Beauty Pageant

A Beauty Pageant in Greenwood Mississippi

Tower

Vicksburg, Mississippi, circa 1909. "Vicksburg National Military Park. New concrete observatory tower." Which looks something like the Tower of Babel as designed by Dr. Seuss. Click on photo enlarge.

Source: shorpy | Detroit Publishing glass negative.

History

Women doing laundry at Natchez refugee camp, Photos from the great Mississippi flood of 1927

African-american children at a refugee camp near Natchez during the Mississippi flood of 1927. 

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Vintage Photo

They look like their have a good time. Jitterbugging in African American juke joint, Saturday evening, outside Clarksdale, Mississippi. 1939, Wolcott, Marion Post, 1910-1990, photographer.

Source: Library of Congress, Prints & Photographs Division, Washington, DC 20540, hdl.loc.gov/loc.pnp/pp.print