Center for American History Displays Photos of Natchez

The University of Texas at Austin's Center for American History is displaying more than 100 images by Henry Norman, a photographer who documented daily life in Natchez in the last decades of the 19th century. Natchez on the Mississippi, 1870-1910, which will be on display until May 31, 1998, includes photographs of the luxurious interiors of  paddlewheel steamboats, studio portraits of African American families and Jewish merchants, and pictures of Natchez street scenes, buildings, and plantation mansions. Dr. Thomas Gandy, a Natchez physician, and his wife, Joan Gandy, curated the exhibition over a period of 35 years using the enormous collection of Henry Norman works that they acquired in 1960. The Gandys are the publishers of three books on Natchez life: Normans Natchez: An Early Photographer and His Town, Natchez Victorian Children, and The Mississippi Steamboat Era in Historic Photographs. For more information on the exhibit, contact Alison Beck at 512-495-4515.

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