The Oxford Historical Society is looking for historical photos of Oxford to add to a photography display at the third-annual Peach Festival in August.
The Peach Festival highlights the history of agriculture in town, and how the peach orchards played into the local economy.
This year’s photo exhibit will have more than 200 photographs of transportation in Oxford over the years, including sleds, oxen, sleighs, cars and airplanes. The society is also looking for resident photos of old Oxford parades, transportation in Oxford and the Oxford airport. The photos will be scanned and returned to the owners.
Part of the photo exhibit will include a previously unpublished postcard photo of the Old Sanford Store, which stood where the Oxford Center School is today.
Dorothy DeBisschop, Oxford’s historian, said the photo shows a horse and buggy outside the store, with a stack of cartons on one side. The postcard was produced as an albumen postcard print, which means the postcard had an actual photograph on it produced by using the albumen in egg whites to get the photographic chemicals onto a paper. The method was used from about 1855 to the 1890s.
The Peach Festival will be held from 4 to 7 p.m. Aug. 29 at the St. Peter’s Episcopal Church.
To share photographs with the society, contact DeBisschop at (203) 910‑4574 or e‑mail her at [email protected].
