Mississippi Coast Region

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This black and white postcard features a house on enclosed pillars with a long wrap-around front porch. The porch has thick white posts and white railing with a long set of stairs/steps leading up to it. Several people are standing on the porch and sitting on the stairs/steps. A tree is standing in front of the house and other trees are to the sides. The title along the bottom of the card reads "Soldiers Home, (Formerly Residence of Jefferson Davis), Beauvoir, Near Biloxi, Miss."

Publication Date

1900

Publisher

Raphael Tuck and Sons

Time Period

1900-1909

Subjects

Postcards; Beauvoir (Biloxi, MS)

Geographic Location

Biloxi, MS

Object Type

image

Format (original)

postcard

Format (digital)

PDF

Digital ID

MSS-837_Postcard_Soldiers-Home-formerly-residence-of-Jefferson-Davis_001

Source

Mississippi State University Libraries, Manuscripts Division, Lucius Marion Lampton, MD Historical Images Collection, Mississippiana Collection, Postcard/Photographs, Box 2: Biloxi Subcollection

Repository

Manuscripts

Digital Publisher

Mississippi State University Libraries (electronic version)

Rights

Copyright protected by Mississippi State University Libraries. Use of materials from this collection beyond the exceptions provided for in the Fair Use and Educational Use clauses of the U.S. Copyright Law may violate federal law. Permission to publish or

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For more information about the contents of this collection, email sp_coll@library.MSState.edu.

Soldiers Home, Formerly Residence of Jefferson Davis, Beauvoir, Near Biloxi, Mississippi

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