William Faulkner wrote it, Joseph Pulitzer and Alfred Nobel confirmed it, “…the Center, the Focus, the Hub…,”...
John Cofield
John Cofield grew up in Oxford. He is a local historian and author. John is the son of renowned University photographer, Jack Cofield. His grandfather, J. R. “Colonel” Cofield, was William Faulkner’s personal photographer, and for decades was Ole Miss annual photographer. Four generations of the Cofield family have contributed to Oxford’s pictorial history.
Night scene on Square, 1961, photo by Martin Dain (c) The Martin J. Dain Collection.
This photo has taken on two different lives. It has been stated that the crowd at the...
“There was a blacksmith here in Oxford named Mr. Hall, who had a shop on Tyler Avenue,...
As kids, we roamed through the Sardis backwaters not giving it the proper respect deserved. As adults,...
The second Lafayette County Courthouse was erected in 1872. This photograph was taken shortly after itwas opened,...
In 1892, Jim Ivy was part of the construction crew building a bridge over the Tallahatchie River...
About one hundred feet long and half as high, the wooden bridge was built in the 1850s...
Ethel and Robert Kennedy are welcomed at the Oxford Airport in advance of Kennedy’s 1966 speech at...
“The Cumberland Presbyterians formed in Oxford about 1837, about the same time the town formed. Their first...
This time it’s the smells of old Oxford that draw me, as they drew my dad and...
The building on the corner at 1012 Jackson Avenue was once a garage, and later went from...
Spring comes to Yoknapatawpha: Duke’s Bait Shop. Note the century old St. Peter’s Episcopal Church in the...
Ah, how they carried on over the William Faulkner statue. I can’t help but think Mr. Faulkner...
There was something comforting about sitting on the same spot your daddy and his gang sat a...
Lafayette County, Fall 1961 – Photograph © Martin J. Dain Collection – From Book 3 of the...
Remembering Gaetano “Guy” Catelli and his lenswork. My search for shots of Oxford folks to be remembered...
The carnival came to town during the Mayberry days. Grandad took this photograph about 1950. The older...
Up until the early 1960s, private hospitals met the local needs. Oxford Hospital and Bramlett Hospital were...