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Digital Archives Photographs

New Online Exhibits!

Call Number: Series 573 (MDAH Collection)

Two new online photograph exhibits have gone up recently in the MDAH Digital Archives:

Vicksburg National Military Park Photographs– documents the beginnings of the Civil War park from 1899-1923. Click on the link to go to the collection. Read a detailed description of the collection here.

Clifford G. Worsham Photograph Album- documents construction projects at Tishomingo State Park from 1939-40. Click on the link to go to the collection. Read a detailed description of the collection here.

The photograph is from the Vicksburg National Military Park collection. The caption written by its previous owner is “Iowa Dedication” “W. Calhoun Orating.”

Browse all online exhibits in the Digital Archives.

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Digital Archives Maps

New Maps Linked to Catalog

Call Number: MA/2002.0228(a) MDAH Collection

The archives staff has scanned and linked more maps to their online catalog records. This means that you can view them online as Zoomify JPEG files! Click on the links below to go to the map’s catalog record, once there click “Link to Electronic Resource” to view the map.

Bolivar County, survey of townships, 1881

Columbus, 1876

Columbus city plan, mid 1800s

Ctaw (Copiah County), 1838

Greenwood, early 1800s

Jackson, map of Capitol grounds, 1875

Mississippi, Arkansas, and Louisiana, 1870

Mississippi, 1873

Mississippi, 1882

Mississippi, 1885

Mississippi, 1890

Mississippi, 1899?

Southern States (pictured above), 1878

Synod of Mississippi, showing Presbyterial boundaries, 1892

Synod of Mississippi, showing Presbyterian destitution, 1892

Tishomingo City plan, late 1800s

Vicksburg, 1871

Vicksburg Harbor and proposed works, 1877

Vicksburg Harbor and Mississippi River, 1888