The exhibit will feature items from the Archives' collections including the Boyd-Walters-Bobo and Gibert-Knowlton-Lytle Family Papers, the Milburn Crowe-Mound Bayou Collection, the Eugene Leftwich Collection, and artifacts from Doro Plantation. Photographs, letters and newspapers from the period bring the exhibit to life.

Extremely rare photographs from the 1880's and 90's offer a glimpse inside the lives of African-Americans, poor whites, and prominent Delta families during that time. Featured personal correspondence details the struggles early inhabitants faced as they made their homes in the Delta frontier. Featured newspapers include several issues of the 1869 Beulah Republican and 1873 Weekly Yazoo Banner.

The Delta State Archives houses, among its vast holdings, many collections concerning the Delta during the last quarter of the nineteenth century and these are open to the public. If you have documents such as photographs and personal correspondence you think might be of interest to scholars and others please contact the Archives at 662-846-4780. The exhibit which is free and open to the public will be on display from September 7-until December 19. For more information contact the Capps Archives and Museum at 662-846-4780. Museum hours are Monday through Thursday 8 a.m. - noon, 1 - 5 p.m. and Friday 8 a.m. - noon, 1 - 4 p.m.