Digital Snapshots

Dublin Core

Title

"Hello and Good-bye / Jackson / 1930s."

Series

26

Item

152

Identifier

146665-photonegative-0152

Archival Description

"Hello and Good-bye / Jackson / 1930s." View of women on Capitol steps. Welty took this picture for the Mississippi Advertising Commission, and this job inspired the story "Hello and Good-Bye." The pose was the girls' idea.

Detailed Description

From the Eudora Welty Digital Archives Photographs Collection - MDAH. Black-and-white photograph of two white women smiling as they walk down concrete steps while looking to their right and waving. There are columns and a decorative building facade behind them. They are both wearing dark, mid-length skirts with light-colored, short-sleeved blouses, dark shoes, and dark hats. The woman on the left is carrying an item in her left elbow against her waist and the woman on the right is holding a cloth item in her left hand.

Creator

Welty, Eudora, 1909-2001

Date

ca. 1930s

Location

Jackson, Mississippi

Rights

Copyright © Eudora Welty, LLC; Courtesy Eudora Welty Collection – Mississippi Department of Archives and History
(Permission to publish required).