Finding Aid for the Chancellors Portraits Collection (MUM00153)

Authors

Document Type

Finding Aid

Publication Date

Spring 2025

Collection Date

July 2022

Identifier

(MUM00153)

LCSH

University of Mississippi -- History

General Physical Description Note

16 paintings

Description

The Mississippi Legislature chartered the University of Mississippi as the state’s first venue for public higher education in 1844. After construction, the doors to the institution opened to students in Oxford on 8 November 1848. The first two leaders of the university (George Frederick Holmes 1848-1849 and Augustus Baldwin Longstreet 1849-1856) were called “president” until the title changed to “chancellor” in 1858 at the suggestion of then President F.A.P. Barnard

Comments

Chancellors Portraits include some on display at J.D. Williams Library.

Recommended Citation

Chancellors Portraits Collection, Archives and Special Collections, University of Mississippi Libraries

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