Scenic South Magazine Photographs
Fifty-two silver gelatin prints from the Scenic South magazine archives, showing various views of Mississippi in the 1940s. Each roughly 8x10 inches except for three small photos, some mounted, vintage prints retouched for use in the magazine of that era.
The magazine was financed and published by The Standard Oil Company of Kentucky or Kysow, which was an oil company and gasoline distributor that operated in the southeastern United States from 1886 until it was acquired by Chevron Oil Company in 1961. After the breakup of the Standard Oil company in 1911, the company was awarded rights to run the oil operation of Kentucky, Georgia, Florida, Alabama, and Mississippi.
Scenic South was a feature of Southern waiting rooms throughout the 1940s and thereafter.
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U. S. Highway 90, Biloxi, Mississippi
Scenic South Magazine
This black and white photograph is of cars driving on a highway with trees on either side. The back includes both a handwritten and a typed lable on the left that identifies the image. The photographer is identified via a read inkstan at the top and "68%" is handwritten to the right.
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Woodrow Wilson's Summer Home
Scenic South Magazine
This black and white photograph is of a white house with a long front porch, white pillars and railings, and two sets of stairs leading up from the brick column stilts. Three brick archways are long the stilted bottom of the house. Three chimneys line the roof and trees surround the house. The back of the photograph contains both a handwritten and a typed lable description of the house as being that of Woodrow Wilson's summer home on U. S. Highway 90 in Pass Christian, Mississippi.
