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Photograph: Group Portrait, First Baptist Church

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Thomas, R. Lee

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Image of two rows of people sitting and standing in a church. Most are wearing choir robes and one is holding an instrument. Banner on railing in front. Banner: REV. E.W. WILLIAMS FIRST:BAP. FAIRFIELD AUG. 15. Year not visible. One of 156 black and white photographs by R. Lee Thomas, an African American photographer active in the early twentieth century in the southern United States. Thomas’ work provides photographic documentation of southern black social life, primarily religious and labor groups, circa 1946-1949. The majority of the photographs depict groups from Birmingham, Alabama, and adjacent areas. His imprint contains the caption: Made by R. Lee Thomas, Mound Bayou, Mississippi, The Oldest Negro Town in America.https://digitalcommons.unf.edu/rthomas/1119/thumbnail.jpg
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Keywords

  1. African American Baptists
  2. African American Photographers
  3. African American Studies
  4. African Americans
  5. Alabama
  6. Arts And Humanities
  7. Eartha M.M. White Collection
  8. Fairfield
  9. First Baptist Church
  10. First Baptist Church (Fairfield, Ala.)
  11. History
  12. Mississippi
  13. Mound Bayou
  14. Photograph Collections
  15. Photographers, Black
  16. Photography
  17. Pictorial Works
  18. Race, Ethnicity And Post Colonial Studies
  19. Religious Gatherings
  20. Religious Life
  21. Southern States
  22. Thomas, R. Lee, (Photographer)

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