Digital Snapshots
Crowe Photograph Album
This “Digital Snapshot” Exhibit features photographs from the Mississippi Department of Archives and History (MDAH) Crowe (Milburn J.) Photograph Album digitized collection.
In July 2005, historian and Mound Bayou-native, Milburn J. Crowe, donated a late-nineteenth-century photograph album of the Benjamin Thornton Montgomery family and their associates to MDAH.
The album consists of ninety photographs, including images of Benjamin and Isaiah Montgomery, Benjamin Green, Frederick Douglass (a correspondent of Isaiah's brother, William Thornton), as well as numerous members of the Montgomery, Lewis (who were relatives of Benjamin Montgomery's wife, Mary), and Green families, in addition to other family-members and friends.
Funding for this Digital Snapshot Exhibit was provided by the Mississippi Department of Archives and History through a Teaching Primary Sources grant.
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Crowe Album History
Read a contextual essay and access secondary sources.
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Snapshot Exhibit
Browse a "Snapshot" of photographs from the full Crowe Album collection.
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Educator Resources
Access K-12 activities based on images in this Snapshot.
Cite images according to the following structure:
Original Creator, “Title,” Unique Resource Identifier, Series Number and Title, Archival Repository, image URL.
Example:
Herrick, H. J., “Crowe Album, Page 1; undated,” 94508-07-photoalbum, Series PI/2005.0015: Crowe (Milburn J.) Photograph Album, Mississippi Department of Archives and History, www.dh-mdah.org/crowe-album-pg-1.
Suggested bibliographic citation format for items in this exhibit: