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  Hostetter's Illustrated United States Almanac 1894

  Hostetter's Illustrated United States Almanac 1894 published by the Hostetter Company, Pittsburg, Pennsylvania. The almanac was an advertising vehicle for the patent medicine Hostetter's Stomach Bitters.

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  J.V. De La Hunt letter about the Mississippi River, 1909

  Copy of a Joseph V. De La Hunt letter written in November 1909 from Vicksburg, Mississippi, to Congressman Benjamin Humphries of the House of Representatives Committee on Rivers and Harbors. De La Hunt expresses his concern that the Mississippi River is becoming shallower in part because its banks are collapsing and supports installing more revetments. Congressman Humphries' acknowledgment of November 25, 1909, is included.

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  J.V. De La Hunt report on flood relief work, 1927

  Report by Captain Joseph V. De La Hunt of the flood relief work undertaken by the U.S. Steamer Augustine in the St. Francis River Basin, Parkin, Arkansas, and Natchez, Mississippi, between April 17 and June 4, 1927. De La Hunt took the opportunity to express his opinion of the state of the levee system, which he blamed for silting up the Mississippi River.

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  Lee Line Steamers Call and Landing List, Ashport Division, 1925

  Lee Line Steamers Call and Landing List, Ashport Division, October 1925. Lists all the places along the Mississippi River north of Memphis, Tennessee, to Ashport where Lee Line steamers could call or land including mail landings.

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  Letter: Thomas Armstrong to sister, 1863

  Letter written by Thomas Armstrong in camp near Shelbyville, Tennessee, to his sister, dated January 22, 1863. Thomas served in the Vicksburg Cadets, Chalmers Brigade, 9th Mississippi Regiment. He was killed near Atlanta on August 3, 1864.

  The letter reads:

  [page 1] Camp Near Shelbyville Ten Jan 22 1863

  Dear sister it has been some time since I received your kind and very welcome letter which I now hasten to answer and to acknowledge the receipt of those truly valuable things which you were kind enough to send me and you must accept my best thanks for them and I asure [sic] you they have been very beneficial to me since the extremely cold weather we have had for the last ten or twelve days. You did not say whether you was well or not I hope you boath [sic] are well and enjoying the blessings of providence in a diferant [sic] way from what I am. So I guess you would like to hear something of the battle I tell you it was realy [sic] a hard one the enimy [sic] seemed determined to give us a drubing [sic] but we disapointed [sic] them greatly we being as determined as they so it was crash crash all day long and the continued roll of musketry sounded in ones ears as though everything was crumbling away we drove them but I tell you it was not without fighting and hard fighting to [sic] but thank god I came out safe and sound Hardees corps of our side did the most fighting or at least was the most succesfull [sic] driving [page 2] driving the enimy [sic] four or five miles. never giving them time to form a line so there is no use writting [sic] any more about the fight for I expect by this time you know a great deal more than I do I have not heard from home in a long time three or four months and when you visite again please tell John than in future any messages he may have for me to please write it himself and not send it through a half a dozen mouths before it gets to mine so I will come to a close please write soon and give me all the news that may be floating around

  your brother as ever

  Thomas Armstrong

  Vicksburg Cadets

  Direct your letter to Shelbyville Ten

  to the care of Capt Th Dickson as usual

  T Armstrong

  Chalmers brigade

  Ninth Miss Regt

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  S.S. Mohawk Radiogram, 1927

  On-board newsletter titled "The Radiogram" produced on the S.S. Mohawk, sailing between Jacksonville, Florida, Charleston, South Carolina, and New York City, July 1-3, 1927. The newsletter was edited by Chief Wireless Operator Clarence B. De La Hunt.

  The S.S. Mohawk was launched in 1925 for the Clyde Steamship Company and operated as a passenger ship between Florida and New York and also to Galveston and the Caribbean. It could carry 446 passengers. The ship sank after a collision near New York in 1935 with the loss of 47 passengers and crew.

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  U.P. Teller, Memphis, 1950

  Vol. 2:5 of "The U.P. Teller", a staff newsletter published by Union Planters National Bank and Trust Company, Memphis, Tennessee, in May 1950. A photograph of Norman De La Hunt is featured on page 5.

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  Valley Line News, 1955

  Vol. 2:1 of the "Valley Line News", an illustrated newsletter published by the Mississippi Valley Barge Line Company that operated on the Ohio and Mississippi Rivers, in November-December 1955.

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  Woman's Life magazine, Chicago, 1893

  Vo.1:1 of Woman's Life magazine published in Chicago, Illinois, on December 15, 1893. The magazine was advertised as "A Modern Journal Representing Woman's Work, Health and Home."