Ventress Hall Photographs
![The original University of Mississippi library in Ventress Hall. Photograph from the University of Mississippi Library collection.](https://libarts.wp2.olemiss.edu/wp-content/uploads/sites/9/2018/03/vh-library-students-copy.jpg)
Constructed in 1889 at a cost of $35,000, Ventress Hall served first as the University library before housing the School of Law from 1911 to 1929. Photograph from the University of Mississippi Library collection.
![Turret MDAH photo](https://libarts.wp2.olemiss.edu/wp-content/uploads/sites/9/2018/03/MDAH-turret-photo.jpeg)
Inside view of the Ventress Hall turret.
![Photo by Robert Jordan/UM Communications](https://libarts.wp2.olemiss.edu/wp-content/uploads/sites/9/2018/03/turret-photo-copy.jpg)
A UM Hidden History Tour participant photographs graffiti inside the Ventress Hall turret on February 12, 2016. Photo by Robert Jordan/UM Communications