Cully A. Cobb Archival Papers

The Cully A. Cobb papers consist of correspondence, reports, and other documents concerning the career and family of Cully A. Cobb.

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Cattle

Photograph of cattle in front of a haystack.
House and sheep

Photograph of sheep with a house in the background.
House and sheep

Photograph of sheep with a house in the background.
Man at Ruralist Press barbecue

Photograph of an African-American man at the Ruralist Press barbecue held at the Briar Patch, home of Cully A. Cobb.
Ruralist Press barbecue

Photograph of men and boy at the Ruralist Press barbecue held at the Briar Patch, home of Cully A. Cobb.
Sheep

Photograph of sheep.
Sheep

Photograph of sheep.
Stirring the Brunswick stew

Photograph of three African-American men stirring the Brunswick stew at the Ruralist Press barbecue held at the Briar Patch, home of Cully A. Cobb.
House and garden at the Briar Patch

Boxwood maze at the Briar Patch, home of Cully A. Cobb; designed to resemble the one at Mount Vernon.
Smokehouse at the Briar Patch

Photograph of the smokehouse at the Briar Patch, home of Cully A. Cobb.
The Briar Patch

Photograph of the Briar Patch, home of Cully A. Cobb.
The Briar Patch

Photograph of the Briar Patch, home of Cully A. Cobb.
The Briar Patch

Photograph of the Briar Patch, home of Cully A. Cobb.
The Briar Patch

Photograph of the Briar Patch, home of Cully A. Cobb.
The Briar Patch

Photograph of the Briar Patch, home of Cully A. Cobb.
The Briar Patch

Photograph of the Briar Patch, home of Cully A. Cobb.
The Briar Patch

Photograph of the Briar Patch, home of Cully A. Cobb.
The Briar Patch

Photograph of the Briar Patch, home of Cully A. Cobb.
The farmer today and tomorrow

Address given by Cully Alton Cobb in Little Rock, Arkansas.
Agricultural conservation: the gospel of economic salvation

Address given by Cully A. Cobb at the Pilgrim Baptist Church in Chicago, Illinois, 1937.
Letter, Clarence Poe to Cully Cobb; 1937

Good luck letter to Cully Alton Cobb upon his leaving the US Department of Agriculture to head the Ruralist Press in Atlanta, Georgia.
Letter, USDA to Cully Cobb; 8/5/1937

Letter to Cully Cobb from the USDA upon his resignation.
Rough draft of an address by Cully Cobb

Rough draft of an address given by Cully Alton Cobb at the Rice Branch Experiment Station in Stuttgart, Arkansas in 1937.
Memo, Cully Cobb to Chester Davis; 1/28/1936

Memorandum from Cully A. Cobb to Chester Davis.
The negro farmer and the A. A. A.

Address by Cully A. Cobb at a conference of African-American agricultural leaders and farmers at Prairie View, Texas, 1936.
The South's farm tenancy problem

Printed address by Cully Alton Cobb to the Conference of Rural Ministers at State College, Mississippi in 1936.
Address by Cully Cobb

Address given by Cully A. Cobb at the "Plant to Prosper" dinner at the Peabody Hotel in Memphis, Tennessee.
The Agricultural Adjustment Act in its application to cotton

Speech delivered by Cully Alton Cobb to the Rotary Club in Atlanta, Georgia in 1934.
The Cotton Belt's comeback under agricultural adjustments

Speech by Cully A. Cobb in Washington, D. C. regarding the Cotton Belt's comeback from the Great Depression.
Baseball Team of the A.A.A. Cotton Division

Baseball Team of the Cotton Division of the Agricultural Adjustment Administration.
Franklin Roosevelt with first check from Plow-Up Campaign

President Franklin D. Roosevelt delivering the first check in the 1933 Cotton Plow-Up Campaign to William E. Morris, tenant farmer, Nueces County, Texas. Witnessing are (L-R) Marvin M. Jones, Cully A. Cobb, E.R. Eudaly, Richard Kleberg, and Henry A. Wallace.
Memo from Cully Cobb; 1933

Memorandum by Cully A. Cobb regarding acreage reduction proposals.
An educated agricultural public

Address by Cully A. Cobb to the Louisiana State Teachers Association's annual convention in Monroe, Louisiana, 1932.
Plow-Up Campaign

Description of the Cotton Plow-Up Campaign.
Press room crew

Press Room crew at Ruralist Press in 1926.
Judging Corn Exhibit

Cully A. Cobb, E. B. Ferris, and John R. Hutcheson judging corn.
Southern Ruralist Magazine Employees

Southern Ruralist Magazine employees, circa 1918. Cully Alton Cobb is above the handwritten 2.
A.A.A. Southern Division picnic on the Potomac

Picnic of the Southern Division of the Agricultural Adjustment Administration's Southern Division, at Great Falls on the Potomac.
Cully Cobb at International Club judging contest

Cully Cobb giving instructions to contestants at International Club Judging Contest in Atlanta, Georgia.
Cully Cobb at judging contest

Cully A. Cobb with Jack Turner at International Judging Contest.
Cully Cobb at the Prince of Wales Ranch near Calgary

Cully A. Cobb with John Cunningham and A. B. Calder at the Prince of Wales Ranch near Calgary.
Executives of American Agricultural Editors Association

Executives of American Agricultural Editors Association at Prince of Wales Ranch near Calgary in Canada. (L-R) T.L. Wheeler, Mrs. W.L. Carlyle, John Cunningham, Cully A. Cobb, W.L. Carlyle, and A.B. Calder.
Man by printing press

Worker by printing press at Southern Ruralist.
Memo, Cully Cobb to county agent; [n. d.]

Memo from Cully Cobb to county agent to call public meeting of farmers.
Office at the Southern Ruralist

Office room at the Southern Ruralist.
Office at the Southern Ruralist

Office room at the Southern Ruralist.
Office at the Southern Ruralist

Office room at the Southern Ruralist.
Ruralist Press factory

People working in the factory at Ruralist Press.
Ruralist Press factory

Factory building at Ruralist Press.
Secretaries at the Southern Ruralist

Cully Cobb and secretaries at the Southern Ruralist.
Secretaries at the Southern Ruralist

Secretaries at the Southern Ruralist.
Banquet for Cully Cobb

Program for a banquet given in honor of Cully Cobb, the newly appointed editor at The Southern Ruralist, 1919.
Editorial staff of the Southern Ruralist

The editorial staff of the Southern Ruralist in 1919; includes P.H. Sauders, Col. F.J. Merrian, Professor MacKay, Mary Creswell, Dean Gray, Cully A. Cobb, Dr. J.H. McHalton.
C.A. Cobb postcard

Tinted postcard photograph of a corn exhibit by Cully Alton Cobb's boys' club at the Mississippi State Fair of 1912.
Cully Cobb at MSU

Cully A. Cobb with Susie Powell at Mississippi State University, circa 1911.
Cully Alton Cobb

Photograph of Cully Alton Cobb as a senior at Mississippi State University.
Railroad ticket

Ticket for Cully A. Cobb on the Mobile & Ohio Railroad from Mississippi A&M College to Tupelo, Mississippi, 1908.
Cully Cobb at the barbershop

Photograph of Cully Alton Cobb in the barber's chair during his time at Mississippi A&M College.
Photo with John Philip Sousa

Photograph of Mississippi State University President John Crumpton Hardy with John Philip Sousa, taken by Cully A. Cobb and sent to his sister.
Cully Cobb at Lickskillet boarding house

Cully A. Cobb (top, first on left) with other boarders at the Lickskillet Boarding House.
Klive house

Photograph of Klive House, where Cully A. Cobb roomed during part of his first year at Mississippi State University.
Earnest thoughts on the Alliance

Some Earnest Thoughts on the Alliance, an address by Ben Terrell.

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