Mississippi Historic photos, documents, and people

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Brantley's - our modern dry cleaning plant and certified cold fur storage vaults, 926 West Capitol St., Jackson, Miss.

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Noon hour at Priscilla Knitting Mills, Meridian, Miss. Some of the youngest workers. Location: Meridian, Mississippi.

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Eight-year-old Max, the youngest shrimp-picker in the photo. Dunbar, Lopez, Dukate Co. Location: Biloxi, Mississippi.

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Colored tractor driver and empty cabin on mechanized cotton plantation. Aldridge Plantation near Leland, Mississippi

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Fernando Gautier Homestead, antiquity at its best, on banks west Pascagoula Singing River, Hwy. 90, Gautier, Miss.

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"Teeny" (the smallest) and some of the young shuckers at Pass Packing Co. Location: Pass Christian, Mississippi.

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on the Aldridge Plantation, Mississippi. "We know our white folks (planters) and just what to say to please them"

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Corona Plaza Motel, U. S. Highways 45 & 72. . . at intersection, 1/2 mile south of downtown. . . Corinth, Miss.

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Ex-sharecroppers from Arkansas established on Sherwood Eddy's cooperative experiment at Hill House, Mississippi