Pine Belt Region

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Description

This postcard features a black and white image of people and wagons hitched to oxen among a turpentine orchard of large trees. A New Orleans, Louisiana postmark dated 1906 is stamped upside down at the bottom of the image. The title of the card is printed along the bottom of the card and an inscription is written sideways in the space on the left edge of the card. The back of the card is addressed to Miss Rosa Moody in Crystal Springs, Mississippi. The card is postmarked Picayune, Mississippi, September 16, 1906 and Crystal Springs, Mississippi, September 17, 1906. A green, one cent Benjamin Franklin postage stamp is placed in the upper right corner.

Transcription

You may know about how it looks here is about all you can see. 9/16-1906 E. H. S. [sic]

Publication Date

1906

Publisher

Bank-Hein, New Orleans, U.S.A.

Time Period

1900-1909

Subjects

Postcards; Turpentine; Turpentining; Turpentine industry and trade

Keywords

turpentine orchards; Hattiesburg, MS

Geographic Location

Hattiesburg, MS

Object Type

image

Format (original)

postcard

Format (digital)

PDF

Digital ID

MFM_MSS_837_1906-09-16_Postcard-Turpentine-Hattiesburg_001

Source

Mississippi State University Libraries, Archives and Special Collections, Manuscripts Unit, Lucius Marion Lampton, MD Historical Images Collection, Mississippiana Collection, Postcard/Photographs, Box 5, Pine Belt 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.

Turpentine Orchard, Near Hattiesburg, Mississippi

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