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Photograph

Young Man with P&O Planter at Stovall's Plantation

Date: 05 01 1928
Description: Young African-American man sitting on a P&O planter pulled by mules on the plantation of Mrs. William H. Stovall.
Photograph

"The House Jeff Built"

Date: 
Description: Exterior view of Brierfield, a plantation bought by Jefferson Davis in 1835, after he fought in the Mexican War. After the Civil War he bought Beauvoir, a ...
Photograph

Living Quarters on Henequen Plantation

Date: 1913
Description: Rows of shacks, possibly company housing, identical in style and size, including thatched roofing. The shacks are likely part of a henequen or sisal planta...
Postcard

Old Smokehouse

Date: 
Description: Color postcard of the Old Smokehouse at Stonefield Village. The old wine cellar is also pictured.
Postcard

Nelson Dewey's House at Stonefield Village

Date: 
Description: Color postcard view of Nelson Dewey's house at Stonefield Village.
Map or Atlas

The United States of North America: with the British and Spanish Territories, According to the Treaty, of 1784

Date: 1785
Description: Map of part of North America engraved and hand-colored (the light brown design is a superposition of the map and cartouche derived from the oxidation of th...
Photograph

Mrs. John T. Shea, Tractorette

Date: 1942
Description: Three-quarter view from front left of a woman on a Farmall H tractor in a field. Caption: "A very successful tractorette class of twenty women was organize...
Photograph

Mrs. John T. Shea, Tractorette

Date: 1942
Description: Three-quarter view from front left of a woman on a Farmall H tractor in a field. Caption on accompany photograph: "A very successful tractorette class of t...
Photograph

Manila Plantation

Date: 1900
Description: View across field towards a group of people posing in front of a stone wall at a Manila plantation at the edge of a field with horses.
Photograph

Man with Cart with Harvested Manila

Date: 1900
Description: Man on horse-drawn cart, on railroad tracks. The cart is filled with harvested manila. Long, low buildings are in the background on the left behind a fence...
Photograph

Man Using Farmall on Sugar Cane Plantation

Date: 05 21 1936
Description: Rear view of man driving a Farmall tractor in a field. Used by the Kiluea Plantation, Island of Kauai. It is called an Australia Spinner, mounted on a Farm...
Photograph

Man Driving a Farmall M Tractor with 4 Row Cultivator

Date: 1939
Description: View from front of a man driving a Farmall M tractor with a 4 row cultivator in a field near Greenwood on the D.D. Weir plantation. There are small buildin...
Photograph

Sawmills — UD-14A Power Unit

Date: 1950
Description: Subject: "Sawmills — UD-14A Power Unit." Where Taken: "SE." Information with photograph reads: "L.C. Wilson, Dundee, Miss. has no trouble obtaining lumber ...
Photograph

Walnut Grove House

Date: 
Description: Slightly elevated view looking at side of manor house with porch. A boy is sitting on a tricycle on the left, and two dogs, blurred by movement are moving ...

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