Natchez, Mississippi w/ Business & Historic Mansions, ca March,1939

Natchez, Mississippi w/ Business & Historic Mansions, ca March,1939 Sign: Welcome to Natchez The Historic City of the South The Natchez Service Club LS lumber stacked on riverbank, & sawmill w/ smoking chimneys. Huge piles of drying lumber; mule & wagon alongside. MCU of sawmill w/ steam out. LS Mississippi river. 05:24:22 MS rooftops of downtown, streets w/ traffic & river beyond. 05:24:47 Armstrong Tire & Rubber Company plant newly constructed, gravel trucks passing in front. CU building w/ sign. CU Sign re built by City of Natchez etc. 05:25:39 Ext. The Melrose Well preserved Anti-Bellum mansion; visitors drive up in carriage of horses & driver. Woman greets them beneath large columns. 05:26:27 Unid. well preserved two-story southern mansion; tourists walking up to front porch w/ woman in gown. MCU woman in gown talking to tourists, walking into house. 05:26:46 Choctaw Mansion. Large stucco two story house w/ four columns, deteriorating porch, steps, broken windows. 05:27:19 Dun Leith aka Dunleith Mansion. Column on two visible sides of home. Garret windows in third floor. Seen from distance. Quick shot of The Melrose. Dun Leith. 05:28:13 Unid. mansion. Black gardener working in flower beds, tourists visiting, greeted & led inside. 05:28:55 Dun Leith seen from outside ornate iron gate & fence. 05:29:02 The Briers w/ Mrs. Wall, owner & guest, served by Black servant on porch. 05:29:38 Ravenna Mansion w/ black gardeners hoeing flowers in front. 05:29:54 Mount Rose Mansion (?). Two-story mansion from several angle w/ upper & lower porches. Man, Mr. Dunbar Shields, owner, walks across lawn. 05:30:21 Restoration project on mansion underway w/ Black workers. Building brick wall; redoing foundation. Crumbling building details. 05;31:32 Restored Connelly’s Tavern, Ellicott Hill w/ sign. Tourists up front stairs; women leads them in. Sign. 05:32:11 Free standing columns from ruins of mansion remains. 05:32:30 Int. of Ravenna Mansion (?) w/ large staircase & Black maid or servant; white woman down stairs. Black maid serving two white women talking in front of fireplace beneath painting. MCUs. CU of painting. Wealthy Old South; Economic Ruling Class; Housing; Homes; Stereotypes; Pre-WWII; Business; Pre-WW2 Development; Segregation; Ethnic; Negroes; Blacks;