Robert and Sadye Wier Papers

The Robert and Sadye Wier Papers digital collection is a collection of selected digitized materials from the Robert and Sadye Wier Papers collection. The Robert and Sadye Wier Papers, 1885-1975, consist of business records, correspondence, family papers, oral history interviews, personal papers, photographs, scrapbooks, and other items related to the lives of the Wiers. Topics covered include race relations, the history of Starkville, the Starkville Second Baptist Church, Journeymen Barber's International Union of America, teaching in Starkville, and the Mississippi Cooperative Extension Service in Newton, Winston, and Lowndes counties.

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Young Men Discussion Outside

A group of men seated in wooden chairs outside while a man stands in facing them.
Corn Meal Contest

Sadye Wier's early work with Mississippi State University Extension Service: Corn meal contest, Winston County, Mississippi.
School Auditorium

Sadye Wier's early work with Mississippi State University Extension Service: School auditorium, Winston County, Mississippi.
Women Sewing

Sadye Wier's early work with Mississippi State University Extension Service: Women sewing, Winston County, Mississippi.
100 Voice Choir

Sadye Wier's early work with Mississippi State University Extension Service: 100 voice choir partially pictured in front of a house in Newton, Mississippi.
Choir

Sadye Wier's early work with Mississippi State University Extension Service: 100 voice choir partially pictured in front of a house in Newton, Mississippi.
Newton County Vegetable Show

Sadye Wier's early work with Mississippi State University Extension Service: Newton County vegetable show.
Newton County Vegetable Show Pose

Sadye Wier's early work with Mississippi State University Extension Service: Newton County vegetable show.
Newton County Vegetable Show Table

Sadye Wier's early work with Mississippi State University Extension Service: Newton County vegetable show.
People on Porch

Sadye Wier's early work with Mississippi State University Extension Service: 4-H group and leaders pictured on porch of building, Newton County, Mississippi.
Sadye Hunter Wier in 1940

Sadye Hunter Wier in 1940, when she worked in the city school at West Point, Mississippi.
Sadye Hunter Wier With a Student

Sadye Hunter Wier with a student at Oktibbeha County Training School, 1940.
Robert and Sadye Wier

Robert and Sadye Wier, married in 1932.
Sadye Hunter Wier and Mrs. Nash

Sadye H. Wier with Mrs. Nash, a fellow teacher at Oktibbeha County Training School, 1932.
Minnie E. Hunter with Grandson

Minnie E. Hunter with Ernest Hunter's son, taken at Noxubee Industrial School, 1930.
Sadye Hunter Wier

Sadye Hunter Wier during her first year teaching at Oktibbeha County Training School, 1930.
Sadye Hunter Wier in Starkville, MS

Sadye Hunter Wier during her first year teaching at Oktibbeha County Training School, 1930.
Sadye Hunter Wier as a Graduate

Sadye Hunter Wier as a graduate in 1928.
African-Americans waiting for train, Starkville, 1/1923

African-Americans waiting near Lampkin Street in Starkville, Mississippi for the train that will take the body of Letha Gilliam Wier, second wife of Robert Wier, to her home town of Clarksdale, Mississippi. Letha G. Wier was a home demonstration agent for Oktibbeha County and died suddenly on January 9, 1923. Photograph was taken near the train depot and just off Lampkin Street and shows a partial view of the Blumenfeld and Fried wholesale grocery warehouse, as well as neighborhood houses in the background.
Sadye Hunter Wier at Fisk University

Sadye Hunter Wier (aged about 16) at Fisk University in Nashville, Tennessee.
The [Black] Soldier Boys of Uncle Sam: "We're Coming"

William J. Nickerson

World War I- era notated music for voice and piano dedicated to Black American soldiers. Front cover features a Black soldier standing at attention.
When Sambo Goes to France

Tom Turpin

World War I- era notated music for voice and piano dedicated to the 92nd Division at Camp Funston. Cover art features a Black soldier marching with a rifle over his shoulder.
Noxubee Industrial School Catalog

1917-1918 catalog of the Noxubee Industrial School, founded in 1898 by S.J. Hunter, father of Sadye H. Wier. The school was located in McLeod, Mississippi.
Arkansas Industrial College Entertaining Pine Bluff Chamber of Commerce

Arkansas Industrial College entertaining Pine Bluff Chamber of Commerce in Pine Bluff, Arkansas.
Sadye Hunter Wier at 8 Years Old

Sadye Hunter Wier at 8 years old, c. 1914.
Noxubee Industrial School Commencement

1913 commencement at Mollison's Hall at Noxubee Industrial School, founded in 1898 by S.J. Hunter, father of Sadye H. Wier. The school was located in McLeod, Mississippi.