The Construction News Photograph Collection PI/2009.0004
The Construction News Photograph Collection consists of 1,849 negatives and 621 black-and-white photographic prints (fifty-three of which were made from negatives not in this collection) produced between the years 1953 and 1960. They were used to illustrate stories about Mississippi in the regional magazine The Construction News, which published bid award news and feature articles on all aspects of road and bridge construction and official social events of the people who built them.
The bulk of the images offer a glimpse at construction of Mississippi highways and landmarks, including the Bay St. Louis Bridge (Highway 90 between Bay St. Louis and Henderson Point, ca. 1953), the Natchez Trace Parkway (1956), the Meridian Naval Auxiliary Air Station (1957), Grenada Dam (Grenada Lake, 1953), and the Texas Eastern Transmission Pipeline (ca. 1955). The rest of the images are from meetings of the American Society of Civil Engineers, the Association of General Contractors, the Mississippi Association of Supervisors, the Mississippi Road Builders Association, and the Mississippi Society of Professional Engineers, as well as grand openings of construction equipment companies throughout Mississippi.
read more...The Construction News Photograph Collection consists of 1,849 negatives and 621 black-and-white photographic prints (fifty-three of which were made from negatives not in this collection) produced between the years 1953 and 1960. They were used to illustrate stories about Mississippi in the regional magazine The Construction News, which published bid award news and feature articles on all aspects of road and bridge construction and official social events of the people who built them.
The bulk of the images offer a glimpse at construction of Mississippi highways and landmarks, including the Bay St. Louis Bridge (Highway 90 between Bay St. Louis and Henderson Point, ca. 1953), the Natchez Trace Parkway (1956), the Meridian Naval Auxiliary Air Station (1957), Grenada Dam (Grenada Lake, 1953), and the Texas Eastern Transmission Pipeline (ca. 1955). The rest of the images are from meetings of the American Society of Civil Engineers, the Association of General Contractors, the Mississippi Association of Supervisors, the Mississippi Road Builders Association, and the Mississippi Society of Professional Engineers, as well as grand openings of construction equipment companies throughout Mississippi.
Collection Description General & Tech Data Catalog Record
Image Arrangement and Numbering
The original negatives and photographs were arranged generally by date and grouped by specific events and visits to sites. The photographic curator numbered the negatives and photographs consecutively across the groups as they were arranged at the time of processing. Descriptive information enclosed in quotation marks was provided from notes written on negative sleeves and photographic prints and appears to reference captions in The Construction News.
Technical Details
Original Scans: The original scans of the Construction News Photograph Collection were made in June 2015 and December 2016, according to the Mississippi Department of Archives and History Board of Trustees' approved imaging procedures, following ANSI/AIIM recommended practice. The 1,849 negatives and 53 prints were scanned as uncompressed, 8-bit Grayscale TIFF files at 600 pixels per inch (ppi). The negatives were enlarged to roughly 5,500 x 3,500 ppi.
Conversion: For Web display, the original scans of the Construction News Photograph Collection were converted to Zoomify JPEG files by the Electronic Archives Section.
Copyright
The Construction News Photograph Collection was donated to MDAH without transfer of copyright. We have been unable to determine the current copyright status of the photographs, which fall into the time period (publication prior to 1977) that may place them in the public domain. The images are intended for public use in research, teaching, and private study in accordance with the provisions of the Fair Use clause of the United States Copyright Law (Title 17, U.S.C.) and the Digital Millennium Copyright Act. Any use beyond that prescribed by Fair Use requires the permission of the copyright owners. MDAH asks that each image used in a presentation, display, or publication be accompanied by the following credit statement:
Credit: Courtesy of the Mississippi Department of Archives and History
Publicity and Privacy Rights
MDAH alerts the user to the issue of publicity and privacy rights of subjects pictured in these images. Distinct from copyright, which concerns the owner of the intellectual content, publicity and/or privacy rights apply to individuals visible in photographs who did not sign a contract or release form giving the photographer the legal right to use his/her image. Publicity and privacy rights also differ from copyright in that there are no exemptions for Fair Use or Educational purposes. These rights are not regulated by federal law but by state statute and common law. When using images from this collection it is the patron's responsibility to determine whether privacy and publicity rights issues may exist and consider the mitigating factors.
Copy Availability
High-resolution TIFFs of the images may be purchased from MDAH. The MDAH Public Order procedure and fee schedule apply. Consult the Photoreproduction and Digital Imaging policy or contact MDAH Reference Staff for order options as well as information on how to obtain and complete the necessary Public Order forms: 601-576-6876 or refdesk@mdah.ms.gov.