W. S. Mustin Eclipse Livery Feed and Sale Stable, Columbus, Mississippi

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Description

This postcard features a sepia toned image of three men standing with two horses outside of a brick building that has a tall facade at a wide, open entrance in the middle. A windows is to the left and entrance doors are to the right. The brick trim above the windows, wide entrance, and double door entrance are in a curved pattern. The signs on the building front read W. S. Mustin over the window and double door entrance and "Eclipse Livery Feed and Sale Stable" is over the open entrance. A man is standing at wide entrance and the man on the right with the horses is blurry. The back of the postcard is addressed to Miss Virginia Brown in Crystal Springs [spelled Chrystal Spring]. The card is postmarked Jackson, Miss, April 6, [1903] and a green, one cent Benjamin Franklin postage stamp is in the upper right corner. "Columbus, Miss" is written along the top of the card and an inscription is written on the left half of the card. [see transcription field]

Transcription

How are you and how have you been getting along? Know you have been having a good time though. How is that fellow of yours? Do you see him very often? Give him jy love when you do. JOD

Publication Date

1903

Time Period

1900-1909

Subjects

Postcards; Horses

Keywords

Liveries; Stables; Columbus, MS

Geographic Location

Columbus, (Miss.)

Object Type

image

Format (original)

postcard

Format (digital)

PDF

Digital ID

MFM_MSS_837_Postcard-Eclipse-Stable_001

Source

Mississippi State University Libraries, Archives and Special Collections, Manuscripts Unit, Lucius Marion Lampton, MD Historical Images Collection, Mississippiana Collection, Postcard/Photographs, Box 3, East Central Mississippi 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

W. S. Mustin Eclipse Livery Feed and Sale Stable, Columbus, Mississippi, Lucius Marion Lampton, MD Historical Images Collection, Special Collections Department, Mississippi State University