Hattiesburg, Mississippi: Business district, Front Street, looking South – Historic Photograph Print
![Hattiesburg, Mississippi: Business district, Front Street, looking South, [no date recorded on caption card] — historic photograph](https://images.jameslantos.com/img/4d/4d99ed94dd3c-L.webp)
(Originally scanned by the Library of Congress. Each image is professionally and digitally cleaned of artifacts such as color bars and extra borders prior to printing.)
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This rare historic photograph captures Hattiesburg, Mississippi: Business district, Front Street, looking South in remarkable detail. It comes from the collections of the Library of Congress, scanned from the original and carefully restored.
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Hattiesburg, Mississippi: Business district, Front Street, looking South
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Front Street in Hattiesburg, Mississippi, runs south through the town's business district in this view, which the caption card credits, with a question mark, to a photographer named D.B. Henley. Hattiesburg grew quickly after railroads reached the area in the 1880s, and its downtown developed around lumber, rail freight and trade with the surrounding farms and timber camps. The record gives no date, so the exact year is unknown, but the print is filed among the board's bird's-eye views, a style that let viewers take in a whole town's street layout at once.
| Created / published | [no date recorded on caption card] |
|---|---|
| Medium | 1 photographic print. |
| Subjects | Photoprint by D.B. Henley?. No. 1155. This record contains unverified data from caption card. Caption card tracings: Miss.--Hattiesburg; Photog. Ind.; Geogr.; Shelf. |
| Source | Library of Congress, Prints and Photographs Division |
| Original scan | 1,536 × 1,092 px · prints to 5 × 4 in at 300 dpi |
| Reference | AMZ-SOTP-HPA-151269 |
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