Residence of Isaiah T. Mongomery, 1910s?
Dates
- Creation: 1910s?
Access
Open for research.
Extent
1 photographs : gelatin silver print on cardboard mount ; ; print 17 x 22 cm, mount 25 x 30 cm)Biographical / Historical
Red-brick mansion home of Isaiah Thornton Montgomery in Mound Bayou, Mississippi, a town he founded in 1887 with his cousin Benjamin Green as the commercial center for a large colony of African American farm owners.
General note
Oversize.
Source of information
Title from handwritten caption on front.
Creator
- From the Collection: Simmons, Roscoe Conkling, 1881-1951 (Person)
Repository Details
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