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Online Collections Continue to Grow
The Digital Archives section of the MDAH Web site has grown with the addition of eleven new collections. The most recent is the Hugh W. Shankle Collection that features beauty contestants, artists, local celebrities, inaugurations, and buildings in Jackson and other cities across the state in the 1950s and ‘60s. Photographs also document Ole Miss football, including the January 2,1962, Cotton Bowl in Dallas, Texas.
The Corinth, Mississippi Collection documents that community during the 1920s, when it was a thriving juncture of agriculture, industry, and rail lines. Walter F.
McCord owned the city’s largest photography business, McCord’s Studio, and documented the Alcorn County seat—a “New Capitol, Bevo Car, circa 1918. residential street Photograph Collection, paving project, fire-fighting and farm equipment, and local businesses and homes.
The Daniel Photograph Collection comprises nearly six hundred images dating from the late 1800s, most made of subjects in Jackson. Of special interest are panoramic photographs of early floods in downtown Jackson and photographs of the Mississippi Farmers Market, the Farish Street business district, the Old Capitol, and the Mississippi State Capitol. Other photographs feature buildings, schools, politicians, and street scenes, as well as the tung oil industry in south Mississippi and Boy Scouts at campgrounds around the state.
Luther Myles Hamilton, Sr., (1869-1944) owned and operated a portrait studio out of a tent equipped with a portable darkroom in Crystal Springs. The Luther Hamilton Photograph Collection consists of982 images of work and community activities in the South during the early twentieth century. Formal portraits taken in the studio include town leaders Augustus Lotterhos, “The Father of Crystal Springs,” and Bryant Wesley Mat-this, “The Cabbage King,” as well as pets and people of various ages and races. Later snapshots include images of Franklin D.
Roosevelt speaking in Tupelo, Mississippi, in 1934, and scenes from Hamilton’s son’s
studies at Mississippi State College in the late 1930s and 1940s.
Ralph Hargrove began work as official photographer for the Jackson Police Department in 1942. The Hargrove Collection documents police activities from 1927 until 1984, and his crime-scene photographs were crucial evidence in the 1994 conviction of Byron de la Beckwith for the murder of Medgar Evers. Other subjects include Jackson’s first African American policemen, United States Senator John C. Sten-nis, Mississippi lieutenant governor Charles Sullivan, Alabama governor George Wallace, and the Jackson police vehicle known as “Thompson’s Tank.”
More than 2,400 rare and beautiful maps dating from the 1500s to the present day are included in the Historical Map Collection at MDAH. Twenty-two of the most significant maps
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in celebration of National Library Week 2010. Included are maps of Mississippi’s early exploration, colonial expansion, territorial period, early statehood, and the Civil War, as well as colorful geological maps and plats of cities and towns.
From the Daniel
Mississippi Coliseum in Jackson, 1960s. From the Hargrove Photograph Collection.
Hurricane Katrina wreaked havoc on the Mississippi Gulf Coast on August 29,2005. Having grown up in Moss Point, a coastal town in the path of the storm, MDAH graphic records curator Jeff Rogers found himself in demand as a guide for disaster recovery and assessment teams and national and regional archivists. The Hurricane Katrina Photographs document his firsthand observations of the destruction and recovery of several Mississippi communities.
The McCardle Photograph Collection contains sixty-six images of nineteenth-century political, military, and religious figures, including Confederates Jefferson Davis, Robert E. Lee, John C. Pemberton, and L. Q. C. Lamar, as well as Union general Alfred Pleasonton, Union admiral David Dixon Porter, and the first Episcopal bishop of Mississippi, William Mercer Green.
Brothers Robert Livingston Stewart and William Percy Stewart documented their family and neighbors in Natchez around 1890-1905. The Stewart Photograph Collection includes family portraits at their parents’ residence, Myrtle Bank, images of other significant houses in the region, vacations at Cooper’s Wells and Atlantic City resorts, and dedication ceremonies, winter storms, floods, steamboats, and river scenes.
Vicksburg National Military Park was established in 1899 to preserve the site of the siege and defense of the city and to commemorate the campaign that culminated in the Confederate Army’s surrender on July 4, 1863. The photographs in the Vicksburg National Military Park Collection, most taken between 1899 and 1923, document the creation of the park and the design and construction of its monuments and memorials.
Named after a Chickasaw Indian ________________	Chief, Tishomingo State Park sits just off the Natchez Trace Parkway in the foothills of the ^ ^ _______________________Appalachian
Mountains in Tishomingo County, Mississippi. The park was developed with Civilian Conservation Corps labor from 1935 to the early 1940s. Clifford Green Worsham, senior engineering foreman for 1939-40 projects, assembled the Worsham Photograph Album that documented the innovative methods workers employed to construct a dam, swimming pool, baseball field, parking lot, and swinging bridge within a limited budget, as well as camp visitors and workers relaxing at the lodge and exploring the park.
To see the online collections, go to mdah. state.ms.us/arrec/digital_archives.