Southwest Mississippi Region

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Description

This postcard features a color illustration of the Natchez Institute in Natchez, Mississippi. The building is depicted as a three story red brick with arched columns at the entrance and a bell tower in the middle. The Natchez Institute, said to be the first school in Mississippi to offer a full course of free instruction (i.e. public education), opened in 1845, through the generosity of Alvarez Fisk (A.P. Merrill, “Addresses Delivered at the Dedication of the Natchez Institute,” July 4, 1845, Natchez-Adams County Public School Archives, Natchez). Attendance averaged 610 students from 1845 to 1852 (McLemore, p. 370), and the school operated within the Natchez city school system until 1927. The title of the card is printed in the top left edge of the image.

Publication Date

1906

Publisher

Curteich Co., Chicago

Time Period

1900-1909

Subjects

Postcards; School Buildings

Keywords

schools; Natchez, MS

Geographic Location

Natchez, (Miss.)

Object Type

image

Format (original)

postcard

Format (digital)

PDF

Digital ID

MFM_MSS_837_1910-04-18_Postcard-Natchez-Institute_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.

Natchez Institute, Natchez, Mississippi

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