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Marrying Memories:Wedding Traditions in Delta Collections
Cynthia M. Beardsley, Emily E. Jones, & Margaret A. SwansonDelta State University
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What is the Mississippi Delta?
GeographyCulture
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The Yazoo-Mississippi Delta
18 Mississippi Delta Counties:DesotoTunicaTatePanolaQuitmanCoahomaBolivarSunflowerTallahatchieLefloreHumphreysWashingtonSharkeyIssaquenaYazooHomesCarroll Warren
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The Mississippi Delta…more than just geography.
…the last refuge of the mythical south…
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The Delta WeddingThere were ever two events which stirred the Delta from the top of its levee, the highest point, to its cypress knees in the swamps - an election and a wedding. A Delta wedding was something to remember. There were, of course, as some will tell you, other exciting happenings like a revival with its big top tent and sawdust trail, especially if Brother McIntire happened to be the reviver. Then in the fall, when cotton picking money jingled in thread-worn pockets, came the show boats - floating palaces to us along the River -
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Delta Wedding IIRita Halbrook
Courtesy of The Museum of the Mississippi Delta
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Delta Weddings In Literature
Delta Wedding, published in 1945, set in 1923
Somebody is going to die if Lilly Beth
doesn’t catch that Bouquet,
Published in 2007
Themes: • Seasons/Schedules• Matriarchy• Outsiders
• “you’re not from here are you?”
• “who are your people?”
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As with so many instances in life including Delta Weddings, there is often method behind the madness…
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Delta Weddings Preserved
MethodologyFindingsLimitations
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Why Delta weddings? Which repositories? Collection evaluation Secondary sources
Methodology
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Why Delta weddings? Which repositories? Collection evaluation Secondary sources
Methodology
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Why Delta weddings? Which repositories? Collection evaluation Secondary sources
Methodology
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Secondary Sources
24% How-To
29%Scholarly
47%Informational
OPAC Search Term “Wedding”
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Findings: Seasons
“When is Lila’s wedding coming off. I have heard nothing of it lately. Will the high waters hurt you…”
Delta State UniversityCarr Collections (M227)
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In one rare instance, we found that the Cutrer-Smith wedding crossed not only county lines but state lines. While the Cutrers were from Clarksdale, their wedding announcements were found in the larger Memphis newspaper. To be announced in such a large and well-distributed newspaper was indicative of an influential family. Further research revealed that Mr. Cutrer was involved in the Cotton Carnival and that his daughter had once been the Queen of Cotton Carnival.
From Memphis…
…to Clarksdale
Findings: Class and Society
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Findings: Matriarchy
LePoint & Warwick’s Wedding Party, 1944
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Pairing Oral HistoryWith photographs.
When Frieda Seu accepted John Quon’s marriage proposal, she knew this would not be any wedding she had ever attended before…
Findings: “Being From Off…”
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Nott-Wheeler photographsNott-Wheeler wedding, Cleveland, 1915
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LePoint Cassibry-Smith
Cleveland
First Presbyterian Church
1944
Findings: Traditions of Weddings
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Warwick & LePoint Smith celebrate the marriage of their daughter, Ivy. The wedding was held in the Smith’s back yard in 1968.
Findings: Tradition of Weddings
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LePoint Smith’s granddaughter, Isabel, marries Brian, her ‘from off’ fiance in a sweet family wedding held in Greenwood. Brian’s family attended via Skype.
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While budgets, geography, schedules, seasons, politics and religion have shaped the weddings we have researched, other factors determined how and where we were able to acquire our information.
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Time Financial-paid for research travel out of
pocket Repositories- a mixture of types visited
(either as groups or singularly) throughout the Delta.
Only nine repositories were visited. Limitations included: public access, archival staff, format of finding/ searching aids, and size and/or physical condition of collections, and lack of uniformity of research
Limitations
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ConclusionsAreas for Further Research
Digital media archivingMarriage certificatesChurchesNewspapers
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If not there…then where?
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Daily Democrat Times Ads, 1930
Wedding Calendar for June 1930
“It’s magnificent, Egbert. Whom is it for?”
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Cynthia M. Beardsley◦ Reference/Instructional Services Librarian◦ [email protected]
Emily E. Jones◦ University Archivist◦ [email protected]
Margaret A. Swanson◦ Instructional Resources Center Librarian◦ [email protected]
Contact
*A list of references for this presentation is available upon request.