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Ship Island

 Subject
Subject Source: Local sources

Found in 2 Collections and/or Records:

Jefferson Davis Ship Island Collection

 Collection
Identifier: THR/01/2021.s231
Scope and Contents

This collection contains correspondence from a prisoner at Ship Island, Mississippi to Jefferson Davis. It also contains an article by Lee Meriwether regarding his childhood encounter with Davis.

Dates: 1862 - 1953

Martin A. Row Papers

 Collection
Identifier: THR/01/2013.s012
Scope and Contents The Martin A. Row Collection (1766-1957; nine boxes) contains materials belonging to attorney Martin A. Row. The collection includes legal briefs and arguments concerning Sun Oil Company as well as Martin A. Row’s professional notes on Padre Island and photographs of the Texas coast. The collectionalso contains Martin A. Row’s personal books and a small amount of his professional correspondence concerning the Texas Tidelands case. The Tidelands controversy between the United States and Texas...
Dates: 1766 - 1957