Pearlington (vicinity), Mississippi. Truck driver eating at a trucker'...
Picryl description: Public domain image of people, meeting, eating, drinking, food, beverage, 1930s, free to use, no copyright restrictions.
Vicksburg National Military Park, Mississippi. during American Civil W...
Scale ca. 1:62,000. LC Civil War Maps (2nd ed.), 291.1 Descriptive leaflet illustrated with the following two maps: [a] Vicksburg National Military Park, Mississippi. Colored. Scale ca. 1:14,400. 11 x 22 cm. (S... More
Humble cabin where Elvis Presley was born in 1935
Title, date and keywords based on information provided by the photographer. The cabin was relocated to the Presley birthplace site in Tupelo, Mississippi. Elvis Aaron Presley was an American musician and actor ... More
![Integration at Ole Miss[issippi] Univ[ersity]. Oxford Miss / MST.](https://cache.getarchive.net/Prod/thumb/cdn4/L3Bob3RvLzE5NjIvMDEvMDEvaW50ZWdyYXRpb24tYXQtb2xlLW1pc3Npc3NpcHBpLXVuaXZlcnNpdHktb3hmb3JkLW1pc3MtbXN0LTEwMjQuanBn/40/26/webp "Integration at Ole Miss[issippi] Univ[ersity]. Oxford Miss / MST.")
Integration at Ole Miss[issippi] Univ[ersity]. Oxford Miss / MST.
Photograph shows students and soldiers in military vehicle outside of buildings at the University of Mississippi, Oxford.
Joe Bell House, 317 South Congress Street, Jackson, Hinds County, MS
Picryl description: Public domain image of a small palace, chateau, villa, residential historic building, free to use, no copyright restrictions image.
Windsor Mansion ruins, Port Gibson, Mississippi
Digital image produced by Carol M. Highsmith to represent her original film transparency; some details may differ between the film and the digital images. The columns were all that remained of a grand mansion n... More
The Manship house, Jackson, Mississippi during American Civil War
Digital image produced by Carol M. Highsmith to represent her original film transparency; some details may differ between the film and the digital images. Built in 1857 by Charles Henry Manship, Civil War mayor... More
Land resource regions and major land resource areas, Mississippi
"May 1992 1006969." "Source: Data provided by SCS field personnel. Map prepared using automated map construction. National Cartography and GIS Center, Fort Worth, Texas 1992." Available also through the Library... More
New stair interior, U.S. Courthouse, Natchez, Mississippi
Built in 1853 as Memorial Hall, a Greek Revival structure, later turned into a U.S. Courthouse. Photographed as part of an assignment for the General Services Administration. Title, date, and subject note provi... More
A "Gateway to the Blues" sign dominates the visitor center and museum ...
Title, date and keywords based on information provided by the photographer. Gift; Ben May Charitable Trust; 2016; (DLC/PP-2016:059). Forms part of the Ben May Charitable Trust Collection of Mississippi Photogra... More
Machinery at the c. 1892 Bisland Cotton Gin (whose structure was too b...
Title, date and keywords based on information provided by the photographer. Gift; Ben May Charitable Trust; 2016; (DLC/PP-2016:059). Forms part of the Ben May Charitable Trust Collection of Mississippi Photogra... More
Sweeping, modernist entrance to the Dr. A.H. McCoy Federal Building in...
Title, date and keywords based on information provided by the photographer. This was the first federal building in the country to be named for an African American. Dr. McCoy, a dentist, was born outside Jackson... More
The Mississippi House of Representatives Chamber in the State Capitol ...
Title, date and keywords based on information provided by the photographer. The third state house to be located in Jackson, this Beaux-Arts-style building, completed in 1901, was designed to house all branches ... More
Stained-glass window at the top of the grand staircase at the Mississi...
Title, date and keywords based on information provided by the photographer. The third state house to be located in Jackson, this Beaux-Arts-style building, completed in 1901, was designed to house all branches ... More
One of 32 murals on the Mississippi River floodwall by Robert Dafford,...
Title, date and keywords based on information provided by the photographer. This one depicts the aftermath of a devasting tornado that struck the city in 1953 when fifty-three people died in the storm. Gift; Be... More
Footpath along the Natchez Trace Parkway near Tupelo, Mississippi. Now...
Title, date and keywords based on information provided by the photographer. Gift; Ben May Charitable Trust; 2016; (DLC/PP-2016:059). Forms part of the Ben May Charitable Trust Collection of Mississippi Photogra... More
"Gateway to the Blues" neon sign at the visitor center promoting Tunic...
Title, date and keywords based on information provided by the photographer. Gift; Ben May Charitable Trust; 2016; (DLC/PP-2016:059). Forms part of the Ben May Charitable Trust Collection of Mississippi Photogra... More
Waterfall and part of the water wheel at Dunn's Mill in Enterprise, Mi...
Title, date and keywords based on information provided by the photographer. The park features a 65-foot waterfall created in the 1850s by the mill's owner, Irish immigrant John Dunn. Gift; Ben May Charitable Tr... More
Prior to the 1990s, rural Tunica County, Mississippi, was one of Ameri...
Title, date and keywords based on information provided by the photographer. Gift; Ben May Charitable Trust; 2016; (DLC/PP-2016:059). Forms part of the Ben May Charitable Trust Collection of Mississippi Photogra... More
Billy Scott, Edward Partee and Magnolia Robinson in Clarksdale, Missis...
Title, date and keywords based on information provided by the photographer. Gift; Ben May Charitable Trust; 2016; (DLC/PP-2016:059). Forms part of the Ben May Charitable Trust Collection of Mississippi Photogra... More
A humble "blues tourist" stop and convenience store in Alligator, an i...
Title, date and keywords based on information provided by the photographer. Gift; Ben May Charitable Trust; 2016; (DLC/PP-2016:059). Forms part of the Ben May Charitable Trust Collection of Mississippi Photogra... More
The humble hometown neighborhood of legendary blues guitarist Morris "...
Title, date and keywords based on information provided by the photographer. Gift; Ben May Charitable Trust; 2016; (DLC/PP-2016:059). Forms part of the Ben May Charitable Trust Collection of Mississippi Photogra... More
Old-style Texaco gasoline pump in Batesville, Mississippi
Title, date and keywords based on information provided by the photographer. Gift; Ben May Charitable Trust; 2016; (DLC/PP-2016:059). Forms part of the Ben May Charitable Trust Collection of Mississippi Photogra... More
The Mississippi capitol building is prominent in this aerial view of J...
Title, date and keywords based on information provided by the photographer. The tall office building near the capitol is the 20-story Walter Sillers State Office Building. Gift; Ben May Charitable Trust; 2016; ... More
"Gateway to the Blues" neon sign at the visitor center in Tunica, one ...
Title, date and keywords based on information provided by the photographer. Gift; Ben May Charitable Trust; 2016; (DLC/PP-2016:059). Forms part of the Ben May Charitable Trust Collection of Mississippi Photogra... More
Signs at Abe's Bar B-Q restaurant in Clarksdale, a prominent home to o...
Title, date and keywords based on information provided by the photographer. Gift; Ben May Charitable Trust; 2016; (DLC/PP-2016:059). Forms part of the Ben May Charitable Trust Collection of Mississippi Photogra... More
The theater marquee is old and worn, but the restored theater and musi...
Title, date and keywords based on information provided by the photographer. Juke joint is the vernacular term for a rudimentary establishment featuring music, dancing, gambling, and drinking, primarily operated... More
A now-unreadable, rusted metal sign once advertised the long-closed Su...
Title, date and keywords based on information provided by the photographer. Gift; Ben May Charitable Trust; 2016; (DLC/PP-2016:059). Forms part of the Ben May Charitable Trust Collection of Mississippi Photogra... More
Unusual Confederate monument, unusual in that features not just the re...
Title, date and keywords based on information provided by the photographer. Gift; Ben May Charitable Trust; 2016; (DLC/PP-2016:059). Forms part of the Ben May Charitable Trust Collection of Mississippi Photogra... More
This fellow sitting outside Red's Blues Club in Clarksdale, a vibrant ...
Title, date and keywords based on information provided by the photographer. Juke joint (or jook joint) is the vernacular term for an informal establishment featuring music, dancing (and at least at one time in ... More
Array of old bells at the Mississippi Agriculture and Forestry Museum,...
Title, date and keywords based on information provided by the photographer. Gift; Ben May Charitable Trust; 2016; (DLC/PP-2016:059). Forms part of the Ben May Charitable Trust Collection of Mississippi Photogra... More
View of Minneapolis, Minn. / engraved, printed and published by A. Hag...
Print showing bird's-eye view of Minneapolis, Minnesota on both sides of the Mississippi River. R5444 U.S. Copyright Office. Ent. according to act of Congress in the year 1886 by A. Hageboeck in the office of ... More
Regimental parade, Miss. A & M College
J191098 U.S. Copyright Office Copyright deposit; Charles Foster Montgomery; March 15, 1914.
Dr. William B. Wiener Jr. House, 228 Ridge Drive, Jackson, Hinds Count...
2016 Charles E. Peterson Prize, Entry Significance: The Dr. William B. Wiener Jr. house was designed in 1950 by half-brother Shreveport architects Samuel G. Wiener and William B. Wiener Sr. Of the two brothers,... More
Cotton fields at Dahomey, Miss - Glass negative photogrpah. Public dom...
Corresponding glass transparency (LC-D4-1574) available on videodisc frame 1A-28739. Detroit Publishing Co. no. 071654. Gift; State Historical Society of Colorado; 1949.
All these are shrimp-pickers in Dunbar, Lopez, Dukate Company. Younges...
Title from NCLC caption card. Attribution to Hine based on provenance. In album: Canneries. Hine no. 1982. Reproduction no. LC-USZ6-1142. Credit line: National Child Labor Committee collection, Library of Congr... More
Manship House, Northwest & Fortification Streets, Jackson, Hinds Count...
Significance: Constructed ca. 1857, the Manship House is the finest extant Gothic Revival structure in Jackson, Mississippi, and is one of the few fully developed "Cottage Gothic" residences in the state. The ... More
Picking cotton on plantation outside Clarksdale, Mississippi Delta, Mi...
Title and other information from caption card. Transfer; United States. Office of War Information. Overseas Picture Division. Washington Division; 1944. More information about the FSA/OWI Collection is availabl... More
Dr. William B. Wiener Jr. House, 228 Ridge Drive, Jackson, Hinds Count...
2016 Charles E. Peterson Prize, Entry Significance: The Dr. William B. Wiener Jr. house was designed in 1950 by half-brother Shreveport architects Samuel G. Wiener and William B. Wiener Sr. Of the two brothers,... More
Floweree, 2309 Pearl Street, Vicksburg, Warren County, MS
Significance: Floweree, as it is called today, is on the National Register. It is named for Charles C. Floweree who was born on October 26, 1842 in Fauquier County Virginia. After serving with distinction in ... More
Floweree, 2309 Pearl Street, Vicksburg, Warren County, MS
Significance: Floweree, as it is called today, is on the National Register. It is named for Charles C. Floweree who was born on October 26, 1842 in Fauquier County Virginia. After serving with distinction in ... More
W.B. Walker House, Aberdeen, Monroe County, MS
Survey number: HABS MS-73 Building/structure dates: 1850 Initial Construction
Old Jail Building, First & Mississippi Streets, Jonesboro, Union Count...
Unprocessed Field note material exists for this structure: FN-62,FN-63, FN-66, FN-67 Survey number: HABS IL-233 Building/structure dates: 1872 Initial Construction
Cotton planted in cut-over field. Mississippi County, Missouri
Picryl description: Public domain photograph of farming, farmer, agriculture, 20th-century, free to use, no copyright restrictions.
John R. Trimm Barn, Old Natchez Trace, Tishomingo, Tishomingo County, ...
Significance: The Trimm Barn, built about 1940, is an example of a transverse crib barn, the most common barn type in the Upland South. Originally built to house registered cattle, the gambrel roof barn was mo... More
Bontura House, Broadway & Market Streets, Natchez, Adams County, MS
Survey number: HABS MS-161 Public domain photograph - city, downtown, United States, free to use, no copyright restrictions image - Picryl description
Mississippi River 9-Foot Channel Project, Lock & Dam No. 15, Upper Mis...
Significance: The U.S. Army Corps of Engineers Nine-Foot Channel Project (1927-1940) represents the culmination of a 100-year effort to improve the navigability of the Upper Mississippi River between the mouth ... More
Mississippi River 9-Foot Channel Project, Lock & Dam No. 15, Upper Mis...
Significance: The U.S. Army Corps of Engineers Nine-Foot Channel Project (1927-1940) represents the culmination of a 100-year effort to improve the navigability of the Upper Mississippi River between the mouth ... More
Martin's Bluff (Buildings & Dam Abutment), East Bank of Tombigbee Rive...
Unprocessed Field note material exists for this structure: FN-35 Survey number: HABS MS-209
Poster - Maiden rock: Mississippi River - Public domain lithograph
Currier & Ives : a catalogue raisonné / compiled by Gale Research. Detroit, MI : Gale Research, c1983, no. 4217
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[Rear view of woman washing clothes]
230015. Forms part of: Portraits of African American ex-slaves from the U.S. Works Progress Administration, Federal Writers' Project slave narratives collections.
Mildred Kron, three years old, and Gertrude Kron, five years old. Help...
Picryl description: Public domain image of children, kids, free to use, no copyright restrictions.
Veterans Administration Medical Center, Building 51, 200 East Beach Bo...
Public domain photograph - historical image of Mississippi, United States, free to use, no copyright restrictions image - Picryl description
Scales House, Macon, Noxubee County, MS
Survey number: HABS MS-98 Building/structure dates: 18t4 Initial Construction
Aldridge Plantation, Mississippi
Public domain photograph - historical image of Mississippi, United States, free to use, no copyright restrictions image - Picryl description
Commercial Bank, 206 Main Street, Natchez, Adams County, MS
Significance: The First Church of Christ (Scientist), a National Historic Landmark, is a superb example of Greek Revival architecture, dominated by an academic Ionic portico. Originally built for the Commercia... More
Commercial Bank, 206 Main Street, Natchez, Adams County, MS
Significance: The First Church of Christ (Scientist), a National Historic Landmark, is a superb example of Greek Revival architecture, dominated by an academic Ionic portico. Originally built for the Commercia... More
Sketch of a journey through the western states of North America : from...
Picryl description: Public domain illustrated travel, exploration, and geography book page scan, free to use, no copyright restrictions image.
D'Evereux, Natchez, Adams County, MS
Public domain photograph - historical image of Mississippi, United States, free to use, no copyright restrictions image - Picryl description
Melrose, Main House, 1 Melrose-Montebello Parkway, Natchez, Adams Coun...
Survey number: HABS MS-61-A National Register of Historic Places NRIS Number: 74002253
Melrose, Main House, 1 Melrose-Montebello Parkway, Natchez, Adams Coun...
Survey number: HABS MS-61-A National Register of Historic Places NRIS Number: 74002253
Melrose, Main House, 1 Melrose-Montebello Parkway, Natchez, Adams Coun...
Survey number: HABS MS-61-A National Register of Historic Places NRIS Number: 74002253
Melrose, Main House, 1 Melrose-Montebello Parkway, Natchez, Adams Coun...
Survey number: HABS MS-61-A National Register of Historic Places NRIS Number: 74002253
Melrose, Main House, 1 Melrose-Montebello Parkway, Natchez, Adams Coun...
Survey number: HABS MS-61-A National Register of Historic Places NRIS Number: 74002253
Bridge No. 5930, Spanning Mississippi River at Trunk Highway 43, Winon...
Unprocessed Field note material exists for this structure: N516 Unprocessed Field note material exists for this structure: N1087 Survey number: HAER MN-91
Bridge No. 5930, Spanning Mississippi River at Trunk Highway 43, Winon...
Unprocessed Field note material exists for this structure: N516 Unprocessed Field note material exists for this structure: N1087 Survey number: HAER MN-91
Bridge No. 5930, Spanning Mississippi River at Trunk Highway 43, Winon...
Unprocessed Field note material exists for this structure: N516 Unprocessed Field note material exists for this structure: N1087 Survey number: HAER MN-91
Amzi Love House, 305 South Seventh Street, Columbus, Lowndes County, M...
Public domain photograph - historical image of Mississippi, United States, free to use, no copyright restrictions image - Picryl description
Johnson & McCallum Houses, 210-212 State Street, Natchez, Adams County...
Significance: William Johnson, a successful free black man in antebellum Natchez, built this substantial brick townhouse in 1840-41 as a commercial property and primary residence. Within this building, Johnson... More
White Pillars, 234 Maury Street, Holly Springs, Marshall County, MS
Survey number: HABS MS-228 Public domain photograph of a house, residential property, free to use, no copyright restrictions image - Picryl description
Veterans Administration Medical Center, Building 54, 200 East Beach Bo...
Significance: Architecturally the residences are nondescript, but classic, incorporating features and trim still being accepted from the pre-WWII period. The structure was constructed for use as a residence an... More
Veterans Administration Medical Center, Building 52, 200 East Beach Bo...
Significance: Architecturally the residences are nondescript, but classic, incorporating features and trim still being accepted from the pre-WWII period. The structure was constructed for use as a residence an... More
Veterans Administration Medical Center, Building 52, 200 East Beach Bo...
Significance: Architecturally the residences are nondescript, but classic, incorporating features and trim still being accepted from the pre-WWII period. The structure was constructed for use as a residence an... More
Old Fayard House (Ruins), Biloxi, Harrison County, MS
Survey number: HABS MS-13 Public domain photograph - historical image of Mississippi, United States, free to use, no copyright restrictions image - Picryl description
Old Fayard House (Ruins), Biloxi, Harrison County, MS
Survey number: HABS MS-13 Public domain photograph - historical image of Mississippi, United States, free to use, no copyright restrictions image - Picryl description
Melrose, 1 Melrose-Montebello Parkway, Natchez, Adams County, MS
Picryl description: Public domain image of a park, trees, outdoors, free to use, no copyright restrictions.
Melrose, 1 Melrose-Montebello Parkway, Natchez, Adams County, MS
Picryl description: Public domain image of a park, trees, outdoors, free to use, no copyright restrictions.
Williamsburg, 821 Main Street, Natchez, Adams County, MS
Significance: This Federal style cottage possesses an unusual number of regional characteristics, for example, the exterior paneled dado, the fireplace cabinets, the vaulted ceilings, the plan of the open rear ... More
Broadway Bridge, Spanning Mississippi River at Broadway Street, Minnea...
Significance: The Broadway Bridge was a four-span, wrought iron and steel, high through Pratt truss and was one of two known remaining decorative truss bridges in Minnesota. The bridge was fabricated by the Ki... More
Broadway Bridge, Spanning Mississippi River at Broadway Street, Minnea...
Significance: The Broadway Bridge was a four-span, wrought iron and steel, high through Pratt truss and was one of two known remaining decorative truss bridges in Minnesota. The bridge was fabricated by the Ki... More
Broadway Bridge, Spanning Mississippi River at Broadway Street, Minnea...
Significance: The Broadway Bridge was a four-span, wrought iron and steel, high through Pratt truss and was one of two known remaining decorative truss bridges in Minnesota. The bridge was fabricated by the Ki... More
Isaiah Thornton Montgomery House, West Main Street, Mound Bayou, Boliv...
Significance: Isaiah T. Montgomery was the black founder and first mayor of the town of Mound Bayou, which was one of the first independent black settlements established during the Post-Reconstruction period. ... More
R. G. Adams House, Mackeys Creek vicinity, Tishomingo, Tishomingo Coun...
Significance: The Adams House is a good, late, example of a frame double pen (two-room) plan with open central hall, or "dogtrot," a folk house type indigenous to the rural South. Built in 1913, with a rear el... More
R. G. Adams House, Mackeys Creek vicinity, Tishomingo, Tishomingo Coun...
Significance: The Adams House is a good, late, example of a frame double pen (two-room) plan with open central hall, or "dogtrot," a folk house type indigenous to the rural South. Built in 1913, with a rear el... More
Walter Place, 331 Chulahoma Avenue, Holly Springs, Marshall County, MS
Public domain photograph - historical image of Mississippi, United States, free to use, no copyright restrictions image - Picryl description
University of Mississippi, Barnard Observatory, University Circle, Oxf...
Survey number: HABS MS-243 National Register of Historic Places NRIS Number: 78001607
Johnson & McCallum Houses, William Johnson House, 210 State Street, Na...
Survey number: HABS MS-270-A Building/structure dates: 1840-1841 Initial Construction Building/structure dates: 1977-1986 Subsequent Work Building/structure dates: ca. 1925 Subsequent Work
Johnson & McCallum Houses, William Johnson House, 210 State Street, Na...
Survey number: HABS MS-270-A Building/structure dates: 1840-1841 Initial Construction Building/structure dates: 1977-1986 Subsequent Work Building/structure dates: ca. 1925 Subsequent Work
Johnson & McCallum Houses, William Johnson House, 210 State Street, Na...
Survey number: HABS MS-270-A Building/structure dates: 1840-1841 Initial Construction Building/structure dates: 1977-1986 Subsequent Work Building/structure dates: ca. 1925 Subsequent Work
Cowles Meade House, Washington, Adams County, MS
Survey number: HABS MS-7 Building/structure dates: 1807 Initial Construction
Centennial Bridge, Spanning Mississippi River at U.S. Highway 61, Dave...
Significance: This bridge is a major river span and was the first tied-arch span across the Mississippi River. The bridge was fabricated, and the superstructure built, by American Bridge Company, New York, one... More
The smallest shrimp-picker, standing on the box is Manuel, about five ...
Picryl description: Public domain image of child labor, economic conditions, children workers, exploitation, free to use, no copyright restrictions.
Aberdeen Station, U.S. Route 45, Aberdeen, Monroe County, MS
Significance: In 1928 the St. Louis and San Francisco (Frisco) Railway Company completed a new rail line along the Tombigbee River to connect the recently acquired track of the Muscle Shoals, Birmingham and Pen... More
Lawyers' Row, State & Wall Streets, Natchez, Adams County, MS
Survey number: HABS MS-10 Building/structure dates: 1796 Initial Construction
Clara Barton Papers: Red Cross File, 1863-1957; American National Red ...
Clara Barton is best known for founding and leading the American National Red Cross, a humanitarian organization dedicated to providing emergency assistance, disaster relief, and education in the United States.... More
Fort Snelling, Department of the Dakota, Bounded by Mississippi River,...
Significance: The construction of the Department of the Dakota marks the decline of the Army's interior defense mission as the century ended and its new function as an administrative center, concerning itself w... More
Thermerlaine, 510 North Seventh Street, Columbus, Lowndes County, MS
Survey number: HABS MS-257 Public domain photograph - historical image of Mississippi, United States, free to use, no copyright restrictions image - Picryl description
Memphis Bridge, Spanning Mississippi River, Memphis, Shelby County, TN
See also HAER NE-2 for additional documentation. Significance: Designated a National Historic Civil Engineering Landmark because it was the third longest railroad bridge in the world at 790' when completed. It... More
Memphis Bridge, Spanning Mississippi River, Memphis, Shelby County, TN
See also HAER NE-2 for additional documentation. Significance: Designated a National Historic Civil Engineering Landmark because it was the third longest railroad bridge in the world at 790' when completed. It... More
Memphis Bridge, Spanning Mississippi River, Memphis, Shelby County, TN
See also HAER NE-2 for additional documentation. Significance: Designated a National Historic Civil Engineering Landmark because it was the third longest railroad bridge in the world at 790' when completed. It... More