Stewart Collection

 Boxing match

  

 Cooper's Well Resort, Raymond

  

 Tobacco curing house

  

 Unidentified African American men, women and children, ca. 1890
  

Unidentified women

 

Source: Mississippi Department of Archives and History

Stewart Collection

Unidentified African American men, women and children, ca. 1890

  

Unidentified family, ca. 1890

  

 Unidentified house

  

 Unidentified houses, ca. 1890

  

 

Walter McBee (fire engine on scene of fire), ca. 1890

 

Source: Mississippi Department of Archives and History

Stewart Collection

 Steamer Charles D. Shaw

  

 Unidentified African American men, women and children, ca. 1890

  

 Unidentified family, ca. 1890

  

 Unidentified house

  

Walter McBee (fire engine on scene of fire), ca. 1890

 

Source: Mississippi Department of Archives and History

Stewart Collection

Man left of center in derby, with rod is 

Major Rauol - Mrs. Cecil Postlewhaite's father

  

Mrs. Lingard, Hood Lingard, Livingston Stewart

  

Natchez RR station and Natchez Military Band Natchez and 

Southern R. R., F and Scott R. R. on Brick Ave, ca. 1890

  

Taken from above position facing Gaudet Bldg. 

on right and Jacobs home, ca. 1890

  

Very likely Homochitto River Bridge, ca. 1890

 

Source: Mississippi Department of Archives and History

Stewart Collection

U.S. Navy crew of Gunboat U.S.S. Concord, ca. 1890

  

 U.S. Navy gunboat U.S.S. Concord

  

 U.S. Navy gunboat U.S.S. Concord

  

 Unidentified children

  

Washing clothes

 

Source: Mississippi Department of Archives and History

Stewart Collection

 Bontura, 1890

[modern picture of the same house is below]

  

 Nellie Hardwicke, Mrs. Deseret Hall, ( Chas. G.) Miller and Fannie Bradley (Mrs. Roff)

  

 Two unidentified girls, ca. 1890

  

 Unidentified girls

  

Unidentified African American men, women and children, ca. 1890

 

Source: Mississippi Department of Archives and History

Stewart Collection

Believed to be on Myrtle Bank lawn, children and black attendant

  

Girl with black collar is Louise Learned Metcalfe, 'Ravenna'

  

Lady with black collar is Louise Learned Metcalfe with Robt. Livingston Stewart

  

Major Benbrook residence, SE corner of B St. and N. Pearl, ca. 1895

  

Side yard of Myrtle Bank

Source: Stewart Collection

Stewart Collection

Here's another set from this Mississippi photographer, first seen here.

Fannie Bradley, Angie Pogue, Fannie Bontura, 

Bessie Pullen, Will Hendricks, Nellie Hendricks

    

Man in white coat is Mr. Will Hendrix, Bontura, ca. 1890

  

R. H. Stewart's Furniture Wareroom

  

 Snow scene

  

Steamer Charles D. Shaw

Stewart Collection

The Stewart Photographic Collection consists of black-and-white images from prints of glass plate negatives created by amateur photographers (and brothers) Robert Livingston Stewart and William Percy Stewart of Natchez, Mississippi, around 1890-1905. The photographs are primarily of the Natchez area and focus on the Stewart family and activities such as dedication ceremonies, winter storms, floods, steamboats and river scenes.

Robert Livingston Stewart (October 24, 1854-July 28, 1912) and William Percy Stewart (May 20, 1858-April 25, 1928) were sons of Natchez furniture dealer Robert Hill and Caroline Heermans Stewart, grandsons of Natchez cabinetmaker Robert and Susanna Marschalk Stewart, and great-grandsons of early Mississippi printer Andrew Marschalk. Robert Livingston Stewart worked as an accountant in New York and as a bookkeeper in Natchez. He never married, but around the time of his death he was living with his sister, Mary, and a sister-in-law, Chrissie (married to his brother, Rev. Walter Lee Stewart), in Natchez. He was described on page three of the July 30, 1912, Daily Democrat as "a man of quiet demeanor, always gentle and kind, speaking in low, well modulated tones...." William Percy Stewart's front-page obituary in the April 26, 1928, Natchez Democrat proclaimed William "a man of magnetic personality" who "was Senior Member of oldest Firm in Mississippi—Was Widely Known And Esteemed in This Section." He was a cadet at Jefferson Military College in Washington, Mississippi, and a member of the Natchez Rifles. He married Catherine Schwartz and operated the hardware firm Schwartz and Stewart in Natchez (one of the largest south of Memphis from the mid-nineteenth to the early twentieth centuries) with his brother-in-law, John Edward Schwartz, leaving the business to his son, Robert Percy Stewart. William's daughters, Catherine and Margaret, appear in several of the photographs.

Bicyclists

  

Family on steps. Currently the home of Dr. Thom. Gandy, 

408 North Pearl Street, ca. 1895

  

Myrtle Bank terrace

  

Outdoor scene

  

 

R. H. Stewart store located in proximity of the Tillmans store. 505 Franklin St, ca. 1890