Cabin With People Standing in Front, Wiggins, Mississippi

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Description

This color postcard features two African American women and four children standing in front of a cabin. The women are wearing early twentieth century dresses. The cabin has three doors, a chimney, and is enclosed in a wood slat fence. Laundry is hanging from a line in the enclosed yard space. The title in the upper left reads "Old Negro Cabin, Wiggins, Miss." The back of the postcard identifies the item as a postcard and provides indication for correspondence, address, and postage stamp placement.

Publication Date

1900

Time Period

1900-1909

Subjects

Postcards; Cabins; African Americans, Wiggins, MS

Geographic Location

Wiggins, MS

Object Type

image

Format (original)

postcard

Format (digital)

PDF

Digital ID

MSS_837_Postcard_Old-Negro-Cabin-Wiggins-Miss_001

Source

Mississippi State University Libraries, Manuscripts Division, Lucius Marion Lampton, MD Historical Images Collection, Mississippiana Collection, Postcard/Photographs, Box 1: Wiggins 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

Contact Information

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

Recommended Citation

Lucius Marion Lampton, MD Historical Images Collection, Special Collections Department, Mississippi State University