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In honor of the University of Mississippi Museum‘s 75th anniversary, the Ole Miss News Blog is featuring 75 different items from the museum’s archives of more than 20,000 objects. Today’s featured item is an ancient Greek coin, which depicts a griffin. The mythical creature is seated with one paw raised, with a small rooster below. The coin was minted sometimeRead the story …

In honor of the University of Mississippi Museum‘s 75th anniversary this year, the Ole Miss News Blog is featuring 75 different items from the museum’s archives of more than 20,000 objects. Today’s featured item is Theora Hamblett’s aquamarine colored fluted dish, which is painted between two pieces of glass. Hamblett donated the piece to the University Museum. Born in Paris,Read the story …

In honor of the University of Mississippi Museum‘s 75th anniversary this year, the Ole Miss News Blog is featuring 75 different items from the museum’s archives of more than 20,000 objects. Today’s featured item is a pair of tinted goggles with wire mesh that date back to the late 1800s. The goggles have blue lenses and two straps that tieRead the story …

In honor of the University of Mississippi Museum‘s 75th anniversary this year, the Ole Miss News Blog is featuring 75 different items from the museum’s archives of more than 20,000 objects. Today’s featured item is Theora Hamblett‘s painting on glass titled “Creator’s Star and Trinity.” Hamblett donated the piece, which features a six-pointed start with 63 yellow rays radiating fromRead the story …

In honor of the University of Mississippi Museum’s 75th anniversary this year, the Ole Miss News Blog is featuring 75 different items from the museum’s archives of more than 20,000 objects. Today’s featured item is a jacket worn by a member of the University Greys, a unit of the Confederate army that many students joined during theRead the story …

In honor of the University of Mississippi Museum’s 75th anniversary this year, the Ole Miss News Blog is featuring 75 different items from the museum’s archives of more than 20,000 objects. Today’s featured item is the museum’s Peppertown Pottery “Snaggletooth Jug,” which was made in 1995 and signed by the Rileys, who owned the pottery business inRead the story …

In honor of the University of Mississippi Museum’s 75th anniversary this year, the Ole Miss News Blog is featuring 75 different items from the museum’s archives of more than 20,000 objects. Today, we feature Sulton Rogers’ “Devil” figurine, which is a carved wood piece made in 1989. Bill Ferris gave the piece to the museum. Rogers wasRead the story …

The University of Mississippi Museum has more than 20,000 objects in its collection, and in honor of the museum’s 75th anniversary this year, the Ole Miss News Blog is featuring 75 different items from its collections. Today, we feature the museum’s “Aphrodite,” a large-grained island marble piece that was made by an unknown Greek artist.Read the story …

The University of Mississippi Museum has more than 20,000 objects in its collection, and in honor of the museum’s 75th anniversary this year, the Ole Miss News Blog is featuring 75 different items from its collections. Today, we feature the museum’s Georgia O’Keeffe abstraction of Lake George. The piece, which was created in 1918, isRead the story …