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The Forrest Lamar Cooper Postcards Collection

On November 13, 1991, the Mississippi Department of Archives and History acquired approximately 4600 color and black-and-white postcards from Forrest Lamar Cooper, a former Senior Customer Service Agent with Delta Air Lines. The theme of the collection is Mississippiana, and Cooper especially focused on scenes of small towns, mineral springs, agricultural and forestry activities, and railroads. The cards span the years 1892 to the 1940s and depict people and places from seventy-seven of Mississippi's eighty-two counties, and even three other states (Illinois, Massachusetts, and Tennessee).

cottonyard
Cotton Yard and Compress in 1904
cottonscene
Scene near Yazoo City
River1904
Yazoo River in 1904
DeltaBank
Delta Bank Á Trust Co., Yazoo City, Miss.
John Lear, Pres.
interiorfirst
Interior First Methodist Church
Rev. T. B. Clifford, Pastor
baptist1
Baptist Church
baptist2
Baptist Church in 1908
catholic
Catholic Church in 1907
episcopal
Episcopal Church
mstreet
Main Street in Yazoo City
PeakView
Yazoo City from the Peak
public
Public School in Yazoo City
rickmem1
The B. S. Ricks Memorial Library Building
rickmem2
The Rick's Memorial Library in 1910
rickmem2
The B. S. Ricks Memorial Library Building
birdeye1
Birdeye's View of Yazoo City
river
A River Scene near Yazoo City
bridge
Yazoo River Bridge in Yazoo City
birdeye2
Birdeye View of Yazoo City
hegman
Main Street, looking South from Hegman's Corner
river
Confederate Place
mstreets
Main Street looking South, Yazoo City
Yazscenery
Scenery near Yazoo City
weighcotton
A scene Yazoo City, Weighing Cotton
elks1
Elk's Home in Yazoo City
elks2
Elk's Home in Yazoo City
newcityhall
New City Hall in Yazoo City
usgov
U. S. Government Building Á Post Office
cityhall
City Hall in Yazoo City
cityhall2
City Hall in Yazoo City
yazctycrthouse
Yazoo County Court House
confederate
Confederate Monument in 1909
CountyCrtHouse
Yazoo County Court House
cch2
Yazoo County Court House
Confed
Confederate Monument and Public School Building in 1909
ctHouse
Court House in Yazoo City
shortcreek
Scene on the Road Crossing Short Creek
JSWilliams
Country Home of Senator of John Sharp Williams
JSWill2
Home of John Sharp Williams

The pictures above are included in the collection and are the ones I found pertaining to Yazoo County. You can view most of these photos if you start here in his collection. I didn't post all of them here.