Southwest Mississippi Region

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Description

This postcard features a color illustration of the McComb City Cotton Mills in McComb Mississippi. The illustration features a large two story building with a tower in the center, a smaller building to the left, freight cars to the right, and a wooden fence in front. The title of the card is printed along the top right of the image and the publisher is printed along the top left. The back of the card is addressed to J. H. Eastman in West Fairlee, Vermont. The card is postmarked twice, McComb Mississippi, March 4, 1908 and West Fairlee, Vermont, March 9, 1908. A green, one cent Benjamin Franklin postage stamp is placed sideways in the upper right corner of the card. The inscription written on the left side of the card reads, "Many thanks for card. Call again. Josie Akerholm McComb Miss."

Publication Date

1908

Publisher

McComb City Drug Store

Time Period

1900-1909

Subjects

Postcards; Cotton mills

Geographic Location

McComb, (Miss.)

Object Type

image

Format (original)

postcard

Format (digital)

PDF

Digital ID

MFM_MSS_837_1907-07-12_Postcard-Little-Church_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, Southwest 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.

McComb City Cotton Mills, McComb City, Mississippi

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