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.
The tools at the end of the page can help teachers use these in the classroom. 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.

Mississippi volunteers; Forward, march!. 1917
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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 |

Beauvoir, Mississippi
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1996 Kids Quilt; Mississippi |
![Bridges of the Upper Tombigbee River Valley, Tombigbee Valley vicinity, Lowndes County, MS [after 1968]](images/bridge.jpg)
Bridges of the Upper Tombigbee River Valley, Tombigbee Valley vicinity, Lowndes County, MS [after 1968]
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A Mississippi view of race relations in the South. By Dunbar Rowland. Read before the Alumni Association of the University of Mississippi, June 3rd, 1902 |

Negro going in colored entrance of movie house on Saturday afternoon, Belzoni, Mississippi Delta, Mississippi, 1939 |

Got a Woman up the Bayou, 1939 |

Day-laborers picking cotton near Clarksdale, Miss, 1939 |

Platform adopted by the Republican party of Mississippi, in convention assembled, in the City of Jackson, September 10th and 11th, 1867 |
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