As kids, we roamed through the Sardis backwaters not giving it the proper respect deserved. As adults,...
John Cofield
The second Lafayette County Courthouse was erected in 1872. This photograph was taken shortly after itwas opened,...
In 1892, Jim Ivy was part of the construction crew building a bridge over the Tallahatchie River...
Ethel and Robert Kennedy are welcomed at the Oxford Airport in advance of Kennedy’s 1966 speech at...
This time it’s the smells of old Oxford that draw me, as they drew my dad and...
Ah, how they carried on over the William Faulkner statue. I can’t help but think Mr. Faulkner...
There was something comforting about sitting on the same spot your daddy and his gang sat a...
Remembering Gaetano “Guy” Catelli and his lenswork. My search for shots of Oxford folks to be remembered...
The carnival came to town during the Mayberry days. Grandad took this photograph about 1950. The older...
Up until the early 1960s, private hospitals met the local needs. Oxford Hospital and Bramlett Hospital were...
The wagons rolled in, and mules, tractors, and trucks came and went. The lent lazily floated by and...
There was once a time when the grammar school boys raced to The Oxford Eagle to buy papers...
Behind Marquis Chevron was a well-traveled apartment complex. I had a good many friends who lived there...
He was bigger than life for the kids of Oxford. Johnny Vaught was the king and Archie...
From the third volume of Oxford, Mississippi, the Cofield Collection, this photograph explains the directions the book travels...
No, it was not The Gin, or The Warehouse, it was Ireland’s! Seemingly straight out of a...
Many Oxford children remember the sights and smells of the Lafayette County Co-Op. Seed, feed, and multi-colored chickens...
On The Square, Fall 1961, photograph © Martin J. Dain Collection
“Elbert was a fixture at the store. I took this picture in 1973. He was a regular...