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Carnegie Public Library - Clarksdale MS
Clarksdale, Mississippi
Explore this community history collection to discover the people, places, organizations, and events of Clarksdale.
1759 to 2021Dates represented
See individual titles for available dates.
874,011Archive pages
Historical pages reported for this collection.
Explore local history
Carnegie Public Library – Clarksdale MS makes Clarksdale history freely accessible.
Explore the past of Clarksdale, Mississippi through newspapers as well as yearbooks and annuals in the Carnegie Public Library - Clarksdale MS' digital archive. Its fifty titles include material from 1759 to 2021. The collection also includes cemetery and funeral home records as well as court and legal records.
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Selected titles
Explore titles such as “Census” and “Women Voter”, shared by Carnegie Public Library - Clarksdale MS.
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Different views of the past
Yearbooks and annuals bring together the people and activities their editors chose to remember, offering a view of life within a particular year. An earlier generation comes into view through the stories its newspapers chose to report, placing familiar names and events within the concerns of their time.
Reporting from the time can reveal how people described the events, work and concerns of their day, placing a local story within the history unfolding around it. Whether you are tracing a family connection, exploring a local event or sharing history with a class, there is more to discover than names and dates alone. Explore the archive online for free, without a subscription.
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Titles in this collection
Browse fifty titles and 874,011 digitized pages, with material from 1759 to 2021. This collection is shared through Carnegie Public Library - Clarksdale MS' partnership with Advantage Archives. Some years or items may be missing between the dates shown.
Bring a person, place or date you recognize, and browse the titles below for a first clue in the story you want to follow.
Census
23,415 pages from 1840 to 1930
Clarksdale Blues Star
2,370 pages from 2009 to 2010
Clarksdale Challenge
2,961 pages from 1900 to 1912
Clarksdale Daily Press
24 pages in 1947
Clarksdale Daily Press Register
348 pages in 1949
Clarksdale Daily Register
113,094 pages from 1917 to 1936
Clarksdale Daily Register and Daily News
26,946 pages from 1937 to 1949
Clarksdale Press Register
472,737 pages from 1949 to 2021
Clarksdale Register
498 pages in 1904
Clarksdale Register and Daily News
49,437 pages from 1937 to 1946
Coahoma County Board of Supervisors Minutes
2,208 pages from 1884 to 1896
Coahoma County Land Assessment
1,938 pages in 1981
Coahoma Living
3,681 pages from 2006 to 2021
Coahomian
468 pages from 1865 to 1966
Compass
624 pages from 2019 to 2021
Daily Clarion Ledger
18 pages in 1920
Daily Democrat Times
24 pages in 1928
Daily Register
9,537 pages from 1915 to 1917
Delta People
1,239 pages from 1991 to 2010
Delta Register
234 pages in 1904
Early Pioneers and Leaders
564 pages in 1901
Estates Decedents
519 pages in 1839
Fort Adams Item
108 pages in 1855
Friars Point Coahomian
16,056 pages from 1896 to 1922
Friars Point Delta
396 pages in 1869
Friars Point Gazette
2,427 pages from 1881 to 1887
Friars Point Weekly Delta
615 pages from 1869 to 1871
Gainesville Advocate
462 pages from 1845 to 1846
Mahogany
756 pages from 2000 to 2007
Marriage Records Blacks
39,954 pages from 1849 to 1915
Marriage Records Blacks and Whites
26,178 pages from 1868 to 1897
Marriage Records White
3,126 pages in 1892
Mayor Court Docket
1,938 pages from 1759 to 1764
McInnis Porter
5,658 pages in 1928
McInnis Porter McNeil Nowell Funeral Home Records
5,619 pages in 1959
McNeil Nowell Funeral Home Records
4,875 pages in 1980
Minutes Board of Supervisors
3,528 pages from 1873 to 1884
Mississippi Death Certificate
17,589 pages from 1912 to 1943
Natchez Democrat
3 pages in 1927
New Coahomian
510 pages from 1888 to 1889
News Register
1,365 pages from 1919 to 1921
Nowell Funeral Home Records
978 pages in 2000
Press Register
3,354 pages from 2012 to 2013
Profile
1,851 pages from 1993 to 2018
Scrapbooks and Weddings Anniversaries
21,315 pages from 1901 to 1956
St. George's Episcopal Day School
24 pages in 1995
The Dragon
96 pages from 1998 to 1999
The Traveller
72 pages in 2002
Will Record
1,986 pages in 1841
Women Voter
288 pages from 1922 to 1923
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About the Library
About The Carnegie Public Library Of Clarksdale
The Carnegie Public Library of Clarksdale is dedicated to serving the community by providing opportunities for information, education, culture, and recreation. Through its collection of books, computers, videos, and other materials, the library serves as a critical resource for the people of Clarksdale and Coahoma County. With a history spanning over a century, the library continues to offer essential services, including free Internet access, educational programs, and a wealth of information to support lifelong learning and community engagement.
Library History
The History Of The Carnegie Public Library Of Clarksdale
Founded in the early 20th century as part of Andrew Carnegie's philanthropic efforts, the Carnegie Public Library of Clarksdale has been a cornerstone of the community for generations. The library has continually expanded its services and collection to meet the evolving needs of Clarksdale’s residents. Its extensive archive of newspapers and records, preserved through partnerships with organizations like Advantage Archives, ensures that the history of Clarksdale and Coahoma County remains accessible to all. The library remains committed to its mission of serving the community and preserving its rich history.
About the Community
About Clarksdale, Mississippi
Clarksdale, located in the Mississippi Delta, is famous for its role in the birth of the blues and its vibrant cultural history. Known as a center for music, agriculture, and history, Clarksdale attracts visitors from around the world. The Carnegie Public Library of Clarksdale plays a vital role in preserving the city’s heritage, offering access to a wide range of historical documents, records, and archives that tell the story of Clarksdale and Coahoma County.
More ways to explore and share local history
Research Guidance
Look beyond a familiar name
A school story from Clarksdale may begin with a class, activity, or organization. Use the dated pages in the yearbooks and annuals shared by the Carnegie Public Library - Clarksdale MS to follow that clue across a volume, and compare another source before treating a similar name as the same student. What a yearbook chose to celebrate reflects its publication and its time, not necessarily the full range of life in the community.
Where the available dates overlap, use a name, activity, or organization in a yearbook or annual as a starting point for a newspaper search. Compare the details carefully; a similar name is a lead to investigate, not an identification by itself.
Keep the title, date, page or item reference with each useful finding. Separate the words in a historical account from your interpretation, and note conflicting perspectives rather than choosing one too quickly. These notes help you connect a local story to its evidence and explain what remains uncertain.
Community Partnership
Keeping local history a community resource
This community archive is made possible by the collaboration of the Carnegie Public Library - Clarksdale MS, its community, and Advantage Archives. Together, these partnerships preserve local sources and give people a way to explore, learn from, and share the history around them.
Advantage Archives covers ongoing archive hosting, storage, development, and maintenance. The institution and its community do not pay a subscription, seat license, annual support contract, or other recurring archive-service charge. Local history remains a community resource, not a subscription to maintain.
Would you like to see more of your community's history preserved and accessible? Start a conversation with your library, newspaper publisher, historical or genealogical society, museum, or school about the materials they would like to share and a possible partnership with Advantage Archives.
Learn about partnerships
Stories, research tips, and archive news
Read All About It connects archive research with the people and institutions preserving local history. Explore partner and community stories, project updates, research ideas, and perspectives on digitization, education, and working with primary sources. Use the articles as a starting point for your next question or a new way to share a discovery.
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It’s Your Community’s History, So Why Rent Something You Own?
We believe that history belongs to the communities where it was made - not locked behind paywalls or inaccessible due to budget restrictions. Subscription-based services and large content aggregators are generally more concerned with "content" and less concerned with the history that content contains. Their models typically involve a reoccurring charge for a plan that renews annually or licensing agreements with the library based on population served or circulation numbers. You are essentially Renting Access To YOUR History.
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