Trimble (Will) Photograph Album PI/1985.0039

The album contains twenty-nine pages of photographs, including cyanotypes (blue photographs created using a process similar to the one that produces architectural blueprints), of people and places in Bolivar County, Mississippi, ca. 1890-1900. William (Will) Guthrie Trimble (1868-1941), listed on the 1900 census as a "farm laborer" for his widowed sister, Alice Rebecca Blanchard, is credited with taking the photographs and arranging them in the album. An unknown relation later penciled in captions. Subjects include members of the Trimble, Blanchard, and Maddox families, as well as their household staff and neighbors; cotton farming; the 1897 flood; and a baptism at Porter Lake. The album was donated to the Mississippi Department of Archives and History by Fannie Chance Blanchard Taylor, Alice's granddaughter, in 1985. In 2017, MDAH staff photographed album pages as 24-bit RGB TIFF files at 300ppi using a Nikon D810 camera, and they are accessible as scalable tile sets here.