Series 2: Postcards PI/2015.0023/Series II
Series II consists of 4,147 color and black-and-white postcards collected by Randy Randazzo, featuring scenes of shipbuilding, hotels, hurricanes, agriculture, seafood factories, Camp Shelby, Keesler Air Force Base, Ship Island, and other iconic South Mississippi locations.
Read MoreSeries II consists of 4,147 color and black-and-white postcards collected by Randy Randazzo, featuring scenes of shipbuilding, hotels, hurricanes, agriculture, seafood factories, Camp Shelby, Keesler Air Force Base, Ship Island, and other iconic South Mississippi locations.
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"Army Air Forces Trainer Flying over Biloxi, Miss. Photo by Army Air Forces Training Command. Keep 'Em Flying. An Army Air Forces training plane flies over the Back Bay of Biloxi and the Biloxi penins...
Date: 194-
Creator: Gulfport Printing
Filename: 135983-1-postcard.tif
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"Army Air Forces Trainer Flying over Biloxi, Miss. Photo by Army Air Forces Training Command. Keep 'Em Flying. An Army Air Forces training plane flies over the Back Bay of Biloxi and the Biloxi penins...
Date: 194-
Creator: Gulfport Printing
Filename: 135983-2-postcard.tif
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"Air Mechanics Study Training Plane at Keesler Field, Miss. Photo by U. S. Army Air Corps. Keep 'Em Flying.... A swarm of knowledge-hungry Air Mechanics covers this Cessna AT-17 plane to learn its eve...
Date: 1942
Creator: Gulfport Printing
Filename: 135984-1-postcard.tif
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"Air Mechanics Study Training Plane at Keesler Field, Miss. Photo by U. S. Army Air Corps. Keep 'Em Flying.... A swarm of knowledge-hungry Air Mechanics covers this Cessna AT-17 plane to learn its eve...
Date: 1942
Creator: Gulfport Printing
Filename: 135984-2-postcard.tif
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"Lights Burn Late in Air Corps Technical School, Keelser Field, Miss. Photo by Army Air Forces (Technical Training Command). Keep 'Em Flying.... Day and night motors hum and roar in the buildings of t...
Date: 1942
Creator: Gulfport Printing
Filename: 135985-1-postcard.tif
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"Lights Burn Late in Air Corps Technical School, Keelser Field, Miss. Photo by Army Air Forces (Technical Training Command). Keep 'Em Flying.... Day and night motors hum and roar in the buildings of t...
Date: 1942
Creator: Gulfport Printing
Filename: 135985-2-postcard.tif
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"Squadron Mail Call...Keesler Field, Miss. Photo by Army Air Forces (Technical Training Command). Keep 'Em Flying. 'Is she writing regularly, soldier?' -- Mail call, like chow, always attracts an enth...
Date: 1942
Creator: Gulfport Printing
Filename: 135986-1-postcard.tif
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"Squadron Mail Call...Keesler Field, Miss. Photo by Army Air Forces (Technical Training Command). Keep 'Em Flying. 'Is she writing regularly, soldier?' -- Mail call, like chow, always attracts an enth...
Date: 1942
Creator: Gulfport Printing
Filename: 135986-2-postcard.tif
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"Canvas Homes at Keesler Field. Photo by Army Air Forces Technical Training Command. Keep 'Em Flying. Tents in Symmetrical Rows are rolled up for airing daily at Keesler Field, Biloxi, Miss., the coun...
Date: 1942
Creator: Gulfport Printing
Filename: 135987-1-postcard.tif
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"Canvas Homes at Keesler Field. Photo by Army Air Forces Technical Training Command. Keep 'Em Flying. Tents in Symmetrical Rows are rolled up for airing daily at Keesler Field, Biloxi, Miss., the coun...
Date: 1942
Creator: Gulfport Printing
Filename: 135987-2-postcard.tif
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"This Way to Keesler Field. Photo by Army Air Forces Technical Training Command. Keep 'Em Flying. A Giant Hand, from the shadow of the historic Biloxi lighthouse, points the way to Keesler Field, Bilo...
Date: 194-
Creator: Gulfport Printing
Filename: 135988-1-postcard.tif
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"This Way to Keesler Field. Photo by Army Air Forces Technical Training Command. Keep 'Em Flying. A Giant Hand, from the shadow of the historic Biloxi lighthouse, points the way to Keesler Field, Bilo...
Date: 194-
Creator: Gulfport Printing
Filename: 135988-2-postcard.tif
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"Inspection of Squadron Personnel, Keesler Field, Miss. Photo by Army Air Forces Training Command. Keep 'Em Flying. Once Every Week each squadron at Keesler Field holds its own inspection for students...
Date: 194-
Creator: Gulfport Printing
Filename: 135989-1-postcard.tif
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"Inspection of Squadron Personnel, Keesler Field, Miss. Photo by Army Air Forces Training Command. Keep 'Em Flying. Once Every Week each squadron at Keesler Field holds its own inspection for students...
Date: 194-
Creator: Gulfport Printing
Filename: 135989-2-postcard.tif
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"New Soldiers Arrive at Keesler Field (Biloxi), Miss. Photo by Army Air Forces Eastern Technical Training Command. Keep 'Em Flying. Huge Army Trucks arrive at Keesler Field (Biloxi, Miss.) in an appar...
Date: 1944
Creator: Gulfport Printing
Filename: 135990-1-postcard.tif
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"New Soldiers Arrive at Keesler Field (Biloxi), Miss. Photo by Army Air Forces Eastern Technical Training Command. Keep 'Em Flying. Huge Army Trucks arrive at Keesler Field (Biloxi, Miss.) in an appar...
Date: 1944
Creator: Gulfport Printing
Filename: 135990-2-postcard.tif
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"Mess Hall - by Sgt. Harry Dix, Special Services, Keesler Field." Sketch of exterior of Mess Hall. Side 1.
Date: 194-
Creator: Dix, Harry
Filename: 135995-1-postcard.tif
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"Mess Hall - by Sgt. Harry Dix, Special Services, Keesler Field." Sketch of exterior of Mess Hall. Side 2.
Date: 194-
Creator: Dix, Harry
Filename: 135995-2-postcard.tif
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"Hot Dogs--G. I. Style. Wash Drawing by Cpl. Fred Brenner, Special Services, Keesler Field. This poster was designed as a caution to enlisted men to go easy on certain pranks. This, the Hot Foot, is a...
Date: 194-
Creator: Brenner, Fred
Filename: 135996-1-postcard.tif
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"Hot Dogs--G. I. Style. Wash Drawing by Cpl. Fred Brenner, Special Services, Keesler Field. This poster was designed as a caution to enlisted men to go easy on certain pranks. This, the Hot Foot, is a...
Date: 194-
Creator: Brenner, Fred
Filename: 135996-2-postcard.tif
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"Say, Ralph, did you turn off the headlights in the Jeep? Drawn by Pfc. Melville Mathewson, Special Services, Keesler Field." Sketch of exotic dancer and soldiers. Side 1.
Date: 194-
Creator: Mathewson, Melville
Filename: 135997-1-postcard.tif
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"Say, Ralph, did you turn off the headlights in the Jeep? Drawn by Pfc. Melville Mathewson, Special Services, Keesler Field." Sketch of exotic dancer and soldiers. Side 2.
Date: 194-
Creator: Mathewson, Melville
Filename: 135997-2-postcard.tif
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"They shall not die in vain.. Buy More Bonds "...The poster drawn by R. M. Deming titled 'They Shall Not Die In Vain' has received wide commendation from a great many of the individuals in the Treasur...
Date: 1945
Creator: Deming, R. Miner
Filename: 135998-1-postcard.tif
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"They shall not die in vain.. Buy More Bonds "...The poster drawn by R. M. Deming titled 'They Shall Not Die In Vain' has received wide commendation from a great many of the individuals in the Treasur...
Date: 1945
Creator: Deming, R. Miner
Filename: 135998-2-postcard.tif
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"Night Bombers - by Sgt. Kenneth Gordon, Special Services, Keesler Field. Sgt. Gordon's studies of the B-24 bombers are faithful renderings of this airplane. Since Keesler Field trains mechanics to se...
Date: 1944
Creator: Gordon, Kenneth
Filename: 136000-1-postcard.tif
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"Night Bombers - by Sgt. Kenneth Gordon, Special Services, Keesler Field. Sgt. Gordon's studies of the B-24 bombers are faithful renderings of this airplane. Since Keesler Field trains mechanics to se...
Date: 1944
Creator: Gordon, Kenneth
Filename: 136000-2-postcard.tif
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"Fight Night at Keesler Field, a weekly entertainment organized by Special Services, is a very popular relaxation for the men stationed there. Oil Painting by Sgt. Peter DeAnna, Special Services, Kees...
Date: 194-
Creator: DeAnna, Peter
Filename: 136001-1-postcard.tif
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"Fight Night at Keesler Field, a weekly entertainment organized by Special Services, is a very popular relaxation for the men stationed there. Oil Painting by Sgt. Peter DeAnna, Special Services, Kees...
Date: 194-
Creator: DeAnna, Peter
Filename: 136001-2-postcard.tif
