Old House
Rating
Title
Old House
Description
House of Nancy Coburn house before improvement , Happier Living Contest .
Digital ID#
OldHouse.jpg
Object Type
Image
Subject
Dwellings--Mississippi--Photographs. Happier Living Contest--Photographs. African-Americans--Societies, clubs, etc. 4-H Clubs--Mississippi--Photographs.
Geographic location
Mississippi
Date (original)
1955
Time period
1950-1959
Original Collection
Wier (Robert and Sadye) Papers
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.
Format (original)
Photograph 17.7 x 12.9 cm.
Format (digital)
200 dpi JPEG image
Provenance
Personal papers , correspondence , business records , clippings , photographs , extensive scrapbooks , oral histories , literary manuscripts , reminiscences and other materials concerning Robert Wier (1886-1974) and his wife Sadye Hunter Wier . Robert Wier , who operated and owned the City Barber Shop in Starkville , was the first and only black to have a business on Main Street .
Repository
Manuscripts Division , Special Collections Department , Mississippi State University Libraries. .
Location of Original
Visual Materials Box 2/Scrapbooks and Albums : The Book : A Black Businessman in White Mississippi , 1887-1974 .
Related materials
A digitization project sponsored by the Consortium for the History of Agricultural and Rural Mississippi (CHARM).
Language
en
Contact information
For more information send email to sp_coll@library.msstate.edu or call 662-325-7679.
facet format
photograph
Collection Title
Robert and Sadye Wier papers
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