Search the Wisconsin Historical Society's collections
Filter: Categories of Wisconsin Historical Images
Filter: State of Mississippi
Filter: Subject of women
| Date: | 1964 |
|---|---|
| Description: | A group of African American students participating in a Freedom School class outdoors during Freedom Summer. The class, which was held on Tougaloo College ... |
| Date: | 05 28 1963 |
|---|---|
| Description: | Civil rights sit-in at Woolworth's lunch counter. Seated at the counter from left to right are by John Salter, Joan Trumpauer, and Anne Moody. People pour ... |
| Date: | 1982 |
|---|---|
| Description: | Victory celebration for Eddie Carthan, the black activist mayor of Tchula, Mississippi. Carthan was convicted on charges of robbery and murder in 1981. Thi... |
| Date: | 1983 |
|---|---|
| Description: | Eddie Carthan, the black mayor of Tchula, Mississippi, seen at the party celebrating the commutation of his sentence. Carthan was jailed on charges thought... |
| Date: | 1964 |
|---|---|
| Description: | Students at Freedom School meet outdoors for class during Freedom Summer. |
| Date: | 08 1955 |
|---|---|
| Description: | A group of African Americans in the courtroom at the Emmett Till murder trial. The 14-year-old Till, who was visiting Mississippi from Chicago, was murdere... |
| Date: | |
|---|---|
| Description: | An etching of a Southern woman praying in a Vicksburg casement during the siege. Copied from "Confederate War Etchings" by A. Volck. |
| Date: | 1900 |
|---|---|
| Description: | The famous "Shirley House" or "White House," stands near the Jackson Road, which was between the Union and Confederate entrenchments during the siege of Vi... |
| Date: | 1910 |
|---|---|
| Description: | Surrender Monument, where Generals Grant and Pemberton met to arrange terms for the surrender of Vicksburg, July 3, 1863. General Pemberton surrendered 31,... |
| Date: | |
|---|---|
| Description: | "Homewood," with its four Ionic columns in front, was built in 1855-1860 and owned by David Hunt. People are posing on the stairs at the entrance. Caption ... |
| Date: | 1910 |
|---|---|
| Description: | The main lobby in the Carroll Hotel, named for Capt. E.C. Carroll. People are sitting and standing in the lobby which has tall ceilings, columns, and chair... |
| Date: | 1910 |
|---|---|
| Description: | The ladies lobby at the Carroll Hotel, named for Capt. E.C. Carroll, filled with tables, chairs, and plants. The Carroll Hotel was razed in the 1960s to ma... |
| Date: | |
|---|---|
| Description: | Women in a high ceilinged room used for sampling cotton. The numerous tables are piled with raw cotton. Caption reads: "Cotton Sample Room, Port Gibson, Mi... |
| Date: | |
|---|---|
| Description: | A page from a Greenville Mills employee brochure showing employees enjoying themselves playing baseball, playing at a family picnic, and smoking. |
| Date: | 1900 |
|---|---|
| Description: | View across water towards an outdoor baptism at McBrayer's Pond. A group of adults and children are gathered at the water's edge, some of them holding para... |
| Date: | |
|---|---|
| Description: | A large group of adults and children gather around a pond where a baptism is taking place, some standing on a bridge on the right. Several people stand in ... |
| 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 ... |
| Date: | 07 13 1914 |
|---|---|
| Description: | Lula Tunisson using an El Flo hot water canner to give a presentation to the men, women, and children of a canning club. |
| Date: | 1918 |
|---|---|
| Description: | A woman and man work in a fall garden on an International Harvester Company demonstration farm. |
| Date: | 1918 |
|---|---|
| Description: | Two men and a woman standing on the lawn of a home while holding four Jersey cows. |
If you didn't find the material you searched for, our Library Reference Staff can help.
Call our reference desk at 608-264-6535 or email us at: