Melody Golding Photoprints
name: label: Creator
content: Golding, Melody
place: label: Place
content: Mississippi
topic: label: Topic
content: Disasters
label: Topic
content: Hunting
label: Topic
content: Hurricanes
label: Topic
content: Wild boar
acqinfo: label: Provenance
content: This collection was donated to the Archives Center by photographer Melody Golding in 2009.
creator: label: Creator
content: Golding, Melody
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content: Melody Golding Photoprints
accruals: label: Accruals
content: 1 cubic feet of material documenting Panther Tract Wild Boar Hunting in the Mississippi Delta was donated in 2016 by Melody Golding.
bioghist: label: Biographical / Historical
content: Hurricane Katrina struck the Gulf Coast of the United States on August 29, 2005. Katrina left a path of devastation and wiped out whole sections of the city of New Orleans as well as many small coastal towns.  These prints were created for the photographer's traveling exhibition, "Katrina: Mississippi Women Remember." Ms. Golding is a photographer who documented the devastation in her home state of Mississippi after the Hurricane Katrina struck on August 29, 2005.

Golding, Melody; Pfister, Sally, editor. Katrina: Mississippi Women Remember. University Press of Mississippi, Jackson, Mississippi, 2007.
physdesc: label: Extent
content: 3 Cubic feet (11 boxes, 5 map-folders)
unitdate: label: Date
content: 2006-2012
custodhist: label: Custodial History
content: Mounted prints were created for the photographer's traveling exhibition, "Katrina: Mississippi Women Remember."
dataSource: label: Archival Repository
content: Archives Center, National Museum of American History
identifier: label: Identifier
content: NMAH.AC.1166
objectType: label: Type
content: Collection descriptions
label: Type
content: Archival materials
label: Type
content: Photographs
arrangement: label: Arrangement
content: The collection is divided into five series.

Series 1: Hurricane Katrina Photographs, 2005-2006 

Series 2: Hurricane Katrina Supporting Material, 2005-2007 

Series 3: Panther Tract Photographic Prints, 2012

Series 4: Panther Tract Book Materials, 2012

Series 5: Audio Visual Materials, 2006, 2012
processinfo: label: Processing Information
content: Processed by Franklin A. Robinson, Jr., archives specialist, May-August, 2010; supervised by Vanessa Broussard Simmons, archivist.
genre_format: label: Genre/Form
content: Photographs -- Photoprints -- Silver gelatin -- 2000-2010
scopecontent: label: Scope and Contents
content: The collections documents the work of photographer, Melody Golding and two projects: Hurrican Katrina and Panther Tract. 

The Hurrican Katrina photographs document some of the devastation along the Mississippi Gulf Coast and the towns of Biloxi, Ocean Springs, and Pearlington, Mississippi. 

The Panther Tract material documents a 2011 book titled Panther Tract Wild Boar Hunting in the Mississippi Delta, about wild boar hunting in the Mississippi Delta. The photographs focus on the Delta landscape and  the people and animals involved in the hunt including portraits of the hunters, and their interactions with one another and their dogs and horses. The textual material documents the photographer's  personal involvement in these hunts as well as advertising and press releases for the book.