2011 Annual Report

Mississippi Department of Archives and History The 2011 Legislature provided initial funding for a new Mississippi Civil Rights Museum and the Museum of Mississippi History, which was being planned by MDAH. I want to thank the governor and the legislature for working together to provide $38 million in bond funding for these projects. After the bill’s passage, work began immediately to adapt designs for the history museum and begin planning the civil rights museum. Architect and exhibit design firms were hired to begin work on the museums, which will share classroom, auditorium, and other spaces. The two museums, in conjunction with the William F. Winter Archives and History Building and the Old Capitol Museum, will form a state history center and gateway for heritage tourism sites across Mississippi. Follow progress on the two museums at 2mississippimuseums.com.

In Fiscal Year 2011, the department continued to build its online collections and services, offered outreach programs that reached thousands, and championed historic resources around the state. Our staff works hard every day to assist citizens on local historical efforts, administer grants which fund preservation work across Mississippi, and provide public access to archival materials, artifacts, and historic sites. I would like to thank our volunteers and local partners for their invaluable service. In these difficult fiscal times, we could not accomplish our mission without them.

-H.T. Holmes Director, Mississippi Department of Archives and History DIRECTOR’S NOTE DIRECTOR’S

Page 2 Department of Archives and History 2011 Annual Report Museum of Mississippi History and Museum of Mississippi History Mississippi Civil Rights Museum Funded The state history museum’s collection dates The Department of Archives and History will over- back to artifacts acquired in the early days of the see construction of the Mississippi Civil Rights Mu- 109-year-old Mississippi Department of Archives seum and the Museum of Mississippi History, with and History. Small but popular exhibits in the state the goal of opening both in 2017 as centerpieces capitol rotunda featured military artifacts, fossilized of the state’s bicentennial celebration. The 2011 bones, and even a ceremonial Polynesian head- Legislature and Governor Haley Barbour worked dress. Over the decades the collection continued to together to provide $38 million in bond funding for grow and focus more on materials directly related the projects. to the state’s history. MDAH now has the world’s finest collection of Mississippi artifacts, including a The Museum of Mississippi History will tell the rare 1818 twenty-star U.S. flag, an original Bowie

story of the state from prehistory through the cur- knife, slave-made quilts, and prehistoric Native MDAH NEWS rent day. The civil rights museum will focus on the American artifacts. struggle for equal rights and fair treatment under the law. The Mississippi Civil Rights Museum will be In 1961 the state history museum opened in the the nation’s first state-sponsored civil rights mu- renovated Old Capitol in downtown Jackson. seum. While that site provided a grand setting, ongoing maintenance issues and limitations of a historic In his State of the State address in January, Gover- structure convinced the that nor Barbour recommended joining the Museum of a new building should be constructed for the state Mississippi Histo- history museum. ry being planned The Old Capitol by MDAH with could then be the proposed fully restored civil rights mu- and opened seum, allowing as a museum cost savings interpreting the through shared history of that collection stor- building, which age areas, artifact served as the seat conservation of Mississippi’s labs, classroom government from and auditorium 1839 until 1903. space, parking garage, store, and In 1998 the Leg- other features. The islature authorized department was given oversight of the civil rights the department to begin planning a new Museum of museum with House Bill 1463, which also provided Mississippi History. ECD—a consortium composed funding to construct the two museums and estab- of Eley Associates/Architects; Cook Douglas Farr lished their location in downtown Jackson on the Lemons, Ltd. Architects and Engineers; and Dale and same block as the William F. Winter Archives and Associates Architects—was selected to design the History Building. Total cost of the two museums new Museum of Mississippi History building, which is expected to top $70 million, with a significant would be built on the north end of the block where amount of the funding for exhibits coming from the William F. Winter Archives and History Building private sources. was then under construction.

Although the projects are in different stages of Funding priorities changed suddenly in August 2005 development, plans are moving forward to design when roared across the state, the buildings, gather artifacts, develop exhibits, and tearing the copper roof off the Old Capitol and construct the museums and museum complex. driving rainwater into the historic building. The damage forced the museum’s immediate closing, and all staff and the entire collection had to be

Page 3 Department of Archives and History 2011 Annual Report moved out of the building. The Legislature appropri- returned to Mississippi to commemorate that ated funds to restore the Old Capitol Museum, and anniversary in May of 2011. MDAH took part in the department completed that project in 2009. the celebration through the Freedom Riders Digital But with the state and nation experiencing a severe Collaborative, the special exhibit “The Freedom recession, funding for construction of the new state Rides: Journey for Change,” and the recording history museum was not forthcoming until 2011. project “Speak Now: Memories of the Civil Rights Era.” Rare U.S. Flag To Be Conserved

The Foundation for Mississippi History is raising funds to preserve a historic United States flag that marked Mississippi’s entrance into the nation. The flag flew over the young country only in 1818, the year after Mississippi became the twentieth state. The conservation of this rare Twenty-Star Flag, one of only a few known to exist, has been adopted by the Mississippi Bicentennial Celebration Commis- sion as an official project for the state’s 2017 com- memorations. Freedom Riders 50th Reunion The large flag’s many holes and frayed edges re- quire immediate attention. Though the red and blue colors remain vibrant, the fragile gauze fabric The Freedom Riders Digital Collaborative was a is delicate to the touch, and the hand-sewn white partnership between the Margaret Walker Center stars have discolored over time. The historic flag at , , and was discovered in an antique shop in Massachu- MDAH. Freedom Riders returning for the com- setts and acquired by MDAH in 2001. The flag was memoration brought letters, diaries, photographs, originally owned by a Captain Weston of Marshfield, and other materials related to Mississippi civil rights Massachusetts, and flew on one of his ships. Textile activities. With the help of JSU graduate students, Preservation Associates, flag conservation special- the Collaborative scanned these materials to ists in West , will conserve the flag. preserve and make them available. Following the anniversary celebration, Freedom Riders and other The flag is civil rights activists have corresponded with cura- the tors at each of the three archival institutions about official additional materials and possible donations. symbol of the An opening reception for “The Freedom Rides: Bicenten- Journey for Change” was held in honor of the nial Freedom Riders on Thursday, May 26, in the William Commis- F. Winter Archives and History Building. The exhibit,

MDAH NEWS MDAH sion. Once it has been restored, the banner will which ran from May 16 to October 28, 2011, fea- travel the state in anticipation of Mississippi’s tures rarely seen civil rights era newsfilm footage, bicentennial celebration and the opening of the new a chess set made from bread and used by Free- Museum of Mississippi History, where it will be on dom Riders at Parchman, photographs, and other permanent display. For now the flag remains in artifacts from the Museum of Mississippi History’s storage until restoration can begin. The estimated collection. cost to preserve and exhibit the flag is $50,000. The program “Speak Now: Memories of the Civil MDAH Hosts Freedom Riders 50th Rights Era” invited the public to share their expe- Reunion Activities riences of the Freedom Rides and the civil rights era. Over twenty recordings have been made from Fifty years after the Freedom Rides successfully participants, who included Freedom Riders, school challenged the segregation of bus and train service administrators, teachers, retired military, high school in the South, many of the original Freedom Riders and college students, a journalist, and a nun.

Page 4 Department of Archives and History 2011 Annual Report AmeriCorps Team Works Onsite, with Indexing of the Enumeration of Educable Children, Collection scanned onsite by GSU volunteers in 2009 and 2010, is nearing completion. The Enumeration of A team of AmeriCorps National Civilian Commu- Educable Children was a state census begun in the nity Corps workers spent five days in January 2011 nineteenth century to document the number of making improvements to the grounds of the Eudora children ages five to eighteen in various counties in Welty House and helping department archaeolo- order to allocate state funds, which supplemented gists save artifact collections from Adams, Benton, county collected taxes. These records are a valuable Bolivar, and Carroll counties. research tool for people conducting family history research on Mississippi ancestors and will also be Their first three days were spent battling bamboo, made available online. spreading gravel for a new driveway, and construct- ing a compost bin at the House. Wel- Volunteer Services Program Centralized ty garden restoration consultant Susan Haltom met VOLUNTEERS with the team before they began work to discuss The MDAH Volunteer Program was centralized in the garden’s importance. The driveway connects the fall 2010 in order to better serve the volunteer garden to the street, providing much needed access needs of the department. Staff determined there for hauling debris and bringing in plants and mulch. were 247 individual volunteers and 240 persons who served in volunteer groups. Since then, dozens When rain prevented the team from working more have been recruited, increasing in the garden they moved to the Charlotte our goal of adding diversity to Capers Building, where they worked on the the volunteer staff and department’s archaeology collection, engaging people of all removing artifacts ranging ages. Volunteers serve in from projectile all five divisions of the points to Civil department. War bullets from their Several MDAH deteriorated employees have paper bags and conducted repackaging them. workshops and tours exclusively Government for volunteers Records as a “thank Scanning Project you” and the Continues Foundation for Mississippi Volunteers from History has the Family Search/ been supportive Genealogical Society of by funding the annual Utah completed nearly volunteer luncheon. MDAH volunteers 75,000 scans during May Americorps Team helping with improvementsalso received to grounds an Award of Welty of House Merit from the and June 2011. Collections such Mississippi Historical Society. as territorial and state census returns, 1801-1880; territorial and county tax rolls, 1818- 1902; miscellaneous land office records, 1809- 1870; and rosters of military veterans, military grave registrations, and registration of military commissions, 1837-1951, are among those records that were digitized. After indexing has been completed by Family Search/Genealogical Society of Utah, the records will be made available online through the MDAH Digital Archives.

Page 5 Department of Archives and History 2011 Annual Report MDAH Native American Collection thought to have been lost in a warehouse fire more Receives Grant than sixty years ago. It was recently discovered at the Museum of Man at State University MDAH has been awarded a federal grant of more and returned to MDAH. than $75,000 to help catalog the agency’s collection of Native American artifacts and begin the process Carrie V. Wilson will serve as consultant during the of returning items from the collection to the ap- grant period. Wilson will conduct training work- propriate tribes. The grant will help the department shops, work on planning for the on-site consulta- catalog the Moreau B.C. Chambers Collection, long tion visits with the tribes, review the draft interim thought to have been lost in a fire but recently reports and associated materials, and critique the returned to MDAH final report and its associated deliverables.

The grant comes through the Native American Depot, Boxcar Restoration Project Graves Protection and Repatriation Act (NAGPRA) Nearly Complete program. The act is a federal law passed in 1990 that provides a process for museums and federal A multi-year restoration project of the historic agencies to return certain Native American cultural GM&O Depot was completed in fall 2011. After items—human remains, funerary objects, sacred serving as the headquarters for the department’s objects, or objects of cultural patrimony—to lineal Historic Preservation Division from 1984 to 2006, descendants and culturally affiliated Indian tribes. the depot has become the new home of the MDAH Museum Division, as well as the Mississippi Heritage When rain prevented the team from working in Trust. the garden they moved to the Charlotte Capers Building, where they worked on the department’s The Museum Division has occupied temporary of- archaeology collection, removing artifacts ranging fice space beside the new farmer’s market on High from projectile points to Civil War bullets from Street since 2005, when damage from Hurricane their deteriorated paper bags and repackaging Katrina forced them out of the Old Capitol Muse- them.The $77,462 grant will be used to train staff um. The GM&O Depot sits between the Charlotte on NAGPRA procedures, hold on-site meetings Capers Archives and History Building and the Naval with Indian tribes that are culturally affiliated with Reserve Building. It was constructed for the New the state, and catalog and digitize MDAH’s archaeo- logical collection, beginning with the Chambers collection.

Some of the department’s catalog information can only be found in written hardbound ledgers. The GRANTS newly cataloged collection will give the depart- ment a state-of-the-art computerized inventory in a digital management system. With the new system, MDAH will eventually have the capability for tribes to access the collection via the Web.

The department is the official repository for the French Merci boxcar being moved for restoration state’s Native American collection, most of which dates to times before Europeans came to the Americas. Of the more than 1,700 items in the Na- Orleans Great Northern Railroad in 1927 and par- tive American collection, more than 225 are human tially remodeled along Art Moderne lines in 1939. skeletal remains. The uncataloged Chambers collec- tion consists of more than 6,000 items. The depot provided passenger rail service until 1954 but was abandoned in 1972. The state ac- During the 1930s, MDAH archaeologist Moreau quired the building, changing the interior to the B.C. Chambers collected a large pre-contact and point it was no longer recognizable as a depot be- proto-historic collection from Native American cause of the walls that were added to create offices. sites throughout Mississippi. The collection was This restoration has returned much of the interior

Page 6 Department of Archives and History 2011 Annual Report to its original layout. display in the new Museum of Mississippi History.

As part of the project, the French Merci boxcar was The timeline was begun in 2008 with a grant from moved from its platform behind the War Memorial the Mississippi Humanities Council and turned over Building and will be restored. The historic wooden to MDAH for completion in 2010. MDAH staff from train car was given in gratitude to Mississippi by all divisions researched additional information about France following World War II. The ten-ton boxcar the eight eras and related images. Their expertise was raised using a lift and carefully transported on netted more than 1,500 images and artifacts and a flat-bed trailer around the block and to the depot. 1,600 entries for the timeline. New entries and im- A full restoration of the boxcar, also known as a ages will be added on a regular basis. As the time- 40 and 8 car because it would accommodate forty line grows, links to related museums, attractions, men or eight mules, has begun. and other resources around the state will also be included, connecting the past to the present. See it The Depot restoration project, which was funded at www.mdah.state.ms.us/timeline. through the Community Heritage Preservation grant program, will not only provide much-needed Tougaloo Collection Receives $200K operations space for staff, it will allow for the Grant boxcar and depot to be interpreted together, showcasing both as a significant part of Mississippi’s A National Park Service grant will make possible GRANTS rail history. Once the historic wooden boxcar is re- the conservation of the unprocessed portions of stored, a canopy will be built to protect it from the the Tougaloo College Civil Rights Collection. The elements. Forty of the objects from the Merci train $213,564 Save America’s Treasures grant will be are still in the department’s permanent collection used to conserve, maintain, and provide wider ac- for display in the planned Museum of Mississippi cess to the collection. History. Of the thirty-eight sub-collections in the Tougaloo Collection, thirty have been conserved and made Mississippi History Timeline Launched available for researchers. The grant will allow for the cleaning, organization, and description of the MDAH added a new online resource, the Mississippi remaining eight sub-collections. History Timeline, to tell Mississippi’s story from prehistoric times to the present day. Designed for The Tougaloo College Civil Rights Collection, people of all ages with an interest in history, the containing photographs, personal papers, oral Web site divides the state’s 12,000-year history into histories, and other memorabilia, began in 1973 eight eras that focus on in the basement of major occurrences that the Coleman Library changed the way people at Tougaloo College, live in Mississippi. which served as a safe haven for activists People, places, and in the civil rights events are brought to movement. Over the life with photographs, years as the collection artifacts, audiovisual grew so did the need materials, and oral for specialized storage, histories from the and by 1995 the department’s collections. collection was moved Items ranging from to a specially renovated the Twenty-Star flag section of the library. marking Mississippi’s A leak in the ceiling entrance into statehood Mississippi History Timeline later resulted in water on December 10, damage to most of the 1817, to Captain T. Otis collections. Baker’s Civil War uniform, to a Student Nonviolent Coordinating Committee political button illustrate In 2004 Tougaloo College and MDAH entered the march of time. Many of these artifacts will be on into a collaborative partnership to preserve the

Page 7 Department of Archives and History 2011 Annual Report collection, which is now housed in the William F. Craftsmen’s Guild demonstrate and exhibit their Winter Archives and History Building in downtown wares. Musicians, including the Jim Hill and Hinds Jackson, where it is being conserved and made Community College Choirs, entertained visitors available to the public. during the event.

Welty Fellow in Residence in Jackson Representatives from the Secretary of State’s office were on hand to register voters. CARA The first Eudora Welty Research Fellowship was brought pets for adoption, and the Department of awarded to New Albany native and State Environmental Quality provided tips for recycling. In University doctoral candidate Elizabeth Crews. keeping with the long tradition of fire engines being Established by the Eudora Welty Foundation displayed on the Capitol Green, the Jackson Fire and MDAH, the fellowship seeks to encourage Department had a truck onsite. and support research use of the Eudora Welty Collection by graduate students. Crews used the The Capitol Green has been a gathering place for fellowship to continue research for her dissertation, Mississippians for the past 180 years. It is the only which examines the role of home in Welty’s novels remaining green space from the original city plan Delta Wedding and The Optimist’s Daughter. designed and implemented by Peter Van Dorn in 1822. Supporting ongoing and high quality research is part of the Eudora Welty Foundation’s mission. Founded Renovated House on Civil War in 1999, the Welty Foundation works with MDAH Battlefield Dedicated in Hinds County in achieving its goals of celebrating the legacy of Eudora Welty, enhancing appreciation of her work, MDAH held a dedication ceremony for the and encouraging reading and the efforts of young renovated Coker House and its newly installed writers. interpretive markers on May 16, 2011, on the Champion Hill battlefield in central Hinds County. Second Annual Gathering on the Green a Success Located on the southern portion of the battlefield, the Coker House is one of the state’s most The grounds of the Old Capitol Museum came significant structures associated with the Civil to life with a celebration of art, music, food, and War. The House received fire from both Federal citizenship. The Second Annual Gathering on the and Confederate artillery during the May 16, Green was held on Saturday, April 9, 2011, and 1863 conflict, and served as a field hospital. The featured groups day’s battle was a and organizations decisive moment in the Vicksburg Campaign, GRANTS from around the capital city. Six which resulted in the fall hundred people of Vicksburg to Union attended the general Ulysses S. Grant. event. With the dedication of Old–fashioned the Coker House, the children’s games department’s Mississippi were organized Civil War Trails project on the green, and is nearing completion. the Children’s The $6.2 million project Museum, was initiated in 1999 Mississippi to preserve, interpret, Museum of Art, Gathering on the Green at Old Capitol Museum and promote Civil Jackson , and War sites in the state. Agricultural Museum provided activities for families. The completion of the project coincides with the Civil War Sesquicentennial which will be observed The state’s traditional arts were on display through 2014. throughout the day as members of the Mississippi

Page 8 Department of Archives and History 2011 Annual Report Restoration and interpretation was made possible Welty Photo Exhibit Opens at Education with the contributions of Fred Adams; Cal- and Visitors Center Foods, Inc.; and the Jackson Civil War Roundtable. The project was funded, in part, by a grant from the Before becoming known as an author, Eudora Welty Battlefield Preservation Fund of the National Trust briefly considered a career as a photographer. Even for Historic Preservation and funding from the after she began to win awards for her writing, she State of Mississippi. continued to travel with her camera, taking pictures through Mississippi and on trips across the country. Historic Records Survey Enters Second Featuring eight images from City and Phase two from Mississippi during the , “Welty Snapshots: At Home and Away” hung from Following last year’s successful inventory of the September 14, 2010 to January 17, 2011, at the historic records from the state’s oldest counties, Eudora Welty House Education and Visitor Center. work has begun in the counties that were created between 1818 and 1833. As part of the County Welty’s photographs of Mississippians often Records Inventory project, MDAH will assess the portray struggling but resilient people during types of records held in each of the twenty-nine the Depression. By contrast, many of the New counties, as well as their current physical condition. York shots are of faceless crowds and emphasize

The information gathered can be used by the the scope of the dire economic times. In her GRANTS county to improve future access to the information introduction to her book Photographs, Welty writes and better protect the original records. that “recording the mass of them did constitute a plea on their behalf to the public, their existing The counties that are being visited during this plight being so evident in the mass.” second phase are Attala, Carroll, , Clarke, Copiah, Covington, Hinds, Holmes, Jasper, Jones, The large, black-and-white prints were made from Kemper, Lauderdale, Leake, Lowndes, Madison, Welty’s original negatives for the exhibit “Eudora Monroe, Neshoba, Noxubee, Oktibbeha, Perry, Welty in New York: Photographs of the Early Rankin, Scott, Simpson, Smith, Tallahatchie, 1930s,” which opened at the Museum of the City Washington, Winston, Yazoo, and Yalobusha. of New York in November 2008. Nearly 1,100 of Welty’s photographs from the early 1930s to 1950 At the conclusion of the Territorial Records survive at MDAH. Inventory Project in summer 2011 each county received a report that included a brief history of “Welty Snapshots: At Home and Away” was made the county, a listing of all records held, analysis possible through the support of the Eudora Welty of records storage and condition, and staff Foundation. recommendations. Half-day workshops on records management for county officials and staff were Civil Rights Sites Grant Program Funded held July 22 at the William F. Winter Archives and History Building in Jackson and August 26 in A new grant program will distribute more than Meridian. $2 million to projects across the state related to the . The Mississippi Civil The original fourteen counties, Adams, Amite, Rights Historical Sites grant program will assist Claiborne, Franklin, Greene, Hancock, Jackson, in paying the costs for repairs, renovations, and Jefferson, Lawrence, Marion, Pike, Warren, Wayne, improvements to eligible sites. The Board of and Wilkinson, were inventoried in 2010. Trustees of MDAH will determine which properties to recommend for funding to the Mississippi Funding for that original project and this current Development Authority at its regular meeting on expansion was made possible by grants from the July 22, 2011. National Historical Publications and Records Commission through the Mississippi Historical Eligible properties must be associated with a Records Advisory Board, with matching support significant event, action, or person from the civil provided by MDAH. rights era in Mississippi, 1945-70. Sites that will be open to the public will receive priority for grant assistance. Grant recipients must enter into a Page 9 Department of Archives and History 2011 Annual Report twenty- five year preservation and maintenance covenant that safeguards the state’s investment by providing MDAH oversight of alterations to the building during that time.

The maximum grant any project may receive is $210,000. Recipients must provide a twenty percent match of either cash or in-kind contributions. Grant funds will be provided on a reimbursable basis once all work is completed and approved by MDAH.

Coker House, Hinds County

Social Studies Teachers Workshop

Page 10 Department of Archives and History 2011 Annual Report Outreach Programs Extend MDAH Services across State

Trade School Considered for Historic Jefferson trips, classroom outreach programs, and teacher training. College The guide is online at www.mdah.state.ms.us/oldcap/2010_ teachers_guide.pdf. A shortage of trained tradespeople and artisans able to work on historic buildings has led MDAH to explore the “Picturing America” is a project by the National establishment of a preservation trade school at Historic Endowment for the Humanities as a tool to teach Jefferson College in Washington, Mississippi. The century- American history through its art. “Reflecting Mississippi” and-a-half-old buildings on the campus would provide stu- provides companion images from the department’s dents a unique laboratory to learn masonry and window collection that explore themes related to the state’s restoration and other historic rehabilitation projects. history. The images can be downloaded at http://mdah. state.ms.us/reflecting-ms.zip. Staff of the department’s Historic Preservation Division began developing the idea in early 2010 in conjunction with The department’s annual Social Studies Teachers Workshop the National Park Service, the Mississippi Heritage Trust, was November 5, 2010 at the Old Capitol Museum. This and the Historic Natchez Foundation. In October 2010, year’s focus was on Antebellum Mississippi, 1833-1860. Robert Ogle, the dean of the Career and Technical Educa- tion program and director of the historic preservation MDAH Launches Blog, Facebook Pages for program at Lamar Community College in Lamar, Colorado, Sites was brought in as a consultant. Ogle recommended the program be incorporated into the curriculum of a local MDAH is making it easier than ever to explore online community college to offer an Associate in Applied Science the department’s resources and keep up with events degree for the course of study. Copiah-Lincoln Community and programming. Our new blog (short for “Web log”) College has joined the effort, and will participate in meet- “A Sense of Place” takes visitors inside the collections, ings in December 2010 with the original groups plus the highlighting several images and artifacts each week. In Mississippi Development Authority, the Mississippi School November a special series on the Mississippi Governor’s for the Arts in Brookhaven, and the economic development Mansion has examined that site’s history, architecture, group Natchez, Inc. The goals of the December meetings furnishings, and more. The blog format offers a dynamic are to develop a strategic plan and business model for the and frequently updated site to which readers can subscribe school. via email or e-reader; notifications are sent whenever new content is published. New content is posted about Most historic preservation programs in the U.S. are at the three days a week, and we encourage interaction through graduate level. There are only four community colleges in comments and social media, such as Facebook. the country that offer degrees in historic preservation, none of which are in Mississippi or the . The The department also has a Facebook page, where our proposed preservation trade school curriculum at HJC friends receive updates on History Is Lunch lectures combines a heavy emphasis on hands-on skills with class- and other events in and around Jackson. Pages for the room training in architectural history, preservation plan- Old Capitol Museum, Historic Jefferson College, and ning, archaeology, research, and more. Winterville Mounds allow anyone interested in those sites to stay informed and current. Join us as we explore the New Resources Available for Teachers history of Mississippi together! You can reach all of these sites through our homepage, www.mdah.state.ms.us. MDAH has produced two new teaching aids and held a workshop for social studies teachers in November 2010. From the Delta to Jackson to Natchez, the department offers a variety of opportunities for students of all ages to explore our state’s rich past. The new Teacher’s Guide to Mississippi History is designed to help educators take advantage of the department’s resources, including field

Page 11 Department of Archives and History 2011 Annual Report MDAH Expands Access to Digital Collections

Archives Collections Added to Website log can be accessed from any computer with an Internet browser. Because it uses full-text searching, patrons At the close of the year approximately 150,000 images and 18,100 digital files were available online. Significant addi- will now be able to search information stored in individual tions to the Digital Archives included: item records. Additionally, there are no licensing limits on the number of patrons and staff who can access the catalog • Daniel (Al Fred) Photograph Collection containing simultaneously. Highly configurable and adaptable, Koha’s approximately 600 images, primarily of Jackson, from feature set will grow with every library that uses it. the late 1800s to the 1970s • Hamilton (Luther) Photograph Collection containing Mississippi Farm Bureau Federation Donates Collection

In fall 2010, the Mississippi Farm Bureau Federation donated approximately 56 cubic feet of archival material from its publicity office to MDAH. The collection documents communities across Mississippi from agriculture to family life. Materials include newspapers, newsletters,

Millsaps College Burning

nearly 1,000 images, primarily of Crystal Springs and Copiah County, from around 1900 to the 1940s • Hurricane Katrina Photographs, containing approxi- mately 100 images, from 2005 • Stewart Photograph Collection containing approxi- mately 250 images, primarily of Natchez, from ca. 1890 to 1905 • National Youth Administration Series 2018, NYA Work Projects Photograph Album, 1937-1939 • Vicksburg National Military Park Photographs (Se- Image from MS Farm Bureau Collection ries 573) containing approximately 330 photographs taken in Vicksburg National Military Park from its photographs and photographic negatives, slides, film and inception in 1899 until 1923 audio recordings, and subject file materials dating from • Secretary of State Series 2585, Enrolled Bills, 2010 1927. Farm Bureau also provided funds to process the • State House Commission Series 317, Photographs collection and digitize the photographs and slides. of New Capitol, 1900-1903 • Territorial Records Series 501, Passport Records, 1811-1814

New Catalog System for the Archives

The migration of the online catalog from Aleph to Koha was completed June 30, 2011. A free, open-source, full-fea- tured, integrated, web-based library system, the Koha cata

Page 12 Department of Archives and History 2011 Annual Report MDAH Sites Draw Tens of Thousands

Secession Revisited Program Held at Old Native American Days at Winterville Mounds Capitol Museum Native American Days, the annual program at Winterville A century and a half after Mississippi voted in the Old Cap- Mounds celebrating American Indian culture, was held in itol to withdraw from the Union, the state’s contentious November 2010. The event featured traditional dances, sto- convention of 1861 was the topic of a program ries, games, crafts, and foods. More than 2,000 students and in the same room of the same building. Secession Revis- adults attended over the four days of the festival. ited, held on January 7, 2011, opened with reenactor Ray McFarland’s dramatization of Attala County delegate John Dancers and musicians included the Choctaw Elderly Wood’s published reflections on secession. Historians Tim Dancers from the Pearl River Reservation, Mississippi, Smith, University of —Martin, and George Rable, University of , analyzed Mississippi’s decision to Lyndon Alec of the Alabama Nation demonstrating hoop leave the Union, moving the state toward Civil War. Over dancing, and master of ceremonies Lewis Johnson of the 140 people attended the program in the House of Repre- Seminole Nation playing cane and cedar flutes. Valerie sentatives Chamber. Hanks-Goetz of the Muskogee Nation told stories. There was face painting and bead The ordinance of stringing for children, a primi- secession was drafted tive weapon’s demonstration on Monday, January 7, area, and stickball games open 1861 and by Wednesday, to all comers. The Native January 9, Mississippi’s American skill of flint knap- fate was decided when ping was demonstrated in the ordinance passed booths. with an eighty-four-to- fifteen vote. By February Second Annual Mississippi had joined Statehood Day the newly formed Program a Success Confederate States of America and was Former governor William preparing for war. Winter was the speaker for 2nd Annual Statehood Day the second annual Statehood Black and Blue Day celebration at the Old Civil War Encampment Held at Historic Jeffer- Capitol Museum’s House of Representatives Chamber. One son College hundred and fifty people attended the program, which was held on Friday, December 10, 2010, the 193rd anniversary The third annual Black and Blue Civil War Living History of Mississippi’s entrance into the Union. Encampment took place on October 10, 2010, at Historic Jefferson College. Historians and reenactors presented a The was organized in 1798 and includ- series of first-person accounts of enslaved people, white ed both modern-day Mississippi and Alabama. On Decem- abolitionists, and white union officers that focused on the ber 10, 1817 President James Monroe signed the resolution roles these people played in Mississippi and Louisiana dur- admitting Mississippi into the Union as the twentieth state. ing the Civil War. Performances by the St. James African Methodist Episcopal Church Civil War Choir introduced Governor Haley Barbour gave the address at the 2009 and complemented key presentations. The Black and Blue inaugural Statehood Day celebration. Civil War Living History Encampment is sponsored by MDAH and the Friends of Forks of the Roads Society, Inc.

Page 13 Department of Archives and History 2011 Annual Report History is Lunch Programs Draw Thousands luncheon. Author and Ruleville native Dattel presented the keynote address “Mississippi’s Destiny: and Race in The weekly History is Lunch programs continued to grow the Making of America” at the Friday banquet. in popularity in FY 2011. Over 2,600 people attended a total of forty-two programs at the Winter Building and Old The society’s award for the best Mississippi history book of Capitol Museum. Speakers included Rick Cleveland, Boo 2010 went to Robert V. Haynes for his work The Mississippi Ferriss, Leslie McLemore, Dick Molpus, Freedom Riders Territory and the Southwest Frontier, 1795-1817, published Thomas Armstrong and Fred Clark, historians William by the University of Kentucky Press. Parrish and Michael Ballard, and authors Araminta Stone Johnston, Ralph Eubanks, and Neil White. Program topics Timothy Gardener, South Haven High School, received included Rosenwald Schools, dueling, Greenwood Cem- the John K. Bettersworth Award, presented annually to an etery, Margaret Walker Alexander, Eudora Welty, and the outstanding history teacher. Civil War. John D. W. Guice received the Dunbar Rowland Award for Natchez Powwow Held at Grand Village of the his lifelong contributions to the preservation, study, and Natchez Indians interpretation of Mississippi history. Guice is a Professor Emeritus of history at the Traditional Native University of Southern Mis- American dancing, sing- sissippi. ing and fun came to the Grand Village of the Jackson County was awarded Natchez Indians for the the James T. Dawson Award 23rd Annual Natchez for the county’s outstanding Powwow on Saturday, records management pro- March 26, and Sunday, gram and invaluable sup- March 27, 2011. The port of the Jackson County Powwow has become a Archives. tradition in Mississippi and Louisiana, linking Jennifer Baughn, architectural modern society with historian at the Mississippi the area’s past cultures Department of Archives and and the rich legacy of History, won the 2011 Mis- the Natchez Indians. sissippi History Now Prize for her article “Rosenwald Schools in Mississippi.” There was gourd dancing Natchez Powwow held at Grand Village of The Natchez Indians and intertribal dancing and craft and food booths. Bo Limbaugh of Kellyville, Okla- Awards of Merit were pre- homa, served as master of ceremonies. Tribes represented sented to the Eudora Welty foundation and the Comcast include the Ottowa, Osage, Quapaw, Shawnee, and Creek. Foundation for their invaluable contributions to the devel- opment and distribution of the media resource kit “Welty Mississippi Historical Society Meets in Jackson and the Craft of Writing;” the Friends of Mont Helena for its outstanding musical production, Mont Helena: A Dream The Mississippi Historical Society held its annual meeting Revisited; and the Mississippi Department of Archives and in Jackson, March 3 through 5, to honor its 2010 award History for its volunteer program. winners. More than 200 participants attended the sessions, where topics included cotton and race, the 50th anniver- Research Use of MDAH Collections sary of the Freedom Rides, longtime Speaker of the Missis- sippi House Walter Sillers, Mississippi in Liberia, and local More than 7,400 patrons came to the MDAH research history projects. library during the year; 26 percent of the researchers were visiting the archives for the first time and many required Benjamin Sperry and Gene Dattel were the featured additional staff assistance and instruction. Researchers used speakers at the annual meeting. Cleveland State University more than 63,700 items, and staff answered more than lecturer Sperry presented “’Mr. Delta’: Walter Sillers, Jr. and 60,000 questions onsite and 3,000 mail and email inquiries. Fifty Years in Mississippi Politics (1916-66)” at the Friday Page 14 Department of Archives and History 2011 Annual Report State Records Center Completes In 2008 the department commissioned Wayne F. Database and Inventory Timmer and WFT Architects, P.A., to conduct a historic structure report and condition assessment Government Records and Computer Support for the Manship House, a Mississippi Landmark staff recently completed a total overhaul of the property. The report concludes that the Yazoo clay computer database and inventoried and labeled found throughout the region is mainly responsible nearly 50,000 boxes in the State Records Center for the foundation problems, with a large Magnolia warehouse. Volunteers also scanned nearly 300,000 tree on the north side of the house contributing to pages of transmittal documents and 20,000 pages the instability. of disposal certificates. These documents are submitted by state agencies and will be managed The Mississippi legislature authorized $445,000 for electronically in the future. the project during the 2010 session, and Governor Haley Barbour signed the bill on April 20, 2010. A Work is progressing on a web-based tool for timeline for the project will not be available until agencies to enter transmittal information, which will construction documents are finalized, but the site automatically generate bar code numbers, locate could be closed for eighteen months. empty spaces in the warehouse, allow agencies to see what they have stored, and allow staff to send Civil War Trails Project Nearing disposal certificates through the system. Completion

Manship House Museum Closed for With the installation of interpretive signs at the Repairs Coker House in Hinds County, exhibit design at the Battle of Brices Crossroads Museum near The Manship House Museum closed July 1, 2010 to Baldwyn, and the printing of a Civil War sites prepare for a nearly half-million-dollar repair of the driving map, the department’s Mississippi Civil building’s foundation. The floor of the circa-1857 War Trails project is nearing completion. The $6.2 house is thirteen inches out of level, resulting in million project was initiated in 1999 to preserve, huge cracks in the plaster walls and gaps at doors interpret, and promote Civil War sites in the state. and windows throughout the house. Funding was provided by the Federal Highway Administration through the Mississippi Department Since the site closed, staff offices and the extensive of Transportation, and the Mississippi Legislature. collection of Manship The work would have family been possible without furniture and strong local partners like artifacts have the Friends of the Siege been packed and Battle of Corinth, the and moved Brices Crossroads National off site in Battlefield Commission, the order for the Friends of Raymond, and many repairs to others. begin. Manship House Civil War sites from Corinth MDAH PROJECTS PROJECTS MDAH staff were to the Gulf of are reassigned featured in the map “The to other Civil War in Mississippi,” sites during which highlights the state’s Manship House Museum Closed For Repairs repairs. The battlefields and related sites project will that are open to the public. be a major step in the preservation of the building The map is being made available free of charge at and will also be an excellent opportunity for staff to welcome centers and other sites across the state. evaluate the collection and improve interpretation of the site. The Battle of Brices Crossroads Museum is the final Page 15 Department of Archives and History 2011 Annual Report component of the project. A new wing has been the United States has ever experienced. On August added to the existing facility, which will now include 29, 2005, the storm exploded into Mississippi, interpretation of the Battle of Tupelo. Interpretive killing hundreds of people and forever changing signage for driving tour pull-off areas is nearly the state’s cultural landscape. The historical fabric complete and the finalization and fabrication of new of the Gulf Coast was devastated; museums and exhibits for the museum is underway. their collections, libraries, government records, and centuries-old buildings and their furnishings were Three projects related to the Vicksburg Campaign badly damaged or destroyed. The hurricane was so have already been completed. The Battle of powerful it cut a swath through central Mississippi Raymond site features a new ¾-mile walking and as far north as Jackson, bringing down trees and interpretive trail. Restorations of the Shaifer House affecting structures for 150 miles inland. MDAH PROJECTS at Port Gibson and the Coker House at Champion Hill battlefield are also complete. New interpretive MDAH has been involved in recovery operations signs installed at the two sites examine the battles since the day after the hurricane made landfall. that took place there and how each fit into the Archives staff arrived on the coast on August 30 overall Vicksburg Campaign. and immediately set to work rescuing the most fragile historical resources: paper records. In The Shaifer House was the site of the opening Jackson the department’s flagship site, the Old shots of the Battle of Port Gibson, which was Capitol Museum of Mississippi History, had seen its fought on May 1, 1863. The battle was the first roof peeled off by the storm, which then flooded in the final phase of General Ulysses S. Grant’s the open building with rainwater. Many staff campaign to capture Vicksburg—the “Gibraltar of members left their own damaged homes to rescue the Mississippi.” waterlogged artifacts from The Coker House the museum’s is located on the collection. southern portion of the Champion Soon archives and Hill battlefield, preservation staff which is a began traveling National Historic from Jackson to Landmark. The the Gulf Coast grounds around to document the Coker House the damage to saw heavy fighting historic buildings on May 16, 1863, and to help local and the house governments, itself served as a libraries, and hospital after the museums salvage battle. their documents MDAH Director H. T. Holmes, speaks at Shaifer House and collections. In the northeast By the end of corner of the state, September, more the 1917 Corinth Depot, located on the site of than 1,200 surviving historic properties across the Civil War–era depot, has been renovated as ninety miles of the had been the Crossroads Museum, which includes Corinth’s documented. Due to its broad involvement from local history. A number of hiking and biking trails the early stages of the storm’s aftermath, MDAH have also been constructed in the Corinth area, became the de facto coordinating body for many of providing access to many of the earthworks and those groups. fortifications associated with the . At the same time, MDAH partnered with the Five Years After Katrina Mississippi Heritage Trust, the National Trust for Historic Preservation (NTHP), the Heritage Hurricane Katrina was the greatest natural disaster Emergency National Task Force, the Association for

Page 16 Department of Archives and History 2011 Annual Report Preservation Technology (APT), the National Conference heritage of those communities. of State Historic Preservation Officers (NCSHPO), and the World Monuments Fund to recruit volunteer architects, The department established a permanent Gulf Coast engineers, and preservation specialists to assess the Office to administer the grant program. Many public and possibility of rehabilitating damaged historic properties. By institutional landmarks of the local communities were May 2006, volunteer teams, working out of a rented 1920 restored with the federal funds, but most of the $26 Bungalow in downtown Biloxi, had completed detailed million that was the state’s share went to rehabilitate reports on hundreds of damaged historic structures. The reports provided property owners with accurate evaluations of the condition of their historic buildings and guidance on how or whether to proceed with rehabilitation. The reports saved many historic structures whose owners had thought their damaged buildings were not salvageable.

The department’s archaeological staff responded when many coastal archaeological sites (some previously unrecorded) were uncovered and damaged by Katrina’s tidal surge. A very significant example of this is the Moran Site, an early-eighteenth-century French burial ground in Biloxi that provides a unique glimpse into colonial-era life on the coast. owner-occupied houses listed on or eligible for the National Register of Historic Places. Through May 2010, The department’s historical archaeologist was sent to the the department has awarded 263 of these grants to Gulf Coast for weeks on end to organize, oversee, and preservation projects totaling $24,725,000. Forty-five assist efforts by some of the local museums destroyed by projects are still in progress. tidal surge to salvage portions of their collections from the rubble of collapsed buildings. In the years following Hurricane Katrina, the department has helped shape national and international policies Department staff organized efforts to salvage, store, and, in on emergency preparedness and disaster recovery. some instances, clean important official records, historical Department director H.T. Holmes presented the talk society archival collections, and museum artifacts damaged “Historic Preservation versus Katrina: What Role Should in the storm. Many items were evacuated to Jackson for Federal, State, and Local Governments Play in Preservation safe keeping, while others were stored in refrigerated of Historic Properties Affected by these Catastrophic trucks procured and delivered to the coast for the Storms?” before a Congressional subcommittee on purpose. October 21, 2005. Holmes and other senior staff members gave dozens of talks across the country and overseas on In addition to technical assistance, the department was lessons learned during the Hurricane Katrina recovery. able to award grants of $25,000 to the Maritime and Seafood Industry Museum for artifact preservation and to reestablish a summer camp program, $10,000 to the Lynn Meadows Discovery Center for building repairs, and $5,000 to the Mississippi Sound Historical Museum for building repairs.

In June 2006, Congress passed the Emergency Supplemental Appropriations Act for Hurricane Recovery. The bill included a $40 million appropriation for rehabilitation of hurricane-damaged historic properties in Alabama, Louisiana, and Mississippi. MDAH established the Mississippi Hurricane Relief Grant for Historic Preservation to help citizens and communities preserve and rehabilitate hurricane-damaged historic buildings and sites significant in defining the unique character and

Page 17 Department of Archives and History 2011 Annual Report Appendices

Page 18 Department of Archives and History 2011 Annual Report ARCHIVES & RECORDS SERVICES DIVISION Annual Report FY 2011 (July 2010- June 2011)

I. Holdings

Transfers Transfers Total Holdings Acquisitions Acquisitions End of FY2010 FY2011 FY2011 State records 913 cu. ft. 395 cu. ft. 57,237 cu. ft. Manuscripts 44 cu. ft. 71 cu. ft. 13,371 cu. ft. Graphic records 66 cu. ft. 4 cu. ft. 736 cu. ft. Audio visual 11 cu. ft. .5 cu. ft. 1661 cu. ft. Electronic records: born digital 96.5 GB 24 GB ------Electronic records: reformatted 41,800 GB 2,549 GB 45,101 GB* Microfilm 389 reels 578 reels 111,083 reels Monographs 209 items 315 items 69,818 items Maps 47 items 54 items 2,723 items Periodicals 696 items 8,969 items 33,166 items * Total of reformatted and born digital

II. Arrangement, Description, Preservation, and Reformatting

A. Cataloging

New Catalog Revised Catalog Item records Records Records added 2010 2011 2010 2011 2010 2011 State records 46 751 219 2,201 575 751 Manuscripts 11 2 39 81 1,060 12 Electronic Archives 8 24 1,997 3,598 13 1,131 Monographs 620 260 1,997 4,309 620 488 Microfilm 4 0 34 402 54 14 Maps 0 1 254 261 5 4 Newspapers & 6 23 35 104 3,679 57 periodicals Graphic records 1,339 1,304 4,895 7,460 0 45 Audio visual 1 0 18 129 43 0 Audio 40 354 63 589 41 684 Subject file 277 74 1,051 1,021 206 59 Total 2,362 2,793 10,355 20,155 6,296 3,245

Page 19 Department of Archives and History 2011 Annual Report Historic Properties Visitation FY 2011

Grand Village of the Natchez Indians in-state 21,239 out-of-state 6,513 foreign 1,431

Historic Jefferson College in-state 16,442 out-of-state 1,742 foreign 72

Winterville Mounds in-state 7,796 out-of-state 2,163 foreign 190

Page 20 Department of Archives and History 2011 Annual Report Museum Division Statistics

Site Visitation Outreach Administration 10,902 178,116 Old Capitol Museum 27,483 245 Manship House Museum (closed) 40 20 Governor’s Mansion 8,555 63 Eudora Welty House 2,850 597,030 Total 49,830 775,474

Acquisitions: o 2010.2.1-.6—Donation of vodka and promotional materials o 2010.3.1—Donation of 1976 bicentennial tapestry made at Greenville Mill o 2010.4.1-.5—Donation of toys and a Walkman from the 1980s and a Viewmaster from 1950 o 2010.5.1—Skylight from State Capitol o M2010.6—Donation of clothing to the Manship House Museum o 2010.6.1-.2—Donation of garnet necklace and daguerreotype to the Museum of Mississippi History o 2010.7.1—Donation of Civil War era stirrup to the Museum of Mississippi History o 2011.1-.7—Donation of Post Office and other items from the C.L. Dees , Vancleave o 2011.2.1—Portrait of Richard Wright for the MS Hall of Fame to the Museum of Mississippi History o 2011.3.1—Toy road grader to the Museum of Mississippi History o 2011.4.1—Beanie from Millsaps to the Museum of Mississippi History o 2011.5.1-.2—Greyhound bus ticket and bond receipt from summer of 1961 when donor was arrested as a member of the Freedom Riders

o 2011.6.1-.25—Collection of clothing and household accessories from the home of Sarah Eisman Asher th Anniversary” button o 2011.7.1—“Freedom Rider’s 50

Page 21 Department of Archives and History 2011 Annual Report Katrina FY11 Grant Actions

ID Number Payee Property Name Project Address MS-06-074 Tom Butera Charnley-Norwood Guest House 507 E. Beach Dr., Ocean Springs, Jackson MS-06-260 Alfred Demas 1904 30th Avenue 1904 30th Ave., Gulfport, Harrison MS-06-124 Albert & Associates Charnley-Norwood House (Summer 509 E. Beach Dr., Ocean Springs, Architects Cottage) Jackson MS-06-142 Ronald Parkerson Parkerson House 3007 50th Ave., Gulfport, Harrison MS-06-298 Albert & Associates Bay Springs School 900 Monroe Rd., Hattiesburg, Architects Forrest MS-06-236 Town of Sumrall Sumrall Courtroom & Jail 39 Pine St., Sumrall, Lamar MS-06-165 Pearl River Community President’s House, PRCC 101 N. Hwy. 11, Poplarville, Pearl College Development River Fdtn. MS-06-303 Mississippi Heritage Trust Harbor Square Historic District 1400 25th Ave., Gulfport, Harrison MS-06-302 City of Gulfport Centennial Museum (Gulfport & 1419 27th Avenue, Gulfport, Ship Island Railroad Depot) Harrison

First Award in FY11 Second Award in FY11 Xtra$1Dt Xtra$1Amt Xtra$1Note Xtra$1Dt Xtra$1Amt Xtra$1Note 23-Jul-10 $22,137.63 Additional BOT for Additional BOT for Archit Svcs Construction 15-Apr-11 $9,000.00 additional HRG 01-Oct-10 $1,500,000.00 Supplement 23-Jul-10 $177,862.37 Supplement 08-Oct-10 $52,000.00 additional HRG 15-Apr-11 $45,000.00 supplemental grant 28-Oct-11 $65,000.00 additonal HRG 30-Nov-11 $2,500.00 Administrative 23-Jul-10 $11,000.00 Supplement 27-May-11 $3,240.00 Initial 27-May-11 $1,950.00 Initial 28-May-11 $188,000.00 Initial 28-Oct-11 $65,000.00 Additonal HRG

Current Total Award Number Grant FY11 of Awards FY11 $492,137.63 $22,137.63 1 $43,500.00 $9,000.00 1 Total Number of Projects Awarded: 9 $2,702,862.37 $1,677,862.37 2 Number of Projects Receiving 2 Awards: 4 Total Value of Current Grants : $114,000.00 $52,000.00 1 $3,980,190.00 Total Value of Awards Made: $2,142,690.00 $195,000.00 $45,000.00 1 $143,500.00 $67,500.00 2 $31,000.00 $11,000.00 1 $5,190.00 $5,190.00 2 $253,000.00 $253,000.00 2 Page 22 Department of Archives and History 2011 Annual Report The list of contributors to the Mississippi Department of Archives and History for the 2010-11 fiscal year includes:

Organizations Afro-American Genealogical & Historical Society of Matteson, Ill. Bank of Anguilla, Rolling Fork Branch Rolling Fork, Miss. BankPlus Ridgeland, Miss. BlueCross BlueShield of Mississippi Jackson, Miss. Boone Funeral Home Greenville, Miss. City of Booneville Booneville, Miss. Charlotte Mecklenburg Library Charlotte, NC Civil Air Patrol, US Air Force Auxiliary Leesburg, Ga. Columbus-Lowndes County Library Columbus, Miss. Copiah-Lincoln Community College Natchez, Miss. Covington County Genealogical and Historical Society Collins, Miss. C.L. Dees Family Alexandria, Va. Daughters of the , James Foster Chapter Jackson, Miss. Delta Asthma and Allergy Greenville, Miss. Downtown Jackson Partners Jackson, Miss. Family Research Association of Mississippi Madison, Miss. Foundation for Mississippi History Jackson, Miss. Galloway United Methodist Church Jackson, Miss. Greater Jackson Chamber Partnership Jackson, Miss. Greenville Clearing House Greenville, Miss. Greenville Garden Club Greenville, Miss. Jackson Civil War Round Table, Inc. Madison, Miss. Jackson Symphony League Madison, Miss. Jones County Genealogical and Historical Association Laurel, Miss. Lauderdale County Dept. of Archives and History Meridian, Miss. University of Louisiana at Lafayette Press Lafayette, La. Elijah Lovejoy Society St. Louis, Mo. Maids and Matrons Club Madison, Miss. The Mayer Family Tarboro, NC Mississippi Freedom 50th Foundation ackson, Miss. Mississippi Historical Society Jackson, Miss. Mississippi Humanities Council Jackson, Miss. Mississippi Institute of Arts and Letters Jackson, Miss. Mississippi Museum of Art Jackson, Miss. Mississippi State Society, Colonial Dames XVII Century Hattiesburg, Miss. Natchez Literary & Cinema Celebration Natchez, Miss. Neel-Schaffer Jackson, Miss. University of North Carolina Greensboro, Special Collections Greensboro, NC Olive Branch Library Olive Branch, Miss. The Order of the First Families, 1699-1817 Crystal Springs, Miss. Redwood Elementary School Redwood, Miss. Lauren Rogers Museum of Art Laurel, Miss. St. Francis School Greenwood, Miss. Sharkey County Historic Preservation Commission Rolling Fork, Miss. Simpson County Historical and Genealogical Society D’Lo, Miss. Smith County Genealogical Society Raleigh, Miss. Sons of Confederate Veterans, Mississippi Division Madison, Miss. Leland Speed Library, Mississippi College Clinton, Miss. R.J. Taylor, Jr., Foundation Atlanta, Ga. Trustmark National Bank Jackson, Miss.

Page 23 Department of Archives and History 2011 Annual Report University Press of Mississippi Jackson, Miss. Wal-Mart Brookhaven, Miss. Wal-Mart Foundation Bentonville, Ark. Water Valley Chamber of Commerce Water Valley, Miss. Women for Progress of Mississippi Jackson, Miss.

Individuals Robert Parker Adam Jackson, Miss. Lucy Allen Madison, Miss. M. B. Allen Ridgeland, Miss. Suzanne Almas Jackson, Miss. Chris Myers Asch Silver Springs, Md. Barbara Austin Jackson, Miss. Laura Baer Montclair, NJ Clinton Bagley Jackson, Miss. Kim Balfe Waseca, Minn. Thomas M. Ballentine Alexandria, Va. Jennifer Baughn Jackson, Miss. Mr. and Mrs. Bobby Benson Shannon, Miss. Patti Carr Black Jackson, Miss. Harry Bolick Hopewell Junction, NY Edward L. Bond Natchez, Miss. Sandra Boyd Mount Olive, Miss. Wanda E. Boyles Hattiesburg, Miss. Paul Bragg Jackson, Miss. Judith Randle Brewer Hazlehurst, Miss. Gordon L. Briscoe Harlingen, Texas Sam Brookes Jackson, Miss. Dr. Charlene Broome Greenville, Miss. Patricia Buzard , La. Susan Asher Calechman Chestnut Hill, Mass. James K. Carmichael Jackson, Miss. Bobby L. Chain Hattiesburg, Miss. Lois Smith Clover Madison, Miss. Lorris G. Cockerham Little Rock, Ark. Hunter Cole Brandon, Miss. Mr. and Mrs. Sam G. Cole III Jackson, Miss. Melanie Collins Flowood, Miss. Karen Cordell Springdale, Ark. Janice Craft Greenville, Miss. Dell Crisler Jackson, Miss. Robert W. Crook Troup, Texas John L. Davis Hot Springs, Ark. Joyce Dixon-Lawson Jackson, Miss. Ann Dubuisson New Orleans, La. Donna Bailey Dye Ridgeland, Miss. Elois Dickson Evans Jackson, Miss. William M. Evans Taylorsville, Miss. Harold C. Fisher Yazoo City, Miss. Meridith Fox Colorado Springs, Colo. Rita Fuller Florence, Miss. Forrest Galey Jackson, Miss. Cindy Gardner Jackson, Miss. John L. Given Brandon, Miss.

Page 24 Department of Archives and History 2011 Annual Report Dr. James Goldman Marks, Miss. Col. Charles W.L. Hall Ph.D. Hattiesburg, Miss. Mr. and Mrs. William J. Hannon Madison, Miss. Mrs. Ralph Hargrove Jackson, Miss. Cynthia Harrison Jackson, Miss. Jenice Harsaw Lakeland, Fla. Glenn Highland East Bethel, Minn. Elbert R. Hilliard Madison, Miss. David G. Holder Louisville, Miss. Dr. James G. Hollandsworth Asheville, NC h. t. holmes Jackson, Miss. H. Grady Howell Madison, Miss. Walter Howell Clinton, Miss. Janette Jones Hudson Shubuta, Miss. Buena Lee Huff Jackson, Miss. Virginia Segrest Hughson Brandon, Miss. Betty Chisolm Hutzler Jackson, Miss. William Jeanes Ridgeland, Miss. J. Bradley Jeffreys Provincetown, Mass. Susan Johnson Jackson, Miss. Jean King Wesson, Miss. Jeffrey A. Klingfuss Jackson, Miss. Linda Lane Jackson, Miss. Bruce Levene Mendocino, Calif. Marshall Lusk Jackson, Miss. Anne W.S. MacNeil Natchez, Miss. Charles Scott May Atlanta, Ga. Beauvais McCaddon Tallahassee, Fla. Ronnie F. McGinnis Jackson, Miss. Stokes McMillan Houston, Texas Anthony McNair Memphis, Tenn. Dr. Robert Lewis McNeely Chattanooga, Tenn. Dorothy Moore Florence, Miss. E. Ruth Morgan Starkville, Miss. Andrew P. Mullins Jr. Oxford, Miss. Mr. and Mrs. Lonnie Nelson Antioch, Tenn. Rev. C. V. Nelson Indianapolis, Ind. Randy Nichols Brandon, Miss. Dr. Cora E. Norman Crossville, Tenn. Mary L. Nosser Vicksburg, Miss. Dr. Elizabeth Overman Edmond, Okla. Elaine Owens Brandon, Miss. Tony Pagano New York, NY Richard Patrick Jackson, Miss. Dierdre S. Payne Ridgeland, Miss. Dr. John A. Peoples Jr. Jackson, Miss. Bobby Perry Pachuta, Miss. Jane Phillips Brandon, Miss. Ellis Pickett Madison, Miss. Alycon T. Pierce Falls Church, Va. Charles Pittman Raymond, Miss. Jim Pitts Jackson, Miss. Betty Foster Poole Madison, Miss. Rabbi Phillip M. Posner Jalisco CP, Mexico

Page 25 Department of Archives and History 2011 Annual Report Ken P’Pool Jackson, Miss. Nan Prince Jackson, Miss. Mr. and Mrs. Tommy Prince Starkville, Miss. Clay Quarterman Jackson, Miss. David P. Rakestraw Daytona Beach, Fla. Martis D. Ramage Jr. Beldon, Miss. Betty Ramsey Jackson, Miss. Ronald S. Reagan Long Beach, Miss. Barbara D. Rhodes Jackson, Miss. Pam Ribic Centerville, Ohio Jeff Rogers Brandon, Miss. Shirley A. Roggen Portland, Or. Todd Sanders Madison, Miss. Oliver V. Shearer Jr. Clinton, Miss. Rick Sheviakov San Anselmo, Calif. Elizabeth Silvo Atlanta, Ga. Lewis Slater Jackson, Miss. Janet Smith Lucedale, Miss. Marilyn Smith Greenwood Village, Colo. Dr. Franklin Carter Smith Houston, Texas Carolyn Vance Smith Natchez, Miss. Dr. Benjamin O. Sperry Cleveland, Ohio Mary Sue Stevens Water Valley, Miss. Marion Swayze Jackson, Miss. Ferrell Tadlock Jackson, Miss. John Tate Taylor Jackson, Miss. Joe Taylor Ridgeland, Miss. Dr. Aaron Trubman Jackson, Miss. Eugene C. Tullos Raleigh, Miss. Betty Uzman Ridgeland, Miss. Dr. William Ashley Vaughan Jackson, Miss. Harry Calvin Ward Hattiesburg, Miss. Terry Waters Jackson, Tenn. Dot Weathersby Terry, Miss. Marcia L. Weaver Jackson, Miss. Mary Ann Weaver Jackson, Miss. Anne L. Webster Jackson, Miss. Harold Webster Jackson, Miss. Dr. Charles A. Weeks Jackson, Miss. Pat Weeks Brandon, Miss. Miriam A. Weems Jackson, Miss. Sandra O. West Madison, Miss. Jay Wiener Jackson, Miss. Chrissy Wilson Jackson, Miss. Governor and Mrs. William F. Winter Jackson, Miss. Dr. James H. Wolfe Hattiesburg, Miss. Jim Woodrick Madison, Miss. Mary Louise Woodruff Decatur, Texas Noel Workman Sewanee, Tenn. Wirt A. Yerger Jr. Jackson, Miss. Julia Marks Young Jackson, Miss.

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