabled the petitioner to choose their owner and were often pursued in light of the harsh rules that governed the lives of free people of color in Southern states. Elizabeth G. Purdom Mataw's chosen owner was the wife of a circuit court clerk. In the census of 1860 she is listed as the owner of three slaves including Mataw; it is possible that Mataw had familial or community ties to the other people. unknown
1838réf. 25609Jackson Mi.: B.D. Howard State Printer 1838. Later plain wrappers light spine wear stitched. viii 1 blank 9-368pp. Some tan and fox Good. These early Mississippi laws treat a variety of subjects including banking incorporation police courts internal improvements voluntary associations state and local government. One law relieves Henry Foote later a U.S. Senator from Mississippi from the penalties incurred for dueling; those penalties would have barred him from holding public office. AI 51717 5. B.D. Howard, State Printer unknown
1836réf. 25610Jackson Mi.: G.R. & J.S. Fall State Printers 1836. Contemporary plain wrappers worn stitched. viii 9-440pp. Early and late leaves foxed tanned. Else light scattered foxing. Good. These early Mississippi laws treat a variety of subjects including banking incorporation police courts internal improvements voluntary associations state and local government. One Resolve urges the non-slaveholding States to prevent abolitionists "from associating plotting or conspiring to undermine disturb or abolish our institution of domestic slavery." A detailed Index is included. AI 39009 5. G.R. & J.S. Fall, State Printers unknown
1860réf. 827031860. A Compilation of Mississippi Session Laws Including A Response to an Enslavement Petition from a Free Woman of Color Mississippi. Laws of the State of Mississippi Passed at a Regular Session of the Mississippi Legislature Held in the City of Jackson November 1859. Jackson: E. Barksdale State Printer 1860. 608 pp. Octavo 8" x 5". Later three-quarter sheep over marbled boards lettering piece and black leather label to spine Washington State Law Library label to foot of spine endleaves renewed. Light rubbing ink library stamps to front board and bottom-edge of text block front joint starting at ends rear joint cracked corners lightly bumped and worn. Light toning to interior occasional light foxing trimming to fore-edge just touching text or side-notes on a few pages without loss to legibility. $350. Official printing of laws passed by the Mississippi state legislature in 1859. The compilation includes the Mississippi state constitution as ratified in 1832 and a detailed table of contents and index. The amendments resolutions and acts in the volume deal with a number of interesting topics such as Native Americans and slavery. Also included is "An act for the benefit of Ann Mataw a free woman of color." This act responded to a petition which stated that Mataw preferred "a residence as a slave in this state where she was born to a residence in a non-slaveholding state" and believed "that slavery with a humane owner is preferable to freedom in a free state.in view of the certainty that the legislation of the State if not at the present session will soon be such as to coerce all free persons of color to leave it" Mataw. This is reflected in the text of the act which states that Mataw's "absolute slavery" would "protect the said Ann from the penalties of the present or any future statute of the State in reference to free negroes and mulattoes" 353. Petitions for self-enslavement were rare. They enabled the petitioner to choose their owner and were often pursued in light of the harsh rules that governed the lives of free people of color in Southern states. Elizabeth G. Purdom Mataw's chosen owner was the wife of a circuit court clerk. In the census of 1860 she is listed as the owner of three slaves including Mataw; it is possible that Mataw had familial or community ties to the other people. unknown books
1838réf. 25609Jackson Mi.: B.D. Howard State Printer 1838. Later plain wrappers light spine wear stitched. viii 1 blank 9-368pp. Some tan and fox Good. These early Mississippi laws treat a variety of subjects including banking incorporation police courts internal improvements voluntary associations state and local government. One law relieves Henry Foote later a U.S. Senator from Mississippi from the penalties incurred for dueling; those penalties would have barred him from holding public office. AI 51717 5. B.D. Howard, State Printer unknown books
1836réf. 25610Jackson Mi.: G.R. & J.S. Fall State Printers 1836. Contemporary plain wrappers worn stitched. viii 9-440pp. Early and late leaves foxed tanned. Else light scattered foxing. Good. These early Mississippi laws treat a variety of subjects including banking incorporation police courts internal improvements voluntary associations state and local government. One Resolve urges the non-slaveholding States to prevent abolitionists "from associating plotting or conspiring to undermine disturb or abolish our institution of domestic slavery." A detailed Index is included. AI 39009 5. G.R. & J.S. Fall, State Printers unknown books
réf. 3190Jackson Miss.: Clarion Book and Job Printing 1869. . 8vo disbound gutter showing evidence of previous pamphlet binding Two copies in OCLC: Harvard Law and the University of Mississippi. Wiley Pope Harris 1818 -1891 was a U.S. Representative from Mississippi. He attended the University of Virginia and graduated from the Law Department of Transylvania College Lexington Kentucky in 1840. Harris was elected as a Democrat to the Thirty-third Congress March 4 1853-March 3 1855. He declined renomination in 1854 and consequently resumed his law practice in Jackson Jackson, Miss.: Clarion Book and Job Printing, 1869. unknown
réf. 3190Jackson Miss.: Clarion Book and Job Printing 1869. . 8vo disbound gutter showing evidence of previous pamphlet binding Two copies in OCLC: Harvard Law and the University of Mississippi. Wiley Pope Harris 1818 -1891 was a U.S. Representative from Mississippi. He attended the University of Virginia and graduated from the Law Department of Transylvania College Lexington Kentucky in 1840. Harris was elected as a Democrat to the Thirty-third Congress March 4 1853-March 3 1855. He declined renomination in 1854 and consequently resumed his law practice in Jackson Jackson, Miss.: Clarion Book and Job Printing, 1869. unknown books
2003réf. 1-0974320102Mississippi State Univ Fndtn 2003. Hardcover. New. 144 pages. 12.50x9.50x1.00 inches. Mississippi State Univ Fndtn hardcover
1900réf. 177661900. Early African American PHOTOGRAPHY -- RELIGION. silver gelatin photograph of a river baptism featuring a large group of African American subjects. Mississippi ca early 1900s. Photograph size is 2 1/4 x 2 1/4 in. Original silver gelatin photograph on cardstock mount .A young African American man wearing a hat and suit stands with his back to the camera we see in the foreground on the riverbank a group of African American subjects in light clothing close to the water's edge. A large ship is just visible beyond the dock in the background. Pencil inscription on verso reads "Miss- Colored Baptizing." 9Not: Historical records are evidence of the time in which they were created and often contain language are racist or derogatory and insensitive. This content does not reflect our values. These type of baptism on the banks of the Mississippi River were a public ceremony that attracted many converts in the South to the Delta region. Predominately African American Baptists performed their sacred ritual of outdoor baptisms on the Mississippi River until well into the 20th century in this Baptist-heavy state. Immersion baptisms typically took place in rivers or other natural bodies of water and summer and fall were the natural seasons for these congregational events. This rare photo captures a religious practice that has been integral to African-American Baptists for centuries. Photo has some toning surface soiling spotting and very small tear to right edge. But is still clear and in good to very good condition. unknown
1900réf. 177661900. Early African American PHOTOGRAPHY -- RELIGION. silver gelatin photograph of a river baptism featuring a large group of African American subjects. Mississippi ca early 1900s. Photograph size is 2 1/4 x 2 1/4 in. Original silver gelatin photograph on cardstock mount .A young African American man wearing a hat and suit stands with his back to the camera we see in the foreground on the riverbank a group of African American subjects in light clothing close to the water's edge. A large ship is just visible beyond the dock in the background. Pencil inscription on verso reads "Miss- Colored Baptizing." 9Not: Historical records are evidence of the time in which they were created and often contain language are racist or derogatory and insensitive. This content does not reflect our values. These type of baptism on the banks of the Mississippi River were a public ceremony that attracted many converts in the South to the Delta region. Predominately African American Baptists performed their sacred ritual of outdoor baptisms on the Mississippi River until well into the 20th century in this Baptist-heavy state. Immersion baptisms typically took place in rivers or other natural bodies of water and summer and fall were the natural seasons for these congregational events. This rare photo captures a religious practice that has been integral to African-American Baptists for centuries. Photo has some toning surface soiling spotting and very small tear to right edge. But is still clear and in good to very good condition. unknown books
In-8°; pp. 65, Due piccoli timbri a inchiostro al frontespizio. Resoconto delle attività delle missioni cattoliche in america del nord sotto il vescovo Du Bourg, la cui diocesi includeva l’Ohio, Mississippi, e le valli del Missouri. Du Bourg arrivò a Baltimora nel 1817 con un gruppo di preti e monache, e da lì viaggiò fino a Saint Louis. In quest’opera si riportano le attività svolte principalmente con gli Indiani. SABIN 55987
1930réf. 64659New York NY: Century Co. 1930. 8vo. x 2 321 1 pp. Photo frontisp. numerous photo plates. Dark blue publisher’s cloth small colour illustration of Shanty-Boat “Ark” mounted on front cover gilt lettering front cover & spine w/ d.j. cover art illustration by Charles Reed Gardner 1901-1974 of the “Ark” and Mississippi River boat minor chipping head of spine a couple closed tears some edgwear still VG/VG- copy w/ former ownership markings on endpapers. First edition of this scarce entertaining and insightful account of a 1930 shanty-boat trip down the Mississippi by two journalists for over 1675 miles from St. Paul MN to New Orleans LA despite experienced Mississippi River men laying bets on how far the craft would get before wrecking on the River. They traveled for four months gliding past countless towns tumbling into ruin stayed in lonely bayous and former steamboat landings met hermits escaped convicts show-boat actors old logging captains moonshiners and others along the River. Issued on the eve of the Great Depression and the subsequent New Deal this was one of the last memoirs of traveling the river before locks and dams constrained and changed the flow of the river. Rare in original dustjacket. Century Co., hardcover
1861réf. 31893Jackson Ms.: E. Barksdale 1861. The laws of Mississippi passed at a special session at the beginning of the Civil War ending in September 1861. Laws treat the incorporation of military training at the state university the administration of funds from the sale of runaway slaves and responses to sundry petitions for relief. Scarce. Contemporary plain wrappers. Minor creasing of rear wrapper. Old institutional stamp on upper inner corner of front wrapper. Moderate foxing. Very good. PARRISH & WILLINGHAM 3292. OCLC 5869036. unknown
1864réf. 53487Selma AL. 1864. Civil War Laws Civil War–era state laws passed by the Mississippi legislature. The two parts of the session were held before and after the Vicksburg campaign during which Jackson fell to the Union and necessitated a change in venue. The ongoing war in the state also suggests a likely cause for these acts to have been printed in Alabama. 20th-century buckram spine gilt lettered. Light wear to cloth. Foxing and tanning. Good. PARRISH & WILLINGHAM 3294. hardcover
1861réf. 31893Jackson Ms.: E. Barksdale 1861. The laws of Mississippi passed at a special session at the beginning of the Civil War ending in September 1861. Laws treat the incorporation of military training at the state university the administration of funds from the sale of runaway slaves and responses to sundry petitions for relief. Scarce. Contemporary plain wrappers. Minor creasing of rear wrapper. Old institutional stamp on upper inner corner of front wrapper. Moderate foxing. Very good. PARRISH & WILLINGHAM 3292. OCLC 5869036. unknown books
