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Digital Archives Photographs

Shankle (Hugh W.) Collection Online

"Downtown Jackson At Night, Time Exposure - Shot From Balcony of Old Capitol Building." 195-. Call Number: PI/COL/1981.0066, item 72 (MDAH Collection)
"Downtown Jackson At Night, Time Exposure - Shot From Balcony of Old Capitol Building." 195-. Call Number: PI/COL/1981.0066, item 72 (MDAH Collection)

Hugh Warren Shankle (1921- ) was a photo technician with WLBT-TV in Jackson, Mississippi, during the late 1950s and ’60s. He was also the official photographer for the Mississippi Art Association and timpanist in the Jackson Symphony Orchestra. This collection consists of two hundred sixty eight images of local personalities, beauty contestants, inauguration ceremonies, and historical houses and buildings in Jackson and other locations in Mississippi, as well as Ole Miss football, including the January 2, 1962, Cotton Bowl in Dallas, Texas. Click here to view the collection.

Photographs of Gulf Coast landmarks such as the Biloxi Lighthouse and Beauvoir are in the collection, as well as Windsor Ruins and the aftermath of the 1966 Candlestick Park, Jackson, tornado.

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Digital Archives Government Records Paper Archives Photographs

Passports and NYA: Government Records Online

Editor’s Note: The blog has been neglecting the task of announcing additions to our digital holdings (usually non-digitized items that have recently been scanned). This will be the last post dedicated to updating readers about collections that are now available to view online (that is until more collections are scanned)!

Passport affidavit, August 5, 1811. From Series 501: Passport Records 1811-1814 (MDAH Collection)
Passport affidavit, August 5, 1811. From Series 501: Passport Records 1811-1814 (MDAH Collection)

These records are available to view online through the Government Archives page of the Digital Archives or by clicking the links below.

"Cakes and smiles at McAdams Girls Homemaking Unit." "NYA. III-A-4" "The Home Economics teacher and cooks." NYA Work Projects Photograph Album. Call Number: Series 2018, No. 165 (MDAH Collection)
"Cakes and smiles at McAdams Girls Homemaking Unit." "NYA. III-A-4" "The Home Economics teacher and cooks." NYA Work Projects Photograph Album. Call Number: Series 2018, No. 165 (MDAH Collection)
"Hattiesburg Auto Shop at old location. Top view shows youth turning down armature on lathe." "NYA. II-B-18" 1938. NYA Work Projects Photograph Album. Call Number: Series 2018, No. 160 (MDAH Collection)
"Hattiesburg Auto Shop at old location. Top view shows youth turning down armature on lathe." "NYA. II-B-18" 1938. NYA Work Projects Photograph Album. Call Number: Series 2018, No. 160 (MDAH Collection)
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Digital Archives Photographs

Gloster, Miss. Photograph Collection Online

Editor’s Note: The blog has been neglecting the task of announcing additions to our digital holdings (usually non-digitized items that have recently been scanned). The rest of this month’s blog posts will be dedicated to updating readers about collections that are now available to view online!

"Walk down the main street and you’ll probably pass 10 Pooles," Gloster, Miss. Collection. Call Number: PI/1982.0159 Number 5 (MDAH)
From the Gloster, Miss. Collection. Call Number: PI/1982.0159 Number 5 (MDAH)

This collection consists of twenty-five photographs of scenes in and around the town of Gloster in Amite County. Most of the images date from the 1920s to the 1940s, but there are several earlier photographs in the collection. View the photographs via the Gloster, Miss. collection catalog record (PI/1982.0159). Click “Create set of down-linked records” to view the records for the digitized images.

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Digital Archives Photographs Portraits

Online Exhibits: Hamilton Photograph Collection

 PI/1994.0004.244
Man and truck. Sign on truck says "See The Mystery Before you buy a Washing Machine, Price Only $25.50." Crystal Springs, 193- Call Number: PI/1994.0004, Item 244 (MDAH Collection)

The Luther Hamilton Photograph Collection was recently added to the Digital Archives! Nearly 1000 images in the collection depict what was going on in Crystal Springs, Mississippi during the first decades of the twentieth century. Explore the beautiful portraits and the snapshots of daily life at that time by clicking the link above. Here are a few images from the collection:

PI/1994.0004.398
Crystal Springs High School football team. PI/1994.0004, Item 398
PI/1994.0004
Unidentified woman. PI/1994.0004, Item 609
PI/1994.0004.332
Interior of cafe. PI/1994.0004, Item 332
PI/1994.0004.31
Twins. PI/1994.0004, Item 31
PI/1994.0004.294
Tom Thumb wedding. PI/1994.0004, Item 294
PI/1994.0004.261
Cabbage. PI/1994.0004, Item 261
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Artifacts Photographs Postcards

Bats, Brooms & Black Cats

Rust University baseball team PI/1992.0001
Call Number: PI/1992.0001 (MDAH Collection)

Two things seems to be in the air right now: baseball and Halloween. Here’s a roundup of what’s been going on around the archives and history blogosphere on these two subjects:

Willie Mitchell's baseball glove MMH Collection 1974.60.1
Accession Number: 1974.60.1 (Museum of Mississippi History Collection)*

Baseball

 

Halloween

The Cooper Postcard Collection yielded the image of the Rust baseball team above and the Rose Hill Cemetery below…

Cooper Collection: Rose Hill Cemetery, Brookhaven PI/1992.0001
Call Number: PI/1992.0001 (MDAH Collection)

Here at the archives, we have many more baseball photographs, suject files, and books. There are also books on ghost stories and Mississippi folklore, and of course, cemetery records. Search the catalog to find holdings.

*The baseball glove from the Museum of Mississippi History collection pictured above belonged to William (Willie) Mitchell who was the first Mississippian to attain major league status. Mitchell was born on December 1, 1888, in Pleasant Grove, Mississippi. He attended Mississippi A & M College (now Mississippi State University) from 1906-1909 where he received All Southern honors as a baseball pitcher. Mitchell later played in the major leagues for the Cleveland Indians and the Detroit Tigers. He was inducted into the Mississippi Sports Hall of Fame in 1966. A collection of correspondence and newspaper clippings concerning his induction into the Hall of Fame can be found in the Archives. For more information or to see the glove, contact Cindy Gardner or Nan Prince by email or by phone at 601-576-6850.