Selected Library of Congress Resources for Mississippi
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The extensive collections at the Library of Congress contain historic artifacts and cultural materials from across the U.S. The list below is just a sample of the many Mississippi resources available for free on the Library's Web site.
Teachers can find even more primary sources, along with the tools to help use them in the classroom, at www.loc.gov/teachers. They can also search the Library's American Memory or Prints and Photographs collections.
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On the Mississippi / Carroll [notated music]
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Map of the rebel position at Vicksburg, Miss., May 1863
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Plan du fort projette' au nouveau Bilocxy, 1721
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Regimental parade, Mississippi. A & M College, c1914
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Beauvoir, home of Jefferson Davis near Biloxi, Miss.
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1996 Kids Quilt; Mississippi
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Bridges of the Upper Tombigbee River Valley, Tombigbee Valley vicinity...
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A Mississippi view of race relations in the South. By Dunbar Rowland...
Negro going in colored entrance of movie house on Saturday afternoon...
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Got a Woman up the Bayou, 1939
Day-laborers picking cotton near Clarksdale, Miss, 1939
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Platform adopted by the Republican party of Mississippi, in convention assembled...
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