Dyess Trip Booklet

Community Correspondence - Two letters to the commission regarding Key Field Air Guard Station and the impact its closure will have on Meridian, MS.

Disregard Restriction of Header and Footer: Army Installations and State Action Papers - Mississippi

COBRA Program - Mississippi Army Ammunition Plant, MS

Letter from David Fentress to his aunt in which he catches up on family news and comments on the daughter he has not yet met. He says that he sent a prescription to his wife to help heal her facial problem. He says he told William Berry of his son's death. Then he recounts speculation on Clara Berry's association with Dr. Van Dorn. He notes that a plantation house has been turned into a hospital and that one third of his men are sick.

Transcript of a letter from David Fentress to his aunt in which he catches up on family news and comments on the daughter he has not yet met. He says that he sent a prescription to his wife to help heal her facial problem. He says he told William Berry of his son's death. Then he recounts speculation on Clara Berry's association with Dr. Van Dorn. He notes that a plantation house has been turned into a hospital and that one third of his men are sick.

Interview with Boyd K. Miller, a draftsman and pilot during World War II. He discusses being drafted out of college and working as an artist and draftsman. Since he studied art in college, he worked on diagrams and charts. He then transferred to the Air Corps to become a pilot and trained in Pennsylvania, Mississippi, Alabama, New York, Georgia, Florida and Texas.

Photograph used for a newspaper owned by the Oklahoma Publishing Company. Caption: "The flight came during the governor's visit to the Oklahoma Air Guard's training exercise in Gulfport, Miss."

Photograph used for a story in the Daily Oklahoman newspaper. Caption: "Jefferson Davis gave a speech from the balcony of "Anchuca," an 1830 Greek Revival home in Vicksburg, Miss."

Photograph used for a newspaper owned by the Oklahoma Publishing Company. Caption: "Arkansas Governor Winthrop Rockefeller, chairman of the 36th."

Letter from L. D. Bradley to Minnie Bradley, dated February 21, 1863 and sent from Camp Pemberton, in which he writes about possible future developments in the war and financial matters..

Letter from L. D. Bradley to Minnie Graysen Bradley, dated September 21, 1962 and sent from Camp Randall near Monroe, Louisiana, in which he speaks of their third wedding anniversary the next day, and tells her of money that he has sent and will send to her.

Initiation certificate from the Quitman Masonic Lodge #18, Georgetown, Copiah County, Mississippi stating that David Catchings Dickson was initiated, passed and raised to the sublime degree of Master Mason, August 21, 1841.

Video footage from the KXAS-TV television station in Fort Worth, Texas, covering a news story.

Weekly report of the Texas Agricultural Statistics Service on broiler chick numbers in Texas and compared with other states. It includes compiled statistics across six consecutive weeks, from the week ending September 12 to the week ending October 17, during 1986 and 1987 for broiler eggs set, chicks hatched, and chicks placed.

Script from the WBAP-TV/NBC station in Fort Worth, Texas, relating a news story.

Script from the WBAP-TV/NBC station in Fort Worth, Texas, relating a news story.

Script from the WBAP-TV/NBC station in Fort Worth, Texas, relating a news story.

Script from the WBAP-TV/NBC station in Fort Worth, Texas, relating a news story.

Script from the WBAP-TV/NBC station in Fort Worth, Texas, relating a news story.

Script from the WBAP-TV/NBC station in Fort Worth, Texas, relating a news story.

Letter from I. H. Kempner to D. W. Kempner and R. L. Kempner discussing cotton operations.

Letter from Daniel W. Kempner to the Johnson Pecan Company informing them that his order of pecans was not correctly fulfilled.