The Department of Archives and Special Collections

Below is a list of specific collections that are currently accessible. Additional collections will be added after electronic versions of guides and finding aids are compiled.

1861 University of Mississippi Senior Class Book

The photographs in a book created for the 1861 graduating class. The book highlights the buildings, faculty, and senior class at the University of Mississippi just prior to the start of the Civil War. View the class book online

The American Institute of Certified Public Accountants (AICPA) Collection

The AICPA library collection, donated to the University in August 2001, is one of the largest accounting libraries in the country. The collection contains approximately 500 images. A majority of these photographs are of individuals and were used in AICPA publications. An inventory is available.

Russell H. Barrett Collection. 1962-1965.

Russell H. Barrett taught political science at the University of Mississippi from 1954 until 1976. His book Integration at Ole Miss (1965) records the events surrounding the integration of the University of Mississippi in 1962. These photographs by Barrett, Fred Ward, Flip Schulke, and United Press International (UPI) capture the 1962 riots and James Meredith's graduation from the University. An Inventory is available.

Calvin S. Brown. 1907-1914.

A professor at the University at during the first quarter of the twentieth century, Dr. Brown taught in the Modern Languages department. He studied and travelled extensively around the United States and the world. The collection contains lantern slides and autochromes of Oxford, the state of Mississippi, and the Western United States. An Inventory is available.

Boynton Collection. circa 1856-1861.

Edward Carlisle Boynton, a Professor of Chemistry, Minerology, and Geology at the University of Mississippi from 1856 until 1861, was an avid photographer. The archive holds a collection of his glass plate negatives recording antebellum university scenes and places. Print copies of most of the negatives are available. An inventory is available.

W. Wert Cooper. 1962.

W. Wert Cooper, Jr. was a senior majoring in Commerce at the University of Mississippi when James Meredith enrolled at the University of Mississippi. Cooper took these photographs on campus and in the town of Oxford during the events surrounding Meredith's enrollment. An inventory is available.

Faulkner Photographs Collection. circa 1898 - 1970s.

This collection, collected over the years from a variety of sources, contains images of William Faulkner, as well as people and places related to his life. An inventory is available.

Roane Fleming Byrnes Collection. circa 1900 - 1970.

Roane Fleming Byrnes was president of the Natchez Trace Association, Mississippi Division, and the person primarily responsible for the creation of the Natchez Trace Parkway. This collection of photographs includes images of the Metcalfe, Fleming, and Byrnes family members; Natchez homes; Pilgrimage scenes; the great Mississippi flood of 1927; and a significant number of photographs of African-Americans (i.e. Beverley baseball team, Beverley plantation tenants, and Fleming family servants).

Elijah Fleming Collection. circa 1859.

Twenty-one tintypes of University of Mississippi faculty and students, some of whom later enlisted in the "University Grey" of the 11th Mississippi Regiment, CSA. An inventory is available.

W.T. Marshall Collection. circa 1890s - 1940s.

Thomas Marshall held several library and clerk positions in the White House, including Presidential Librarian, from 1899 to 1938. The collection includes images of the executive mansion, Woodrow Wilson's presidency, candid photographs of Theodore Roosevelt and his family, William Howard Taft, and photographs inscribed to Marshall from every president from William McKinley to Herbert Hoover, as well as images from all over the world sent to the White House.

Mississippi Highway Patrol Collection. 1962.

A small collection of black and white images taken by the Mississippi Highway Patrol during the integration riot on the University of Mississippi campus on September 30 and October 1, 1962.

Mississippi Industrial College. circa 1908.

Bishop Elias Cottrell founded the Mississippi Industrial College in 1905 in Holly Springs, Mississippi. Cottrell's goal was to establish an institution for the literary and industrial training of black youth. This small collection of sixteen photographs contains images of students, classes, and buildings on campus. An inventory is available.

Phil Mullen Collection. circa 1940s - 1950s.

Phillip E. Mullen, associate editor of the Oxford Eagle from 1933 to 1951, was a personal friend of William Faulkner. The photographs in this collection reflect Faulkner's life and the town of Oxford during the 1940's and 1950's. The sixty images include Faulkner and his family, the filming of a Ford Foundation documentary on Faulkner, and the filming of Intruder in the Dust in Oxford. An inventory is available.

Open Doors Oral History Project 2002-2004

The University of Mississippi dedicated the 2002 -2003 academic year to the 40th anniversary of Dr. James H. Meredith's enrollment in the University. As part of this celebration, students and faculty recorded oral histories with former students, faculty, towns people, lawyers, governmental officials, and military personnel who were involved in the events surrounding Meredith's entrance to the University. An inventory of the DVD viewing copies is available.

John E. Phay Collection. 1949 - 1962.

The collection contains images of the Mississippi public school system taken during the 1940s and 1950s. The images were taken as part of various studies and surveys conducted by the Bureau of Educational Research at the University of Mississippi. Bureau Director John E. Phay conducted studies of both African American and white public schools in thirteen counties in Mississippi. Photographed between 1949 and 1962, the collection contains over 4,100 black and white photographs and 2550 color slides. The collection also includes images of the University of Mississippi campus during the 1950's and 1960's. An inventory of the collection is available. The collection contains images of schools in the following Mississippi counties: Benton, Clay, Grenada, Holmes, Jones, Marshall, Panola, Prentiss, Quitman, Sunflower, Tallahatchie, Union, and Yalobusha. Online Exhibitions: View several images from the collection through the online exhibitions Segregation through the Lens and John Elon Phay Collection: Kodachrome Color Slides.