Them's Some Tomatoes and a Whole Lotta Cabbage

Tomato festival, June Garland standing by big tomato.
Photographer: Luther M. Hamilton, Sr.
1938
Crystal Springs, Mississippi
Copiah County

Tomato Festival Queen Barnett Messer, 1939, seated atop float.
Photographer: Luther M. Hamilton, Sr.
1939
Crystal Springs, Mississippi
Copiah County

"Scene at a local cabbage packing shed, 1936."
Photographer: Luther M. Hamilton, Sr.
Crystal Springs, Mississippi
Copiah County

Tomato Crop, Crystal Springs

Tomato Packing, Crystal Springs

Tomato Picking,  Crystal Springs, MS

Cabbage Trucks, Crystal Springs Depot

Cabbage Fields and Workers, Crystal Springs, MS

Canning Tomatoes, Cyrstal Springs, MS

Tomato Fields, Crystal Springs, MS

All photos by Luther Hamilton Sr., taken approximately in the 1930s; from the Mississippi Department of Archives and History. 


Those who know the area better than I say the tomatoes from Copiah County tasted better than tomatoes from elsewhere -- it had something to do with the soil composition.