Genealogy Research Resources

This interactive Web site is brought to you by the Westport Historical Society in the interest of promoting and preserving knowledge of the history of Westport, Massachusetts. We encourage you not only to read, but to add your comments where appropriate, thus building to our overall knowledge of Westport.

Located in Vicksburg, Mississippi. U.S.A.

Browse our website to learn about our company and titles, and for discussions of Southern news, the book publishing industry, writing tips, and independent bookselling.

Back in June of 2007, we began our first collaboration with a civic institution to facilitate giving people a voice in describing the content of a publicly-held photography collection. The key goals of this pilot project are to firstly give you a taste of the hidden treasures in the huge Library of Congress collection, and secondly to how your input of a tag or two can make the collection even richer. You're invited to help describe photographs in the Library of Congress' collection on Flickr, by adding tags or leaving comments.*

These vivid color photos from the Great Depression and World War II capture an era generally seen only in black-and-white. Photographers working for the United States Farm Security Administration (FSA) and later the Office of War Information (OWI) created the images between 1939 and 1944.