The Biloxi News Company, Biloxi, Mississippi

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This postcard features a black and white image of The Biloxi News Company in Biloxi, Mississippi. This company published this postcard. The signs in front note that they also sell cigars, tobacco, cigarettes, and other smoker’s articles. Also, the soda shop sells pop, Coca-Cola, milkshakes, and milk, with cane syrup. Also, they sell newspapers from New York, Chicago, St. Louis, Louisville, and New Orleans. They also sell Premios, the great 5 cent cigar. The building is a brick with corbels and dental molding along the roof line and a sign for "The Biloxi News co." above the porch roof. Four men and a young boy are standing in front and two bicycles are leaned against the curb. A small porch with a gabled roof is attached at the back of the building and a white picket fence runs in front of it. The title of the card is printed in the lower left edge of the card. The back of the card is addressed to Mr. Wm (William) Simpling in Holly Springs, Mississippi. The card is postmarked Biloxi, Miss., January 12, 1910 and a green, one cent Benjamin Franklin postage stamp is placed upside down in the upper right corner. An inscription is written on the left half of the card. [see transcription field]

Transcription

I have change my mind not going to La come down [?] I will be in about you 20 from [?] Biloxi, Miss [sic]

Publication Date

1910

Publisher

Biloxi News Co., Biloxi, Miss.

Time Period

1910-1919

Subjects

Postcards; Commercial buildings

Keywords

stores; newspaper sellers; storefronts

Geographic Location

Biloxi, (Miss.)

Object Type

image

Format (original)

postcard

Format (digital)

PDF

Digital ID

MFM_MSS_837_1910-01-12_Postcard-Biloxi-News-Co._001

Source

Mississippi State University Libraries, Archives and Special Collections, Manuscripts Unit, Lucius Marion Lampton, MD Historical Images Collection, Mississippiana Collection, Postcard/Photographs, Box 4, Mississippi Coastal Region

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 reproduce is required.

Contact Information

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

Recommended Citation

The Biloxi News Company, Biloxi, Mississippi, Lucius Marion Lampton, MD Historical Images Collection, Special Collections Department, Mississippi State University