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Portraits of Mississippi Freemason leaders Thomas W. Stringer, Murdock M. McLeod, and E. W. Lampton.

Excerpt from a Freedmen's Bureau report about a school to be started by Henry Mayson in Jackson.

Freedman's Bank record for Robert Gleed

Freedman's Bank record for Charles Stewart

(no number) Preserved ivory varies widely in appearance from one site to the next, but the tusk itself can easily be mistaken for petrified wood because it forms concentric rings as the animal grows. Tusk fragments are generally thin, with a slight…

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(DSM #10565) This brachiopod has had its shell partially replaced by the mineral pyrite. Pyrite is also known as fool's gold.

(DSM #M410) This Turritellid snail has been completely replaced with the mineral pyrite. Some pyrite nodules have also begun to form and grow.