Going to Market, Vicksburg, Mississippi

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Description

This color postcard features a wagon loaded with bales of cotton and two men. The wagon is drawn by four horses down a dirt road with a field behind them. The title in the upper left identifies the scene as "Going to Market, Vicksburg, Miss." The back of the postcard identifies the item as a postcard and provides publisher information and indication for postage stamp placement. A handwritten description of the front of the card is written across the length of the card.

Transcription

Hauling cotton to town from a nearby plantation, to sell or to place in warehouse.

Publication Date

1900

Publisher

International Postcard Co.

Subjects

Postcards; Cotton; Vicksburg, MS

Geographic Location

Vicksburg, MS

Object Type

image

Format (original)

postcard

Format (digital)

PDF

Digital ID

MSS_837_Postcard_Going-to-Market-Vicksburg-Miss_001

Source

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